Individual DVD Studio Pro 4

Is there any way to purchase/acquire just Dvd Studio Pro without the entire Final Cut Package? All my iLife programs are sufficient for what I am doing except for iDVD which isn't flexible enough. I have DVD Studio Pro 2 but it doesn't work on my current Intel MacBook Pro. If there is a way to get the isolated version would an educational discount be available?
Thank you.

Unfortunately this is not possible. You'd have to buy the whole suite. I forget the exact educational price but it's not vastly cheaper than the retail version - the discount is only about $100 or so.

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IDVD vs DVD Studio Pro

Please help! I've heard talk that it's better to burn DVDs using DVD Studio Pro than iDVD? Is that true?
I'm asking because I worked on a project that was distributed to over 200 people. Out of those 200 discs, about 30 of them were returned because they skipped, restarted or just didn't play on some DVD players.
I've gone back to the drawing board and made the following changes using iDVD before burning more copies of my project:
1) Purchased Taiyo Yuden 8x discs
2) Changed the burning speed to 1x
3) Changed burning option from Pro Quality to Best Performance
I've also heard that the reason High or Pro Quality isn't a good choice for burned discs to play on standard DVD players is because the Mac burns the disc at too high of a bitrate. Is this true? Either way, should I worry about iDVD not producing a good quality disc vs using DVD Studio Pro?
Help!!!!

hey there Luis,
i doubt that iDVD was the problem since 85% of your DVDs worked. it could be that some of the players were to old to play they type of discs burned. some older DVD players may not like any flavor of recordable DVD, some just may not like DVD+R, preferring the older DVD-R standard. i've used iDVD since iLife 03 & had 3 that wouldn't work on customers players, but that got resolved with customers getting newer players made since 2003/2004. w/out knowing your individual customers DVD players, you may not not hit 100% compatibility.
DVD SP is a much more complicated app than iDVD, but they essentially do the same thing-allow the user to author & burn movies & photo slide shows to recordable DVD media. DVD SP allows for more interactivity & more types of content to be applied in authoring a DVD, such as a game or web site-like "Harry Potter & Sorcerer's Stone" DVD, as such it is more difficult for novices. it has a pretty steep learning curve just like Apple's other Pro Apps & is only available w/ FCS1 or FCS2, also pretty expensive.

M2v files from compressor will not play in QT or DVD Studio Pro

I have 2 hours of HD footage that I am trying to put on a DVD. I tried exporting the entire thing (twice) to an mpeg2 but the resulting file would not open and froze quicktime. I then tried exporting the chapters individually. Even though I tried this twice, only the first clip worked. I then copied each chapter into a new sequence in FCP and exported each sequence to Compressor. This time, I could only open one of the 15 or so files in QT, but I could not even import that into DVD Studio Pro (it said it was an invalid file type). I have been using all the same settings, so I am not sure why chapter 1 works fine everywhere, chapter 2 works in QT but not DVD Studio Pro and the remaining chapters do not work anywhere. Anyone got any ideas as to what to do/try next?

I know that it will take a while, but after two tries exporting the whole thing and the result not working, I broke it up into smaller, 10 minute sections hoping that the computer would be able to handle them better and if one is bad, it is easier to fix than re-doing the entire thing.
The Compressor settings I am using: DVD Best Quality 150 minutes with all the default settings except that I put stream usage at HD DVD. I have also tried using Fastest Encode 150 minutes, also changing the stream usage.
I exported 20 minutes with Fastest Encode and changed the file format to 'H.264 for DVD Studio Pro' and it worked, but it is a mov file that is much bigger than the mpeg2 (m2v) file.
I started the compressor to work on the remaining hour at night and then left it until the next afternoon, but when I came back, it said there were 60+ hours remaining, but FCP was counting off the frames. I left it for another couple hours, hoping that compressor was simply estimating wrong, but when I came back, it said there were 93 hours remaining until it would be done. I canceled it and restarted the computer.

Why can't I change my subtitles' appearance in DVD Studio Pro?

