With DVD Studio Pro, your DVD can use advanced features such as motion menus, chapter markers, scripting, multiple languages, subtitles, and Dolby Digital audio. To begin, collect your material, choose your style and navigation, then create your masterpiece. Collect source material Shoot and edit your video using a digital camcorder and your favorite editing tool, such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro. You don’t need to learn a new editing system. Use the audio from your video, or create new tracks in a separate audio mixing environment. Encode your video and audio into the formats required for DVD. For video, DVD Studio Pro includes a software MPEG encoder that will work in any QuickTime-savvy video editor, such as Final Cut Pro. Thanks to the Velocity Engine in the Power Mac G4, the software encoder quickly translates your material. If you frequently encode large amounts of video material, you may want to consider a third-party hardware encoder that can translate in real time. For audio, the DVD standard can use PCM or Dolby Digital AC-3 format. DVD Studio Pro includes a utility to translate AIFF, SoundDesigner II, QuickTime or WAVE files into AC-3 format. Choose Style and Navigation Create the look and feel of your menus and buttons. Design menus in Adobe Photoshop or your favorite video editing tool. Easily import them into DVD Studio Pro. Author and test your DVD. In this step, DVD Studio Pro brings it all together. Create and refine your project using intelligent pop-up menus that offer relevant choices, helping you make the right decisions the first time. The built-in preview function lets you see how your links, menus and buttons appear in real time. Create your Masterpiece Record your DVD in any number of ways. You can use a DVD-R drive (available in select Macintosh G4 models) to burn your DVD. Or record your project to DVD-RAM to play on computers that have a DVD-RAM drive. Send your project to a service bureau to write it to disc. If you plan to duplicate your work in large quantities, write your project to DLT tape or an external hard disk, then hand it over to a replication facility.

Project overview. Get a graphical view of the elements of your DVD project and easily customize the windows to fit your work style. Chapter setup. Use the interactive marker editor to add chapter markers and onscreen buttons to your video. Interactive structure. With a clear view of the links you’ve created, it’s easy to see your project’s interactivity flow and spot errors.