UntitledPublished by Totally Hip Software, LiveStage Professional 3 is the leading QuickTime 5 authoring tool for developers and digital media producers. In LiveStage Professional 3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, media professionals will learn how to create, produce, and deliver impressive broadband and interactive wired movie content in a cross-platform environment. Beginning with a basic overview of LiveStage 3, the book goes on to cover advanced features such as static visuals, moving visuals, text tracks, sprite tracks, animations, audio and much more. The format of this Visual QuickStart Guide makes it easy for beginners to learn LiveStage while more advanced users will find the book a handy quick-reference for specific features. With its illustrated step-by-step style, this book is ideal for developers creating content for e-commerce, advertising, entertainment, learning, and education.

LiveStage Professional 3 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Arts & Photography

Sitter, Martin

Photography & Video

Peachpit Pr

If you're an independent filmmaker, video professional, corporate trainer, or event videographer looking to create professional DVD-Video with Apple's DVD Studio Pro, you'll appreciate the practical format of DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide. Each task is broken down into concise step-by-step instructions, illustrated with plenty of informative screenshots. All of the exciting features in DVD Studio Pro merit in-depth treatment: menu creation, chapter markers, scripting, MPEG encoding, asset organization, linking, and output formatting are all clearly explained. Plus, the book reveals previously undocumented DVD Studio Pro secrets, such as how to write advanced scripts using SPRMs and how to burn DVD-RW discs directly from within the software. DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide picks up where the manual leaves off with complete coverage of AC-3 encoding, including tutorials on determining the dialog normalization value and compression profile for AC-3 audio streams. This handy Visual QuickPro Guide is a reference tool and a start-to-finish tutorial that will grow with you as you master one of the most powerful tools available for creating DVDs on the Mac.

DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Peachpit Press

Create and burn your own professional-quality DVDs with DVD Studio Pro 2, the most comprehensive and affordable DVD Studio Pro book on the market. DVD Studio Pro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide covers the secrets of DVD creation, including AC3 audio and MPEG video encoding, advanced interactivity through scripting, subtitling, and more. Task-based reference with hundreds of screenshots makes it easy for video professionals to get things done right, right from the beginning. 
Apple has made waves with its revolutionary digital-video-editing packages, such as iMovie, Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Pro. With the release of DVD Studio Pro 2, Apple has completed the digital video picture by providing a full-featured, reasonably priced DVD-authoring program that lets you get your videos off the computer and onto televisions. DVD Studio Pro 2 is a completely new DVD-authoring product, built from the ground up to take advantage of OS X's Unix base to provide powerful processing and multitasking abilities. Version 2 brings you a breakthrough user interface packed with innovative features that redefine professional DVD authoring, timeline-based track editor, enhanced menu tools that now let you add text and composite video buttons right in DVD Studio Pro, integrated MPEG-2 encoding and new, professionally designed templates. DVD Studio Pro 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide is ideal for anybody who wants to output their video projects to DVD discs, including independent filmmakers, video professionals, corporate trainers, event videographers, and proud parents everywhere! Each task is broken down into concise step-by-step instructions, illustrated with informative screenshots and plenty of time-tested tips and tricks to help you make perfect, pro-caliber DVDs with interactivity far surpassing anything Hollywood has to offer.

DVD Studio Pro for Mac OS X: Visual QuickPro Guide

Programming

If you've ever dreamed of setting up your own recording studio, Apple's newly acquired Logic high-end audio software is the perfect place to start, and this Apple-certified book provides the training you need to begin creating audio master works with it. Whether you're looking to digitize your musical compositions, create cost-effective 5.1 surround soundtracks, or transfer that song from your head on to CD, this comprehensive book will show you how. 
 Multimedia artist and veteran audio producer Martin Sitter, along with veteran Logic instructor and keyboardist Robert Brock, uses step-by-step instruction and straightforward, jargon-free prose to demonstrate how you can employ Logic's software synthesizers, sampler, and digital signal processors (compressors, reverbs, and so on) to put the perfect aural polish on your audio creations. You can work through the guide from cover to cover for an entire, hands-on course on Logic--complete with review questions at the end of each chapter, and lesson files and a trial version of Logic on the accompanying CD-ROM. Or you can go straight to the sections that interest you most.

Logic 6

Brock, Robert

Computer Science

With a new plug-in that re-creates the sounds of 11 of the world's best-known guitar amps, distributed audio processing (which lets you tap into a virtually unlimited number of Macs), new software instruments (including a killer drum machine), and a slew of workflow enhancements, it's no wonder you're chomping at the bit to start using Logic Pro 7 and its streamlined sibling Logic Express 7. This Apple-certified guide ensures that you do-effectively, efficiently, and in as little time as possible! Veteran audio producer Martin Sitter uses step-by-step, project-based instruction and straightforward, jargon-free prose to detail the countless creative options Logic affords for audio production. After showing you how to set up Logic and begin recording audio with it, Martin details editing sequences, mixing techniques, and using Logic's software synthesizers, sampler and digital signal processors to put the perfect aural polish on their audio creations. The accompanying CD includes all the lesson files and media you'll need to complete the book's lessons.

