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DVD Authoring and Production
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Author: Ralph Labarge
List Price: $54.95
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ISBN: 1578200822
Publisher: CMP Books (August, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 42,589
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Creatively limited. More catalogue than text
I bought this book in the expectation that I would learn about theories of DVD authoring focusing on techniques and user interface design. DVD authoring is of interest to groups as diverse as wedding videographers and instructional designers. There is a lot of technical detail in the book of the type found in product catalogues. The description of DVD layers, and so forth, is very informative. There is also a chapter listing available DVD software vendors. In fact, the book has a lot to say about DVD as a format and a technology, but rather less to say about DVD authoring. The chapter on navigation is barely above interesting. One section discusses 'advanced' navigation and introduces program control constructs (IF-THEN, FOR, etc.). Potentially very interesting but the examples of the uses of the constructs are limited to one or two lines of code; and one never gets to understand the 'features in action' in a project.The title of the book is misleading. Production issues are addressed but very little of interest is available on authoring. If you need to learn about authoring in depth, look elsewhere.
Rating: 5 out of 5
If you want to do advanced DVD authoring - buy this book!
This book shows you in an easy to read format the true capabilities of the DVD format and what is required to do it. It helped me in being able to ask intelligent questions when purchasing equipment.
Rating: 5 out of 5
very good if you are going to setup your own authoring house
this book has a lot of information on dvd production process. it is targeted to people who want to get into dvd production so the details on process (story board) and software application are very helpful. a good companion if you already own dvd demystified
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