User Guide

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Using the Animation QuickTime Codec
Using the Animation codec with HD resolution video can significantly reduce your
computer’s performance, and should be avoided if possible. An alternative is to use the
Apple Intermediate Codec.
Updating Rendered Final Cut Pro Reference Movies
You can import Final Cut Pro reference movies (those that are not self-contained) into
your DVD Studio Pro projects. If any part of the Final Cut Pro sequence requires
rendering, you must render it before importing the movie. If you need to make a
change to a rendered portion of the movie in Final Cut Pro, you must rerender it, then
reexport the movie, using the same name, and overwrite the previous reference file.
When you go back to DVD Studio Pro, a dialog appears noting that the movie has
changed and that the DVD Studio Pro project has been updated to use the new movie.
Updating Final Cut Pro HDV Movies
DVD Studio Pro cannot relink to an HDV movie if you make any changes to it after it
has been imported into a project. If you update an HDV movie after it has been
imported, you must remove the original version of the movie from the DVD Studio Pro
project, and then import the updated version of the movie.
Importing Motion Projects
DVD Studio Pro allows you to import Motion projects without having to export or
render them in Motion first. DVD Studio Pro is unable, however, to play a Motion
project’s audio until the audio has been encoded by DVD Studio Pro. The default
setting in the Encoding pane of DVD Studio Pro Preferences is to not encode assets
that need to be encoded until you build your project. You can change this setting to
encode assets in the background while authoring your project.
Note: If you export the Motion project from Motion using QuickTime or Compressor
and import the resulting movie into DVD Studio Pro instead of the Motion project, the
audio plays as expected.
Importing iMovie HD Projects
iMovie HD saves its projects as a single package that contains all of the project’s files.
When you use the Save Project As command (in the File menu) in iMovie HD 5.0.2 or
earlier, the new project file cannot be imported into DVD Studio Pro because of missing
files in its package, and an alert message appears indicating that the project is in an
unsupported format.
To correct the new project file, open it in iMovie HD and save the project by choosing
File > Save Project. This adds the missing files to the project’s package, making it
possible to import the project into DVD Studio Pro.