Apple Pro Training Series: DVD Studio Pro 4

457 Pages·2009·16.868 MB·English

by  Sitter, Martin;Ramseier, Adrian;Carman, Robbie;Harrington, Richard

Apple Pro Training Series
DVD Studio Pro 4
Third Edition
Martin Sitter and Adrian Ramseier
with Robbie Carman and Richard Harrington
Apple Pro Training Series:DVD Studio Pro 4,Third Edition
Martin Sitter and Adrian Ramseier with Robbie Carman and Richard Harrington
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Contents at a Glance
Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Basic DVD Authoring
Lesson 1 Preparing Your First DVD Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lesson 2 Exploring the Full Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Lesson 3 Setting Up a Simple DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lesson 4 Creating Menus Within DVD Studio Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Lesson 5 Creating a Chapter Index Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Lesson 6 Creating a Slideshow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Lesson 7 Adding Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Lesson 8 Finishing Your DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Advanced Authoring and Design
Lesson 9 Encoding with Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Lesson 10 Designing Advanced Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Lesson 11 Markers,Stories,and Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Lesson 12 Scripting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Lesson 13 Creating Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Lesson 14 Using Alternate Angles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Working with HD
Lesson 15 Working with High-Definition Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Appendixes
Appendix A Advanced Encoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Appendix B Bit Budget Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
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Table of Contents
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Basic DVD Authoring
Lesson 1 Preparing Your First DVD Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
DVD Creation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The DVD-Video Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Exploring the Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Creating a Simple DVD in Basic View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Creating a Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting Assets to the Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Simulating a Disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Building a Project and Burning a Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Lesson 2 Exploring the Full Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Opening the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Exploring Window Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Adjusting the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Lesson 3 Setting Up a Simple DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Storyboarding Your DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating the Swiss Storyboard Using the Graphical Tab. . . . . . 61
Previewing the Finished Project with Apple’s DVD Player. . . . 65
Identifying Source Video Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Setting DVD Studio Pro Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Setting Up Disc Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Importing Video and Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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Setting Chapter Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Lesson 4 Creating Menus Within DVD Studio Pro . . . . . . . 85
The Menu Creation Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Importing Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Adding a Background Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Using the Title Safe and Action Safe Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Creating Buttons on a Still Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Making Connections from Buttons to Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Adding Title and Text to the Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Adding Sound to the Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating an Intro Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Targeting Up Navigation on Your DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using a Drop Zone to Create a Motion Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Lesson 5 Creating a Chapter Index Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Customizing a Default Chapter Index Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setting Up the Chapter Index Navigation Buttons . . . . . . . . . 121
Adding a Drop Zone Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Automating the Chapter Index Menu Creation Process. . . . . 126
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Lesson 6 Creating a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Using Slideshows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
File Formats for Slideshows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Adding a Slideshow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Modifying Your Slideshow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Slideshow Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Converting a Slideshow to a Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Lesson 7 Adding Subtitles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Creating Subtitles in DVD Studio Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Modifying the Font and Color ofSubtitles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Importing Subtitles from a Text File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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Previewing Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Creating Buttons over Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
About Closed Captioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Lesson 8 Finishing Your DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Adding DVD-ROM Content to a DVD-Video Disc . . . . . . . . 170
Testing Your Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Building and Formatting a DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using the Apple DVD Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Burning a Disc Using the Burn Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Choosing Recordable DVD Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Distribution ofYour Completed DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Advanced Authoring and Design
Lesson 9 Encoding with Compressor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Understanding Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Importing a File into Compressor from Final Cut Pro. . . . . . 199
Applying Preset Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Creating Custom Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Setting Compression Markers in Compressor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Creating Chapter Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Submitting Files for Encoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Creating a Compressor Droplet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Lesson 10 Designing Advanced Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Maintaining the Look ofMenu Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Creating Standard Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Adding a Simple Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Creating Buttons for the Overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Choosing Highlights for Button States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Using Advanced Overlays with Grayscale Color Mapping . . . 242
Customizing Button Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Saving New Default Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
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Adding a Motion Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Setting a Loop Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Working with Motion Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Advantages ofLayered Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Adding a Layered Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Creating Layered Menu Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Linking Your Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Lesson 11 Markers,Stories,and Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Working with Chapter Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Creating Markers in Final Cut Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Setting Encoding Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Using Stories as Playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Creating and Working with Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Establishing Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Finding the Unconnected Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Lesson 12 Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Building Menu Loop Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Creating Return to Menu Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Lesson 13 Creating Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Applying a Transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Using a Video Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Using Alpha Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Exploring the Asset Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Exploring the Background Matte Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Lesson 14 Using Alternate Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Setting Up the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
About Alternate Angles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Creating Multi-Angle Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
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Creating Mixed-Angle Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Targeting Alternate Angle Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Simulating Alternate Angle Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
About Alternate Angle Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Exploring Final Cut Pro Cut Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Working with HD
Lesson 15 Working with High-Definition Video . . . . . . . . . 375
HD to SD Downconversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Creating Blu-ray Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Lesson Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Appendixes
Appendix A Advanced Encoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Bit Budgeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Choosing MPEG-2 Encoder Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Understanding Audio Encoding Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Encoding AC-3 Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Appendix B Bit Budget Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423