DVD Studio Pro 2.0 : The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring with Macintosh (Digital Video/Audio) - Softcover

Nazarian, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071417184 ISBN 13: 9780071417181

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2004

Synopsis

The Apple Macintosh G4 combined with the Superdrive has revolutionized DVD Authoring by reducing the previously high cost barrier-to-entry and making the authoring process much easier. DVD Studio Pro (DVDSP), Apple's flagship DVD Authoring application suite, provides a complete DVD solution, at an extremely affordable cost. Since its introduction in January 2001, Apple has sold over 500,000 Mac G4s with Superdrive, and over 2 million copies of DVD-Recordable software. There still isn’t much published on this fast growing area: this will be an authoritative tutorial on using every feature of DVDSP, allowing users to unleash the program’s full power.

About this title

About the Author

Bruce Nazarian is President of Gnome Digital Media, which produces DVDs, and consults and instructs on them. A world-renowned expert on DVD authoring, he is also an Apple consultant and an Apple Certified Trainer. Burbank, California is both home and home base for "the gnome on the roam."

From the Back Cover

DVD Included!

* Learn how it's done with QuickTime movies, PDF tutorials, and plenty of insider tips on DVD Studio Pro 2.
* Complete assets provided for building a simple DVD project, and to add advanced features to it, including scripting.
* Authoring tutorials, menu tutorials, and scripting tutorials!
* Lots of DVD projects to build and proven DVD training and productivity products to use from the supplied sampler pack for Recipe4DVD's Pro-Pack 1 (projects), Pro-Pack 2 (scripting), and Pro-Pack 3 (menus
* Invaluable DVD technical information.
* Access to the book’s website for addenda, project tips, and more!

HERE IS YOUR OWN PRIVATE DVD-AUTHORING CLASS, PRESENTED BY ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP TRAINERS!
Bruce Nazarian, "the DVD Guy," travels the world, teaching both home users and media professionals how to make world-class DVDs, using Macintosh computers and DVD Studio Pro. But now you don't have to wait for one of his sought-after presentations or seminars to come to your hometown. DVD Studio Pro 2: The Complete Guide to DVD Authoring puts his expert advice, time-tested methods, and frustration-evading shortcuts by your side. This book is ready to guide you, any time you want help.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO UNLEASH THE POWER OF DVD STUDIO PRO 2 AND TURN OUT PROFESSIONAL-QUALITY DVDs

Over a half-million people already have the potential to create professional-quality DVDs at home with their Superdrive-equipped Macintoshes and DVD Studio Pro. If you're one of them -- or want to be -- here's the perfect guide to making great use of all that power! No one knows more about DVD authoring with DVD Studio Pro than Bruce Nazarian, and no one can explain it better.

Bruce Nazarian's DVD Studio Pro 2 gives you:

* A complete and thorough explanation of what is a DVD
* Chapter-by-chapter analysis of all of DVD Studio Pro 2's vast array of features
* Step-by-step tutorials that make DVD authoring simple and fun!
* A bonus DVD disc packed with tutorials, tools, tips, and project templates, as well as sample menu graphics.
* Thorough coverage of MPEG video, and how to encode video and AC3 audio for DVD.
* Photoshop DVD graphics tactics.
* Walkthroughs on slideshows, menus, markers, and stories.
* In-depth coverage of the new scripting in DVD Studio Pro 2.
* Simple scripting strategies for you to use.
* Overviews of DVD assets, advantages, and applications -- and ways to get the most from them
* 170 time-saving illustrations
* Advanced techniques to try after you’ve mastered the basics

Since the advent of Macs with the Superdrive, the high-cost entry barrier to the world of DVD has been shattered. If you want in, this book has the passkeys!

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071417184
• ISBN 13: 9780071417181
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500