Operation Manual

Chapter 12: Making your movie 243
Your DVD discs can be played back:
• On any DVD player that can handle the recordable
DVD format your burner creates. Most players can
handle the common formats.
• On a computer with a DVD drive and playback
software.
Whether or not you have a DVD burner on your system,
Studio also lets you save a DVD image – a set of files
containing the same information that would be stored
onto a DVD disc – to a directory on your hard drive.
The DVD image can subsequently be burned to disc.
Studio creates your disc or disc image in three steps.
1. First the entire movie must be rendered to generate
the MPEG-encoded information to store on the disc.
2. Next, the disc must be compiled. In this phase,
Studio creates the actual files and directory
structure that will be used on the disc.
3. Finally, the disc must be burned. (This step is
skipped if you are generating a DVD image rather
than an actual disc.)
To output your movie to disc, or to a DVD image:
1. Click the Disc tab to bring up these controls:
The Make Disc control panel is wider than the other
output panels to accommodate an extra