Hello there.
So, I'm pretty confused. I created an .stl closed caption file in MovieCaptioner which I then imported into DVD Studio Pro. Understandibly (if not, annoyingly), I lost my original subtitle formatting, including font size, color, font, and the black bar I had originally positioned the text over to make it easier to read.
I'm not trying to change the captions within DVD Studio Pro but whenever I select all (or even just select one individual caption) the option to change the coordinates, etc, is greyed out and I can't select anything. And when I hit command + T and change the font, it doesn't do anything to the overall stream. I just want to make the subtitles larger and add a black bar behind them. Not sure what I'm doing wrong..
Thanks in advance!

DVD Studio Pro is only capable of authoring HD DVD, which is an obsolete format, or SD DVD. Unfortunately, it cannot do Blu Ray.
If you want HD, you can make a basic Blu Ray directly from FCPX, or from Compressor, using a Blu Ray burner. If your movie is less than 35 minutes long, you could alternatively make am AVCHD red laser disk, using the Blu Ray template with a DVD optical drive selected as Output Device. (AVCHD disks are HD resolution, but are encoded with somewhat less quality than Blu Ray; nonetheless, they look very good.)
The other HD options for disk delivery rely on third party solutions - including Roxio Toast and Adobe Encore.
Good luck.
Russ

DVD Studio Pro universal version

Has anyone heard anything about the DVD Studio Pro universal Version lately? I have Final Cut Pro 5 and I can upgrade to the studio for $99 which sounds like a good deal.
I'm concerned though as to if problems will exist on my PowerPC Mac Laptop 1.5mhz that I currently run Final Cut Pro 5 on? Will the universal version have problems? I know I can't (according to FAQ) install individual pieces of it on different Mac's but can I choose what I want as I really only want Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio and not the rest taking up hard drive space?
... Gary

I'm not familiar with the Tiger Cache Cleaner, what is it and how does it work?
You would think Apple would automatically strip out the Intel portions (if that is possible, which if Tiger Cache Cleaner can do it, why can't Apple's installer?) during the installation. It doesn't seem like a good idea to almost double the size of the files un-necessarily.
As for installing selectively, why does Apple's FAQ indicate you can't pick and choose which systems you want what application on? It would be better to install FCP5 on one system and DVD Studio on another so both can work at the same time?
Thanks... Gary

Old Video Material umuxed on DVD studio Pro 4- wierd issues

Hi,
I am building DVD Studio Projects from old VHS material, which I imported via MPEG Streamclip, to win quite some time (i.e. ENCODING!!)- A Client submitted the video files on a DVD's (used from a DVD/HDD Recorder, from what I could gather from the menu of the DVD's- plain simple Menus with Sony written all over with).
So far so good, I imported the individual video files as seperate m2v and ac3 files, so that I could "re-mux" the video files with DVD studio pro 4 rather easily. All the client wants is a nice menu presentation along with the video files.
Ok, so, I created the menus, and previewed them in DVDSP4, and one thing is striking me- the videos, although old, they have a few "jumpy" sequences in them (with TV snow for a second or so) and when I build & format the project as an imageon my HD, and play the project in the DVD player in OS X, all of the video sequences "freeze" when any kind of video disturbance (in this case the TV snow parts, etc.), but the sound continues, and as soon as the video comes up normally again, the pictures continues in snyc with the audio.
My (rather uncommon) question is- how do I get the DVD Studio Pro 4 Program to ignore those "interferences" and playback the videos smoothly as it has been with MPEG Streamclip? MPEG streamclip has been playing the videos back- including the Video disturbances.
I might be missing something when importing into DVDSP4, but I just can't figure it out...
Thanks in advance for any help!
Feel free to ask questions, I will try to respond ASAP.
Cheers,
Dominique

I'm having a similar problem with my menus. They look very jumpy on a tv screen but fine when I play them (as a dvd) on my computer.

DVD Studio Pro Help!

