| The DVD StudioPro Bible is the authoritative and comprehensive guide creating professional-quality DVDs using Apple's revolutionary new killer app, DVD Studio Pro. This book features easily accessible information for beginners (including a QuickStart for immediate results), advanced tips and techniques for pros, and extensive professional insights throughout from DVD mastering professionals.
Welcome to the world of DVD authoring! Apple Computer is starting a DVD authoring revolution with DVD Studio Pro, which began shipping in February of 2001, following in the tradition of their successful Final Cut Pro video editing software. With the introduction of the SuperDrive, Apple brought affordable DVD burning to the mass market for first time. An excellent combination of professional DVD creation software and hardware is now available for Mac users, ushering in an era or virtually limitless creative possibilities for producers of both digital video and multimedia content.
Combined with a SuperDrive or external DVD-R burner, you will be able to produce a disc that actually plays back on your set-top DVD player. Or, using DVD Studio Pro, you can send a disc or DLT tape off for manufacturing a larger quantity. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, you will find that DVD Studio Pro is easy to use, yet powerful enough to meet the demands of advanced projects.
Our approach in writing this book was to combine step-by-step examples with in depth explanations to provide guidance for readers of any experience level. Through a series of chapter-based tutorials, sidebars and diagrams, case studies of several projects, as well as an accompanying hybrid DVD/DVD-ROM (which can be put in a regular DVD player or computer), we hope to provide the reader with valuable information that will assist them in the creation of their own DVD project. With DVD Studio Pro, producing a DVD is not only easy but fun as well. With this book, we hope to give you a resource that will help you to complete the DVD project of your dreams, which (until DVD Studio Pro arrived) seemed nearly impossible. |