IDVD Studio Pro 4

Hi
Can I import iDVD DVD projects into Studio Pro 4?
Thanks
Neil

Bummer - and strange - counter intuitive
I'm guessing it's just marketing.

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  • Quality issues in iDVD - is DVD Studio Pro the answer?

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    I have my entire business riding on this, and my movies are very simple to produce, but they don't do anyone any good if they don't play.
    <
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    Sorry to repeat the question below, which I have also posted under DVD SP...I thought that perhaps someone watching Compressor would also have input.
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    I think one should not look only at the bitrates because also filtering, smoothing etc of the input material matters.
    dvdsp & compressor allows one to fine tune the minimum, maximum and average bitrates. idvd uses just some general guidelines for these so often the input material could benefit from other encoding options. idvd's best quality may well have also other differences than bitrates compared to best performance so less kb/s doesn't always mean poorer quality.
    vbr just tries to give "difficult" scenes (high action, noisy footage etc) the bandwidht they deserve and throttle it for "easy" scenes (talking heads etc). cbr often wastes bandwidth because it gives also "easy" scenes more bandwidth than they deserve (the same quality could be achieved with less kb/s).
    one should also remember that DVD's video bitrate is up to 10036 kb/s (=9.8 Mb/s) and in practice it is about 8 Mb/s because some dvd players tend to choke at the max bitrates.
    also, the input quality is very crucial -- the pros have $$ equipment (camcorders, lighting, tripods, staff etc) that produces steady footage, little noise etc so good output quality can be achieved easier than with shaky & noisy consumer footage!
    [sorry for the small caps -- i have a baby in my lap so reaching the shift key is difficult :]

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