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Minimum System Requirements
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- Mac computer with an Intel processor
- 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM recommended when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources; 4GB of RAM recommended when working with uncompressed HD sources)
- ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor. Integrated Intel graphics processors are not supported except the Intel HD Graphics 3000.
- 128MB of VRAM
- Display with 1280-by-800 resolution or higher
- Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
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- QuickTime 7.6 or later
- DVD drive for installation
- For writing finished projects to disc: an Apple SuperDrive or other DVD recorder
- For writing finished projects to a double-layer disc: a double-layer-compatible recorder and double-layer media
- For transporting projects that contain copy-protection or dual-layer features to a replicator: a DLT drive, external drive, or Internet transfer of the project’s disk image
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Graphical View
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- View flow of DVD graphically
- Print or save to PDF
- Use Macro view to navigate easily through large projects
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- Flag elements for more attention
- Fit all elements in window, zoom in/out
- Organize tiles with Auto layout command
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Transitions
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- Add transitions to menus, menu buttons, slideshows, and timeline-based stills
- Choose from more than 30 prebuilt transitions such as Blur, Dissolve, Droplet, Fade through Color, Melt, Motion Dissolve, Rotate, Rotation Blur, and Zoom
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- Create additional Alpha transitions
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Jacket Picture
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- Shows picture of choice when user stops playback of DVD on supported DVD players
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- Creates all necessary files for jacket picture from any popular image formats
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Automatic MPEG-2 Encoding
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- Encode video in the background while you work or while building the DVD
- One- and two-pass variable bit rate (VBR) encoding for MPEG-2
- Three levels of motion estimation
- Support for PAL and NTSC formats
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- Support for 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios
- DVD-compliant MPEG-2 streams from other encoders accepted
- More advanced encoding options provided via Compressor (included)
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Asset Management
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- Organize assets with folders
- Open in Editor
- View status of background encoding
- View information on imported assets such as type, timestamps, length, encoding progress, bit rate, and more
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- Reveal the location of the asset in the Finder
- Sort by name and information
- Refresh assets that may have been updated with other applications
- Re-encode source assets
- Reconnect assets
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Advanced Interactivity
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- Multistory feature for creating alternative versions (up to 98 stories)
- DVD-ROM functionality using DVD@CCESS (for computer playback only); DVD-ROM input includes the ability to add photos, PDFs, or direct links to websites
- Control actions for remote control buttons, including number offset
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- Enable/Disable user operations
- Specify actions for First Play, Title button, Menu button, end jumps, pre-scripts, pre-script targets, Angle button, Chapter button, Audio button, Subtitle, and Return
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Pre-mastering Options
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- Region encoding
- Industry-standard analog and digital copyright management with Macrovision (Types 1, 2, and 3) and CSS for SD projects1
- Test functionality with built-in Simulator
- Test built projects with Apple DVD Player software
- Allows burning first layer of DVD-9 project to DVD-5 media for testing
- Supports 12- and 8-cm discs, single and double layer
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- Dual-layer options:
- Choose between Parallel Track Path (PTP) and Opposite Track Path (OTP)
- Specify the dual-layer break point
- Specify a non-seamless or seamless dual-layer break point
- Format existing builds to DVD-R and DLT
- Burn DVD-9 projects to double-layer media for testing
- Replication to red laser media
- Replication to blue laser media (for HD DVD)
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Import
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- Maintains named chapter markers from Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and iMovie
- DVD Studio Pro 2 and 3 projects
- iDVD 3 and 4 projects
- AIFF
- AVI
- BMP
- DV
- JPEG
- Macromedia Flash 5
- MPEG-1
- MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3)
- MPEG-2
- M4A, M4P (iTunes 4 audio)
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- PDF (Mac OS X)
- Photoshop (with layers)
- PICT
- PNG
- Targa
- TIFF
- WAV
- Aspect ratios: 4:3 and 16:9
- TV systems: PAL and NTSC
- Frame rates: 29.97 fps (NTSC) and 25 fps (PAL)
- Maximum GOP sizes: 18 frames (NTSC), 15 frames (PAL)
- All QuickTime supported codecs — encoded to MPEG-2 (SD or HD DVD)
- H.264 and HDV (supported natively in HD DVD projects)
