Sams Teach Yourself DVD Authoring in 24 Hours

I am a college professor and independent computer trainer and for several years, I have been considering capturing my lessons on video. However, every time I investigated the cost and difficulties, they were always more than I considered acceptable. Therefore, when I encountered this book, I read it for the sole purpose of learning about capturing my lessons on DVD, how to do it and the cost. After reading it, I now know all of the necessary facts concerning what it will take to capture the data, clean it, add any additional background and reproduce it on DVD. While I have not yet made a decision whether to capture the lessons, I am very confident in my factual background. Sengstack takes you through all of the steps. He starts with a list of the required gear, moves on to how to create your first DVD, then describes how to acquire and combine different forms of data into a project and continues with descriptions of several programs that can be used to create DVD projects. The CD included with the book contains time-limited versions of some of the DVD authoring programs. Movies are an area where I readily admit my ignorance, so I approached this material from the perspective of a beginner. I found all of the explanations to be simple without being trivial, concise, yet complete. If you are interested in making DVD's, but don't know where to start, this can be your starting block.