Recently just got FCP2 and will admit I am a bit new to everything within it. I'm finishing up a film we have recently been doing and I'm basically ready for export/DVD creation process.
First: What is better to do when exporting to DVD Studio Pro 4: Exporting as Quicktime movie and have the studio do the encoding? Or exporting the final cut sequence through compressor and adding those assets in Studio Pro after. As of now I'm more comfortable using compressor and what I've done with it after loading into DVD Pro Studio looks great.
Second: What is the best way for chapter markers? On the DVD I'd like to have a sub menu of Chapter Selection but don't know the best way to do this. Do I have to export individual clips from Final Cut to add as a menu, or will adding chapter markers in FC do the trick?
Those are my main two questions for now so any help would be appreciated and like I said, I'm kind of a newbie to DVD Studio Pro so all basic help would also be great.
Thanks!

1. Export QuickTime, self contained, current settings, audio and video, no recompression.
Take that file and drop it into Compressor. Elect the preset consistent with the total length of the video in minutes, and use the ac3 audio encoder.
Then bring those assets into DVD SP.
2. Not certain what you are asking here. Set your markers first in Final Cut Pro before you export.
go to kenstone.net and search for "stories." A good tutorial there.

How do I prevent errors importing foreign characters into subtitles for DVD studio pro?

How do I prevent errors importing foreign characters into subtitles for DVD studio pro?
I have figured out just about everything necessary for creating subtitle tracks in several foreign languages, but the only problem is that some individual characters in some languages (like the "open quotation mark" symbol in Lithuanian!) do not import properly into the subtitle track. I can type or paste the symbols in manually, but this means doing it hundreds of times in several different languages, and defeats the purpose of using the system I've created.
Does anyone know how to import some of these odd characters.
I import characters using a text file saved in Unicode-16, and I set the language of the track to the proper language (for instance, Lithuanian).
I can't find the answer anyway, and really am stumped!!
Thank you!!

i think i might have figured out a solution. it's a quirk in the program. i noticed that sometimes the quotation marks DO actually import, but only if they are in the middle of a sentence. they only FAIL to import at the beginning of a sentence. so, what i did was to paste a space before the beginning of every sentence with a weird low-down quotation mark, and it imported fine.
and it also seems to kill two birds with one stone, because sometimes it seems that DVD studio pro cuts off a few pixels at the beginning of a line -- so with a space inserted it just cuts off...nothing.
so far so good. thank you for trying to help, Tom. MUCH APPRECIATED. this stuff can be very frustrating. i'm already going bald fast enough....erg.

DVD Studio Pro Content Length

I recently taped an arts symposium that comes to more than 6 hours in length.
I was hoping I could compress the clips (featuring several individual speakers as chapters) to fit a single DVD-5 (4.7 GB) disc.
When I used the MPEG Streamclip app to convert the original Mini DV files to Mpg 4 and try to import one into DVD Studio Pro, DVDSP crashes.
I see that I can import the large file size QT movies into Studio Pro, but then that would exceed the content limit, and I'd have to go with multiple discs for the finished product.
The Mpg 4 quality is excellent, and file size is small. Would MPEG-2 be another choice? DVDSP Help seems to say that the QuickTime MPEG Encoder can be used. I remember having great difficulty working with Compressor in the past, so would prefer to avoid it if possible.
Basic question is, can I fit the 6+ hours onto one disc using MPEG-2? I believe I can also create these files in MPEG Streamclip.
Additionally: I'm trying to configure or even access the MPEG Encoder, but can't open the Preferences menu to do so. Very odd. Hope I don't have to reinstall the whole program or something...

