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Using the Color Pass Filter by Aanarav Sareen
Article Type: Tutorial, Video Tutorial
IIn this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aanarav Sareen demonstrates how to use the Color Pass filter to achieve that 'black and white plus one color' look that's so popular right now.

DVD Authoring by Aanarav Sareen
Article Type: Tutorial, Video Tutorial
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aanarav Sareen demonstrates how to use Premiere Pro 2.0's DVD Authoring capabilities.

eDVD 4 from Sonic Solutions by James Manz MD
Article Type: Tutorial, Product Review
In this article, Dr. James Manz gives an overview and review of Sonics' latest upgrade of eDVD to version 4. This is a major upgrade that brings ''Hollywood-level'' capabilities of adding ROM content to DVD video to just about anyone who authors discs.

DVD Studio Pro :: Scripting :: Code Lock Example by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
As many more users of DVD Studio Pro discover its scripting capabilities we see many more questions for basic examples exploring interactive scripting. In this article, Creative COW leader Alex Alexzander explores the Code Lock script -- one of the scripts most asked about.

Avid Xpress Studio, DVD Basics in Avid Xpress Studio by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
The goal of this project by Alex Alexzander is to provide a very simple overview which describes how to go from the Avid Xpress Pro timeline to finished DVD using tools available in Avid Xpress Studio and Adobe's Photoshop.

Audio Feedback Menu Selection by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
This article by Alex Alexzander started as a question that came up regarding how to create an audio feedback each time a button is selected. While this can certainly be done, it is somewhat slow. If you need such a function, this is for you, otherwise Alex wouldn't recomend doing this.

Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial, Product Review
Alex Alexzander gives Creativecow members the ultimate DVD Studio Pro 3 review-- even a tip or two.

BitShifting and BitExtraction: The Playlist DVD by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
BitShifting is a simple technique you can use to shift bits from one location to another inside a register. If you have ever wanted access to more GPRM registers than you have available then this is for you. Recently Alex Alexzander had the desire to create a playlist function but quickly realized that he would not have nearly enough GPRMs to keep track of the button selections made for each track, let alone to keep track of which track was selected first, second, third, and so forth.

DVD Studio Pro 2 - All About Menus by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
In this 3 part tutorial, Alex Alexzander discusses everything you need to know about menus in DVD Studio Pro 2. The chapters include Standard Menus vs. Layered Menus; Motion Menus: Compositing / Looping with Highlights; Aspect Ratios between Compositor and Photoshop and Basic Scripting with three project examples.

Building a Play All Menu in Adobe Encore DVD by Timothy Kurkoski
Article Type: Tutorial
One of the most frequently asked questions about Adobe Encore DVD is how to create a menu that allows you to play multiple videos either in a series or individually. It's a simple process, and this tutorial will explain how to set it up.

Setup and Resume: Authoring a setup menu with conditional resume play in DVD Studio Pro 3 by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
The purpose of this tutorial by Alex Alexzander is to illustrate how to create a setup menu that allows the user to activate varying audio streams and subtitle streams as well as to turn off subtitles. In addition, our setup menu will feature a special resume function. The special feature here is that our resume play is going to first check to see if a track can be resumed, and if so it will resume play of that track; otherwise, the resume function will simply take the user to the main menu from the setup menu.

Single video looping without a menu For DVD Studio Pro 2 by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
This project from Alex Alexander covers a simple sample of DVD@CCESS and DVD-ROM file storage within your DVD project. If you wish to author a DVD and provide a file or files and/or a web links such as web page or email link this tutorial will help clear up the DVD-ROM and DVD@CCESS functions in DVD Studio Pro 2.0

DVD-ROM and DVD@CCESS functions in DVD Studio Pro 2.0 by Alex Alexzander
Article Type: Tutorial
This project from Alex Alexander covers a simple sample of DVD@CCESS and DVD-ROM file storage within your DVD project. If you wish to author a DVD and provide a file or files and/or a web links such as web page or email link this tutorial will help clear up the DVD-ROM and DVD@CCESS functions in DVD Studio Pro 2.0

'Mastering CDs and DVDs for Mac OS9, OSX and Windows OS' by Bob Hayes by Bob Hayes
Article Type: Tutorial
Bob Hayes, one of the nicest guys in the industry and the master of all things technical at Artbeats, shares the process he uses to create dual-formatted discs that look and behave properly for both Mac and PC users. While this article centers around Roxio® Toast™, the principles can be applied to many other tools out there in use in the market.

Creating DVDs: Learning about Bit Rates and what they mean by David Chandler-Gick
Article Type: Tutorial
DVD authoring can be daunting when you consider everything that is required to create professional results, and simple, consumer based marketing the likes of Apple's Shoot-Edit-Burn campaign won't tell you the pitfalls. In this article, David Chandler-Gick writes a ''primer'' for people wanting to learn about creating dvds.

DVD Creation using Adobe Premiere by Dan Gordon
Article Type: Tutorial
Dan Gordon explores the process of DVD Authoring using Adobe Premiere for Windows. The techniques he lays out can be used in both 5.1 and in 6.x. Dan looks at the set-up, export, compression, audio and other considerations that are a part of the DVD Authoring process. In an easy to understand, graphically presented overview, Dan makes the topic of DVD Authoring a quick jump for those considering the subject.