Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: main video, scene selection, menu color set, Menu Viewer, Main Menu, Timeline Viewer (more...)

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Product Description
The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Encore DVD 2.0!

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Classroom in a Book contains eleven lessons and a bonus DVD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Encore DVD, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an Adobe Encore DVD artist. You'll learn to create DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks as well as learn about Encore DVD 2.0's new features, including a slideshow editor, flowchart, updated user interface, Adobe Bridge, automated chapter menus, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.


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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 asinteractive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. You will get upto speed quickly with step-by-step project based lessons and as each chaptercontains a project that builds upon each reader's growing knowledge of theAdobe Encore DVD. Review questions at the end of each chapter wrap upeach lesson and readers will learn everything they need to get up and runningAdobe Encore DVD. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; Pap/DVD edition (May 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321267958
• ISBN-13: 978-0321267955
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #578,547 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

By	Rene Caron "SightSeer" (Montreal, QC CANADA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

By	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

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent guide to the program, but less for your $ than others in the series..., January 9, 2007

By	A. Warner - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Despite other titles in the "Classroom in a Book (CIAB)" series being exceptional, this book falls a little short. While other books in the series contain full color and over 400 pages, this one is Black & White and just over 200 pages. The training moves very slowly at first and does contain examples of most of the features of the product. I just feel that the organization of the material is a little weak and after using the Premier 2.0 CIAB and just looking at the After Effects 7.0 CIAB, that came today, I find it a weaker effort. Admittedly, I did need to get a DVD authored prior to getting too far into the book, but I feel it could have really been improved with Color.