Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 195)

DVD Studio Pro provides tools and workflow options that give you the flexibility to decide
how best to import and manage your assets.
This chapter covers the following:
• How DVD Studio Pro Manages Assets (p. 195)
• About the Assets Tab (p. 201)
• Importing Assets (p. 207)
• Removing Selected Assets (p. 213)
• Renaming Assets (p. 213)
• Refreshing Still and QuickTime Assets (p. 214)
• Opening Assets in Their Editor (p. 216)
• Identifying an Asset (p. 216)
• Previewing Assets (p. 216)
• Asset Inspector (p. 218)
How DVD Studio Pro Manages Assets
As you work on your DVD project, it’s important to give some thought as to how best to
organize and manage your assets. Even a simple project can use enough assets to make
it worth investing the time to plan for them. Moderately ambitious projects can use
hundreds of assets, creating a large potential for confusion as you try to keep track of
them.
Additionally, if you intend to author both SD and HD versions of your project, keeping
the assets organized is crucial to avoid confusing an SD version of a video asset with an
HD version of it.
There are several methods you can use to import an asset into a project, but in all cases
the assets are treated the same.
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