Q: DVD Studio Pro Future options and operating systems
What are you doing to keep your DVD related business moving forward as Apple operating systems move past DVD Studio Pro? I'm running 4 workstations in our studio on all the last 4 operating systems just so I can continue to keep Mountain Lion for DVDSP. Whether it's weddings, competitions, dance groups, church events DVD's are simply not going anywhere in terms of customers needs. Please don't even lecture about people not wanting them anymore. Our business is exploding, only getting larger and larger. It will be a decade easily before this will fade. Parents want it as much as they still want hard copy photography of special moments. DVD authoring software choices are next to nil, or terrible. Nothing seems to have the flexibility of DVD Studio Pro for control over menu authoring, button design, background designs, complete creativity and unique NON FAKE TEMPLATE choices. Encore? bad reviews abound. I'm doing research, I'm already in Premier, but of course my .m2v and .wav combinations function independently and can go anywhere.
Someone out there must have answers or suggestions. Thank you in advance.
iPhone 5s, iOS 8.3
Posted on Jan 29, 2016 10:43 AM
It is a situation where some machines need to be dedicated to running older OS in order to maintain DVD authoring on DVD SP. I use it often, including three machines running Snow Leopard just for this reason. (VMWare does not work.) In fact because the systems are stable, I have not bother running the software on any OS later than SL.
It is not too difficult to tie machines in together (network) in order to allow other machines do the heavy lifting for encoding, etc. But even then older machines can still do a lot of the work, depending on the source material.
DVDs, unfortunately, are going away in many respects. But that it does not mean there is still not a call for them. It sounds like you are in a good position with your business where you are earning from them still. The easiest option for you is to find a couple of older used machines, dedicate them to do the muxing/authoring and not get bogged down in trying to get them to run on later OSes. I have authored many, many DVDs that have gone to replication on machines running OS 9. I would get Snow Leopard Server if available still through Apple or if you have Snow Leopard installs. Get them on a older machine (
You can get a Mac Pro for under $400 http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Apple-Systems/Used/Mac-Pro?_ga=1.20017790.7512388 13.1450705895)
then produce what you need. Sounds like it will pay for itself very quickly for you.
Posted on Feb 1, 2016 1:33 PM