Digital and Audio-Visual DIY DVD Program Production Record

Author: Li Haipeng
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: With the continuous price reduction and rapid popularity of DVD burners, DVD production technology has become a current trend and hot topic. This book is divided into three parts for DVD production. Part "Basic Concepts," briefly introduces the structure of DVD, MPEG encoding, the selection and use of DVD burners and discs, and other fundamental knowledge. The second part, "Material Preparation," provides detailed explanations of video material and image file acquisition and editing, DVD menu, Dolby AC3, DTS audio file, and subtitle file creation, as well as MPEG2 encoding and software/hardware techniques for material preparation. The third part, "Production and Burning," introduces the use of nine DVD production software products from companies such as Ulead, Pinnacle, Sonic, and Adobe, and comprehensively and thoroughly explains the entire DVD production process with specific examples. The book is illustrated with visuals, easy to understand, rich in examples, and combines theory with practice. It is suitable for beginners in DVD production and can also serve as a textbook for social training classes and vocational and technical schools. The book comes with two companion CDs, containing a full-featured DVD movie, project files and material files for the main examples in the book, as well as AVI source video material files.