Create great looking, functional menus with Encore DVD 1.5. This full-color book offers an insider's tour of the application - and your guide is the designer himself! 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 the secrets of an award-winning interface designer, as author John Skidgel shows 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. Encore DVD offers unparalleled integration with other Adobe applications. As the senior interface designer for Encore DVD, the author is uniquely qualified to demonstrate how you can realize your menu designs with efficient techniques to:
- Create a wide variety of menu styles in Photoshop and After Effects
- Automate image production
- Customize menus
- Construct seamless motion menus
About the Author
John Skidgel is the senior interface designer for Adobe's Encore DVD. A traditionally trained graphic designer with over ten years of experience in software design, John began his career teaching digital imaging, video, and new media courses at Eastman Kodak's The Center for Creative Imaging in 1992. Since then he has completed projects for IBM, Harvard University, Netscape, America Online, and Shutterfly. His design for Shutterfly won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice two years in a row and the AIGA award of distinction in interaction design. His interface and information design is featured in the book Information Architects (Graphis Press, October 1997).