Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book [Paperback]

Adobe Creative Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321205472 | ISBN-13: 978-0321205476 | Publication Date: October 20, 2003 | Edition: 1

Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book is the fastest, easiest, and most comprehensive ways to master Adobe Encore DVD. The project-based lessons show you how to use Encore DVD in real-life, everyday tasks. It combines focused learning materials and practical lessons developed by Adobe instructional designers. This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Encore DVD, this book is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this newest Adobe program. You will learn how to use this fully integrated software with Adobe Premier and After Effects to create DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. You will get up to speed quickly with step-by-step project based lessons and as each chapter contains a project that builds upon each reader's growing knowledge of the Adobe Encore DVD. Review questions at the end of each chapter wrap up each lesson and readers will learn everything they need to get up and running Adobe Encore DVD.

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From the Back Cover

Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book is the fastest, easiest, and most comprehensive ways to master Adobe Encore DVD. The project-based lessons show you how to use Encore DVD in real-life, everyday tasks. It combines focused learning materials and practical lessons developed by Adobe instructional designers. This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Encore DVD, this book is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this newest Adobe program. You will learn how to use this fully integrated software with Adobe Premier and After Effects to create DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. You will get up to speed quickly with step-by-step project based lessons and as each chapter contains a project that builds upon each reader's growing knowledge of the Adobe Encore DVD. Review questions at the end of each chapter wrap up each lesson and readers will learn everything they need to get up and running Adobe Encore DVD.

About the Author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (October 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321205472
• ISBN-13: 978-0321205476
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,671,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but don't make my mistakes, April 22, 2004

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R. Caron "SightSeer" (Montreal, QC CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

I tried making a DVD from scratch using Encore by reading a few online tutorials but when I burned the DVD half the buttons didn't work on my DVD player, so I figured I'd get this book and learn how to do things right. I'm running a fancy Dell Workstation so I didn't anticipate many problems.

Rule #1. Get the Encore 1.01 update from Adobe's site. I didn't and I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why certain features didn't work.

Rule #2. The files on the accompanying DVD must be copied to your hard drive to work! Don't waste your time scratching your head wondering why they won't open off the DVD drive.

Conclusion: Afte getting through these lessons I was able to fix all my mistakes and produce a pretty impressive DVD for my client. Of key interest to me was creating my own menus from scratch in Photoshop and these lessons made it clear enough so that I could do that.

This, like all the 'classroom in a book' series are somewhat confusing to follow, but you can muddle through and figure out what they are trying to convey, even if it means you skip a few steps.

Tip: Use hungarian naming i.e. mnu_Main, btn_Start (instead of Main, Start) so you can tell what items are menus and what are buttons, it gets confusing when you have a lot of items in your project folder.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ADOBE ENCORE CLASSROOM IN A BOOK, January 29, 2004

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sandman (BC canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

well........... i must say..........i have used adobe's classroom in a book series to learn several software applications. This one, by far, had to be the easiest to follow. UN-like the after effects (classroom in a book) it does NOT assume you know to much!

it starts off with baby steps. we have to learn to crawl before we can walk. the book is much shorter then most of Adobe's books. i managed to finish the lessons that come on DVD rom with the book in 3 days.

at 1st when you open adobe ENCORE one might say "this layout makes NO sense"

once you complete even the 1st 2 chapters you will begin to see the layout makes perfect sense! the program works extremely well when using it with after effects, premiere, and especially photoshop.

keep in mind this is the FIRST edition of encore.always room for improvement and im sure we will see steady improvements on future releases. i found a few of the lessons to be a tad childish, (EX: using a gorrila and giraffe to make menu buttons) thus 4 out of 5 rating the book. However.....i guess the whole point of the book is to teach you the software, despite a few laim examples in the lessons the book DOES teach you well!

if your itchin to learn ENCORE then you can't go wrong here!
hope you enjoy the book.once you learn how to create your own DVD's with the software the posibilities are endless

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, February 24, 2006

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Robb Slocombe "SlocombePhotography.com" (Michigan ,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

I have enjoyed it alot. I only wish the images in the book were in color. Other than that, great layout, very informative. I only wish i had bought the version 2 of it as thats what i am running now. Se la vee