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Encode, Author, Burn: DVD Delivery Made Easy!

Showcase your HD content in HD resolution with DVD Studio Pro 4. Distributed network encoding allows you to quickly convert your source materials to a wide range of industry formats. DVD Studio Pro 4 allows you to create professional-quality DVDs right away, and develop more sophisticated commercial projects as your expertise grows. Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 at a Glance:

• Author in SD or HD with equal ease
• Real-time HD preview
• Increased encoding speed
• Powerful Track Editor
• Integrated Dolby encoder for surround audio
• Increase playback performance with VTS Allocation
• Advanced scripting control for highly interactive DVDs

Author in SD or HD with equal ease With DVD Studio Pro 4, you can harness the power of H.264 - the new industry-standard, ultra-efficient video codec - to showcase and distribute HD content. Integrated and scalable H.264 encoding allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and media. Import native HDV content to HD on DVD with no recompression, even create HD DVD versions from existing SD projects. Real-time HD preview Now you can check color and sound quality on external devices while you work. DVD Studio Pro 4 lets you preview HD content in real time with a second Digital Cinema Desktop and audition surround sound using S/PDIF (digital audio) out to an external DTS or Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder. Increased encoding speed DVD Studio Pro 4 incorporates Distributed Encoding to dramatically increase your HD and SD encoding speed. Distributed Encoding shares the encoding workload over multiple computers. With DVD Studio Pro 4 you can offload encoding tasks to another machine and add encoding notes at no extra cost. Powerful Track Editor Organize up to nine video angles, eight audio tracks, and 32 subtitle streams in a single track using the Track Editor. Simply click on a track on the Timeline to open the Track Editor. You can trim or merge tracks, modify and delete chapter markers, or import Closed Captioning (Line 21) for the hearing-impaired without switching to an editing application. Integrated Dolby encoder for surround audio In DVD Studio Pro 4 you can encode Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3) surround sound audio, reduce uncompressed PCM audio file size without compromising quality, and display the Dolby logo on your final DVD. Increase playback performance with VTS Allocation DVD Studio Pro 4's VTS Allocation increases playback performance with VTS editing by allocating menus throughout VTS folders to overcome the restriction of 1GB menu size. Advanced scripting control for highly interactive DVDs GPRM Partitioning: GPRM partitioning gives you advanced scripting control options for highly interactive DVDs. And DVD Studio Pro's improved script commands allow jumps to motion menu loops so you avoid repeating introduction transitions. Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 Features:

• Import native HDV from Final Cut Pro into pre HD DVD without recompression
• Swap out SD content with HD DVD content while maintaining all your connections, buttons, text, and scripts
• Combine SD and HD content in a single project
• H.264 HD DVD support
• Distributed encoding dramatically speeds up encoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 HD DVD video
• Integrated Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3) encoding
• Enhanced DVD previewing
• VTS editor in minimizes pauses during playback
• Allocates menus throughout VTS folders to overcome 1GB menu limitations
• GPRM partitioning and advanced scripting of register memory, DVD Studio Pro 4 enables you to create highly interactive DVDs
• Enhanced integration with Motion

Professional quality DVDs are in your grasp with DVD Studio Pro 4!

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number M9854Z/A