Menus with motion graphics can be created in Motion. The video project is typically sent from Final Cut Pro to Compressor, where it can be converted into the DVD MPEG-2 format with Dolby Digital (ac3) or AIFF sound.
Version 4 was the first version to drop support for Mac OS 9.
For playing back HD DVD content burned to a standard DVD, Apple requires a PowerPC G5, Apple DVD Player v4.6, and Mac OS X v10.4 or later.
DVD Studio Pro 4 allowed for the burning of HD DVD content to both standard DVDs and HD DVD media (even though no HD DVD burners were available for Macintosh). In April 2005, Apple updated DVD Studio Pro to support authoring HD content. In August 2003, Apple released DVD Studio Pro 2, with a new interface. In the meantime Apple had acquired Spruce Technologies in 2001, and was retooling the DVD authoring package that came with that acquisition (DVD Maestro). Version 1.5, still based on this original code, was released in April 2002. Main article: Final Cut Studio § Release historyĪpple bought Astarte's DVDirector in 2000, re-releasing it as DVD Studio Pro in 2001.