DVD Authoring and Production is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to publishing content in the DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and WebDVD formats. Readers learn everything they need to create, produce, and master DVDs - including a firsthand look at professional production techniques employed in the author's StarGaze DVD. Professionals and aspiring DVD artists alike learn the latest tools and techniques as well as how to succeed in the business realm of the DVD world, including optimal methods of marketing, distributing, and selling.

Videographers can harness the potential that WM9 offers to deliver high-quality video and multimedia via DVD and over the Internet. In this work, illustrated examples and tutorials demonstrate the basic functionality of WM9, as well as the options available to advanced users who wish to design new applications with the software development kit. Professional videographers should find this work to be a practical way to learn how to set up players, encoders, and servers, and how to capture and compress video so they can use WM9 with the applications they use every day, including PowerPoint,...

Covering the basics of producing great audio tracks to accompany video projects, Using Soundtrack provides recording and editing tips and guidance on noise reduction tools, audio effects, and Final Cut Pro's powerful real-time audio mixer. Readers also learn how Soundtrack can be used to give video projects a professional finish with the addition of custom, royalty-free scoring. Theory is presented on a need-to-know basis and practical tutorials provide hands-on techniques for common tasks, including editing video to audio, editing audio to video, changing the length of a music bed, editing...

Designed to complement the Encore DVD software documentation, this full-color book introduces readers to DVD authoring concepts such as menu creation, timeline construction, navigation, transcoding and disc mastering. It helps readers learn to plan and manage projects and to master the workflows between Encore and other Adobe applications.