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DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD
Wes Howell, 2004, Focal Press
www.focalpress.com,
350 pp. w/CD
$35
This "professional guide" will indeed help you learn to create commercial-quality DVDs. The package starts with a thorough introduction to Encore DVD, followed by coverage of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop software as integral parts of DVD authoring with Encore DVD. This is logical because Encore DVD depends on these other Adobe products for many features that are built into all-in-one DVD authoring applications like MyDVD 5 (see below). A succession of tutorials takes you through the creation of a simple DVD, using materials provided on a disk. The author is clearly an expert on his subject, and he delivers all the tips, tricks, warnings, and other goodies that separate stand-alone training materials from the manuals.
The book is well-organized and copiously illustrated, but its production is only C+. Many illustrations have no figure numbers and some of those that do are not referred to by those numbers. The index is spotty and a random check of the entries turned up several incorrect references. Nevertheless, the package is a very solid introduction to Adobe Encore DVD and an invaluable guide to integrating the complete line of Adobe products. 4
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