DVD Authoring Books

iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

David Pogue

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Whether you consider yourself a pro or a hobbyist, you have to admit that Apple's iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 are amazing right out of the box. Unfortunately, the box doesn't include much of a user's guide, so learning about these applications is another matter. iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual gets you up to speed on all of the themes, motion graphics, titles, effects -- everything that lets you turn raw digital footage into highly creative video projects. You get crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of all the iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 features, including the new video library, how to view transitions, titles, and sound in real time as you add them, and ways to publish your creations directly to YouTube. Renowned author David Pogue -- tech columnist for the New York Times -- uses an objective lens to scrutinize every step of process, including how to: Work on multiple iMovie projects at once and drag & drop clips among them Output your creation to a blog, its own web page, or as a video podcast with iWeb Use "Magic iMovie" to import your video and make a movie for you Integrate with other iLife programs to use songs, photos, and an original sound track And a whole lot more From choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs, posting it online, or creating versions for iPod and iPhone, iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual zooms right in on the details in a concise and understandable manner. The book also provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of your video won't rely entirely on magic.

Apple Pro Training Series: DVD Studio Pro 4 (2nd Edition) (Apple Pro Training Series)

Martin Sitter, Adrian Ramseier, Jem Schofield

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Not Worth the money, but still pretty good 3 out of 5 stars.
52 of 54 people found this review helpful.

I've been in a fight w/ Apple and Peachpit over this 'new' version of DVDSP4.
I'm an Apple cert. instructor for this and other ProApps. When I started reading the new book I found the same mistakes from version 3 had been copied over to version 4.

Granted, the new compressor app is great but nowhere does it explain the new features of DVDSP4 like support for external video, VTS editing and the whole HD support. I was told by Apple and Peachpit that this version of the book was intended to be an 'revision' of the old book; however, the general advertising of this book says 'Fully Update' instead of 'Fully Revised'... a bit misleading to the people who thought this version would help instruct students on how to best use the new features. We'll have to wait.

Editorial Review:

Now the best-selling book on DVD Studio Pro is even better. Updated for DVD Studio Pro 4.2, this Apple-certified book uses striking, real-world footage (including the HD documentary One-Six-Right) to build four complete DVDs. This revised edition covers integration with Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, and Compressor 3, as well as the new SD-to-HD workflow. Each chapter presents a lesson in an aspect of DVD creation and finishing, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. After learning how to storyboard your DVD and plan its interactions, you’ll set chapter markers, create stories, build still and motion menus, and add overlays and subtitles. You’ll also learn to work with multiple audio tracks and camera angles, create smart buttons and custom transitions, professionally encode audio and video files, and create useful scripts.

iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Jeff Carlson

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great learning tool 4 out of 5 stars.
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If you are interested in making home movies, editing or even making relatively high quality films, this book will certainly put you on the fast track to success. That being said, there is nothing quite like experimenting with the program itself, but the book can help work out some of the kinks. Finally, it is not as in depth as other books on this program.

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Need to learn iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 fast? Try a Visual QuickStart!

This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with these great iLife applications in no time. Best-selling author and iLife expert Jeff Carlson uses crystal-clear instructions, full-color illustrations, and friendly prose to introduce you to everything from using themes, tools, and effects to timeline editing to video podcasts and blogs. You’ll also learn about everything new in iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6, including motion-graphics themes, real-time effects, audio enhancements, sharing options, and more!

iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual

David Pogue

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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The latest versions of iMovie HD and iDVD 5 are, by far, the most robust moviemaking applications available to consumers today. But whether you're a professional or an amateur moviemaker eager to take advantage of the full capabilities of these applications, don't count on Apple documentation to make the cut. You need iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual, the objective authority on iMovie HD and iDVD 5. Even if you own a previous version of iMovie, the new feature-rich iMovie HD may well be impossible to resist. This video editing program now enables users to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of HDV camcorders, along with standard DV and the MPEG-4 video format. iMovie HD also includes "Magic iMovie" for making finished movies automatically. The feature does everything in one step--imports video into separate clips and adds titles, transitions, and music. The finished video is then ready for iDVD 5, which now includes 15 new themes with animated drop zones that can display video clips across DVD menus, just like the latest Hollywood DVDs. This witty and entertaining guide from celebrated author David Pogue not only details every step of iMovie HD video production--from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs--but provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of a video won't rely entirely on magic. iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual includes expert techniques and tricks for:

