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The good news is that DVD Studio Pro 3 supports DTS (Digital Theater Systems) multichannel audio. On the audio front, there’s both good news and bad news. I wouldn’t be surprised to see third-party transition collections soon. This is a great way to go beyond DVD Studio Pro 3’s built-in transitions. Use Final Cut Pro, After Effects, or Apple’s forthcoming Motion to create the transitions’ animated elements, and then store them in a specific folder on your hard drive to make them available from within DVD Studio Pro. Here’s the best part: with surprisingly little effort, you can create transparent transitions yourself. Many of version 3’s transitions use transparency effects to provide additional glitz for example, a menu can show through an animated object that’s part of the transition. You can even assign a different transition to each DVD menu button or specify that one or more buttons not have any transition at all. You can choose from 30 transition styles, ranging from a classic cross-dissolve to a spectacular lens flare in which an animated glare of brilliant light separates one menu from the next. DVD Studio Pro 3 makes the process a one-click operation. Creating menu transitions used to be labor-intensive and required Apple’s Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects. Professional DVDs often have transitions between menus: one menu pushes another off the screen, for example.

For example, you can print the Graphical view to document your work or to send it to a client for approval. It’s similar to the Map feature in iDVD 4, but it does much more.

The biggest change in DVD Studio Pro’s interface is a new Graphical view, which depicts the navigation structure of your DVD. A dual-2GHz Power Mac G5 with 2GB of RAM delivered smooth performance, and a 23-inch Apple Cinema HD Display better accommodated the program’s many windows and palettes. On a dual-1GHz Power Mac G4 with 1GB of memory, the program was a bit sluggish, and on a 17-inch display, the interface was cramped. Like version 2, DVD Studio Pro 3 demands a fast Mac and a big screen.
