Final Cut Studio 2: DVD Studio Pro 4.2 - Technical Specifications

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• Final Cut Studio 2 - Technical Specifications

Minimum Requirements to Install All Final Cut Studio Applications

• A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor

• 1GB of RAM

• An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)

• A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher

• Mac OS X v10.4.9 or Mac OS X v10.5.5 or later

• QuickTime 7.1.6 or later

• A DVD drive for installation

Available Disk Space

• 4GB of disk space required to install all applications (Final Cut Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Cinema Tools, LiveType, Compressor, and Apple Qmaster)

• Additional 55GB required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks):

• 9GB for DVD Studio Pro content

• 8GB for Motion templates and tutorial media

• 24GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content

• 12GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates

• 2GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media

The following are recommended for all applications:

• 2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources

• 4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources

• A display with 1280 x 1024 resolution or higher

• 4 GB of hard disc space is required to install all of the Final Cut Studio 2 applications

• An additional 55 GB of hard disc space is required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate discs):

  • 9 GB for DVD Studio Pro content

  • 8 GB for Motion templates and tutorial media

  • 24 GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content

  • 12 GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates

  • 2 GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media

DVD Studio Pro-Specific Requirements

• For playback of DVD Studio Pro 4.2-authored HD DVDs: a Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G5 or Intel Core Duo processor

• 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 HD projects to a replicator: an external drive or Internet transfer of the project’s disk image

• For transporting SD 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

Graphical View

• View flow of DVD graphically

• Print or save to PDF

• Use Macro view to navigate easily through large projects

• Flag elements for more attention

• Fit all elements in window, zoom in/out

• Organize tiles with Auto layout command

Transitions

• 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

• Create additional Alpha transitions

Jacket Picture

• Shows picture of choice when user stops playback of DVD on supported DVD players

• Creates all necessary files for jacket picture from any popular image formats

Automatic MPEG-2 Encoding

• 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

• 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)

Asset Management

• 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

• 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

Advanced Interactivity

• 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

• 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

Pre-mastering Options

• 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

• 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)

Import

• 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)

• 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)

Audio Formats

• 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

• 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

DVD Standards

• Author traditional DVDs using SD assets

• Author HD DVDs using SD and HD assets

Output Formats

• 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

• CMF 2.0

• DDP 3.0

• Disk Image

• Video_TS to hard drive

• HVDVD_TS to hard drive

Menus

• 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

• 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

Connections

• Automatically assign functionality to assets with one click using over 60 combinations of context-sensitive drop palettes

• Automatically create movie scene indexes based on chapter markers

User Interface

• Mode-free interface for workflow efficiency

• Rearrange interface tabs to different quadrants to create different workflows

• Save user-defined workspace configurations (three preset configurations)

• Customizable toolbar

Timeline

• 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

• 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

Subtitling

• 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

• 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

Slideshows

• Choose from a wide variety of automatic transitions

• Create your own transitions

• Fit slideshow to audio

• Apply audio to individual slides

• 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

VTS Editor

• Automatic allocation of projects’s assets to VTS folders

• Automatic placement of menu’s assets into VTS folders

• Manually move elements between multiple VTS folders

• Up to 99 VTS folders per project

Scripting

• 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

• 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