• Capturing quality footage (including tips on composition, lighting, and even special-event filming)
• Building your movie track, incorporating transitions and special effects, and adding narration, music, and sound
• Working with picture files and QuickTime movies
• Reaching your intended audience by exporting to tape, transferring iMovie to QuickTime, burning QuickTime-Movie CDs, and putting movies on the Web (and even on your cell phone!)
• Using iDVD 5 to stylize and burn your DVD creation

iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual--it's your moviemaking-made-easy guide.

Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies

Greg, PhD Harvey

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

great book to go with even greater software 5 out of 5 stars.
27 of 28 people found this review helpful.

I bought Creator 7 when I decided to start storing my grandmother's photos on CD and I bought this book on a whim to help me. Now I do alot more with Creator and this book has helped me figure it out. Hopefully it will help more people than me.

Good Introduction to Media Processing 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book starts with three basic assumptions:

First it presumes that you have or can acquire some sort of digital media which may be audio, photos, or video.

Second, it presumes that you have some kind of computer running Windows 2000 or XP, and the capability to record on CD's or better yet DVD's.

Third, there is the presumption that you want to take the digital media you have, alter it, modify it, combine it with other data, and produce some kind of media.

Most of the book is of tutorial format, that is, it leads you through various projects using a step-by-step approach. All of the major components of the Creator package are discussed. And then in the standard Part of Tens section that is common to most For Dummies books, this is turned around just a bit by looking at each of the ten components that make up the package to give you a better starting point when you have a project in mind.

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"The Best CD Mastering Software" and "The Best DVD Mastering Software" in July 2003
* Sixty percent of home computers now have CD-RW drives, and ten percent have DVD-R/RW/RAM drives
* Shows PC users step by step how to capture, organize, edit, burn, encrypt, and share photos, videos, music, and data on CDs or DVDs
* Explains how to integrate all the different tools in the suite-Disc Copier, AudioCentral, DVD Builder, PhotoSuite, Creator Classic, Drag-to-Disc, Roxio Retrieve, Roxio Player, and Label Creator-to get the desired result
* Offers step-by-step guidance to help people back up and store large data files and create audio CDs, home movies, digital photo slide shows, photo albums, and much more

DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD: A Professional Guide to Creative DVD Production and Adobe Integration

Wes Howell

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Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 not supported as promised 1 out of 5 stars.
12 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I regret buying this book. The cover has a big sticky stating see his website for updates to Encore 1.5, but there is nothing there. I am following the first tutorial in chapter 4, and page 108, step 12 says "choose menu>new menu..... keep the black background for now.... Well my menu is not black, but is an NTSC_Radiant Menu with 6 chapter buttons already on it.It apppears Encore version 1.5 differs from 1.0 in this regard. In addition Tutorial.mpg length in time doesn't match what is depicted in the book, consequently GOP's occur at different times. MPEG requires Chapter points to be at GOP's. I find this misleading in that it doesn't follow his directives. I thought I could just do the tutorials and whizz bang be done, but this book is more trouble than it's worth. I wasted my money

Editorial Review:

Expand your creative ability by mastering the software tools. "DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD" covers the toolset in a manner that demonstrates real-world application. The accompanying DVD with source material walks you through the process. You will learn how to avoid common pitfalls and learn about the entire DVD authoring workflow.

