Welcome to DVD authoring with Encore 1.5, brought to you by Adobe, the leader in desktop graphics.

DVDs have taken over the video world as a means of distributable, navigable, and interactive-experienced video presentations, and Adobe's Encore 1.5 allows users to create DVD projects that rival anything coming out of Hollywood today.

DVDs are part of the revival of all sorts of older movies, musical projects, television series, and the new delivery mechanism for your family home videos, slideshows, or "this is your life" videos. DVDs also allow a one-man show look like a major production studio with good DVD authoring tools and creative skills. Encore is a great DVD authoring tool, and this book will teach you how to use it. Through consistent and constant use of the application, close observation of DVDs from the big name studios, and a little perspiration, you should be able to develop a creative skillset in a short period of time.

Encore isn't the highest-end tool available, but it is many levels above the typical consumerware that's available.

This book isn't written to impress you with lots of fancy methods of using Encore DVD 1.5. It is written with sound workflows in mind, to teach you how to use the software quickly, efficiently, and correctly. This book is also written to give you some tricks to finding faster means of accomplishing seemingly complex tasks. One caveat: Adobe's Encore 1.5 is a powerful standalone application, but it's strongly recommended that you have Adobe's Photoshop...