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DVD Studio Pro 3

Professional DVD authoring.

Key Features

Configure the interface to suit your needs

• Start with three layouts: Basic, Extended,

Advanced

• Build layouts specific to tasks or your

workflow needs

• Switch between layouts quickly with

customizable shortcut keys

Design menus entirely in the application

• Start with Apple-designed templates or

create your own

• Add, move, position, and delete buttons,

drop zones, text, and graphics

• Freely add, position, and name buttons

• Work directly with layered Photoshop files

Create advanced slideshows

• Add transitions to slideshows with just

one click

• Add up to 99 stills per slideshow

• Fit audio to the slideshow, fit the slides to

audio, and add audio clips to individual slides

• Use any QuickTime-supported image format

Blend between menus and slides with

one-click, adjustable transitions

• Choose from 30 adjustable transitions

including dissolves, blurs, fades, and wipes

• Apply transitions to menus, buttons, slides,

and timeline-based stills

• Create custom Alpha Transitions with Motion

or After Effects

• Preview transitions without rendering

Work effortlessly with Final Cut Pro,

Motion, and Photoshop

• Import chapter markers from Final Cut Pro

• Encode MPEG-2 directly from Final Cut Pro

with Compressor

• Launch and edit with Motion and Photoshop

Specification Sheet

DVD Studio Pro 3

Designed to simplify DVD-Video authoring, DVD Studio Pro offers unprecedented

functionality at an affordable price. Integration with Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Adobe

Photoshop lets video professionals work with familiar programs to create captivating

DVDs. For quick results, use Apple-designed templates. For more advanced work, the

integrated Menu editor and custom transitions for menus and slideshows add visual

interest without extending deadlines. A full-featured Timeline editor, high-quality

MPEG-2 and Dolby Digital encoding, and professional premastering options provide

complete control.

As part of a video production workflow, DVD Studio Pro 3 works effortlessly with Final

Cut Pro, Motion, and Photoshop. While you are editing in Final Cut Pro, simply add

chapter markers and then import them with the QuickTime reference movie directly

into DVD Studio Pro. Your projects can also be encoded as MPEG-2 directly from Final

Cut Pro with Compressor for the best quality. And creating menu animations, complex

layered graphics, and other professional effects is easy because you can import Motion

projects into DVD Studio Pro and preview them instantly—without spending precious

time waiting for them to render.

Launch and edit with Motion and Photoshop saves

even more time when you are making critical changes or just experimenting with

different looks.

With DVD Studio Pro 3, templates and transitions accelerate the design process. More

than 50 Apple-designed menu templates allow you to create DVDs quickly. These can

be customized or you can start from scratch and design your own templates. DVD

Studio Pro also offers 30 transitions that will seamlessly blend between menus and

slides. With a click or two, you can add transitions to entire menus, menu buttons,

slides in a slideshow, and stills in tracks.

DVD Studio Pro allows you to access the feature set you need to complete your

projects. Start with one of three prebuilt configurations or customize the interface to

suit your needs, then save configurations specific to tasks or your workflow. You can

switch between layouts on the fly with customizable shortcut keys. While you build

your project, take advantage of the Graphical project view to see how the DVD flows

from one element to another. You can even print the flowchart to show to a client for

approval. For a quick list of the menus, tracks, slideshows, and scripts in your project,

look no further than the Outline view. This view shows the entire list of elements at a

glance, so you can track assets and links as you work.

Summary of content (9 pages)

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DVD Studio Pro 3 Professional DVD authoring.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 Key Features (continued) View your DVD project graphically or as an outline • Graphical view represents the flow of the project • Print the Graphical view for client approval • Outline view shows the entire list of elements at a glance Look (and sound) the best with advanced encoding options • Dolby Digital surround sound encoding with A.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 3 • Slideshows. You can add a transition between slides. The start frame is the current slide and the end frame is the next slide in the slideshow. • Tracks. You can add a transition to any still images in a track. The start frame is the last frame of the video clip and the last frame is the still image. Revolutionary Alpha Transitions. In addition to the range of standard transitions, DVD Studio Pro 3 includes Alpha Transitions.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 4 Author DVD Studio Pro 3 provides powerful workflow tools, integration with other applications, and a wide range of file format support to help you author modern DVDs faster than you ever thought possible. Graphical and Outline views. The new Graphical view provides a project overview using tiles to represent the project. Users can position the tiles to form a flowchart or storyboard of the project, and arrows show the relationships between the elements.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 5 formats recognized by DVD Studio Pro include MPEG-2 and MPEG-1; other QuickTime video formats are automatically encoded to MPEG-2. Audio formats include MPEG-1 Layer 2, Dolby Digital AC-3, and Stereo PCM; other QuickTime audio formats are automatically transcoded to AIFF. Subtitling built in. The integrated DVD Studio Pro 3 subtitler lets you add up to 32 subtitle streams per track.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 Upgrade from iDVD Apple’s consumer DVD authoring application, iDVD, allows you to create DVD-Video titles incorporating popular features from Hollywood releases without knowing the technical aspects of the process. DVD Studio Pro 3 is the next step for iDVD users who need more authoring control. For example, you can: • Import iDVD 4 projects and maintain the transitions.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 7 Maximize Quality Included with DVD Studio Pro 3, Compressor is an advanced compression tool that provides customization and correction of compression files in real time. It also lets you batch process to MPEG-2 for DVD authoring and MPEG-4 for web streaming. HD to MPEG-2 encoding. Compressor can scale frame sizes, producing even better MPEG-2 video for DVD Studio Pro 3.
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 Product Features Graphical view • View flow of DVD graphically • Print or save to PDF • Use Macro view to navigate easily through large projects • Flag elements for more attention • Fit all elements in window, zoom in/out • Organize tiles with Auto layout command Transitions • Add transitions to menus, menu buttons, slideshows, and timeline-based stills • Choose from 30 prebuilt transitions such as Blur, Dissolve, Droplet, Fade through Color, Melt, Motion Dissolve, Rota
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Specification Sheet DVD Studio Pro 3 Import • Maintains named chapter markers from Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and iMovie • DVD Studio Pro 1.5 and 2.0 projects • iDVD 3 and 4 projects • AIFF • AVI • BMP • DV • JPEG • Macromedia Flash 5 • MPEG-1 • MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) • MPEG-2 • M4A, M4P (iTunes 4 audio) • PDF (Mac OS X) • Photoshop (with Layers) • PICT • PNG • TARGA • TIFF • Wave • Aspect ratios: 4:3 and 16:9 • TV systems: PAL and NTSC • Frame rates: 29.