DVD Studio Pro

DVD Studio Pro is an authoring tool released by Apple Computer in 2001 for users to design DVD video discs. Version 1.5 was released in the following year. Cross-integration with Final Cut Pro and Motion allowed users to import the projects for faster authoring into DVDs.
==History==
DVD Studio Pro 1.0 was based on DVDirector, which Apple acquired from Astarte GmbH in April 2000.Apple Acquires DVD Authoring Technology, Products and Engineering Team From Astarte, Apple Computer. 2000-04-10. On July 9, 2001, Apple acquired Spruce Technologies, the developer of a competing product called DVD Maestro for 15 million.Apple Acquires Spruce Technologies, Mergr. 2001-07-09. Some of the features were incorporated into DVD Studio Pro 2.0, which was released on August 6, 2003.Apple Releases DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple Computer. 2003-08-06. DVD Studio Pro 3 was announced on April 18, 2004 at the in and released the following month for $499.Apple Announces DVD Studio Pro 3, Apple Computer. 2004-04-18.
===Discontinuation===
DVD Studio Pro 4 was integrated into the Final Cut Studio suite in May 2005 and was no longer available as a stand-alone product as of version 4.0.3, released in January 2006 with support for the 1.0 specification.DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3, Apple Computer. 2006-01-30. The final update was version 4.2.2 on July 23, 2009. The suite was deprecated in June 2011 with the individual new releases of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4, which did not include DVD Studio Pro. Apple had been phasing out support for DVD-ROMs and optical drives in general since the release of the MacBook Air in 2008. DVD Studio Pro no longer runs in macOS High Sierra (10.13) or later.Final Cut Pro 7 now works in Mojave and High Sierra using Retroactive by Bo Jones, Creative Cow. 2020-03-30.
==References==
==External links==
*DVD Studio Pro 4 at Apple (archived 2005-05-07, 2009-08-01)
**Final Cut Studio 2: DVD Studio Pro 4.2 - Technical Specifications
***Download DVD Studio Pro 4.2.1 (registration key required)
***Download DVD Studio Pro 4.1.2 (registration key required)
**DVD Studio Pro 4 - Technical Specifications
**DVD Studio Pro 3 - Technical Specifications
**DVD Studio Pro 2.0 - Technical Specifications
**DVD Studio Pro (1.0) (archived 2001-01-23)
***DVD Studio Pro 1.5 - Technical Specifications
***DVD Studio Pro 1.0 - Technical Specifications
* at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*DVD Studio Pro 4 by Jim Held at Macworld (2005-07-20)
**DVD Studio Pro 1.5 by Jim Held (2002-07-31)
Category:Discontinued Apple software
Category:Mac OS X software
Category:Media software
Category:Pro apps