What happened to DVD Studio Pro? Has it been integrated somehow or use shelved?

Apple discontinued DVD-SP in June, 2011. They're reasoning was that optical media (CD/DVD/Blu-ray) were dead delivery platforms and everything should be delivered via the cloud.

You can still purchase Toast for optical disc burning: http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/

-DH

Totally agree. Apple doesn't realize the extent of DVD purchasers. We are already using Vimeo VOD and Amazon to sell our films, but there is still a huge list of people that demand DVDs. We have to provide them with what they want. After the past 7 years, we've sold well over 120,000 DVDs. Many less video streams unless those streams are free. PEOPLE WANT THE HARD COPY FOR THEIR COLLECTIONS. Apple is ignoring this fact. What is also true is that people in fringe areas or rural areas typically have lousy internet speeds to contend with. Sometimes their data rates aren't reliable, and so they'd rather have a DVD. We've also done BluRay discs, but the vast majority still buy DVD.

DVD SP is dead and will not function dependably, if at all, in the current OS. If you need the flexibility of DVD SP, then you need to have a dedicated OS (OS X 7 at most).

In the current OS, basic DVD authoring is built into the video and photo apps Share menu. If you want more options, there are more in Compressor 4.

Ta

Some people still like the old DVD menu even on a Mac.

All movie collectors want their movies on a physical disk.

I am finding that optical media is making a strong comeback because of M-DISC, good for 1000 years.

Storing movies on a hard drive is fine. But you must remember to keep backing them up every 3 to 5 years. I would absolutely hang on to all of your original pressed copies. ( Also proves that the movies were purchased legally.) Pressed DVDs have a shelf life of about 100 years. Hard drives have a much shorter lifetime.

anyone actually using m-disc? sounds great, but... why do I wonder????

Hi, I have an iMac 2013 with OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite and am using DVDSP 4.2.2 with no problems at all. I still deliver on dvds, lots of them. If you have FCP Studio, DVDSP was included, you can install just that app. That is what I did. I am now one of the only persons in this business around here that can still make dvds with menus etc. Hope this helps. I've been asking on this forum if DVDSP works with El Capitan? If anyone knows it would be nice to know. Thanks

Mark

We use Vebatim (made by Tio Yuden) M-Discs for archival storage, both 25 GB and 50GB.

In the UK, many government departments, banks, army, navy & airforce use them as the most reliable form of data storage available.