Dvd Studio Pro 3 In The Studio

Explores features and functions of DVD Studio Pro 3, including menu creation, storyboarding, generating multi-angle tracks, providing multi-language support, mixing Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, and using scripting language.

Create Hollywood-Quality DVDs on a Small-Business Budget With DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple introduced a completely rewritten DVD authoring program at a fraction of its original price. Powerful and full-featured, DVD Studio Pro 2 offers a wealth of sophisticated tools that let you build your own professional-quality DVDs. DVD Studio Pro 2 Solutions offers expert instruction in putting this complex tool to good use. In each no-nonsense chapter, acclaimed Mac and DV author Erica Sadun introduces you to important concepts and nitty-gritty product details, revealing hidden features, flaws, and workarounds. After learning the fundamentals, you'll work through interactive projects that reinforce the material. The extensive support files on the companion DVD provide hands-on experience while you create serious real-world DVDs. Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of DVD Studio Pro 2, including how to: Build and burn autoplay looping movies and slideshows Create animated subtitles and captions Provide multi-language support Produce motion menu buttons using your movie assets Develop widescreen menus and tracks Create multi-screen scene selection menus Generate multi-angle tracks with alternate audio Build scripts using the Script Editor and Inspectors Add "Easter Egg" material Prepare your projects for professional replication And more! DVD Description With over 3GB of material, this DVD features all the supporting files you'll need as you try out the book's projects, along with sample video, audio, and slide shows. You also get tryout versions of valuable software including Photoshop, LemkeSoft Graphic Converter, and OmniGraffle Professional. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

This highly illustrated, full color book tells you all you need to know to get up and running quickly using DVD Studio Pro to achieve professional results. All the essential areas are covered: preparing your assets, the DVD SP interface, setting up your DVD, adding tracks, building menus, adding markers, building slideshows, making subtitles and multiplexing. An invaluable first read for users of all levels who want to author DVDs professionally!

Updated for DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2, this best-selling, Apple certified guide uses striking real-world footage to build four complete DVDs and share a Blu-ray disc. It covers how to use DVD Studio Pro on its own, as well as how to integrate it into your workflow with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, and Compressor 3.5. Each lesson takes you step-by-step through an aspect of DVD creation and finishing, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. You'll learn to storyboard your DVD and plan its interactions, set chapter markers, build still and motion menus, and add overlays and subtitles. You’ll also work with multiple audio tracks and camera angles, create smart buttons and custom transitions, professionally encode audio and video files, and build useful scripts. All of Peachpit's eBooks contain the same content as the print edition. You will find a link in the last few pages of your eBook that directs you to the media files. Helpful tips: If you are able to search the book, search for "Where are the lesson files?" Go to the very last page of the book and scroll backwards. You will need a web-enabled device or computer in order to access the media files that accompany this ebook. Entering the URL supplied into a computer with web access will allow you to get to the files. Depending on your device, it is possible that your display settings will cut off part of the URL. To make sure this is not the case, try reducing your font size and turning your device to a landscape view. This should cause the full URL to appear.

If you thought you were producing fairly sophisticated DVDs before, wait 'till you see what you can do with Apple's just-released DVD Studio Pro 3! With its stunning QuickTime-based movie transitions (Alpha Transitions) and a brand-new Graphic View that lets you interact with your project in a storyboard environment, DVD Studio Pro 3 promises to bring a whole new level of sophistication to your DVD projects. This task-based guide ensures that you start taking advantage of it immediately! In these pages, youAll discover how to build on your existing DVD authoring skills to master version 3's many powerful new features--including more than 30 additional transition styles, superb HD-to-MPEG-2 encoding, and more. Veteran author Martin Sitter breaks down each DVD Studio Pro task--from setting chapter markers to adding subtitles and creating scripts--into concise step-by-step instructions accompanied by informative screen shots. By the end of the volume, you'll be juggling multiple audio tracks, creating custom transitions, creating smart buttons, and more in the quest of DVD perfection!

There's no better way to learn to author professional, interactive DVDs than this self-paced, Apple-certified guide to DVD Studio Pro 3. This revision of the best-selling first edition is fully updated to take advantage of the software's new transition styles, superb HD-to-MPEG-2 encoding, and brand-new graphical view. Master trainers Adrian Ramseier and Martin Sitter begin with the basics of DVD authoring and--in a new advanced section--take you all the way through DVD Studio Pro's most powerful features. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of DVD creation and finishing, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. After learning how to storyboard your DVD and plan its interactions, you'll set chapter markers, build still and motion menus, and add subtitles and Web links. You'll also learn sophisticated techniques for juggling multiple audio tracks and camera angles, creating smart buttons and custom transitions, and scripting. Finally, you'll encode professional-quality audio and video and build, format, and burn the DVD. By the end of the book, you'll have created four full DVDs, each geared to a different audience and using different navigation schemes and effects.

Self-paced training from the best-selling guide used by Apple for its own certification program, completely updated for DVD Studio Pro 4!