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Tutorial: Designing and Checking DVD Navigation by:  mike

02/06/2006 03:27 PM

Event DV By Jan Ozer There's a lot that goes into the perfect DVD, but one of the most fundamental aspects is navigation, or how you control the way the viewer moves through the content on the DVD. In this tutorial, I identify which aspects of the user experience you can control, and how to do so in two leading prosumer authoring tools: Sonic Solutions' DVDit Pro 6 and Apple's DVD Studio Pro 4. There's a lot that goes into the perfect DVD, but one of the most fundamental aspects is navigation, or how you control the way the viewer moves through the content on the DVD. In this tutorial, I identify which aspects of the user experience you can control, and how to do so in two leading prosumer authoring tools: Sonic Solutions' DVDit Pro 6 and Apple's DVD Studio Pro 4. For the sake of brevity, I'll assume you're familiar with one or both of the programs, and won't address basic operations like menu and button creation and content-linking. This will allow me to focus primarily on the navigational aspects of DVD production, starting with the First Play video. read more...


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