Designing DVD Menus: How to Create Professional-looking DVDs - Softcover

Michael Burns; George Cairns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904705421 ISBN 13: 9781904705420

Publisher: ILEX, 2004

Synopsis

Making DVDs is now within the scope of every home movie-maker. The equipment needed is readily available, and the costs have plummeted. Moreover, it's fun to use, it's easy to learn, and, best of all, you can share the DVDs you make with friends, family and business associates - and wow them with your sheer brilliance! Designing DVD Menus will provide readers at any level with all the information and inspiration they need to create a complete DVD from start to finish. It demystifies the jargon and explains technical issues in terms that are easy to understand. Employing plenty of easy-to-follow, step-by-step workthroughs, it encourages you to focus on getting creative with your ideas. It is full of projects that show how to use animation, picture-within-picture, background movie clips and audio and imaging effects to create stunning titles, menu screens, transitions and interactive features. All in all, it offers a wealth of tips and tricks to give your designs that cool, professional edge.

About this title

About the Author

George Cairns is a freelance artist and writer. A regular contributor to Digital Camera Magazine, Computer Arts Projects, Digital Creative Arts and 3D World, he has spent over a decade teaching Photoshop and video editing at a number of universities in the UK. Michael Burns is a freelance journalist with nine years' experience of writing about the creative computer graphics and digital technology industries. He contributes regularly to Computer Arts, Digit, Televisual, PC Pro, Macworld, and Macformat.

From the Back Cover

The DVD format can get your video out there, but will it get noticed? It's time to discover how innovative features can give your disc an extra kick. Designing DVD Menus is an incredible one-stop guide to the creative side of authoring, helping you to get great results with simple applications, and professional-quality menus using higher-end tools. It covers menu design from beginning to end, with examples of different approaches and real-world insights on style, navigation, and best working practice.

Opening with a primer on menu production, it continues with professional advice on every aspect of menu design, including screen layouts, fonts, graphics, animated backgrounds, and interactive effects. The pages are peppered with examples of commercial designs, along with tips from the artists who created them. If you want to give your DVD a slick, professional edge, this is the only book you'll need.

Edition details

• Publisher: ILEX
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904705421
• ISBN 13: 9781904705420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192