Saturday, May 3, 2008

Flawless Design, AKA it worked, nominations

Nominations

Flawless Design: Videos played with out errors, breaks, or confusing buttons!

-Lindsay
-Ben
-Liz
-Wes
-Aimee (only the slide show for installation project only worked on my computer?)
-Rachel (only her dvd only plays on computers?)

Best Design Over All AWARD




The award for the Most Aesthetic Over all Design go to:

Most Innovative Over all Design AWARD

The award for the Most Innovative Over all Design goes to:





Most Interesting Motion Menus AWARDs

The Most Interesting Motion Menus awards go to Liz and Lindsay


Award for use of motion graphics

And a special award for the use of motion graphics goes to David!


And the rest of the projects...






Tuesday, April 15, 2008

DVD SP DEMo




Today we will build the project pictured above. Please follow along as best as possbile.

Tips for creating sucessful DVD's

- use correct image sizes in photoshop when creating source images = 720 by 534 @ 72 ppi

- use text that is at least 24pts and has no serifs

- under preferences chose Two Pass and Set Bit Rate to 5.4 and 7.2 under Encoding

- remember to check connections first before building

- be sure to test video_TS file in the DVD Player that was create during the build process prior to burning a real DVD

-test on both a computer and dvd player with remote to catch possible missed highlights