If you’ve ever seen a DVD, you know why Apple had to provide special authoring software to go with the DVD-burning hardware on the new 733MHz Power Mac G4. But for all its promise, iDVD is rife with bugs and quirks that keep it from being a pleasure to use. With the introduction of iDVD–and the just-released DVD Studio Pro, Apple’s $999 pro-level product–Apple’s digital-video story is finally complete. But one piece of the puzzle was missing: the ability to output digital video to DVD, the most popular digital video-playback format around.
Ever since Apple brought FireWire to the Mac and introduced its iMovie video-editing software, the Macintosh has been at the forefront of the digital-video revolution.
