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DVD Authoring is 90% knowing how to manipulate the DVD-Video specification to acheive your design requirements, and that means understanding how to efficiently pilot DVD Studio Pro.

This program shows you all of the major areas of DVD-Video authoring, including designing menus and video for use in DVDs, ceating subtitles and alternate language menus, using alternate angles and video streams, and outputting your final DVD-Video.

In fact, this program is just as much a science lesson as a DVD Studio Pro tutorials. You'll learn how to encode video for DVDs, what frame rates and dimensions you should use, and even the frame by frame theory about how MPEG-2 video is encoded.

More than a beginners tutorial, Mastering DVD Studio Pro gets into deep theory about displaying digital video on television screens. If you are designing intractive video in DVD Studio Pro, get the jump on your competition now, by watching these videos.

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Chapter 1: DVD Studio Pro Overview

Section 1: DVD Studio Pro Basics

01. Installing DVD Studio Pro
02. Updating DVD Studio Pro
03. Adding the Icon to the Dock
04. First Launch
05. Custom Window Configurations
06. Assigning Configuration Key Commands

Section 2: Importing Assets

07. Importing Assets
08. Re-linking Assets
09. Adding Assets to the Pro
10. Working in the Assets Tab

Section 3: Creating a Menu

11. Adding a Menu Background
12. Adding Buttons
13. Exploring Set Assets
14. Using the Set Asset Start Offset
15. Aligning Menu Elements
16. Adding Text to Menus
17. Menu Drop Shadows

Section 4: Using Menu Highlights

18. Simulating
19. Using Text Highlights
20. Using Custom Highlight Colors
21. Setting Selected and Activated Highlights

Section 5: Using Transitions

22. Using Transitions

Section 6: About Slideshows

23. Slideshows
24. Slideshow Audio

Section 7: Outputting a Project

25. Preparing to Output
26. Building the Project
27. Burning the Project

Chapter 2: Making Menus in DVDSP

Section 8: Creating Still Images for DVD-Video

28. Creating a Still Image Document
29. Compensating for Rectangular Pixels
30. Creating documents at 20 X 534
31. Resizing Images
32. About the Title Safe Zone

Section 9: Working in the Menu Editor

33. Expanding the Menu Editor
34. Working with Menu Buttons
35. Linking Menu Buttons

Section 10: Using Layered Menus

36. Layered Menus Overview
37. How Layered Menus Work

Section 11: Creating Overlay (Standard) Menus

38. Standard Menu Overview
39. Changing Overlay Colors
40. Creating Multi-Color Overlays
41. Creating Text Overlays
42. Working with Layer Styles

Section 12: Making Motion Menus

43. Motion Menus
44. Adding Buttons to a Motion Menu
45. Working with Loop Points

Section 13: Working With Menu Audio

46. Adding Audio to a Menu
47. Deleting Audio from a Menu
48. Concatenating Menu Audio

Section 14: Concatenating Menu Audio

49. Using Subtitles to Create Buttons Over Video
50. Using Overlays to Create Buttons Over Video
51. Setting Button Over Video Targets

Chapter 3: Working with Video in DVDSP

Section 15: MPEG Fundamentals

52. MPEG Formats
53. MPEG Aspect Ratios
54. QT Encoding
55. Understanding GOPs
56. About Motion Estimation

Section 16: Working with Track in DVD Studio Pro

57. Background Encoding2
58. Creating Tracks
59. Working With Audio Streams
60. Trimming Clips
61. Using the Time-Code Displays

Section 17: Using Markers

62. Adding Markers
63. Understanding Markers
64. Naming Markers
65. Using a Marker List
66. About Marker Snapping

Section 18: Embedding Markers in MPEG Streams

67. Setting Markers in FCP
68. Encoding MPEG-2 Streams from FCP
69. Adding Embedded Markers in DVD SP
70. Exporting a Marker Reference Movie

Section 19: Targeting Chapters

71. Targeting Chapter Markers
72. Creating a Chapter Menu
73. Programming Chapter End Jumps
74. Programming the Menu Key

Section 20: Using Stories

75. Using Stories
76. Creating a Play All Button
77. Adding a Play All Button to a Menu

Chapter 4: Enhancing your DVD-Video

Section 21: Using Alternate Audio Streams

78. Audio Setup Menu
79. An Audio Stream Gotcha
80. Alternate Language Audio Streams
81. Setting the Menu's Audio Language

Section 22: Creating Subtitles

82. Creating Subtitles
83. Changing Subtitle Color
84. Formatting Subtitles
85. Fading Subtitles
86. Forcing Subtitle Display
87. Creating a Subtitle Menu
88. Setting subtitle Languages
89. Importing a Subtitle List

Section 23: Using Alternate Language Menus

90. Creating Alternate Language Menus
91. Simulating Alternate Language Menus

Section 24: Using Alternate Video Angles

92. Using Alternate Angles
93. Using Mixed Angles
94. Adding Sandwich Markers
95. Encoding Alternate Angles
96. Encoding Alternate Angles from FCP

Martin Sitter

“Most people know me from the Apple Pro Training Series.

I started teaching in 2001, at the Vancouver Film School. There, I taught DVD-Video design and Audio Mastering.

During that period, I also began designing and authoring Apple's official courseware for Logic and DVD Studio Pro, in the Apple Pro Training Series.

In 2003 I left the Vancouver Film School to become Apple's Lead Trainer for Logic. In that capacity, I traveled to many of the world's premier universities and multimedia schools, training Professors and Instructors in the official "Apple Method" of teaching their applications (a method I designed, through my work creating Apple's courseware).

During that period, I started macProVideo.com and released our first DVD Studio Pro and Logic video-tutorials.

In 2005 I stopped teaching for Apple, and turned my focus entirely to macProVideo.com. While I continue to write courseware books for Apple, these days my focus is on video-based education.

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I created macProVideo.com to make the story-telling easier. Our tutorial videos show you how to use software through moving pictures, and sound. Learn quickly and then spend your time creating stories, instead of dreaming about them.

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