I just got a new iMac in the office here this week.
I had been using an older iMAc and DVD Studio Pro (v4.1.2.) had been running fine on that, but this new iMac is giving me the error "You can't use this version of the application with this version of MacOS".
Obviously v4 is the last version of DVDSP. Is there a way around this, and a way to actually run DVDSP?
I don't expect many apps to be as advanced as DVDSP.
In fact, I am thinking of installing a Virtual Machine (Oracle's VM) with El Capitan on it, and having DVDSP make an .iso.
Another route to take is to get an external SSD drive and put El Capitan on it to boot from when needing to run DVDSP. These are excellent candidates: OWC Envoy Pro EX
Go to the App Store and search for "video DVD". There you'll find quite a few potential video DVD authoring apps that will work with the latest systems. Most have free demo versions that put watermarks on the final product that you can try before purchasing. Most only work with video/movie files but a couple were able to use still photos as well as video/movie files to create video DVDs.
Wow you have fallen way behind in macOS upgrades. When I googled "DVD Studio Pro replacements" most of those replacement App's will not longer even run in Catalina's 64bit OS.
You might try searching for a DVD burner in the Mac App Store or pay for a copy of Roxio Toast.
But to be frank, there is not a lot of support for DVDs these days.
None of the potential candidates will be as powerful as iDVD or DVD Studio Pro. Nor will they be as intuitive as iDVD (don't know about DVD Studio Pro as I've never used it).
I do know that Final Cut Pro X can create video DVD and Blue-ray discs. Don't know if it will do what you want otherwise.
thanks, I'll look at that, although it does involve a $$$ outlay for a SSD drive.
If I go VM, then I can use the free Oracle VM.... do I have to pay for El Capitan, or does Mac make that freely available to me because I've got Catalina on the same machine?
Oh, I see.
Is there no hack to get around that?
I'll have a look at the newer DVD apps.
Its actually the more advanced stuff in DVDSP I used like playlists (stories), non-roman font subtitles (importing them etc)
Click here to download the El Capitan installer from the App Store.
You can't, DVD Studio Pro hasn't worked since macOS 10.12 Sierra.
How to run DVD Studio Pro on latest MacOS ?
