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Encoding Video, designing menus, using subtitles and alternate audio/video streams ... these video tutorials let you SEE and HEAR how DVD-Video is created.
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.
- DVD Studio Pro 101: Mastering DVD Studio Pro
- DVD Studio Pro 105: Custom Menu Templates
- DVD Studio Pro 207: Mastering A.Pack
For a full list of the topics covered, see the Tutorial Outline
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- DVD Studio Pro Overview
- DVD Studio Pro Basics
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04:0801: Installing DVD Studio Pro
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01:4102: Updating DVD Studio Pro
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00:3803: Adding the Icon to the Dock
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02:5204: First Launch
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01:4405: Custom Window Configurations
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01:4206: Assigning Configuration Key Commands
- Importing Assets
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02:3607: Importing Assets
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01:2008: Re-linking Assets
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01:0009: Adding Assets to the Pro
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01:1610: Working in the Assets Tab
- Creating a Menu
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02:1811: Adding a Menu Background
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04:3212: Adding Buttons
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03:5813: Exploring Set Assets
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04:0514: Using the Set Asset Start Offset
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03:4815: Aligning Menu Elements
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04:2816: Adding Text to Menus
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02:1617: Menu Drop Shadows
- Using Menu Highlights
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03:4818: Simulating
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02:0519: Using Text Highlights
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01:2720: Using Custom Highlight Colors
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02:1021: Setting Selected and Activated Highlights
- Using Transitions
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02:5222: Using Transitions
- About Slideshows
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04:4823: Slideshows
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03:2224: Slideshow Audio
- Outputting a Project
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02:1425: Preparing to Output
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02:2826: Building the Project
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02:3427: Burning the Project
- Making Menus in DVDSP
- Creating Still Images for DVD-Video
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03:2028: Creating a Still Image Document
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02:4229: Compensating for Rectangular Pixels
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03:5230: Creating documents at 20 X 534
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03:1431: Resizing Images
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03:0632: About the Title Safe Zone
- Working in the Menu Editor
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01:0433: Expanding the Menu Editor
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02:3834: Working with Menu Buttons
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04:4835: Linking Menu Buttons
- Using Layered Menus
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06:3236: Layered Menus Overview
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04:4737: How Layered Menus Work
- Creating Overlay (Standard) Menus
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04:5638: Standard Menu Overview
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01:4839: Changing Overlay Colors
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04:1040: Creating Multi-Color Overlays
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04:4241: Creating Text Overlays
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02:5842: Working with Layer Styles
- Making Motion Menus
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02:2443: Motion Menus
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02:2444: Adding Buttons to a Motion Menu
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05:2045: Working with Loop Points
- Working With Menu Audio
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01:4246: Adding Audio to a Menu
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00:3847: Deleting Audio from a Menu
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03:3848: Concatenating Menu Audio
- Concatenating Menu Audio
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04:2449: Using Subtitles to Create Buttons Over Video
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01:5450: Using Overlays to Create Buttons Over Video
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00:3851: Setting Button Over Video Targets
- Working with Video in DVDSP
- MPEG Fundamentals
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01:2652: MPEG Formats
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02:0253: MPEG Aspect Ratios
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09:2254: QT Encoding
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05:4455: Understanding GOPs
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05:1956: About Motion Estimation
- Working with Track in DVD Studio Pro
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04:0457: Background Encoding2
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02:5058: Creating Tracks
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05:3059: Working With Audio Streams
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01:5660: Trimming Clips
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01:4461: Using the Time-Code Displays
- Using Markers
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03:4862: Adding Markers
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02:0063: Understanding Markers
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01:4864: Naming Markers
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03:1465: Using a Marker List
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02:2666: About Marker Snapping
- Embedding Markers in MPEG Streams
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02:4267: Setting Markers in FCP
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03:3268: Encoding MPEG-2 Streams from FCP
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02:2869: Adding Embedded Markers in DVD SP
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02:4070: Exporting a Marker Reference Movie
- Targeting Chapters
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02:0071: Targeting Chapter Markers
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01:4672: Creating a Chapter Menu
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01:5873: Programming Chapter End Jumps
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03:4674: Programming the Menu Key
- Using Stories
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03:2075: Using Stories
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03:4476: Creating a Play All Button
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04:0477: Adding a Play All Button to a Menu
- Enhancing your DVD-Video
- Using Alternate Audio Streams
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05:0078: Audio Setup Menu
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02:4279: An Audio Stream Gotcha
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03:3480: Alternate Language Audio Streams
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02:4781: Setting the Menu's Audio Language
- Creating Subtitles
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01:4282: Creating Subtitles
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01:2683: Changing Subtitle Color
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01:1484: Formatting Subtitles
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00:3085: Fading Subtitles
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01:1686: Forcing Subtitle Display
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02:5087: Creating a Subtitle Menu
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02:3088: Setting subtitle Languages
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03:4089: Importing a Subtitle List
- Using Alternate Language Menus
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03:1890: Creating Alternate Language Menus
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01:1491: Simulating Alternate Language Menus
- Using Alternate Video Angles
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02:4692: Using Alternate Angles
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01:2493: Using Mixed Angles
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04:0494: Adding Sandwich Markers
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02:5095: Encoding Alternate Angles
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04:2096: Encoding Alternate Angles from FCP
I am extremely happy with this tutorial. I tried to figure it out on my own and wasted some good hours clicking around with no success. Then a light came up in my head - macprovideo - I went on their page, bought the tutorial, watched it, did what Martin said, and my project was done. I am amazed with the clarity, quality, and preciseness of this tutorial.
