[MacDV] Re: Adobe Premiere 6.5 Mac for sale

[Claire Hart]

Tell me if I'm understanding the difference between "authoring" and 
"editing", in a motion picture DVD, for example:

1.  When you EDIT "Lord of the Rings," you are moving this scene before 
that scene, panning here to there, adding a sound track and inching it 
left or right to fit the scene, adding transitions between scenes, 
adding text such as "one year later," etc.
2.  When you AUTHOR "Lord of the Rings," you place the movie here, and 
the info about the director there, and the interview with the actors 
after that, and dividing the movie into 20 or so segments, and adding 
the menu so you can go directly to a certain place in the movie, and 
adding the option to see it in some other language, and adding the 
trailers, etc.

Am I getting the idea?

Thanks,
Claire


On Jul 6, 2004, at 10:59 AM, sb wrote:

> Authoring of a DVD is where you design the layout, position of buttons,
> navigation menus, etc. After the design stage, the next step is to 
> encode
> (compress to MPEG2) the final step is the multiplexing and then 
> burning the
> disc. All the DVD authoring software has these stages built in. You 
> only
> have to supply the "assets" (that's you movies, slideshows, music).
> It's especially easy to do in iDVD.
>
>  btw, if you are purchasing a new Mac, Apple has a deal that you can
> purchase Final Cut Express for only $99.
>
>  hth,
>  sb
>
> On 7/6/2004 8:41 AM, "Claire Hart" <hart at arn.net> wrote:
>
>> I've been on this list because I want to understand more about digital
>> video.  However, I've only experimented with iMovie.  I do have a
>> miniDV camera, but I don't yet have the hardware to support iDVD, but 
>> I
>> have a G4 powerbook on the way.  The term "editing" seems
>> self-explanatory, but what does "authoring" mean in comparison?  
>> Having
>> ONLY worked with iMovie, I don't know anything at this point beyond
>> that realm.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Claire
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2004, at 9:49 AM, sb wrote:
>>
>>> Premiere is the video editing application. Encore is the DVD 
>>> authoring
>>> application.
>
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