Synopses & Reviews
Apple's DVD Studio Pro, released in 2001, provided a low-cost, professional solution for home and small business DVD authoring. Today, the highly sophisticated yet easy-to-use DVD Studio Pro 3 allows independent filmmakers, video producers, trainers, event videographers, and enthusiasts to create professional-grade DVDs on the Macintosh platform. Pair the program with DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio, and you've got everything you need to embrace the digital video revolution.This indispensable book gives you the tools and know-how to master DVD Studio Pro 3. Oversized and in full color, the highly visual DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio is ideal for Macintosh ProApps developers--those who use Final Cut Pro 4 and Shake 3--as well as for prosumer and professional filmmakers who wish to transfer their projects to DVDs. The book goes well beyond the program's features list to demystify the entire process of DVD design and authoring.Author Marc Loy, who has been using DVD Studio Pro since its inception, goes beyond a simple discussion about the DVD Studio Pro 3 interface and entices readers to experience the program's powerful capabilities as they create eye-catching, innovative DVD designs. He covers the actual protocols involved with the DVD files and filesystems, pixel aspect ratio issues, and common "gotchas" using both still and motion media. He also delivers plenty of tips and tricks for using dynamic buttons. DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio explores most everything you need and want to know, including importing from Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, making motion video menus available, effective looping of video and audio, adding multilingual menus and subtitles, encoding rules for DVDs, scripting, and mass duplication hunts.DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio is a professional-level book for anyone who's serious about creating high-impact, professional-level DVDs to make your unique vision a digital video reality.
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Apple's DVD Studio Pro 2 gives independent filmmakers, video producers, trainers, and enthusiasts a powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating professional grade DVDs. This indispensable companion goes beyond the features list to demystify the process so that readers can realize their unique vision.
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A p p l e' s h i g h l y s o p h i s t i c a t e d y e t e a s y - t o - u s e D V D S t u d i o P r o 3 a l l o w s i n d e p e n d e n t f i l m m a k e r s, v i d e o p r o d u c e r s, t r a i n e r s, e v e n t v i d e o g r a p h e r s, a n d e n t h u s i a s t s t o c r e a t e p r o f e s s i o n a l - g r a d e D V D s o n t h e M a c i n t o s h p l a t f o r m . P a i r t h e p r o g r a m w i t h D V D S t u d i o P r o 3: I n t h e S t u d i o, a n d y o u' v e g o t e v e r y t h i n g y o u n e e d t o e m b r a c e t h e d i g i t a l v i d e o r e v o l u t i o n . O v e r s i z e d, i n f u l l c o l o r, a n d f o r a n y o n e w h o' s s e r i o u s a b o u t c r e a t i n g h i g h - i m p a c t D V D s, D V D S t u d i o P r o 3: I n t h e S t u d i o d e m y s t i f i e s t h e e n t i r e p r o c e s s o f D V D d e s i g n a n d a u t h o r i n g . A u t h o r M a r c L o y c o v e r s t h e a c t u a l p r o t o c o l s i n v o l v e d w i t h t h e D V D f i l e s a n d f i l e s y s t e m s, p i x e l a s p e c t r a t i o i s s u e s, a n d c o m m o n g o t c h a s u s i n g b o t h s t i l l a n d m o t i o n m e d i a . H e d e l i v e r s t i p s a n d t r i c k s f o r u s i n g d y n a m i c b u t t o n s a n d e x p l o r e s m o s t e v e r y t h i n g y o u n e e d a n d w a n t t o k n o w, i n c l u d i n g i m p o r t i n g f r o m P h o t o s h o p a n d F i n a l C u t P r o, m a k i n g m o t i o n v i d e o m e n u s a v a i l a b l e, e f f e c t i v e l o o p i n g o f v i d e o a n d a u d i o, a d d i n g m u l t i l i n g u a l m e n u s a n d s u b t i t l e s, e n c o d i n g r u l e s f o r D V D s, s c r i p t i n g, a n d ma s s d u p l i c a t i o n h u n t s .
About the Author
Marc Loy is a senior programmer at Galileo Systems, LLC, but his day job seems to be teaching Java and Perl to various companies -- including Sun Microsystems. He has played with Java since the alpha days and can't find his way back to C. He is developing an interactive learning application at Galileo written entirely in Java. He received his master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and still lives in Madison with his partner, Ron Becker. He does find time to relax by playing the piano and/or throwing darts, depending on how successful the day of teaching or programming was.
Table of Contents
About the Author; Preface; Organization of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Getting Started; 1.1 The DVDSP 3 Interface; 1.2 Typical Project Workflow; 1.3 A More Advanced Project; Chapter 2: Media Formats; 2.1 DVD Explained; 2.2 Supported Formats; 2.3 Still Images; 2.4 Adobe Photoshop; 2.5 Converting to a Supported Format; 2.6 Odds and Ends; Chapter 3: Great Menus: Layers; 3.1 Safety Reminder; 3.2 Using DVDSP Templates; 3.3 A Quick Castle Tour; 3.4 A Hawaiian Vacation Menu; 3.5 Home Movies; 3.6 What? No Motion?; Chapter 4: Great Menus: Motion; 4.1 Video Transitions; 4.2 Motion Menus; 4.3 Quick Motion Buttons; 4.4 Other Motion Menus; 4.5 Overlays; 4.6 Multicolor Buttons; 4.7 Layered Versus Standard Menus; 4.8 Beyond Menus; Chapter 5: Le DVD Entwurf Internacionale (An International DVD Project); 5.1 Multilingual Menus; 5.2 Adding Multiple Audio Tracks; 5.3 A Multilingual Audio Project; 5.4 Adding Subtitles to Video Tracks; Chapter 6: The Director's Cut; 6.1 DVD Video Features; 6.2 Multiangle Video; 6.3 Multistory Movies; Chapter 7: DVD Scripting; 7.1 DVD Scripting Features; 7.2 Random Access; 7.3 Testing and Debugging Scripts; 7.4 Display Conditions; Chapter 8: Games and Easter Eggs; 8.1 DVD Games; 8.2 Easter Eggs; Chapter 9: DVDs and Computers; 9.1 Computer Features; 9.2 Hyperlinks; Chapter 10: Templates and Styles; 10.1 Palette Redux; 10.2 Styles; 10.3 Templates; 10.4 Distributing Styles and Templates; 10.5 More Customization to Come!; Chapter 11: Transitions; 11.1 Custom Video Transitions; 11.2 Alpha Transitions; 11.3 What's Next?; Appendix A: Script Command Reference; A.1 Argument Types; A.2 Command Conditions; A.3 Script Commands; A.4 Language Codes; Appendix B: DVD Style Guide; B.1 Asset Organization; B.2 Menus; B.3 Color Schemes; B.4 Subtitles; B.5 Compression; B.6 DVD-ROM Content; B.7 Templates; Appendix C: DVD-9 Projects; C.1 Dual-Layer Details; C.2 Building a DVD-9 Project; C.3 Burning a Disc Image; Colophon;