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Audio Formats
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- STAP (Soundtrack audio file) support
- MPEG-1 Layer 2 (64 to 384 Kbps)
- Dolby Digital AC-3 (mono to 5.1 surround using 64 to 448 Kbps)
- DTS — mono to 5.1 surround at 48kHz; DTS ES — 6.1 at 96kHz at 754 Kbps or 1509 Kbps
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- Stereo PCM (16 bit/48kHz at 1536 Kbps)
- Stereo PCM (24 bit/96kHz at 4608 Kbps)
- Other QuickTime audio formats automatically transcoded to AIFF/PCM
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DVD Standards
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- Author traditional DVDs using SD assets
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- Author HD DVDs using SD and HD assets
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Output Formats
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- DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, double-layer media
- Double-layer media support
- DLT drive (required for DVD-9 projects)
- DDP 2.0 and 2.1
- CMF 1.0
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- CMF 2.0
- DDP 3.0
- Disk Image
- Video_TS to hard drive
- HVDVD_TS to hard drive
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Menus
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- Choose from a wide variety of automatic transitions
- Create your own transitions
- Includes several theme-based royalty-free Apple-designed templates that can be user-customized
- Supports up to 36 buttons per menu (18 for 16:9 aspect ratio)
- Templates in both NTSC and PAL formats
- Allows still menus and buttons to be made from layered Photoshop files
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- Allows motion menus to be made from video streams
- Set the loop point on motion menus to avoid replaying intro transition
- Add effects to menus and buttons with shapes and drop zones
- Built-in action-safe and title-safe areas
- View menus with rectangular or square pixels
- Use grayscale and chroma color mapping
- Create language-localized versions of the same menu
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Connections
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- Automatically assign functionality to assets with one click using over 60 combinations of context-sensitive drop palettes
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- Automatically create movie scene indexes based on chapter markers
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User Interface
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- Mode-free interface for workflow efficiency
- Rearrange interface tabs to different quadrants to create different workflows
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- Save user-defined workspace configurations (three preset configurations)
- Customizable toolbar
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Timeline
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- Manage up to 9 video angles, 8 audio streams, and 32 subtitle streams per track
- Add, modify, and delete chapter markers in the Timeline
- Trim audio and video clips interactively or with timecode
- Combine multiple video clips and slides into one track
- Stills in Timeline are added to DVD as space-saving stills, not generated video
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- Add up to 99 tracks in a project
- Import Line 21 files for closed caption support, for NTSC SD projects only
- Two types of angles:
- Multiple angles add another full-length segment to track
- Mixed angles add only video that is different from the first video angle
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Subtitling
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- Integrated subtitler
- Add up to 32 subtitle streams per track
- Set position, font, size, style, and color, fade in and fade out
- Enter timecode or drag in Timeline to set start, stop, and duration
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- View built-in title-safe and action-safe areas
- Use graphics in subtitles
- Import subtitles in .son, .stl, .txt, and .scr formats
- Use buttons over video
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Slideshows
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- Choose from a wide variety of automatic transitions
- Create your own transitions
- Fit slideshow to audio
- Apply audio to individual slides
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- Convert slideshow to a track
- Set a slide duration or choose manual advance
- Use PSD (8-bit RGB), TIFF, JPEG, BMP, Targa, PICT, and any other QuickTime-based image format
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VTS Editor
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- Automatic allocation of project’s assets to VTS folders
- Automatic placement of menu’s assets into VTS folders
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- Manually move elements between multiple VTS folders
- Up to 99 VTS folders per project
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Scripting
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- Jump to motion menu loop point
- Advanced scripting controls to program the DVD to play back from the correct location on the disc; switch audio, video, and subtitle streams depending on context; and temporarily change parental controls
- Access to 8 GPRMs with partition options to 112
- Add pre-script commands to menus, tracks, and slideshows
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- Use up to 124 commands per script
- 10 scripting commands, including Jump, Set GPRM, Goto Set System Stream, Resume, GPRM mode, Exit, Exit Pre-script, and Jump Indirect
- Machine-level control
- View values of GPRM and SPRM registers in Simulator
- Bit-wise operations
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