DVD Class - Spring 2005

Class 1 - Overview

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• Class Overview
• Expectations
• Class Project

• DVD Overview
• History
• Various Formats

• Workflow Overview
• Associated Apps
• From Concept to Burn

• Application Overview
• Tour of Windows and Tabs
• Customizing

• Creating a Basic Project
• Storyboarding
• Using Apple's Templates
• Testing the Project

Class 2 - Digital Video and Advance Mode

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• Digital Video
• What is DV?
• Illusion of video and compression

• Using QuickTime Pro
• Basic Editing
• Getting Info About Files
• Encoding

• Intro to Basic Elements
• Buttons
• Titles
• Menus
• Styles

• Making a More Advanced Project
• Using the Advance Mode
• Chapter Tracks
• Storyboarding

Class 3 - Storyboards, Styles, Menus

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• Putting Together a Typical Project
• Storyboarding
• Putting it all together

• Styles
• Able to give buttons a default style
• Able to save a style to the project

• Creating a Menu
• Adding your own background
• Making buttons with highlights
• Making titles using styles
• Aligning and arranging elements

Class 4 - Markers, Slideshows, Chapter Index, Build/Format

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• Markers
  • Markers, i-Frames and GOP
  • Different kinds of markers
  • Snapping and marker lists
  • Using FCP to create exact markers

• Chapter Index Menu
  • Creating a chapter index template
  • Special buttons
  • Automating the chapter index process

• Slideshows
  • Steps to create a slideshow
  • Audio
  • Transistions
  • Converting a slideshow to a track

• Build and Format
  • Good idea to set the Build to a different drive or folder
  • Build and Format are two separate step but can be combined
  • Good idea to Build first and save copy to HD

Class 5 - Creating Menus

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• Preparing images for import
• Square vs Non-Square pixels
• Two ways to compensate in Photoshop CS
• Resizing images

• Overlay Menus
• Vast majority of DVD menus are Overlay
• Integrate audio and video (motion menu)
• Works "in sync" with Photoshop
• Limited colors though

• Layered Menus
• No audio or video, slow
• Able to "turn on" graphics outside of hotspots
• Not limited in colors
• Prepare layers in Photoshop
• Not part of DVD-Video spec, DVDSP feature

Class 6 - Shapes, Transistions, Styles

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• Shapes
• Shapes and Drop Zones
• Instead of an Overlay you can used Shapes to create buttons
• 4 essential layers in creating a shape
• Shapes are able to have various degrees in transparany but not highlights
• Import shapes from the Palette

• Transistions
• Standard
• Video
• Alpha

• Styles
• Always save "Self-Contained" for button, template and layouts
• Custom - DVDSP wide - located in Library:Application Support:DVD Studio Pro
• Project - Project only - located in project package