Steve Troughton-SmithIn celebration of Apple's Pro Apps making the move to iPad, let's remember some of them we lost along the way — like Aperture, DVD Studio Pro, Color & Shake…
sdw@stroughtonsmith wow I don't even recall DVD Studio Pro. Looks nice.
Jake Rodkin@sdw @stroughtonsmith if you were ever in the business of making DVD menus, or had to do semi-annoying things like figure out where to split your video content across a layer skip, it was great. Made everything so easy, including weird script driven things and simple variable-based interactions you wouldn’t really think were an accessible part of the DVD menu spec. No software came close to making this stuff accessible to designers who found themselves making a video dvd.
WTL@ja2ke @sdw @stroughtonsmith I kept a machine around for years just for that. Might even still have a disk image of it kicking around somewhere. 🤔
@WTL @sdw @stroughtonsmith I had to reprint some video DVDs for a game rerelease last year and wished I still had my G4 tower around to open the DVD Studio Pro projects to make some tweaks. Instead I ended up just eating the layer skip moving and causing a hitch due to the game portion changing size. The pain it caused me was real, but far reduced from 2007 when I made the original disc.
@ja2ke @sdw @stroughtonsmith Every so often, I think about getting an older machine and trying to get Final Cut Studio running on it, *just in case*.
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Someone said something a while about about running 10.6 in an emulator. <adds new item on the to-research-further list>