DVD Studio Pro 4: The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring with Macintosh (ELECTRONICS) - Softcover

Nazarian, Bruce

 
9780071470155: DVD Studio Pro 4: The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring with Macintosh (ELECTRONICS)

Synopsis

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.

Key features

  • 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
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    About the Author

    Bruce Nazarian (Burbank, CA) President of Gnome Digital Media, is a DVD Consultant, Producer, and Instructor and an Apple Solution Expert.

    From the Back Cover

    THE SUPERSTAR GUIDE TO DVD AUTHORING WITH THE MAC!

    DVD Included!

    • Learn how it's done with QuickTime movies, PDF tutorials, and plenty of insider tips on DVD Studio Pro 4
    • Complete assets provided for building a simple DVD project, and to add advanced features to it, including scripting
    • Authoring tutorials, menu tutorials, and scripting tutorials!
    • Lots of DVD projects to build and proven DVD training and productivity products to use from the supplied sampler pack for Recipe4DVD's Pro-Pack 1 (projects), Pro-Pack 2 (scripting), and Pro-Pack 3 (menus)
    • Invaluable DVD technical information
    • Links to the book's website, for addenda, project tips, and more!
    • A free, limited-time membership to the revamped DVD Pro Club on www.recipe4dvd.com, with lots of new content, re-launching in early 2006!

    A private DVD authoring tutorial, from one of the world's top trainers
    Bruce Nazarian, "the DVD Guy," travels the world, teaching both home users and media professionals how to make world-class DVDs, using Macintosh computers with DVD Studio Pro and the Superdrive. But now you don't have to wait for one of his sought-after seminars to come to your hometown. DVD Studio Pro 4 puts his expert advice, time-tested methods, and frustration-evading shortcuts by your side. This book is ready to guide you, any time you want help from "the DVD guy."

    Over a million people already have the potential to create professional-quality DVDs at home with their Superdrive-equipped Macintoshes and DVD Studio Pro. If you're one of them or want to be -- here's the perfect guide to making great use of all that power!

    COVERS ALL THE NEW FEATURES OF SP4!
    No one knows more about DVD authoring with DVD Studio Pro than Bruce Nazarian, and no one explains it better. His DVD Studio Pro 4 gives you:

    • A complete and thorough explanation of what a DVD is
    • Chapter-by-chapter analysis of DVD Studio Pro 4's vast array of features
    • Step-by-step tutorials that make DVD authoring simple and fun!
    • A bonus DVD disc packed with tutorials, tools, tips, and project templates, as well as sample menu graphics
    • Thorough coverage of new hi-def features and how to encode MPEG video and AC3 audio for DVD
    • Photoshop graphics tactics for successful DVD images
    • Walkthroughs on Slideshows, Menus, Markers, and Stories
    • In-depth coverage of Scripting in DVD Studio Pro 4
    • Simple Scripting strategies and techniques
    • Overviews of DVD assets, advantages, and applications -- and ways to get the most from them
    • 150 time-saving illustrations
    • Advanced techniques to try after you've mastered the basics

    Since the advent of Macs with Superdrive, the high-cost entry barrier to the world of DVDs has been knocked down.If you want in, this book has the passkeys!

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