Designing Menus with Encore DVD

Encore DVD 1.5

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

Great Disc Content — in addition to tutorial media and design goodies, the DVD contains templates essential to the design process, including usability and research documents and interaction design flowcharts.

USER LEVEL: Novice to Advanced