Provide Feedback for the DVD Studio Pro User Manual and Onscreen Help Here

The Apple documentation team for professional video applications would like to know what you think about the DVD Studio Pro 4 Help documentation (available in the Help menu):
• How often do you use the DVD Studio Pro Help documentation? Under what circumstances do you use it most?
• How do you find what you're looking for in DVD Studio Pro Help? For example: table of contents, index, skimming, PDF links, PDF search?
• What do you like most about DVD Studio Pro Help?
• What is missing?
• Are there any particular examples of other manuals or documentation that you consider to be good models for future editions of the DVD Studio Pro User Manual and onscreen help?
• By what method do you usually learn a new application? For example: provided tutorials and manuals, third-party tutorials or books, training classes?
• What do you think is the most difficult feature/concept to grasp in DVD Studio Pro?
• What's the most frustrating experience you've had with the DVD Studio Pro Help documentation?
• Do you prefer electronic or print documentation?
• Are there any other delivery methods or media you think we should explore?
• What size computer display do you typically use to view the onscreen help? For example: 15-inch, 17-inch, 20-inch, 23-inch, or 30-inch?
• What resolution is the computer display set to when you view onscreen help? For example: 1024 x 768, 1280 x 854, or 1920 x 1200 pixels?
• Do you use multiple computer displays?

• How often do you use the DVD Studio Pro Help
documentation? Under what circumstances do you use it
most?
I'm working with DVSP for 4 months, so everytime I don't know how to do something I use the documentation. As the times passes I almost don't need it so often.
• How do you find what you're looking for in DVD
Studio Pro Help? For example: table of contents,
index, skimming, PDF links, PDF search?
PDF Search, but I think is not the best way to search because it shows too much useless results.
• What do you like most about DVD Studio Pro Help?
It is powerful and easy to use.
• What is missing?
A way of editing the DVD Project Source Code. Let me explain: in some big projects I just need to change the Jump from "button_1" to "button_2", and to do that I need to find the button under my menus and choose it from a list. If I can just type "2" instead of "1" it will be faster and error-free.
Advancing in this idea, if I can open the entire link list as a Source Code in TextEdit, I can see all the buttons and link all of them without seeking for each on menus.
Today the Connections Tab helps a lot, but I still need to find the button un the menus. With 5 or 4 menus is easy, but sometimes I have 50...
• Are there any particular examples of other manuals
or documentation that you consider to be good models
for future editions of the DVD Studio Pro User Manual
and onscreen help?
The OSX help is great!
• By what method do you usually learn a new
application? For example: provided tutorials and
manuals, third-party tutorials or books, training
classes?
Manuals, third-party tutorials and discussions foruns.
• What do you think is the most difficult
feature/concept to grasp in DVD Studio Pro?
• What's the most frustrating experience you've had
with the DVD Studio Pro Help documentation?
Using scripts. It could be better with a lot of examples. "To do that, try this one".
• Do you prefer electronic or print documentation?
In electronic is easy to find things.
• Are there any other delivery methods or media you
think we should explore?
• What size computer display do you typically use to
view the onscreen help? For example: 15-inch,
17-inch, 20-inch, 23-inch, or 30-inch?
I use AppleCinema 20
• What resolution is the computer display set to when
you view onscreen help? For example: 1024 x 768, 1280
x 854, or 1920 x 1200 pixels?
1650x1050
• Do you use multiple computer displays?
No.

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• Are there any other delivery methods or media you
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• What size computer display do you typically use to
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Provide Feedback for the Logic Pro User Manual and Onscreen Help Here

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Where is the DVD Studio Pro User's Manual????

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Sometimes they are for sale on eBay.
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In the end, I was thinking putting a little opening video before main menu showed. Video for about 5-6 seconds and then menu would show up. How can I do this? Is there some trick in Outline and Inspector that I should do? And also, what video (its tied with first question)?
I appreciate any help or reply. If you cant write everything down, please direct me to some tutorial or training video/site where I can get some answers.

You should be making m2vs (without audio in them, in other words not multiplexed) for SD DVDs (which is what you are going for it sounds like.) MPEG-4 is compressed so you wind up recompressing.
Use Pro Res to send out a self contained movie from FCP or send the timeline straight from Final Cut to Compressor an preset (or one that you make yourself.) I prefer sending out self-contained versions in case I need to re-rencode or want to make items for various formats.
Movie setting up Compressor is [here|http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/compressor.mov]
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I wanted to ask how I copy (from one computer to another) over the libraries of templates for the suite of programs in Final Cut Studio 2. I no longer have the discs and wanted to ask where in the library and what files I need to carry over to be able to see the templates etc again for these FCP Studio programs.
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I no longer have the discs...
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What program makes the DVD Studio Pro 4 Templates? Motion?

I was wondering what software the designers used to make some of the beautiful templates. Please let me know of some suggestions, or on how to make motion menu screens. Does everyone use motion here?

