CompuServe Thread

Musharraf: >Could someone suggest me some textbooks (if there are any at all) I could effectively use to self-learn DTV.< I don't know about textbooks myself (I'd be interested to hear, too), but there are several magazines that can give you up-to-date info and techniques. Fortunately, most of the magazines have people on this forum who I'm sure could give you more info…<g> DIGITAL VIDEO Magazine NEW MEDIA Magazine VIDEO PRO Magazine VIDEOMAKER Magazine VIDEOGRAPHY Magazine Hope this helps, Tim Liebe

Try these monthlies: Video Toaster User (Toaster related video/audio) Videomaker (amateur and semi-pro–general) New Media (interactive/MM/video) DV Digital Video These are the mags from which I began learning DTV. I'm sure there are many others. Hope this helps. Steve S.G. Bailey Image Dynamics, Inc.

Take a look at the following files in Library 2 of this forum… PART1.ZIP, PART2.ZIP, PART3.ZIP, TMTE0*.PDF, and others. These will get you started. (The PARTx.ZIP presentations are designed to run on an IBM-type PC with Microsoft Windows 3.x). Hope this helps… James Bell Jr. — Multimedia Contributor – CompuServe

Future Video puts out a nice summary book about 100 pages long called The Real Facts about Desktop Video Editing by Cliff Roth. I forget how I got it but you could call them from an ad in the back of most video magazines. Cliff Roth also has an expanded version of the book called something like The Low Cost Video Bible which I once saw advertised in a magazine called the Independent, a small publication put out by AIVF in New York, the Association of Independent Video and Filmakers, I think.