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DVD Studio Pro 3 Review
Alex_Alexzander writes "A new
review / tutorial of the major new features inside DVD Studio Pro 3 is on OSXWORLD, covering transitions, alpha transitions, the new graphical view, support for DTS audio, improved integration with Adobe Photoshop, and more."
The tutorial seems nice, I ran through the section on alpha transitions just a moment ago and am now snagging a local copy to go over later. Considering what DPD SP3 can do it is a remarkably easy program to use. It is nowhere nearly as user friendly for newbies as iDVD, and I do not t hink the average home use ever needs to even look at it but for the small media shop or company that would like to do in house DVDs at a fraction of the external cost it is supurb. I am personally waiting for my copy of SP3 to arrive alone with FCP 4.5HD.
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Well, if you took a look at it you could see that it encompasses all Apple media.
Unlike iDVD, DSP will work with other DVD burners besides Apple-blessed SuperDrives.
However, earlier versions have had problems with some third party burners. I could not use a particular 1x DVD-R drive because it DSP would try to burn at 64x instead (the highest speed the drive says it supports according to Roxio Toast). I could not find a setting in DSP to prevent it from trying to burn at the highest "supported" speed.
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Unlike iDVD, DSP will work with other DVD burners besides Apple-blessed SuperDrives.
/ mac_guide/pages/15-burn_idvd_other.html
On the contrary....iDVD has always supported other drives, including externals - the enabler at this site brings that to light:
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/personal_site
I'd like to add that this does work great. I keep copies of all my .img files so if I want to run another disk off it's a snap with Toast (adaptec.com).
And also I'm using this in a venrable old B&W g3 w/G4 450 upgrade chip and a used pioneer a04 I picked up for $65 so quit'cher whinin' allready parent!
I'm using a B&W G3 with a G4 upgrade(*) as well (550 MHz though), and was using a 1x DVD-R, DVD-RAM drive for which I paid too much new.
What I meant was that DVD Studio Pro works with third party drives out of the box, whereas iDVD does not, requiring additional software to enable their use. Software Apple would rather not have exist.
(*) To others thinking of doing the same, don't forget to edit the application package's Info.plist file to enable it to run on a non-AGP Mac. And the same to Compressor. And to repeat these changes every time the software is updated until you finally break down and buy an AGP-based Mac (I'm waiting for the expected dual-3 GHz G5).
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Are you saying to edit your .plist for DVDSP? I don't remember doing so for my simple iDVD install. Or are you saying to do so for OSX?
This is awesome for being able to work on a project on a lab computer or portable without the actual DVD burner installed.
Of course you need one to burn them though..
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I've been using DVDSP 2 for a while, it's probably overkill for some of my projects, but at the time, it was the only way to achieve some specific things, like putting more than 120 min on a DVD using greater compression, iDVD wouldn't do that, AFAIK it still doesn't. I've been archiving some broadcast and cable TV shows from my TiVo and old VHS tapes onto DVDRs, the image quality isn't that great to start with, so they aren't greatly damaged by high levels of compression.
But I've found the DVDSP 3 interface a little daunting after using DVDSP1 and 2, I haven't quite gotten off the ground with it yet. I suppose I should RTFM, but this is a Mac app, we don't have to read manuals, right? Hmmm..
Uhh, wrong menu option guys...