Logic Pro 7 And Logic Express 7

If you thought you were producing fairly sophisticated DVDs before, wait 'till you see what you can do with Apple's just-released DVD Studio Pro 3! With its stunning QuickTime-based movie transitions (Alpha Transitions) and a brand-new Graphic View that lets you interact with your project in a storyboard environment, DVD Studio Pro 3 promises to bring a whole new level of sophistication to your DVD projects. This task-based guide ensures that you start taking advantage of it immediately! In these pages, you¿ll discover how to build on your existing DVD authoring skills to master version 3's many powerful new features--including more than 30 additional transition styles, superb HD-to-MPEG-2 encoding, and more. Veteran author Martin Sitter breaks down each DVD Studio Pro task--from setting chapter markers to adding subtitles and creating scripts--into concise step-by-step instructions accompanied by informative screen shots. By the end of the volume, you'll be juggling multiple audio tracks, creating custom transitions, creating smart buttons, and more in the quest of DVD perfection!

DVD Studio Pro 3 For MAC OS X: Visual Quickpro Guide

Now the best-selling book on DVD Studio Pro is even better. Fully updated for DVD Studio Pro 4 and with complete coverage of the new version of Compressor, the industrial-strength encoder that dramatically speeds up encoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 HD DVD video, this self-paced guide is the fastest way to learn to author professional, interactive DVDs. Master trainers Martin Sitter and Adrian Ramseier begin with the basics of DVD authoring and take you all the way through DVD Studio Pro’s powerful advanced features. Each chapter presents a complete lesson on an aspect of DVD creation, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. All the files are included on the accompanying DVD. After learning how to storyboard a DVD and plan its interactions, you’ll set chapter markers, build still, layered, and motion menus, and add subtitles and Web links. You’ll also learn sophisticated techniques for juggling multiple audio tracks and camera angles, creating custom transitions, building advanced overlays, and scripting. By the end of the book, you’ll have created four full DVDs. The Apple Pro Training Series is both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum of the Apple Pro Training and Certification Program. Upon completing the course material in this book, you can become a certified Apple Pro b taking the certification exam at an Apple Authorized Training Center. To find an Authorized Training Center near you, go to www.apple.com/software/pro/training.

Apple Pro Training Series: Dvd Studio Pro 4

Ramseier, Adrian

Now the best-selling book on DVD Studio Pro is even better. Updated for DVD Studio Pro 4.2, this Apple-certified book uses striking, real-world footage (including the HD documentary One-Six-Right) to build four complete DVDs. This revised edition covers integration with Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, and Compressor 3, as well as the new SD-to-HD workflow. Each chapter presents a lesson in an aspect of DVD creation and finishing, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. After learning how to storyboard your DVD and plan its interactions, you’ll set chapter markers, create stories, build still and motion menus, and add overlays and subtitles. You’ll also learn to work with multiple audio tracks and camera angles, create smart buttons and custom transitions, professionally encode audio and video files, and create useful scripts.

DVD Studio Pro 4, 2nd Edition (Apple Pro Training Series)

Schofield, Jem

Operating Systems

There’s no better way to learn to create professional audio files for film or video than this self-paced, Apple-certified guide to Soundtrack Pro 2—the only digital audio tool designed specifically for Final Cut Pro users. Audio producer Martin Sitter created all-new projects and completely revised this best-selling book to take advantage of the software’s new streamlined interface, surround mixing features, revolutionary ability to synchronize changes between picture and sound, and new dialog track tools. After introducing readers to the Soundtrack workspace and showing them how to work with audio clips and tracks, Sitter moves quickly to the essential task of audio restoration and clean-up. Readers then learn to arrange, edit, and mix multi-track audio projects; record and edit voiceovers and narration; and experiment with advanced mixing and effects. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of sound design or editing, with step-by-step projects for you to complete as you go. DVD with project and media files included.

Soundtrack Pro 2

Updated for DVD Studio Pro 4.2.2, this best-selling, Apple certified guide uses striking real-world footage to build four complete DVDs and share a Blu-ray disc. It covers how to use DVD Studio Pro on its own, as well as how to integrate it into your workflow with Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, and Compressor 3.5. Each lesson takes you step-by-step through an aspect of DVD creation and finishing, with hands-on projects for you to complete as you go. You'll learn to storyboard your DVD and plan its interactions, set chapter markers, build still and motion menus, and add overlays and subtitles. You’ll also work with multiple audio tracks and camera angles, create smart buttons and custom transitions, professionally encode audio and video files, and build useful scripts.

DVD Studio Pro 4

Harrington, Richard

Carman, Robbie

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