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DVD Authoring | Authoring 5.1 Surround DVDs
You may not sell a million copies of your DVD... but at least it will sound like a million bucks. In this DVD authoring tutorial, David Roth Weiss explains how to author 5.1 surround DVDs with Compressor and Soundtrack Pro 2.
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David Roth Weiss |
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DVD Authoring | Designing the Neil Young Archives
When the 10-disk "Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1 (1963-1972)" was released in 2009, it established a benchmark for what is possible with advanced Blu-ray authoring for multimedia that has yet to be equaled. In Creative COW Magazine's "Heavy Lifting Issue," we asked Megan McKenna to tell us about her team's work on this massive project, over four years in the making.
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Megan Mckenna |
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DVD Authoring | Designing DVD Menus: How to Create Professional-looking DVDs by Michael Burns - George Cairns
In this article, CreativeCOW leader Alex Alexzander reviews Designing DVD Menus: How to Create Professional-looking DVDs written by Michael Burns and George Cairns, and published by CMP Books, 191 pages, December 2004, ISBN: 1-57820-259-0, and finds that... Designing DVD Menus is a book that fills exactly the gap left by the software publishers. This book doesn't specifically teach us to author DVDs using any one authoring application. Instead, this book is all about how to create professional-looking DVDs...This book is a lesson in creative design and intuitive navigation.
Review
Alex Alexzander |
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DVD Authoring | Blu-ray Today and Beyond
Feel like Blu-ray's getting the better of you? Here are some of the tools that pro authors are using today, some that are coming soon - and at least one that might not be coming at all.
Editorial
Eric Pautsch |
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DVD Authoring | ILY SpartanPro
Recently, CreativeCOW leader, David Roth Weiss purchased his very first CD and DVD duplicator. After a lot of research he chose the ILY SpartanPro, and it did not take him long to realize that he should not have gone so long without one.
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David Roth Weiss |
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DVD Authoring | Alex Alexzander :: Review :: Sonic eDVD 3
Many DVD authors are familiar to some degree with the various DVD authoring applications that exist. Most of these authoring applications allow the author to add DVD-ROM content. DVD-ROM content is typically how the author provides additional assets to the viewer. In this article, Creativecow's Alex Alexzander takes a thorough look at Sonic's eDVD 3 Web Enhanced DVD.
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Alex Alexzander |
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DVD Authoring | Creating DVDs: Learning about Bit Rates and what they mean
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.
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David Chandler-Gick |
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DVD Authoring | Mastering CDs and DVDs for Mac OS9, OSX and Windows OS by Bob Hayes
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.
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Bob Hayes |
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DVD Authoring | eDVD 4 from Sonic Solutions
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.
Review, Tutorial
James Manz MD |
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DVD Authoring | Jim Harvey reviews Sonic Foundry DVD Architect Ver. 1.0c
Jim Harvey always sent his finished work out for someone else to make the DVD if the client requested it. It just seemed there were too many problems, too many questions until he discovered Sonic Foundry's Vegas + DVD. Now it's ''Need a DVD? Great. No problem with DVD Architect.''
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Jim Harvey |
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DVD Authoring | DVD Workshop 2 Review by Nick Jushchyshyn
One of Creative COWs Ulead Media Studio Pros leaders, Nick Jushchyshyn takes a look at DVD Workshop 2 from Ulead and concludes with... Given its very competitive pricing, powerful feature set, and ability to create truly professional DVDs, this software gets a solid 4 1/2 cows.
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Nick Jushchyshyn |
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