Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 covers everything you need to know to create professional DVD's!

In this interactive 10+ hour training DVD, instructor Zeth Willie covers the new aspects of DVD Studio Pro 3, including how to make menus and buttons right from within the program, as well as authoring techniques for making DVD's with advanced features.

You'll master such important topics as Importing Audio, Video, and Stills, Menu Templates, Styles and Shapes, Linking a Chapter Index, Creating a Slide Show, Adding Transitions, Multiple Angles, Adding Subtitles, Integrating assets from Photoshop and Motion—and more! While building a creative Rock Band DVD project, you’ll master this software—step by step!

This project-based training is appropriate for users brand new to DVD authoring as well as those familiar with previous versions of DVD Studio Pro.

“ I found these tutorials more helpful than anything else I could find. This tutorial was easy to follow and showed me in depth everything I wanted to know to get started authoring my DVDs. I work for a small publishing company and we are about to launch into converting all of our VHS products to DVD format. This training (dvd) will also save me a lot of time because I won't have to look up specific kinds of processes in books, or in the manual, I can easily find the section on the DVD-ROM that I have a question about and replay that section. I am so glad that I found your company, I am already recommending your products to all of my friends and co-workers.”

- Davin Tryon, Production Manager, The Dawn Horse Press

Section I- Introduction

Introduction to the Training (3:15)


Section II- Basic Tutorial

Lesson 1: Introduction (:53)

Lesson 2: Project Planning (3:54)

Lesson 3: Importing Audio, Video and Stills (11:48)

Lesson 4: Introduction to Menu Templates (6:38)

Lesson 5: Basic Menu Elements
a. Background (2:38)
b. Text (:25)
c. Drop Zones (:36)
d. Buttons (4:02)

Lesson 6: Working with Text
a. Moving Text Around (3:46)
b. Changing Font, Size and Color (5:12)
c. Creating and Using Text Styles (9:00)

Lesson 7: Working with Drop Zones (8:11)

Lesson 8: Working with Buttons (10:32)

Lesson 9: Linking Video to Buttons
a. Linking Play Movie to Main Video (10:28)
b. Creating a Chapter Index (5:36)
c. Removing Tracks in Graphical View (7:58)

Lesson 10: Creating a Slideshow
a. Creating a Slideshow (12:41)
b. Adding Transitions to Slides (4:05) *watch free video lesson

Lesson 11: Finishing the DVD (10:49)

Section III- Understanding the DVD Spec

Lesson 1: MPEG 2 Compression
a. Understanding GOPs (5:56)
b. Compressing out of Final Cut Pro (16:08)
c. Compressing out of Compressor (12:16)
d. Compressing out of DVD Studio Pro (6:53)
e. Compressing Audio with A.Pack (7:06)

Lesson 2: Compression Markers (14:54)

Lesson 3: Other Output Considerations
a. Sequence Settings in FCP (3:18)
b. Boosting Saturation and Contrast (3:36)
c. Exporting in Pieces (2:41)


Section IV- Intermediate Tutorial

Lesson 1: Getting Started (2:26)

Lesson 2: The Interface (20:06)

Lesson 3: Setting up the Project
a. Disc Properties (5:58)
b. Importing and Organizing Assets (6:39)
c. Building Layout with Graphical View (13:18)

Lesson 4: Creating Menus- Overlay Menus
a. Introduction to Menus (10:23)
b. Creating the Overlay (12:44)
c. Applying a Simple Overlay to a Menu (12:32)
d. Setting Simple Button Highlight Colors (6:06)
e. Setting Default Color Settings (6:30)
f. Adding an Overlay Over a Photoshop Background (9:35)
g. Applying an Advanced Overlay to a Menu (11:13)

Lesson 5: Setting Languages for Menus (16:27)

Lesson 6: Creating Menus- Layered Menu

a. Introduction to Layered Menus (2:29)
b. Creating Layered Menu in Photoshop (10:44)
c. Using Layered Menus in DVDSP (7:53)

Lesson 7: Setting Button to Button Navigation (5:18)

Lesson 8: Working with Video Tracks
a. Adding a Video Track (11:58)
b. Linking Markers to Scene Menu (5:01)

Lesson 9: Editing Video and Audio in a Track
a. Adding Additional Video to a Stream (7:11)
b. Adding an Additional Audio Stream (4:25)

Lesson 10: Adding Subtitles to Video
a. Converting a Slideshow to a Track (4:08)
b. Adding Subtitles to Video (12:43)

Lesson 11: Adding Transitions
a. Introduction to Transitions (1:11)
b. Using Built-In Transitions (7:03)
c. Adding a Video Transition (3:50)

Lesson 12: Finishing the DVD
a. Checking Connections (8:59)
b. Simulating (2:05)
c. Adding a Jacket Picture (3:10)
d. Build and Formatting Disc (17:07)


Section V- Advanced Tutorial

Lesson 1: Introduction (:52)

Lesson 2: Adding Stories (12:48)


Lesson 3: Using DVD@ccess
a. Setting Up DVD@ccess (16:17)
b. Making DVD@ccess Work (5:12)

Lesson 4: Adding Subtitle Buttons (13:06)

Lesson 5: Adding Multiple or Mixed Angle Video (17:06)

Lesson 6: Scripting
a. Introduction to Scripting (9:00)
b. Setting Display Conditions (7:29)
c. Creating Scripts (18:25)
d. Adding Pre-Scripts (10:25)

Lesson 7: Building Custom Alpha Transitions
a. Introduction to Alpha Channels (6:07)
b. Setting up an Alpha Transition (21:00)

Lesson 8: Preparing Dual-Layer Break Point
a. Introduction to Dual Layer Break DVDs (10:16)
b. Setting up a Dual-Layer Break Point (18:54)
c. Formatting for DVD9 (5:17)

Lesson 9: Duplication vs. Replication (4:05)

Lesson 10: DVD Design Principles
a. Introduction- Know Your Audience (4:15)
b. Size and Placement (6:40)
c. Color and Contrast (8:18)
d. Information Management (5:02)
e. Continuity (6:00)

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