Excellent tutorial. Well laid out and easy to follow. Did not like the irritating gingle (music) at the start of every lesson!
Mastering DVDSP tutorial has been an excellent and enlightening experience into a professional and unfamiliar program, I now operate it with a lot more confidence. My only complaint is the version used in the tutorial is not the latest version of DVDSP but hey you did a great job guys and I look forward to learning a lot more from you in the future. Thank you. Mick Barton
if you need subtitles and additional languages in your DVD project, then you need this tutorial.
SO I was asked to write a review...Hummm as they say in French, "les gens heureux n'ont pas d'histoire". Meaning happy people don't have stories to tell or in other words you never hear them complaining. That's my problem with all the videos I purchased from MacProVideo. They are all so clear, so detailed and so user friendly to use that one dives right into becoming an expert and we forget to thank the teacher. Where can I put my apple I brought for you teach??? Thanks a million for all your great work.
Useful tutorial. It would be improved with additionof advanced material.
film nr 8 frustrated me. The re-linking assets didn`t work for me. There seem to be differences between the english version and the german version. Especially in the short-cut menu. If I press the right button - nothing happens... But overall: if there wouldn`t be your tutorials I couldn`t understand the software so quickly.
The Tutorial of DVD Studio Pro 101 offers more than I´ve been expecting.
It was very helpful. The only thing I would suggest would be a little more on importing movies with chapter markers and creating a menu with them.
It's a very good tutorial. Easy to learn what seems so difficult at the first sight. For me very good, because I need DVDs in different languages with subtitles. I appreciate listen to a voice, not the need to read thick books. Good didactic structure, pleasant voice. Lookin' forward to buy Motion tutorial next year The Final Cut Pro Tutorials have the same quality. I'm glad to have found the M.P.V. Site. Also the support is very sweet. Have the feeling to be in a good school. Best regards. Karl
(Well laid out) tutorials seem to be the way for me to get hands-on experience with software tools; though it still takes time I am definitely getting there now!
A fantastic edukeytion with this download to understand DVD Studio pro
I really enjoyed this tutorial. I learned a lot in a short amount of time and thought it was well taught. My only advice would be to spend some time on the pre-made backgrounds (apple backgrounds). I am trying to use these after the tutorial and don't have the foggiest idea of how they work.
A great foundation to the program with some additional techniques and tips that make you feel at ease breaking away from the templates and becoming more creative with the authoring process.
The tutorials are very good. I get a fast overview how the program works and then I can go deeper and lern moore. Nice! The pling-e-ling song in the start of a part in 101 Mastering DVD Studio Pro are a bit frustrating. Best Regards Kurt
This is a GREAT set of tutorials. Clear, well organized, concise. I had to deliver a short DVD to a client and needed to get up to speed in a very short timeframe. Actually went through the tutorial as I was also applying the lessons to the project. The tutorials got me up to speed quickly and I was able to meet my deadlines and budget!
Well you tought me all i needed, i gained lots of time; it all went smoothly, so i'm a happy customer.
DVD Studio Pro 101 has cut my learning curve in half. I love it. Thank You,MacProVideo.com
Hello, I'm happy with my purchase. The price is good and the player works well. Something that most DVD tutorials could probably improve on is the subject detail of their indexes. As with all manuals, the quality of the index has direct bearing on how effectively the relevant information can be located. DVD tutorials do tend to require immersion in the whole package to learn details not necessarily apparent from the index.
Really excellent! This tutorial untangles the mysteries of DVD Studio Pro. It was very clear and concise, highly recommended.
Is a great way to develop knowledge on DVD Studio Pro, that sin does not exist in Italian! A word of advice: make a version in Italian
DVDSP has tons of options and can be configured for many striking chapters, buttons, and effects. Mac Pro Video helps sort out all of these options with clear descriptions of each one. I highly recommended MPV tutorials. I especially like them because they are a video tutorial, it is much easier for me to understand a video than read an instruction manual.
I have not gone through this DVD fully, in fact have looked only at some lessons. However, I can immediately see that Martin Sitter's approach is very fresh and crystal clear. He neither is condescending nor prone to too much hand holding. I happened to randomly pick his explanation of square and rectangle pixel lesson in the DVD and immediately discovered why I had been doing it wrong all this time. Superbly clear explanation. I am excited and looking forward to the rest. Keep it up. I also think your NED is a master stroke. It makes downloading tutorials such a snap...as opposed to snapping you trying to get the downloads organized. I am very impressed with your approach to tutorials. I have paid for the In Production Motion 3 as well and cannot wait to get my hands or rather my mouse on it. It is due March 13 per your web site.
