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Jake Russell ~ Advanced Navigation Authoring with Apple DVDSP: The Chapter Skip Button
David Roth Weiss ~ ILY SpartanPro
Greg Mulvey ~ Adobe Encore 2.0 reviewed
James Manz MD ~ eDVD 4 from Sonic Solutions
Alex Alexzander
~ Alex Alexzander :: Review :: Sonic eDVD 3
Alex Alexzander ~ Designing DVD Menus: How to Create Professional-looking DVDs by Michael Burns - George Cairns
Jim Harvey ~ Jim Harvey reviews Sonic Foundry DVD Architect Ver. 1.0c
Mike Gondek ~ The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating CDs and DVDs
Bob Hayes ~ 'Mastering CDs and DVDs for Mac OS9, OSX and Windows OS' by Bob Hayes
James Diefenderfer ~ James Diefenderfer reviews: Desktop DVD Authoring by Douglas Dixon
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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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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."
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DVD Authoring
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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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James Diefenderfer reviews: Desktop DVD Authoring by Douglas Dixon
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.
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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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'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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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.
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Adobe Encore DVD
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Adobe Encore 2.0 reviewed
In this article, CreativeCOW.net leader, Greg Mulvey takes a look at the new Adobe Encore 2.0 and concludes that overall this is a great upgrade. ''...if you are using the rest of the Adobe Production Studio then Encore DVD 2.0 is going to be your best choice for most DVD projects.''
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Apple DVD Studio Pro
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Advanced Navigation Authoring with Apple DVDSP: The Chapter Skip Button
Creative Cow Contributor Jake Russell takes you deep into the advanced navigation capabilities in Apple DVD Studio Pro to show you how to take complete control over menu navigation. In this case, hell show you how to make the chapter skip button take you to a menu. It might SOUND easy, but if youve tried it, you might actually think its impossible -- but not if you follow Jakes direction.
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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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