Hardware Books

By using this book, I learned Adobe Illustrator 8.0 without ever attending any formal class. I highly recommend this book to any other person who is intersted in learning this sophisticated application on his or her own.

By using this book, I learned Adobe Illustrator 8.0 without ever attending any formal class. I highly recommend this book to any other person who is intersted in learning this sophisticated application on his or her own.

I was new to video editing so I decided to buy this book. I didn't have time to read through 500 pages of text. This book and CD was just what I hoped for - a visual way to jump start me into the world of video editing. The videos cover the basic techniques. There is a second video that you can purchase directly from the author at Brainsville.com that covers more advanced techniques.

The software is so complex I cannot imagine trying to learn this product just from a book alone, I recommend this method.

I've been fighting with Premiere for more than 5 years.
I've tried to learn to use it A LOT OF TIMES.
Finally, FINALLY, this book and CD got me working with it!
Thanks, Bonnie! Your approach is clever. The .mov lessons
run smootly on my laptop and you are really GOOD explainng
those details I never could grab before...!!!
I hope to send you soon a mini mpeg thank you movie
using the knowledge I've gain in just the first couple of hours!

Best regards from Caracas, Venezuela.

This is a must-have book about AGP bus. It also covers how 3D video and video conferencing work.

Gabriel Torres

Following the same style of the other books of the System Architecture series, this book show deeply how the AGP bus works. Also, it shows the operation of 3D video boards and video conferencing, since those aplicattions need the use of the AGP bus. It is an indispensable book for all who wants to learn more about PC hardware.

DigitalFilm Tree's text, "Advanced Editing and Finishing Techniques in Final Cut Pro HD", is part of the Apple Pro Training Series--the curriculum for professionals studying to become an Apple Certified Pro. And that makes perfect sense, since the book mimics Apple's famous dedication to user-friendliness. The text is clear and concise, and the pages are filled with full color photos that mirror your computer screen. In fact, the learning process glides so seamlessly that the advanced techniques you learn feel like kid stuff.

You don't just read about how to edit, you cut and modify and apply effects to the footage supplied on the DVD-ROM included with the book. You actually key out a green screen, you actually color correct poorly-lit shots to match, you actually create a piece of music with Soundtrack and animate titles with LiveType. And in the bonus lessons included exclusively on the DVD-ROM, you actually perform a batch reverse telecine with Cinema Tools and output cut lists so that if you ever edit a project that was shot on film, you're fully prepared.

What's more, the book doesn't just teach you the how, it teaches you the why. You don't just learn the 3 way color corrector filter, you learn about the basics of color itself, how the color wheel works, how hue is different than saturation, and what complementary colors are. And then you take this knowledge into various primary and secondary color correction exercises. The book even teaches you how to calibrate your monitor.

Within the steps of the longer lessons, the book also interjects small, time-saving tricks and alternate ways of performing simple tasks. So while you're discovering new and advanced techniques, you're also honing your speed and comfort with the techniques you already know.

Because of its depth of knowledge and superb presentation, "Advanced Editing and Finishing Techniques in Final Cut Pro HD" is an essential book for any self-taught editor wanting to take his or her editing to the next level.

Note the words in the title Advanced Editing. This is a book written by professional video editors for professionals or at least advanced amateurs. This is actually the same as the book Advanced Editing and Finishing Techniques in Final Cut Pro 4. If you purchased the earlier book, you don't need this one.

This book is the official advanced training course for Final Cut Pro HD. It is a detailed guide to advanced editing and finishing techniques using Final Cut Pro, as well as the three programs that come bundled with it: Soundtrack, LiveType and Compressor. The premise of this book is to build upon the base of knowledge that the reader has by providing practical, professional techniques that will be used on a daily basis.

This book is great. As director/video-editor, and wanted to know more about colorgrading, this book realy helpt me through in creative and technique-way. Your new to colorgrading? This is your book!

color correction is an art.

color correction is creative.

color correction is technical.

Perhaps THE best thing about this book is that it combines all of the above. As a working colorist this book has provided validation to techniques that I use and has taught me new techniques.

I've been overwhelmed by all the different hardware possibilities. Now I feel less flustered when purchasing these finishing touches for my home. Relief!

For anyone looking to spice up their abode with the perfect piece of accent hardware, this book has it all. Like a woman wearing the right jewelry, a house can be embellished with hardware, and this book gives all kinds of ideas and examples from antique to modern. It's really a must-have resourse for a potentially expensive investment decision. You'll never take hardware for granted again!

hello? publisher??? an updated version is badly needed for this excellent book!

Excellent book on art materials. Modern and informative. I would recommend it to any artist. Very hard to find this book.
There is a definite need to re-publish this book. I trust this book more then many others that I have on art materials.

Hands down, this is my FAVORITE Japanese cookbook. Elizabeth Andoh, an American married to a Japanese, is not only a fine cook, cooking teacher, and journalist in her own right, but is in the unique position of being an American consultant to the Japanese food industry. This is her first cookbook, published in 1980 (it was followed by "An American Taste of Japan" in 1985). It's a primer of "pure" Japanese home cooking -- like Mama used to make, if your mama happened to be Japanese. I learned to cook in the kitchens of Japanese friends, and the flavors of Ms. Andoh's recipes make me swooningly "natsukashii" (nostalgic) for Japan.

The book's 130 recipes are organized in the classic order of Japanese cuisine: soups, rice, noodles, braised and simmered foods, grilled foods, deep-fried foods, steamed foods, mixed and sauced foods, pickles, and sweet things and beverages. No photographs, but crystal clear recipes are complemented by beautiful line drawings that illustrate ingredients and techniques. A section in the front details Japanese cooking techniques and equipment, while a glossary at the back not only translates the names of unusual ingredients, but explains how to choose and store them. In all, it's a wonderful book that I can't recommend highly enough.

I loved this cookbook so much I photocopied the entire (out of print) copy my library had several years ago, which cost me at least three times what I would've paid if I could've bought it new. I'm thrilled to find it used, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Everything I have made from this book over the last 10 or 12 years has been delicious (with the exception of a failed rice bran pickle experiment I forgot about when I went on vacation...whoops). Elizabeth Andoh is to Japanese cooking what Barbara Tropp was to Chinese; passionate, knowledgeable, down to earth, the kind of cook you wish was your neighbor.

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