USING DVD STUDIO PRO 4 FOR MAC OS
Version 4 was the first version to drop support for Mac OS 9.
USING DVD STUDIO PRO 4 MAC OS X
For playing back HD DVD content burned to a standard DVD, Apple requires a PowerPC G5, Apple DVD Player v4.6, and Mac OS X v10.4 or later. DVD Studio Pro 4 allowed for the burning of HD DVD content to both standard DVDs and HD DVD media (even though no HD DVD burners were available for Macintosh). In April 2005, Apple updated DVD Studio Pro to support authoring HD content. In August 2003, Apple released DVD Studio Pro 2, with a new interface. In the meantime Apple had acquired Spruce Technologies in 2001, and was retooling the DVD authoring package that came with that acquisition (DVD Maestro). Version 1.5, still based on this original code, was released in April 2002. Alternatively, a sample DVD can be burnt to disc in one step.Main article: Final Cut Studio § Release historyĪpple bought Astarte's DVDirector in 2000, re-releasing it as DVD Studio Pro in 2001. The "Format" function takes this directory and writes it to a disc or disk image. The final VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS directory for the DVD can be created using the "Build" feature. The menus and the encoded video assets are imported into the application and the menu system is constructed afterwards it can be simulated in a mock DVD player interface. It is possible to set the menu's loop point in either Motion or DVD Studio Pro likewise it is possible to define chapters within either Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro. Menus with motion graphics can be created in Motion. The video project is typically sent from Final Cut Pro to Compressor, where it can be converted into the DVD MPEG-2 format with Dolby Digital (ac3) or AIFF sound. A range of transition effects to set between menus.Creating multiple versions ("stories") of a video project, for example, a director's cut.Creating multiple language versions of a menu.
New menus, layered menus, scripts and slideshows can be created from this view and arranged and the item that will play first on the DVD can be set. ĭVD Studio Pro has a graphical "map" view, which shows all the menus, tracks and scripts in the project as color-coded tiles, with the connections between them as arrows.
USING DVD STUDIO PRO 4 UPDATE
The 4.2 update, which shipped with the Final Cut Studio 2 release, was simply a compatibility update and did not add any major new features. It also supports the native H.264 specification. The 4.0.3 update, released in the same month, upgrades the program to the finalized HD DVD 1.0 specification. In January 2006, Apple stopped offering DVD Studio Pro as a stand-alone product, selling it only as part of the Final Cut Studio suite. Main article: Final Cut Studio § Release historyĪpple bought Astarte's DVDirector in 2000, re-releasing it as DVD Studio Pro in 2001.