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Desktop DVD Authoring
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Author: Douglas Dixon
List Price: $35.00
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ISBN: 0789727528
Publisher: New Riders (11 October, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 257,105
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
A rehash of software manuals
The author appears to have done little more than collect a sheaf of manufacturers' literature and then rewrite it for this book. A typical chapter contains a step by step description of the tutorial that comes with Apple's DVD Studio Pro software. You'll get a lot more more from simply working through the tutorial than from reading Dixon's rehash of same, and you won't have to waste money on this book. Some overlap is perhaps inevitable, but 500+ pages of regurgitated material? No thanks! Save your money and wait for David Pogue to cover this topic.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A great starting point
As a newbie getting acquainted with Apple's DVD Studio Pro, I found this book to be a great suppliment to the manual. It also contains useful user guides to other authoring packages such as iDVD, Sonic DVDit!, Sonic ReelDVD and Sonic Scenarist. An interesting read if you already own or are considering any of these products. The book also covers other DVD related topics, from buying a DVD player, to technical summaries. A great starting point for those ready to take the DVD plunge.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Weak learning tool good introduction to software choices
Do not purchase this book if your intention is to learn the technicalities of DVD authoring. It is only an introduction to most of the software products out there right now.
Purchase this book if you intend to attain a software product and are unsure which to select among the many choices out there.
It is a good overview of these products and would be a very useful book for this purpose.
There is discussion about DVD authoring but it is weak and vastly incomplete. As a long time author and owner of several products, and all books on the subject I am dissappointed with this book. I would have liked to have seen at least some command sequence examples. There are none. If you wish to learn the intricacies of DVD authoring,do a course.
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