Designing Menus with DVD Studio Pro
Alex Alexzander, John Skidgel, Ron Dabbs - Collection DV Expert Series
Résumé
Create great looking, functional menus with Apple's DVD Studio Pro. This full-color book offers an insider's tour of the application! You get all the essentials, including a concise description of the relevant DVD specifications and real-world tutorial projects that demonstrate how you can:
- Get fast, professional results
- Add Hollywood features to your DVD
- Streamline production while maintaining a creative edge
Master the principles of interface design. The visual appeal and navigational structure of DVD menus are crucial to their success. Learn award-winning interface design secrets, as authors John Skidgel, Alex Alexzander, and Ron Dabbs show you:
- How menus are structured on a DVD disc
- Strategies for designing menus
- How to design interaction and visuals
- The relative merits of still vs. motion menus
Optimize your tools. DVD Studio Pro is the professional-level DVD authoring tool from Apple, widely lauded for its sophistication. A familiar user interface and seamless integration with Apple's other digital video and media production tools has led to market dominance for this application among creative professionals, and our authors show you how to use its features to:
- Create still, layered, and motion menus using Photoshop and Motion
- Define menu navigation and remote control functions
- Add Setup Menus
- Optimize and output the final project
In addition to tutorial media and design goodies, the DVD contains templates essential to the design process, including usability and research documents.
USER LEVEL: Novice to Advanced
L'auteur - Alex Alexzander
Alex Alexzander is a systems analyst, technology and creative writer, DVD author and editor who is widely published on web tutorial sites and digital media community forums. He is a forum host and contributing editor for the Creative Cow forum site. He resides in San Francisco, CA.
L'auteur - John Skidgel
John Skidgel is a traditionally trained graphic designer with over twelve years of experience in software design. His award-winning interface designs were featured in the book Information Architects. He is the author of Designing Menus with Encore DVD, and resides in Berkeley, CA.
L'auteur - Ron Dabbs
Ron Dabbs is the senior media engineer at Evatone, Inc, and partner in Audio 11, an audio mastering house in Tampa, Florida. Formerly the executive vice president/general manager of one of the largest independent recording studios in the country, his clients included a wide range of commercial accounts and musicians. Several of his recordings have achieved platinum status.
Sommaire
- What Is a DVD Menu (tech stuff 101 for folks not familiar with video)
- User Interface Design for DVDs
- Visual Design
- Animation
- Using DVD Studio Pro
- Preparing Still Menus
- Preparing Layered Menus
- Preparing Motion Menus
- Chapter Menus and Navigation
- The Setup Menu
- Adjusting VTS Order
- Building and Formatting
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | CMP Books |
| Auteur(s) | Alex Alexzander, John Skidgel, Ron Dabbs |
| Collection | DV Expert Series |
| Parution | 10/02/2006 |
| Nb. de pages | 250 |
| Format | 19 x 23 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 630g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9781578202805 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1-5782-0280-5 |
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