DVD Studio Pro and the Final

Next week is the final week of the quarter and it is definitely feeling like crunch time. This week we will set a DVD interface that can be used later for our demo reel.

PHOTOSHOP

In Photoshop, I opened a new psd document that was 200×300 pixels and preserved the transparency. I then created two buttons on the document of two different colors. I then made another psd document at 720 by 480 pixels. This document will be used as two different menu screens.  After the buttons and menu screens have been created and saved as .psds, I saved out screenshots of the green screen environment project as  jpegs to be used later.

DVD STUDIO PRO

DVD Studio Pro will allow us to easily set up a DVD for our demo reel!

When DVD Studio Pro first opened up, I went to DVD Studio Pro>Preferences>General and Encoding and make sure that Display is set to 4:3, Mode is set to 2 Pass UBR (in both MPEG-SD and HD), and Method is set to Background Encoding. Apply and ok.

Right click on the menu 1 icon. Under the assets tab, click import and bring in all the files that will be used on the DVD. I brought in the buttons, menu screens, screenshots, and the title animation I created earlier. Grab one menu .psd and drag to the “menu 1″ work area, hold over for a second forthe options menu to pop up, and set as Background. Repeat for the button, except set it as “button”.

Click on Track 1 and drag in an .avi or quicktime movie. On the menu 1 button, go to Target>menu 2> [Menu]. Add a menu and a button. In the slideshow tab, drag over the images that will be used in the slideshow and, in the general tab, check “Manual Advance”. Go back to menu 2 and right click on the button. Target>Slideshow>Slideshow 1.

When the DVD interface is finally setup, it is time to build an iso image of the interface. Click on build and create a seperate “Build Folder” saved in the same area as the .dspproj. In the build options make sure to name the DVD (it is a good idea just to name the DVD your name) and change the output device to Hard Drive.

A quick note on imported .avis: When using an avi in DVD Studio Pro (or any DVD creation program), it is a good idea to leave the file uncompressed and allow the DVD hardware to do inhouse compression. This guarentees that the file will play on a larger range of DVD players.

THE FINAL

It is finally time to bring all of these seemingly random assignments together! The final is to set up a DVD interface with a title animation, functioning buttons and menus, and a slideshow of the final green screen environment at various stages of production.

DVD Studio Pro file: http://www.mediafire.com/?mhdngdzzzyu

After Effects file: http://www.mediafire.com/?thty23ozomt

Final Cut Pro file: http://www.mediafire.com/?jvu55umynw1