Product Description

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.

Save time and money with the latest tools and techniques for publishing content in any DVD format. Organize, execute and sell your projects efficiently with a complete understanding of the theory and the practice. Includes a product guide and the author's StarGaze DVD.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #195648 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Synopsis
"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 authors 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. Save time and money with the latest tools and techniques for publishing content in any DVD format. Organize, execute and sell your projects efficiently with a complete understanding of the theory and the practice. It includes a product guide and the author's StarGaze DVD.

About the Author
Ralph LaBarge is an independent DVD title developer with more than 200 DVD projects to his credit. He is a member of the DVD Association (DVDA) Board of Directors, a former chairman of the IMA/SPA DVD-ROM Technical Working Group, and a columnist for DV magazine. With master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and over 12 years of practical experience in the fields of digital video compression and DVD, Ralph is widely recognized as a DVD expert. He specializes in the development of cutting-edge consumer DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and WebDVD titles, including AVIA Guide to Home Theatre, Mars: The Red Planet, the Naxos Musical Journey series, The Planet Earth series, StarGaze and USA on DVD.

Customer Reviews

Boring
As a software designer, I purchased this very expensive book in order to understand how the data on a DVD is layed out (file structure, content etc).
However, this book is a book of extremes, with nothing in the middle. What I mean by this is that there is half a book dedicated to the hardware technology of burning pits into the dvd media (uninteresting to anyone that isnt designing DVD burner hardware) and half a book appraising companies that offer DVD authoring services (only of interest to film producers). Where's the essential in-depth info on VOB, BUP and IFO files (2 pages out of 480) and how do you construct a DVD image ready to burn ??
Certainly not a book for anyone interested in the practical aspects of DVD creation from a software perspective.