James
Diefenderfer works for Boeing-Autometric and is currently the
Visualization Engineer for the United States Air Force, Air
Expeditionary Force Battlelab. He is responsible for the creation,
production and editing of commercial and documentary style media, both
video and graphic design, to help promote the Battlelab and their
projects.
Needing to branch into DVD authoring and production, James Diefenderfer takes a look at Desktop DVD Authoring by Douglas Dixon and concludes it's a book filled with great information all gathered in one place which means it will be the first place he looks rather than have to go on a web search.
James Diefenderfer takes a look at Photoshop 7 Upgrade Essentials by Vicki Loader & Barry Huggins published by Friends of Ed. How often do you come across a computer book that actually makes you explore just for the sake of learning what's new even if you may never use that particular feature? Read why James gave this book such high marks.
James Diefenderfer tries his hand at compression while studying Compression for Great Digital Video by Ben Waggoner -- a new book in the DV Expert Series from CMP Books.