DVD Studio Pro: Introduction (2 day)

Course Overview

This Apple authorised two day course covers everything you need to create a professional DVD title using DVD Studio Pro - from initial storyboarding to burning and replication. Using compelling media and a real-world production workflow, you will cover creating MPEG 2 video with Compressor and creating motion menus directly in DVD Studio Pro. The course also covers creating buttons, interactive links, slideshows, playlists and adding alternate audio stream and camera angles. Feel free to tailor the course outline if you wish or call us to discuss your requirements.

Whether you are a TV or video editor, a marketing professional, working in distance learning or a video post-production professional, this course provides an essential introduction to DVD Studio Pro.

Course Outline

DAY ONE

INTRODUCTION

• The Apple Pro Certification program

PREPARING YOUR FIRST DVD PROJECT

• The DVD creation process
• Setting encoding preferences
• Importing assets into the palette
• Connecting assets to the menu
• Creating a slideshow
• Simulating a disc

WORKING WITH THE INTERFACE

• Quadrants and tabs

CREATING A SIMPLE DVD

• Storyboarding your DVD
• Testing a build
• Identifying source video settings

WORKING WITH MENUS AND BUTTONS

• The menu creation process
• Importing assets
• Naming the main menu
• Adding a background graphic
• Creating buttons on a still menu
• Making connections from buttons to video
• Using the Title Safe feature
• Adding a Drop Zone to the main menu
• Creating a Chapter Index menu
• Setting the menu button on the remote control

CREATING A SLIDESHOW

• Importing slides
• Adding a slideshow
• Modifying a slideshow

BUILDING AND FORMATTING A DVD

• Simulating your project
• Building a DVD
• Using the Apple DVD Player
• Burning a disc

ENCODING USING COMPRESSOR

• Bit budgeting
• Using Compressor to encode a file
• Creating a droplet

ENCODING USING A.PACK

• Working with the A.Pack application

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

DAY TWO

CREATING MENUS

• Creating menus with a simple overlay
• Creating menus with advanced overlays

WORKING WITH MARKERS AND STORIES

• Working with chapter markers
• Working with Final Cut Pro markers
• Working with markers in DVD Studio Pro
• Using stories as playlists

ADVANCED NAVIGATION AND SCRIPTING

• Assembling the Tiger project

ADVANCED MENU DESIGN

• The Netomusica project
• Creating a new menu template

USING MULTIPLE AND MIXED ANGLES

• Working with multi-angle and mixed-angle tracks
• Finishing the Concert menu

DVD-ROM CONTENT AND DVD@CCESS

• Adding DVD-ROM content to a DVD
• Creating a web links menu with
• DVD@ccess

SUBTITLES

• Creating subtitles in DVD Studio Pro
• Subtitling and closed captioning

FINISHING THE PROJECT

• Creating a layered menu
• Turning on the background layers
• Creating buttons
• Choosing activated and selected button layers
• Merging clips and creating new tracks
• Making connections
• Simulating your project
• Build and format the DVD
• The finished project