DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide [Paperback]

Martin Sitter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 21, 2003

Create and burn your own professional-quality DVDs with DVD Studio Pro 2, the most comprehensive and affordable DVD Studio Pro book on the market. DVD Studio Pro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide covers the secrets of DVD creation, including AC3 audio and MPEG video encoding, advanced interactivity through scripting, subtitling, and more. Task-based reference with hundreds of screenshots makes it easy for video professionals to get things done right, right from the beginning.

Apple has made waves with its revolutionary digital-video-editing packages, such as iMovie, Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Pro. With the release of DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple has completed the digital video picture by providing a full-featured, reasonably priced DVD-authoring program that lets you get your videos off the computer and onto televisions. DVD Studio Pro 2 is a completely new DVD-authoring product, built from the ground up to take advantage of OS X's Unix base to provide powerful processing and multitasking abilities. Version 2 brings you a breakthrough user interface packed with innovative features that redefine professional DVD authoring, timeline-based track editor, enhanced menu tools that now let you add text and composite video buttons right in DVD Studio Pro, integrated MPEG-2 encoding and new, professionally designed templates. DVD Studio Pro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide is ideal for anybody who wants to output their video projects to DVD discs, including independent filmmakers, video professionals, corporate trainers, event videographers, and proud parents everywhere! Each task is broken down into concise step-by-step instructions, illustrated with informative screenshots and plenty of time-tested tips and tricks to help you make perfect, pro-caliber DVDs with interactivity far surpassing anything Hollywood has to offer.

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From the Back Cover

Create and burn your own professional-quality DVDs with DVD Studio Pro 2, the most comprehensive and affordable DVD Studio Pro book on the market. DVD Studio Pro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide covers the secrets of DVD creation, including AC3 audio and MPEG video encoding, advanced interactivity through scripting, subtitling, and more. Task-based reference with hundreds of screenshots makes it easy for videoprofessionals to get things done right, right from the beginning.

Apple has made waves with its revolutionary digital-video-editing packages,such as iMovie, Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Pro. With the release of DVDStudio Pro 2, Apple has completed the digital video picture by providing a full-featured, reasonably priced DVD-authoring program that lets you get your videos off the computer and onto televisions. DVD Studio Pro 2 is a completely new DVD-authoring product, built fromthe ground up to take advantage of OS X's Unix base to provide powerfulprocessing and multitasking abilities. Version 2 brings you a breakthrough userinterface packed with innovative features that redefine professional DVDauthoring, timeline-based track editor, enhanced menu tools that now let youadd text and composite video buttons right in DVD Studio Pro, integratedMPEG-2 encoding and new, professionally designed templates. DVD StudioPro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide is ideal for anybody who wants tooutput their video projects to DVD discs, including independent filmmakers,video professionals, corporate trainers, event videographers, and proud parentseverywhere! Each task is broken down into concise step-by-step instructions,illustrated with informative screenshots and plenty of time-tested tips and tricksto help you make perfect, pro-caliber DVDs with interactivity far surpassinganything Hollywood has to offer.

About the Author

Martin Sitter is a multimedia artist specializing in the next generation of track-based video and audio programs. Martin is also the author of several technical books, including LiveStage Professional 3: Visual QuickStart Guide, DVD Studio Pro 1.5: Visual QuickPro Guide, and the Apple Pro Training Series: Logic.

Product Details

• Paperback: 632 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (October 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321167848
• ISBN-13: 978-0321167842
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,662,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars In a slim field, this is pretty much all there is., November 25, 2003

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Matthew Stratton "film geek" (Lisle, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

This book was definitely helpful to me; but it didn't expand a whole lot further than the 500+ page manual included with the software. Some additional helpful information on creating appropriate graphics, but I didn't learn a whole lot. I'm waiting for a really good DSP 2.0 book to come out. But until that happens, this is really the best you can do.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So glad somebody wrote it!, January 26, 2004

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"mattonlyz" (London, U.K) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

As a video producer in a small band, I bought this book for one and one reason only: To learn how to use A.Pack. There is no info anywhere on the web that tell you how A.Pack works, but I heard on Apple's DVD list that this book was a good resource for making AC3 files. It is, and it's even better than I imagined.

The 600 pages of text hold ideas I've never thought of, like making sure my menu buttons are placed correctly in the "title-safe zone," or making transitions for my menus. In fact, there's a whole discussion of 4:3 video, drop vs non-drop frame, pixel aspect ratio, GOPs and I-Frames in MPEG video - in many ways this book feels more like a course than a reference manual: I learned a lot about video in general!

I also now know what dialog normalization is, and that alone was worth the money. This book will be beside my computer for a while to come!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacks some vital information, January 24, 2004

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Larry Krantz "Final Cut Pro Editor" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

In his book ver 1.5 Martin covers scripts and play all buttons. However in ver 2.0 he does not cover scripts in the book but has you go to web for that information. Plus he does not cover scripts with enough information to feel you understand it.

Feels like he was rushing to get this book out fast and then decided at last minute he left out vital information.