* Companion web site packed with additional tips and details on using Encore 1.5
* Increase your productivity with Encore DVD
* Learn to take advantage of integration with Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere
* Includes DVD with tutorials

DVD Studio Pro 4

Bruce Nazarian

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

not for beginners 1 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book is very dissapointing. Sure, this book is full of information, but does not know how to teach. This book is not completely written in step by step method. Before you actually start touch your project, you are fed up with information. I even found a couple of mistakes in earlier chapter. DVD comes with this book, but this DVD is not a lesson project like Apple Pro Training Series. Not useful.
If you are beginner and start studying DVD Studio Pro 4, don't by this book! You're going to waste your money. Buy the one from Apple Pro Training Series, which is much better, easy to understand.

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Author professional quality DVDs with Studio Pro 4

With Apple DVD Studio Pro just about anyone can author high performance DVDs -- easily and inexpensively. This heavily-illustrated complete tutorial, written by world-famous DVD trainer Bruce Nazarian, provides the step-by-step guidance necessary to unleash Studio Pro's full power and understand all the new features of Studio Pro 4.

• Includes DVD with sample footage, authoring samples, graphics, and project graphical layout
• Covers video and audio encoding, Photoshop for DVD authoring, and new Hi-DEF features

iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

David Pogue

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

You may not have paused (a pun!) to think about it, but we're living in the golden age of home movies. Forget dad's old Super-8 films and the stinky celluloid in grandma's basement: A reasonably priced digital video camera and a Macintosh computer give you the ability to not only record moving images, but modify and assemble them in order to tell stories more effectively than ever. David Pogue, Mac maven, shows you how to make movies using iMovie and iDVD, the video editing and burning software that ship with all modern iMacs. iMovie and iDVD: The Missing Manual documents its two eponymous programs fully, but without straying from the tone of lighthearted competence that characterizes Pogue's best work.

This book includes plenty of nods to total Mac novices--the author explains such terms as resolution and pixel--but appeals as well to competent Mac users who just happen not to be cinamatographers. Obvious stuff that authors often neglect--such as the approximate disk-space requirements of movies of various lengths--appears in this book. Plus, Pogue makes extensive use of a question-and-answer format (particularly in sidebars) that's simultaneously easy to read and extraordinarily fact-dense. This is the book you need if you're planning to do any video work with an iMac. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to use Apple iMovie and iDVD to record, edit, and publish digital video. It's a soup-to-nuts treatment, covering selection of a camera, filming (including lighting and composition), assembling clips into a meaningful narrative, adding special effects and titles, and burning the product to DVD for distribution.

Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Creative Team

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The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Encore DVD 2.0!

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Encore DVD, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an Adobe Encore DVD artist. You'll learn to create DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks as well as learn about Encore DVD 2.0's new features, including a slideshow editor, flowchart, updated user interface, Adobe Bridge, automated chapter menus, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

DVD Authoring and Production

Ralph LaBarge, Ralph LaBarge

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

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Save time and money with the latest tools and techniques for publishing content in DVD formats. This comprehensive guide reveals everything you need to publish content in DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and WebDVD formats - from project conception to replication and distribution. Organize your projects, execute them, and sell them efficiently with a complete understanding of the theory and the practice. Each step of the authoring and production process is thoroughly explained and illustrated by reference to the author's own StarGaze DVD. Other features include:

A product guide to production and authoring tools: storyboard & design tools, MPEG-2 video encoders, Dolby AC-3 audio encoders, DTS audio encoders, DVD authoring tools, emulation & QA tools, DVD service bureaus, DVD replication facilities, and DVD test & analysis facilities.

Advanced authoring concepts: such as video and VTS manager areas, one sequential PGC titles, GPRM & SPRM register usage, multi-angle content, multi-audio track content, multi-subpicture stream content, NTSC, PAL, and widescreen issues.

Sage business advice: a review of three popular DVD production business models and tried-and-true marketing and distribution methods.

A comprehensive glossary of acronyms and DVD terms Special Feature:
A copy of the author's own DVD title, StarGaze, is included to provide real-world examples of each DVD authoring and production process.