What is DVD Studio Pro 1.5?

When Apple unleashed DVD Studio Pro and the mighty DVD-burning SuperDrive, the Macintosh prosumer crowd went wild. The initial release of Studio Pro was easy to use, and version 1.5 is even easier, thanks to its integration with Final Cut Pro.

Creating Chapter Markers (to designate Chapters, or scenes) is a regular part of DVD authoring, but in Studio Pro 1.0 this procedure had serious limitations: You could only create Chapter Markers at fixed intervals within a video track — tough cookies if you wanted to set them to your own specifications (say, at a scene change or at the end of a fade). In version 1.5, you can use Final Cut Pro to create Chapter Markers at will.

In addition to creating frame-accurate Chapter Markers, you can also create Compression Markers. When you compress a video into MPEG-2 (the standard codec for DVD video), the codec may not catch certain scene changes, leaving you with compression artifacts. Without getting into the ugly details,

Compression Markers tell DVD Studio Pro when compression should start, giving you better control over encoding quality.

If DVD Studio Pro has a weak spot, it's the manual. An important feature of DVD authoring is scripting. Without it, you might as well stick with iDVD, Apple’s free DVD-authoring application. The manual lacks in-depth explanation of the different scripting commands, and it provides only cryptic definitions. For better education in this area, check out Recipe 4 DVD’s DVD Companion series..., a set of five programs providing a complete, searchable reference (this installs in the Mac’s onboard Help Viewer), as well as sample graphics and menus for various projects.

DVD Studio Pro has been a strong product since its release, and the new features only make it better; if you bum DVDs, you want this app.

Tokuda, Andrew. (October 2002). DVD Studio Pro 1.5. MacAddict. (pg. 55).

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DVD Studio Pro was a high end software tool that allows users to create DVD masters, either for replication at production houses or for personal use via a DVD Burner.

It was highly integrated to the Final Cut Pro and Motion software, in this way there was no need for third party software or intermediary formats. It was discontinued by Apple with the release of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4.

DVD Studio Pro  has a graphical view, more like a map, in which the user can see all the menus, tracks and scripts as color coded tiles, all of this was streamlined with the use of connectors in the form of arrows.

The menus can be created via templates or pre made buttons and with the use of dynamic guidelines they can be kept in a grid arrangement.

Other features that made DVD Studio Pro unique are:

• Subtitle creation
• Implementation of CSS and Macrovision copy protection for SD DVDs
• Editing of GPRM and SPRM registers
• Disabling certain functions on particular menus
• Creating multiple language versions of a menu
• Creating multiple versions ("stories") of a video project, for example, a director's cut
• DVD@CCESS feature for web links in menus
• A range of transition effects to set between menus

Download DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 9.2 up to Mac OS 10.5

Compatibility notes

For installation on MacOS 9.2.2 it's necesary to boot in the Classic environment (or with a Mac with OS 9.2.2 as the default OS).

The required serial: F-279-IGZ-171-QEC-349-JAB-352-UBG-342

Emulating this? It could probably run under: QEMU