Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1759)

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About DVD Authoring Applications
Whether you intend to use iDVD or DVD Studio Pro will affect how you export your
movies from Final Cut Pro. When you are using DVD Studio Pro, Compressor can
become an important part of the process.
Using iDVD
iDVD only imports standard QuickTime movies as video sources. This means that if you
intend to use iDVD as your DVD authoring application, you only need to export a
QuickTime movie from Final Cut Pro. iDVD automatically encodes the video and audio
sources to be DVD-compliant. The video is encoded as MPEG-2 video at a quality
controlled by a preference setting and the video length. The audio is encoded as an
uncompressed AIFF file.
For more information, see “ Exporting a QuickTime Movie for DVD Use ” on page 277.
See the iDVD documentation for information on importing the movie and adding it to
your DVD.
Using DVD Studio Pro
DVD Studio Pro can import either standard QuickTime movies or DVD-compliant
sources. When you import standard QuickTime movies, they are automatically encoded
to be DVD-compliant. DVD Studio Pro has preferences that allow you to adjust the
quality at which your video is encoded, giving you more control of your final DVD
quality than iDVD provides. The audio is encoded as uncompressed PCM data. For
information on exporting a QuickTime movie, see the next section, “
Exporting a
QuickTime Movie for DVD Use .”
For the most control over your final video and audio quality, you can use applications
such as Compressor to encode your video and audio into DVD-compliant sources.
Compressor allows you to create special DVD-compliant formats such as MPEG-1 and
Dolby Digital AC-3 audio.
See the DVD Studio Pro documentation for details on supported video and audio
formats and information on importing your movies.