Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 31)

Audio and Video Assets
Audio and video assets can come from a wide variety of analog and digital sources. You
must have an equally wide variety of ways to capture these sources on your authoring
system. When bringing your assets into DVD Studio Pro, you should keep in mind the
following issues.
Have the Assets Been Edited Yet?
DVD Studio Pro is not an editor. You can use it to link assets together on a timeline, as
with an editor, and even trim an asset’s start and end, but you cannot add effects, such
as dissolves and text credits, or perform any audio mixing. Your assets need to be already
edited using an application such as Final Cut Pro. If you are editing the assets on your
authoring computer, you need to capture them in a format required by your editing
software. Once edited, the assets can be imported into DVD Studio Pro (if they are in a
QuickTime-supported format) or encoded into DVD-compliant MPEG and audio formats,
using either Compressor or third-party applications.
Capturing from an Audio or Video Player
Often your assets will be edited at a post-production facility and you will capture them
directly from a video- or audiotape player. In this case, you must have a third-party capture
card that supports the video and audio formats used. This video must be captured using
Final Cut Pro (or a similar application) in a QuickTime format that the DVD Studio Pro
integrated MPEG encoder can convert to DVD-compliant formats, or captured directly as
DVD-compliant MPEG and audio sources.
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