Thanks S-X and Posthumous,
That confirms my supposition that 3 single layer discs would be the way to go. I also considered double layered, but have encountered past problems playing them back on one or another device. I'm aware that commercial discs for Hollywood movies can have a far higher content - but of course have more sophisticated burner/replication requirements than my MDD superdrive.
I also realize that apparently DVDSP and other mastering programs recognize content length, not file size...not sure why, exactly, but am sure there's a technical answer. If a more or less one hour 12 GB QT file can be compressed to an MPEG 4 900+ MB size, it would seem you could squeeze 4.5 hours onto a 4.7GB disc.
Either way, I've found that my iDVD v. 8 will accept the Mpeg-4 clips, and the only drawback is that, although I indeed intend to divide the speakers into chapters, or actually, clips - I then can't do a "Play All" for each disc - but the viewer will see a return to the menu after each (quite lengthy ca. 45 min.) talk. As you suggest, X, that's probably a relief - time for coffee :-)
Cheers,
K.

The difference between chapter markers and dvd studio pro markers

Does anyone know what is the difference between chapter markers and dvd studio pro markers? I can not find anywhere on Google. Also in the tutorials I have seen, suggesting DVD Studio Pro markers, but it did not mention the chapter markers.
Thanks,

"Adding Chapter and Compression Markers to Your Sequence
Once you have your edited sequence or program finished, you can add markers to the sequence for use on DVD. Markers are reference points you can place within clips or sequences that identify specific frames. There are two kinds of markers you can add that directly relate to authoring a DVD—chapter markers and compression markers.
• Chapter markers allow DVD authoring applications to create a navigable chapter list for your exported QuickTime movie. Chapter markers force MPEG keyframes (known as I-frames) at their location, since the DVD specification requires an I-frame at each chapter point.
• Compression markers identify areas of abrupt change and include two types: those that are automatically inserted by Final Cut Pro at all edit points, and those you manually place in the clip or sequence. Like chapter markers, compression markers force I-frames at their location, although in this case it is for better quality encoding, and they are not used to create a chapter list.
Note: When you export a QuickTime movie, you have an option to export various kinds of markers, including compression, chapter, or DVD Studio Pro markers. *When you choose to export DVD Studio Pro markers, Final Cut Pro actually exports chapter markers and all compression markers.* This includes compression markers you set manually, as well as ones created automatically by Final Cut Pro at edit and transition points."
From the Final Cut Pro User Manual.
So, JS was right the first time

How Do I Use DVD Studio Pro Files In iDVD?

I had somebody create a DVD for me using DVD Studio Pro. (This was a compilation of many different videos.) It turned out great.
I now want to make a DVD of one of those videos on my own using iDVD '08.
I have the raw video/audio files. But, my problem is the raw files that were used for the DVD Studio Pro project are separated into one video file and one audio file. I don't know how I can get them both into iDVD. I was told that I have to recombine these two files into one file. But, how do I do this and still maintain the best quality?
(I am not a video expert by any means, but I can tell you that the video file is a ".mpeg" and the audio file is an ".ac3". When looking at the .mpeg file in the finder it lists its Kind as "MPEG Movie" and when looking at the .ac3 file in the finder it lists its Kind as "Unix Executable File".)
(I'm using iDVD 7.0.1 - I do have Quicktime Pro - I do not have the Quicktime MPEG-2 Playback component - I do not have DVD Studio Pro)
Thanks in advance for your help!

Q: How Do I Use DVD Studio Pro Files In iDVD?
A: You don't, essentially.
DVDSP is apple's top end app and it is intended to be used with FCP > Compressor > DVDSP. All of these are pro apps.
i-Apps are consumer apps all of which are QT based. With that in mind ....
now that doesn't mean you can't use FCP > iDvd. You can. But you have to do it in a way that iDvd will read all the files (meaning you must think in terms of QuickTime and export in this way). So when you export your QT File / Movie from FCP over to iDvd, it will look something like this hopefully regardless of the raw image & audio files you have already compiled which unfortunately will NOT work with i-Apps BUT will work with apple's pro apps which is the intended workflow / direction of said files in the first place.
Btw ... if your QT movie has chapter markers then please use the following settings so iDvd can read these markers. (if on the other hand you were looking to export this file to DVDSP; then you would choose DVDSP Markers.
Let me know if the above helps. If not, just come on back.

Problems downloading the new DVD Studio Pro update.

Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem/message when trying to download the new DVDSP update?;
'You appear to have already downloaded the DVD Studio Pro update.'
This also happened on the last updates that were released.
There is a workaround that I know of that I had to use last time but it seems strange that this is occuring. Has anyone else had any issues with this update (or the last for that matter)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as Apple Tech would not help me because I am on a Volume Licence and the Apple Store that I purchased it through has not given me any help.
Thanks
Carlo

I can get around this problem by using software update to download the updates and then use the downloaded file to update the machines but I would really like the ability to download the updates as a standalone dmg file.
I am running 20 systems on an airport network that will freeze up if I do the updates online the best i can do is 3 at once to avoid serious lag.
Being able to download them seperately was always my first choice so i could update the machines regardless of being conected to the net or not. The workaround that I am using only downloads the package file and it seems there is the possibility of them being corrupted or damaged over time (moving from server to drives to media to computers etc).
I still want to know why it thinks I have downloaded them already, it doesn't make any sense.

HUGE PROBLEM with sound in DVD Studio Pro 4

As I imported the soundtrack of the footage that I have (which is about 1h16), the combinaison of my video & the sound is over 4,7 Gig. Therefor, I can't burn it on a DVD.
I exported the audio in a lower quality to finally obtain a size of around 210mb for the sound (which was 844mb BEFORE!!!)
BUT, As soon as I add it to the timeline, the size goes up again to 855mb encoded!!!!!! I even tried which a compressed AIFF file of 50mb and the sound is still encoded to the same size, 855mb!!!
Where and how can I change the encoding of the audio in DVD Studio Pro so that I can lower the quality just a little bit so but my video and the audio will fit on a standard 4,7 Gig DVD!
Thanks!!

Drop your aiff files into Compressor, and elect Dolby 2 with -31 normalization no film compression.
I don't know what you mean by "I exported the audio in a lower quality."
Audio must be 48/16 stereo aiff/pcm before it is encoded in Compressor to Dolby 2.
What are your target and maximum bit rates for video in Compressor? Are you export video and audio separately before encoding in Compressor

Having a problem with audio in DVD Studio Pro with the finished copy

I am making a DVD of a clip I had transferred from a mini DV. All the audio was present when I transferred it. I had then turned it into an MPEG movie format (.mpg). When I play that clip there is audio. Then I compressed the file on Compressor. I selected the file format by choosing Apple > DVD > DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes > MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass (the clip was about an hour and 20min long) and compressed the clip. I then opened DVD studio pro, made a menu, and then added this new file (MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass). I burned the DVD and put it into my DVD player. The picture was great and everything worked fine except there was no audio. How do I get audio into this DVD? I have tried compressing my .mpg file into the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 option that is under DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes, but when I try importing that into DVD studio pro it a message pops up saying "Incompatible format." It might also help mentioning that when I saw the file size on the Dolby Digital Professional 2.0 after compressing it, it said Zero kb. How would I get audio onto this DVD? I would really appreciate your help, I tried to be as detailed as I could. This DVD is for a family member and is urgent, so anyone who can help would greatly be appreciated. Thank you so much.
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If you don't want to go back and recapture the tape you need to understand that MPG files need to be "DeMuxed" to extract the audio. My recommendation would be to use the free MPEG Streamclip and then select your MPG to be Demuxed into an AIFF file. That AIFF file will then need to be converted to an AC3 file, similar to what you did with the video.

Video quality bad when compresed from final cut pro to dvd studio pro. HELP

Hello,
I have a dvd project im working on and first i tried the video that i captured from final cut to just use in dvd studio pro but that didnt work. then i used the compressor and used the 60min high quality video and that looks even worse. what do u suggest i do?

You must get to know what these settings do to be able to use Compressor. Try using a 10 second test of your video file and encoded at different settings to get a feel for how compression works.
Min 4 and peak at 7, a difference of 3 between min and peak is a good start at CBR, but you must test.
Just like using a video camera, if you use the same exposure setting all the time, most of your pictures will be unuseable, either too dark or too light.

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