DVD Studio Pro: Introduction (2 day)

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About this class

This course is aimed at Film and Video Editors, independent film makers, Producers and Directors, Post-production personnel, Motion graphics artists, DVD authors, 2D and 3D animators and Web designers.

Who will the lesson benefit?

As Above

What prerequisites are required

Skills needed before the course

• A working knowledge of video manipulation software

Contents of this class

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

DVD Studio Pro: Introduction (2 day) / ADSPI2

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