Good training, althogh the trainer did get on my nerves when he said buttons...bahtons bahtons. other than that it was great.
The product is organized and demonstrated good mastery of content, supporting detail on MPEG structure was fascinating and coverage of some advanced features was useful. Detailed coverage of aspect ratio preservation. Got me quickly started making manual overlays just as I had hoped. Quick start download and play was factor that lead me to purchase but also has the ill effect of having the course divided into to many far too short segments, each with their own head and tail bumpers and annoying intro "music." Very, very annoying after a while. However, the proprietary player worked fine and the integrated optional course navigation outline works fine. Production: Some onscreen typos and minor un-corrected flubs. Examples are more than adequate to demonstrate the lessons, though a bit ugly. Not a big deal. Even with high res QT playback I would have liked the zooms and highlighted areas used in some QT based training products--when done right they aid with the quick focusing on the area in question and demonstrate detail oriented post production. Solid product. Convenient download. Instructor has deep knowledge, explains clearly and shows potential traps and pitfalls--very useful, that.
I did understood my new software with these instructions. I was using Adobe film making software befor
These tutorials are very concise, intelligently laid out and easy to use. When you are done you will have control of the program with no "holes" in your knowledge. Easy to use and GREAT! James Linahon President LMP Studios ACM Records/Films
Very good easy to understand however the making story video didn't work.
I've had DVD SP for quite some time, but iDVD has always been adequate for my needs, and it doesn't come with a 600 page manual. So last week, I finished a project, burned the discs, was going to take them to the client to view, but obviously double checked them first. The audio was out of sync. I was also going to be away from my desk for a week before I could really attempt to fix it. With no guarantee that there was a fix through iDVD, I decided to take a look at DVD SP. A quick flick through the manual and a quick look at the interface told me that I wasn't going to learn this in a month, let alone get some results in a week. Couldn't find the Apple tutorials, so decided to look for (free) advice online. I came accross the MacProVideo tutorials, and being roughly the same cost as a book, decided to take a gamble. Less than a week later, and only about 4 hours hands on, I've got my project finished. It's two discs, with 1 hour 20 minutes on each, with a main menu and 5 chapter menus for each disc too. Things like turning off the automatic button ordering were a lifesaver. I also liked that it went straight in to the real DVD SP view, not the "use this view if you're coming from iDVD" view. Because of the complexity / flexibility, I think this is absolutely the right thing to do. There is a lot of valuable repetition in the lessons. When learning about a new area, because all actions are described, common actions are reinforced. I learn much faster/better from being shown rather than reading a book. If that's the way you learn too, and you're scared by the Pro interface and depth of DVD SP, then I can highly recommend this course.
I am at it but it seem to answer all my questions. I was equipped with Adobe Premier on PC now I am on MAC PRO
Looks really very good. Hadn't a clue on this prog although had it for years and struggled
i think the training pack dvd studio pro is supergood but i need a little bit more about scripting and "spraam" coding a little bit more adwanced
Just a quick line to say how useful I'm finding your DVD Studio Pro tutorial. I really wasn't looking forward to ploughing through the manual and classroom books. I'll definately be back to buy some more :o) PS. And they're far more affordable and user-freindly than Total Training DVDs.
I'm an editor in the process of getting my FCP5 certification and I bought your “FCP5 complete” tutorials in order to get a re-fresher before taking the exam. On the strength of the online tutorials I have now bought FCP,Motion and DVD Pro downloads. What I like most of all is that you put in lots of tips that none of the other company's training DVDs appear to mention. Also the footage that’s used is easy on the eye. The picture is clear and the pace is very well judged with elements repeated slightly differently so that the viewers attention is held whilst the information being passed on is reinforced.
I now wanted to use DVD studio Pro to author a DVD, but I did not want to by your DVD Studio Pro 3 book wanting to wait for the version 4 book. I thus decided to buy your DVD Studio Pro 101 Mastering DVD Studio Pro. Using that tutorial enabled me to produce a DVD fast and efficiently with great layout and use of the menus fast and effeciently. Best of all I didn´t have to watch all 5 tutorial as I found the things I need to know about in the first 3 tutorials. Your toturials has helped me finishing my chrismas gifts before time and for that I say thank you.
You've made some excellent tutorials that helped me and many others in mastering our beloved Apple app's. I am very pleased I've come accross your web site and purchased couple of your learning items. I also have book DVDSP 2 of yours. Hopefully in a future there will be some more tutorials coming from you.
I started learning the DVDSP and your explanations are so easy to follow and understand. I cannot express what a relief it is to have such good reference to count on.
Author of the international bestselling: Cracking The Da Vinci Code The tutorials were superbly put together and struck just the right tone - not too complicated and not at all condescending. One of the best purchases I have made in the past 12 months. My new found DVD SP 3 skills will now be used in producing a brand new DVD based magazine, called DUAT (ancient mysteries & alternative history) - first issue out on August 1st.
Your videos have been really valuable to me. Thanks for making them available--always found DVD Studio Pro intimidating. Now, I've authored a DVD that's really cool. Thanks again.






