- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (11 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0240520041
- ISBN-13: 978-0240520049
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.4 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #85 in Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Design Studies > Graphic Design
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Software programs are complex, the books that explain them shouldn't be. This thoroughly illustrated, full-color guide explains everything you need to know to get up and running quickly with Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 without any extraneous information or complicated, detailed explanations. The author focuses solely on the key features you will need to start producing and mastering professional-quality DVDs immediately in order to avoid overloading you with too many details. Learn best practices for planning your project, importing video and audio assests, creating professional-looking menus, and adding custom project elements. Abundant illustrations, screenshots, and concise, results-driven text makes this the ultimate guide to getting up and running quickly with Encore DVD. "The Focal Easy Guide Series": Start working with new software immediately regardless of your level. Achieve professional results, learn practical skills from industry experts. This title offers focused, user-friendly coverage of the key tools you need to know. Learn all the essentials for DVD creation: project planning, importing assets, timeline creation, transcoding, menu creation, adding custom project elements and more! It also distills everything you'll need to know without delving into extraneous information and overloading you with too many details. Abundant full-color screenshots and illustrations bring the instructions to life. The accompanying website withdownloads and all the lastest software updates can be found online.
About the Author
An experienced video editor, Jeff Bellune has been a Technical Consultant to Adobe since March of 2003, including work on the previous version of Encore DVD. He is the owner of a digital production and post-production company, Bellune Digital Video Services, and an active presence on industry web forums.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book should be thought of as a big, friendly "START HERE" button for Adobe's excellent EncoreDVD version 2 package.
It assumes no proior knowledge, but is still very useful to experienced authors as well as beginners alike.
It takes you right through the whole process of creating your own DVD-Video discs from scratch - and more than that, it clearly explains (with the aid of plenty of real world screenshots) every step of the process in jargon free language.
But it goes even further!
Part of Adobe's strength here is the way that EncoreDVD integrates with other packages such as Photoshop, Audition, Premiere Pro & After Effects and this tight integration is also covered inside these pages.
If you own this application then you should also own this book. Jeff Bellune actually uses EncoreDVD in his daily business - and his expertise shines through in this tome.
Highly recommended.
It assumes no proior knowledge, but is still very useful to experienced authors as well as beginners alike.
It takes you right through the whole process of creating your own DVD-Video discs from scratch - and more than that, it clearly explains (with the aid of plenty of real world screenshots) every step of the process in jargon free language.
But it goes even further!
Part of Adobe's strength here is the way that EncoreDVD integrates with other packages such as Photoshop, Audition, Premiere Pro & After Effects and this tight integration is also covered inside these pages.
If you own this application then you should also own this book. Jeff Bellune actually uses EncoreDVD in his daily business - and his expertise shines through in this tome.
Highly recommended.
Format:Paperback
I now understand how to use it. This book makes it simple to use.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Wow! A great book to learn Encore 2.0!!!
24 May 2006
Format:Paperback
I'm an experienced video editor and DVD author with experience using a previous version of Encore. I got the book to learn the new features in Encore 2.0. I'm very pleased with the easy to read style, lots of great examples, and many wonderful tips on how to make my DVDs better using Encore. This book really rocks!!! I would recommend it for people new to Encore, also.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A valuable guide with room for improvement
1 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
This Focal Guide sets out to describe in fine detail all the possibilities for DVD creation in Encore, and to do so by working through the creation of a project step by step. Where it falls down is in its failure to provide what so many other technical books do automatically nowadays: an accompanying CD or DVD -- or material on a website -- so the reader can work through the steps with the same movies and still pictures as those illustrated in the text.
As a complete novice to Encore I learned a lot just from reading the book, and I now certainly appreciate the enormous, complex capabilities of the software -- far more than I had originally imagined. But I can't really sit at the computer and work through the chapters using my own raw materials as effectively as I could have with the same bits and pieces (sorry, 'assets') that are illustrated throughout the text.
As a reference text the book is useful, but one is pretty much forced to read long sections of chapters to get nutshell information on specific topics.
As a complete novice to Encore I learned a lot just from reading the book, and I now certainly appreciate the enormous, complex capabilities of the software -- far more than I had originally imagined. But I can't really sit at the computer and work through the chapters using my own raw materials as effectively as I could have with the same bits and pieces (sorry, 'assets') that are illustrated throughout the text.
As a reference text the book is useful, but one is pretty much forced to read long sections of chapters to get nutshell information on specific topics.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A waste of time, money and paper
12 May 2007
Format:Paperback
I need a book that walks me through an average interactive DVD project. All this book does is bore you to death with nonsense, and never walks you through a project.
If I could sue for false advertisement, I would.
If I could sue for false advertisement, I would.
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