How to Do Everything with Adobe Encore DVD

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Summary: Excellent Text!
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone trying to make sense of Encore. The Encore manual is useless and this book provides smart, entertaining, easy to read instructions with real world applications. It made tasks seem obvious and I had many "so that's how I do it" epiphanies along the way.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Text!
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone trying to make sense of Encore. The Encore manual is useless and this book provides smart, entertaining, easy to read instructions with real world applications. It made tasks seem obvious and I had many "so that's how I do it" epiphanies along the way.

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Summary: Worse than the manual
Review: I'm still trying hard to master Adobe programs, and I can say that Encore is the first one that I fully understood. I used most of the features in the program. I ordered this book after reading some online guides and the help file. I read it concomitently with the Encore manual. I think the manual is better. I definitely did not like the style of the author. I think the book would be 20 pages shorter if the author would skip the phrase -for your clients-. (he uses that too much when he addresses the reader).

I think the book has a pretty clear layout and a comprehensive description of most of the features of the software. It has plenty of illustrations, but sometime the text can create some confusion and I would have preferred a screen picture at a different step of the explanation. The manual has much fewer illustrations, but I think that they are more useful. The book covers more some of the integration with premiere and (of course) with photoshop. I would have liked to learn the best format to export from Audition to Encore. I couldn't find that. I couldn't believe that actually the manual gives more creative ideas than this book. On many chapters I felt like the manual was rewritten, the author lenghten some parts and skipped some bits from the software manual.

I would still recommend this book if you read the manual and you need the same explanations in a different style. The book is about the Encore 1.0 version, so I guess is outdated by now, there is Encore 1.5 outthere.