Adobe Encore DVD for Windows [Paperback]

Steve Tomich (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321194381 | ISBN-13: 978-0321194381 | Publication Date: October 2, 2003

The fastest, easiest way to learn Adobe's new DVD authoring application, Adobe Encore DVD. Adobe Encore DVD for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide is loaded with tips and techniques gleaned from author Steve Tomich and amply illustrated with hundreds of screenshots to reflect Adobe Encore DVD features. This incisive text, crystal clear screen shots, and step-by-step instructions allow you to get up and running fast with Adobe Encore DVD.

This new guide to Adobe's new DVD authoring software, Adobe Encore DVD: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to liven up their DVDs. Readers learn how to use this fully integrated software to create multi-language DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. The author takes readers step-by-step through all of Adobe Encore DVD essentials.

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The fastest, easiest way to learn Adobe's new DVD authoring application, Adobe Encore DVD. Adobe Encore DVD for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide is loaded with tips and techniques gleaned from author Steve Tomich and amply illustrated with hundreds of screenshots to reflect Adobe Encore DVD features. This incisive text, crystal clear screen shots, and step-by-step instructions allow you to get up and running fast with Adobe Encore DVD.

This new guide to Adobe's new DVD authoring software, Adobe Encore DVD: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to liven up their DVDs. Readers learn how to use this fully integrated software to create multi-language DVDs with advanced features such as interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. The author takes readers step-by-step through all of Adobe Encore DVD essentials.

About the Author

Steve Tomich has been part of the film and video community of the San Francisco Bay Area since 1979. He spent most of his career's first decade developing his skills as a video editor at one of the largest and most innovative post facilities in the area, One Pass Film and Video. The next 13 years were spent surfing the technology waves as a nationwide editor-evangelist for Avid Technology. Steve continues to edit and teach video editing in the Bay Area, and, along with writing books and scripts, has incorporated DVD authoring as part of his current post-production strategy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (October 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321194381
• ISBN-13: 978-0321194381
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,722,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Looking for more, October 1, 2003

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Kelly Owens (Grand Rapids, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Encore DVD for Windows (Paperback)

This book is good for a beginner, but that's it. I bought Encore a month ago, and just now received this book from when I pre-ordered it. So now that I have had a month to play with Encore without any books, I have picked up the basics pretty easily because I am use to other Adobe interfaces. I wanted more in depth about Motion Menus. There is one chapter in here on it, and it just brushes over it. I want examples and tutorials. This book doesn't come with a cd. Basically it just gets you started, but I am looking to create complex motion menus, and this doesn't help me too much.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent QuickStart Guide, October 9, 2003

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Hollywood Editor (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Encore DVD for Windows (Paperback)

I've been reading QuickStart guides for years, and this one holds up to the challenge: get people off to a "Quick Start" with the application and let them run from there.The book covers all of the essentals needed to get you going with Encore and offers some tips along the way. Encore has an amazing feature set, and I am sure that there will be more in-depth books with cds in the future, but if you're a self-starter type, this one will get you up to speed enough to try the tricky stuff right away.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars unorganized, badly planed, worse than the manual!, December 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe Encore DVD for Windows (Paperback)

I have been thru the other books from peachpit press and this one pretty much fall into the worst ones published by this company. If you have no idea on how DVD works, this book will lead you to more confusion and scare you away from DVD authoring! The manual come with the application is undoubtly the least informative from Adobe and this book certainly doesn't help at all. The Advanced Motion Menu section, for instance, does not mention other ways of creating the buttons or how to use the library, and does not explain on how to create motion buttons in Photoshop. This book touchs alot of topics, but it does not present the whole procedure nor give you details on how the inner works of DVD authoring. Don't buy this book if you really want to learn Encore DVD, and get the Adobe Classroom in a book instead!