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Late-Breaking News

About DVD Studio Pro 4.1

This document provides updated information about DVD Studio Pro 4.1 and covers

these topics:

Late-Breaking News About DVD Studio Pro 4.1.1 (p. 1)

Previous Release Information About DVD Studio Pro 4.1 (p. 2)

Note:

DVD Studio Pro 4.1 is designed to run natively on both PowerPC-based and

Intel-based Macintosh computers.

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Late-Breaking News About DVD Studio Pro 4.1.1

The following information is late-breaking news about DVD Studio Pro 4.1.1.

SD DVD Project Formatting With Intel-Based Macintosh Computers Now Correct

Formatting standard definition (SD) DVD Studio Pro projects for replication using the

Disc Description Protocol (DDP 2.0 and DDP 2.1) and Cutting Master Format (CMF 1.0)

options now works correctly on Intel-based Macintosh computers.

Summary of content (14 pages)

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Late-Breaking News About DVD Studio Pro 4.1 This document provides updated information about DVD Studio Pro 4.1 and covers these topics: Â Late-Breaking News About DVD Studio Pro 4.1.1 (p. 1) Â Previous Release Information About DVD Studio Pro 4.1 (p. 2) Note: DVD Studio Pro 4.1 is designed to run natively on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macintosh computers. This document may be updated as new versions of DVD Studio Pro are released or new information becomes available.
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Previous Release Information About DVD Studio Pro 4.1 The following information was included with DVD Studio Pro 4.1. The information is divided into several sections to make it easier to locate specific items. General Information This section contains information about general DVD Studio Pro usage. DVD Studio Pro 4.1 Complies With the HD DVD-Video Specification HD DVD projects authored with DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3 and DVD Studio Pro 4.1 fully comply with the 1.
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About Exporting MPEG-2 With QuickTime DVD Studio Pro no longer adds an MPEG-2 export capability to QuickTime. You can either use Compressor to export MPEG-2 video or import your QuickTime video directly into DVD Studio Pro, which will use its internal MPEG-2 encoder to encode the video.
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Rotated Menu Text Items From DVD Studio Pro 2 or DVD Studio Pro 3 Projects May Change When you open a project created in DVD Studio Pro 2 or DVD Studio Pro 3 that contains rotated menu text items, the rotated items may appear different. DVD Studio Pro 4 now correctly rotates menu text items without distorting them.
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This change to the HD DVD-Video specification also affects what happens when you open projects created with DVD Studio Pro 4.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 that use 1440 x 1080 resolution assets: Â If any tracks, menus, or slideshows are set to 1440 x 1080 with a 4:3 display mode, these assets are all automatically changed to a display mode of 16:9 letterbox.
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Using the Animation QuickTime Codec Using the Animation codec with HD resolution video can significantly reduce your computer’s performance, and should be avoided if possible. An alternative is to use the Apple Intermediate Codec. Updating Rendered Final Cut Pro Reference Movies You can import Final Cut Pro reference movies (those that are not self-contained) into your DVD Studio Pro projects. If any part of the Final Cut Pro sequence requires rendering, you must render it before importing the movie.
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Apple Templates and Shapes Can Be Installed to a Custom Location When you install DVD Studio Pro 4.1, you can choose a custom location to install the Apple-supplied templates and shapes. The DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual incorrectly states they can only be installed in the application bundle. Project Shapes Are Not Saved to the Project Bundle When you import a shape and select the “For This Project Only” option, it is supposed to be saved to the project bundle.
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Mask Edges May Be Visible in Shapes You Create If you make the image mask layer (the first layer) of a shape the same size as the shape’s graphics layer (the second layer), you may see some of the mask layer around the edges of the graphics layer. This is because the shape’s graphics layer is processed differently than the mask layer. You can work around this issue by making the mask layer slightly smaller than the graphics layer.
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Item Descriptions for Menus Do Not Retain Their Languages If you create a menu that supports multiple languages and export an item description for it, the item description will not contain any language attributes. For example, if you configure a menu to support three languages, with each language having different backgrounds and text objects, and export the menu as an item description, the item description will only retain the background for the first language and any buttons that have been configured.
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Premastering Information This section contains information about issues with building and formatting your DVD Studio Pro projects. Dual DVD Standard Discs No Longer Supported You can no longer format dual DVD standard discs (red laser discs that contain both a VIDEO_TS folder from an SD project and an HVDVD_TS folder from an HD project). Creating dual DVD standard discs was allowed in pre-1.0 versions of the HD DVD-Video specification, but changes in the specification have made this impractical.
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Using DVD-R Dual-Layer Media If your system contains a DVD drive that can write to the new DVD-R dual-layer media, you can burn your DVD project to it with DVD Studio Pro. However, there are several issues: Â Since there is no current way for DVD Studio Pro to identify DVD-R dual-layer media as having two layers, burning a dual-layer project to it results in a warning appearing telling you that the DVD media may have insufficient room to hold the project.
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Using a FireWire to SCSI Adapter Due to a variety of issues, it is recommended that you do not use FireWire to SCSI adapters to connect DLT or DVD drives for premastering your DVD Studio Pro projects. CMF Format DVDs Cannot Be Burned on Systems With an Adaptec SCSI Card DVD Studio Pro is unable to burn CMF format DVDs on an authoring DVD-R drive connected to your system using an Adaptec SCSI card.
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Track Editor Information This section contains information about creating tracks in DVD Studio Pro. Using HDV Video in Multi-Angle Projects When you author a multi-angle or mixed-angle HD DVD project, the video streams in the track are limited to a combined maximum bit rate of 24 Mbps (the selected video stream plus all audio and subtitle streams). 1080i HDV video uses a bit rate of 25 Mbps, which is higher than the maximum allowable multi-angle bit rate.
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DVD@CCESS Actions Assigned to Still Menus Play Erratically on Some Windows Players DVD@CCESS actions assigned to still menus can play erratically on some Windows XP computers using the Media Player and on most Windows computers using Power DVD. In some cases, a DVD@CCESS action assigned to a different menu may be activated, or the action may be activated only the first time a menu is accessed. To work around this issue, you can create all menus with DVD@CCESS actions as motion menus.