September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
11h 19m
English
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Preface
Movies on DVD have been a tremendous success for Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry, and now the advent of inexpensive digital video camcorders and DVD burners opens the possibility of creating your own DVDs on desktop computers. Yet DVD authoring can involve a lot of work—organizing your clips, designing menus, creating navigational links—and can require technical knowledge of video compression and DVD specifications.
As a result, current DVD authoring tools have split into two general tiers, and into corresponding price points (ignoring higher-end professional tools for mass-market and Hollywood production). Entry-level tools designed for consumers, and priced less than $100, can create DVDs “automatically” from your clips using template designs, but therefore can severely limit your freedom to customize your productions (even to the extent of not being able to reposition menu buttons). Meanwhile, more advanced, corporate or professional tools, priced around $300–$600, provide much more flexibility in designing menus and creating discs with multiple audio and even subtitle tracks, but they require you to understand more about DVD technology and perform more manual work in constructing your projects.
Enter Adobe Encore DVD, a professional DVD authoring tool that combines the depth of professional authoring for complex projects ...
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