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Summary: A Long Road to Nowhere
Review: Loaded with potential, but lacking in sufficient follow through. The cover looks nice. The table of contents stirs a little excitement. But hope deferred makes the heart sick. Don't expect any details; expect generalities.With the word "Bible" in its title, this book is over ambitious and all too general. The book is confused in its objective, lacking in critical substance, and therefore is not successful. The book will seem at times like an advertising gimmick as it spends most of its time speaking in generalities about other software applications. Of course DVDSP is an authoring environment for which one must create assets, but the book even goes so far as entertaining discussions of software that relates in no way to developing assets for use in DVDSP or even the DVD specification at that. In the end, the book fails for lack of detailed follow through. My recommendation is that you give yourself to fully understanding the DVD specification as you work intuitively with the DVDSP interface. If you understand the specification, mastery of the software will naturally follow. A remarkable reference for understanding the DVD specification is Jim Taylor's DVD Demystified. And if you will take the 45 minutes to do the tutorial that comes with DVD Studio Pro, you will know more than you would from reading this book. One of the arts of creativity is being precisely aware of your limitations and creating work that pushes the envelope of those limations without reflecting them (unless, of course, the subject of your art is the limitation). If you want to author for DVD, get to know the spec. The generalities to be found in this book will only frustrate you and send the true author to better references. Get to know the spec. Happy Authoring!
Rating:
Summary: A Long Road to Nowhere
Review: Loaded with potential, but lacking in sufficient follow through. The cover looks nice. The table of contents stirs a little excitement. But hope deferred makes the heart sick. Don't expect any details; expect generalities. With the word "Bible" in its title, this book is over ambitious and all too general. The book is confused in its objective, lacking in critical substance, and therefore is not successful. The book will seem at times like an advertising gimmick as it spends most of its time speaking in generalities about other software applications. Of course DVDSP is an authoring environment for which one must create assets, but the book even goes so far as entertaining discussions of software that relates in no way to developing assets for use in DVDSP or even the DVD specification at that. In the end, the book fails for lack of detailed follow through. My recommendation is that you give yourself to fully understanding the DVD specification as you work intuitively with the DVDSP interface. If you understand the specification, mastery of the software will naturally follow. A remarkable reference for understanding the DVD specification is Jim Taylor's DVD Demystified. And if you will take the 45 minutes to do the tutorial that comes with DVD Studio Pro, you will know more than you would from reading this book. One of the arts of creativity is being precisely aware of your limitations and creating work that pushes the envelope of those limations without reflecting them (unless, of course, the subject of your art is the limitation). If you want to author for DVD, get to know the spec. The generalities to be found in this book will only frustrate you and send the true author to better references. Get to know the spec. Happy Authoring!
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Summary: Garbage!
Review: This book is complete garbage. Here is a good example, the DVD that comes with the book, does not even work right. If you follow the examples in this book you will learn the wrong way to do things, that will not work. This books gives you page after page of examples that do not work and bad advise. Check out ..., and ... to find out what DVD pro's thing of this book. Save yourself a lot of time and trouble and do not get this book.
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Summary: Excellent guide to authoring in DVD Studio Pro
Review: This book is well written and full of much needed information, for
anyone authoring in DVD. The book takes you from preparing source
content, designing menus and graphics, through the entire process of
authoring in DVD Studio Pro.
Many useful tips and tricks are detailed along the way. The process of
manufacturing is described and case studies are presented. As program chairman of the Orange County Multimedia Association I
highly recommend DVD Studio Pro Bible for authoring in DVD .
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Summary: Missing pages
Review: This book was missing pages 65-112. And had duplicate pages for 113-160!!
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Summary: Missing pages
Review: This book was missing pages 65-112. And had duplicate pages for 113-160!!
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Summary: good for the novice
Review: This is indeed a good starting place for someone without any experience.
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Summary: DVD Studio Pro Bible - Essential Reading
Review: This latest volume in MacWorld's series of Bibles is indeed a true revelation. Apple's DVD Studio Pro 1.x software brings professional level DVD authoring to the Mac desktop in a moderately-priced application. Yet, like so many first generation products, it lacks extensive documentation. DVD Studio Pro, unlike so many computer "how to" books which merely are rewrites of the developers' manuals, goes beyond Apple's skimpy documentation and provides true hands-on guidance to the use of the program. The authors employ extensive visuals of menus and concise explanations of their functions. Perhaps the most valuable contribution is the step-by-step guide to the creation of DVD Menus in Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is necessary for the creation of menus and overlays and the Apple manual provides insufficient guidance. The DVD Studio Pro Bible fills that big hole left by Apple. A companion DVD/ROM contains several try-out applications (not really very useful) as well as very-useful tutorials, real-world scenarios and a pdf of the book complete with color illustrations. DVD Studio Pro is essential reading for anyone beginning to use this program and will also provide tips to intermediate and advanced users. Ned Soltz
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Summary: This is a really terrible book.
Review: While this book does contain some accurate information...it is full of inaccurate information about real life use of DVD Studio Pro. There are even some pieces of tutorials that will cause a disc authored in the manner described to be non-functional. This is absolutely the worst technical book I have ever purchased in my entire life. I can't believe that the project manager for DVD Studio Pro from Apple is quoted on the front cover. It appears that this was a back door approach by the author to try to get a record deal for his band. If you don't believe it, check out the included DVD disc. (which at some points must be ejected from the drive and restarted because the author forgot to program it to return to the menu)
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