Hey George, sure thing
(by the way, if you don't mind, giving a helpful rating to a
response gives my forum profile a boost, if you take a moment
to mark a response as helpful or solved...)
anyhoo, here's two approached for doing your own
take on a Template you like (One Long, one short)
1) Take a screenshot of the DVDSP Template you like using
the free Mac OSX Utility app "Grab" or an app like Snapz ProX
2) In Photoshop or a program like it, do a mockup of
that Template throwing in your own design ideas,
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that act as the size/placeholders of the buttons
4) Do into DVDSP and simply create a New Menu,
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(Normal = the buttons the DVD user 1st sees when they go
to the Menu and before they make a selection)
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that has the shapes (note: these are different than the
normal states of the buttons as they actually tell DVDSP
to treat the overlay (aka functionality) to these shapes
voila, you have your own custom-made menu
A shorter approach would be to apply a Template in DVDSP
and start re-arranging certain elements, although there's
not as much control if you were to start from scratch
with your own Photoshop
keep in mind, there is also the option to do
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which is cool in that it acts more like a website menu
(e.g. you hit a hyperlink that automatically updates
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have Audio or Video in them
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cheers

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Try building the project to your desktop and then open the Video_TS in the Mac DVD player application.
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Once the Initialize screen appears, I get an error box stateing:
Formatting failed Building not successful, see log.
the log reads:
Starting DVD Build QUICK_REEL...
Compiler File Error
Build cancelled
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.
I'm freakin out because these are the only copies left. Nor am I able to export a stable format of the m2v, for instance converting to mpg so that I can make masters.
HELP!~!
Dave O'
[email protected]

Hi Dave,
So from what I understand the only change is the new hard drive? What I would do while the project is closed delete all the PAR folders associated with the project and reopen the project. This should highlight any errors concerning finding the footage.
My other note is have you changed the type of drive attached to your computer? Some external drives don't work so well with DVDSP. Moving the assest on board your computer is one way to skin this cat.
Good Luck

Dvd Studio Pro on formats and wont burn.

I created a menu on dvd studio pro and when I try to burn it, it only goes through the process of Formatting and it finishes. I cant play it on any dvd player, I'm pretty sure thats because its only formatted and not burnt. I cant seem to get it to burn. Any suggestions?

Wikileak:
It works even though it doesn't work.
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I set the colors for a title in the Edit Palette and take a screen shot, then reference that while using the Color pop-up menu.
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-Warren

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Thanks!
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I wasn't going to say anything, but, some people on these boards, (having simalar issues) had to wipe there drives and reinstall, before everything went back to normal.
I just didn't want to have you go that far, unless everything else failed and it's beginning to look that way.
I personally, when a major upgrade to the OS occurs, wipe my drive, just so there is no strange behavior with my application and gives me a chance get rid of all the unseen trash in the background, (that can cause problems) which are invisible to the user, (I do this about once a year.)
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How to get rid of the DVD studio pro extension?

I cut an actors reel in DVD SP 4 and saved the file just with the actors name and when I burn dvd's of it, it always has the the actors name .."studio pro" ho can i get rid of the studio pro, so when they play there reel for clients it just comes up as there name without the studio pro after it?
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That will be the name of your disc in the property inspector for DVDSP. Click on the disc background/icon in the graphical or outline view, and change the title in the property inspector.
When you go to build/format, make sure the settings in all three tabs are as you want them.

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Thanks, but if you are not using Compressor, can you tell me what the bitrate should be?

That document is about encoding and authoring HD DVDs.
Don't try to make one of these unless you are purposely making this for an HD DVD player and you don't intend it to be distributed to others. HD DVD is an obsolete format that lost out to Blu Ray years ago as the high def industry format.
DVD SP should only be used for making standard def DVDs. The DVD standard for DVDs is MPEG2. If you don't want to use Compressor, and your video is under 90 minutes, then set the bit rate in DVDSP preferences between 6.5 and 7.0 Mbps. If it's longer, post back with more details.
Russ

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You can leave feedback about the app store via the iTunes store (the app store is part of the iTunes store) : http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html - you could select 'other' as the feedback type

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I'm trying to convert several PAL DVDs to NTSC. I'm using MPEG Streamclip to convert the PAL VIDEO_TS folders. Then I'm compiling them on Studio Pro.
My Streamclip settings are as follows:
Export to Other Formats>
Quicktime>
DV/DVCPRO NTSC>
Best>
29.97>
16:9>
740 x 480>
48KHz/16bit
I'm getting a lot of artifacting (picture shifts during pans, jagged edges (interlacing?), etc.)
They don't look bad on my computer monitors in either app, but of course a burned DVD playing on a real-world Sony broadcast monitor tells a much different story.
Does anyone have any setting(s) suggestions to smooth over these problems?
Thanks!!

First off, thanks to everyone for all your great suggestions.
Agreed that the material was compressed to begin with. (Begin rant)...I'm amazed that so many people have a finished DVD they've spent hundreds on, yet apparently have no access to source material or even assets. No matter how I try to explain why the finished product won't look as good as what they gave me, the response is "it's DVD--DVD always looks great. Why can't you make it look great?" (end of rant, thanks...)
I'm on a PPC running Final Cut Studio 1 (so ProRes is unavailable to me). I took the footage to another system (Intel dual-core running FCS 3), used ProResLT, and to tell you the truth, I didn't see any noticeable difference--fade ups/downs are jerky, jagged lines between light & dark areas, etc. I'm also playing them back on both Sony and JVC broadcast monitors. I did some research on past threads, and downloaded and used JES Deinterlacer--no change. Even untrained eyes notice the problems.
I guess I was looking for someone who had had the same issue, and had a silver bullet to share with me. I've been on this for two days now, and my options are drying up. If I do succeed, somehow, I'll report back on what I did.
Thanks again.

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