DVD Authoring in DVD Studio Pro - iTunes/iPad Edition

Welcome to the world of professional DVD authoring. In this feature length tutorial you will harness the power of Apple's industrial-strength DVD authoring application DVD Studio Pro, to create titles that are on par with the best that Hollywood can offer. From the first few lessons, you will hit the ground running and author a fully functional DVD complete with a submenu and slideshow. From there, you'll build on that knowledge so that by the time you've completed lesson 16, you'll be confidently creating advanced motion menus, building scripts, encoding your video, creating weblinks, subtitles and preparing your DVD for mass distribution. In addition, you will learn techniques and workflows that will literally save you hours of work.

Experience our Training on the iPad

The iPad is revolutionizing the way people access and interact with media. Video training is therefore a natural fit for people who want their training on the go or on a separate device from their main system. Because of the limited storage capacities of the iPad, we have labored to keep the movie sizes as small as possible while maintaining our high standards of image and sound quality. And perhaps best of all, you don't need to be connected to the internet to watch our tutorials on your iPad.

How Does it Work?

We realize you may have a question or two, so we created a short FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page to answer them.

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But isn't iDVD good enough?

The short answer is yes and no. iDVD is a wonderfully intuitive program that takes the headache out of creating simple DVDs. However at the end of the day, it's still a consumer application and as such does not have the rich tool set required by professionals. Take encoding for example. iDVD basically gives you two options for compressing your video. There are no allowances or advanced settings for movies that have a high degree of motion. Another feature required by professionals is the ability to control the user experience through scripting. In DVD Studio Pro you can create simple scripts that tell the DVD Player what to do based on viewer or player conditions. For example, using a script you can have the DVD player play alternate versions of your menus each time your viewer returns to it.

DVD Studio Pro is fully compliant with the DVD Spec giving you up to 8 audio streams, 9 video streams and 32 subtitle streams per track so you can create DVDs that can be watched and heard anywhere in the world. And these features only scratch the surface. In our training, we go out of our way to cover these subjects and explain why they are important.

Working with the Palette

DVD Authoring "Quickstart"

Customizing the Workspace

Tracks and Markers

Working with Slideshows

Menus with Overlays

Chapter Index Menus

External Linking with DVD@ccess

Adding Transitions

Creating Stories

Scripting 101

Working with Subtitles

Finishing

Outputting

Making it All Fit - Encoding

Working in HD and 16:9

DVD Gobbledygook

System Requirements