Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 53)

Before you can begin building a DVD project, you must have correctly prepared video
source material.
This chapter covers the following:
• Introduction to Preparing Video Sources (p. 53)
• NTSC or PAL? (p. 54)
• Using 24 fps Video (p. 55)
• Choosing an Aspect Ratio (p. 56)
• About MPEG Video (p. 60)
• Encoding Video Materials for DVD (p. 61)
• Using the Integrated MPEG Encoder (p. 68)
• Encoding Video for Multi-Angle Tracks (p. 74)
• Adding Markers to Your Video (p. 76)
• About H.264 Video (p. 80)
• About HDV Video (p. 81)
• DVD Video Source Settings Summary (p. 82)
Introduction to Preparing Video Sources
After you have captured and edited your source material, you need to encode it to make
it DVD-compliant. Compressor is a full-featured video and audio compression application
included with Final Cut Studio that you can use to create DVD-compliant assets for use
in DVD Studio Pro. DVD Studio Pro is integrated with Compressor to provide easy access
to the commonly used MPEG, AIFF, and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding functions for
converting QuickTime video to DVD-compliant assets.
The DVD Studio Pro integration with Compressor allows you to directly import QuickTime
sources into a project—the encoders work with the sources while you continue authoring
the project.
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