This guide offers step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to introduce you to all of Reason 3's insturments, loops, effects, mixing capabilities, and drum kits. You'll also find complete coverage of Reason's essential features: ...

Soundtrack Pro, Apple's exciting sound design software, is the newest member of the Final Cut Pro Studio digital video suite. Whether you're musically impaired or musically gifted, the Soundtrack Pro guide will help you get up to speed ...

This guide, aimed at more advanced users, will get filmmakers, web designers, and broadcast pros up to speed on After Effects CS3 Professional. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, ...

In this guide to Apple's motion graphics software, commercial artists Damian Allen, Bryce Button, and Mark Spencer teach you to create cutting-edge animations, show opens, promos, logos, and effects while you learn Motion 3. As with ...

Updated for DVD Studio Pro 4.2, this Apple-certified book uses real-world footage (including the HD documentary One-Six-Right) to build four complete DVDs. This revised edition covers integration with Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, ...

Assuming no prior motion graphics knowledge, this Apple-certified guide (the only one geared to newcomers to the field) starts slow, introducing you to motion graphics aesthetics at the same time you learn the program. From the first ...

This brand-new Apple-certified guide, reconceived for Logic's new interface, uses all-new projects and media files to show you how to record, produce, and polish your musical creations with Apple's professional audio software. Veteran ...

In this Apple-certified guide, author David Dvorin demonstrates the powerful advanced features in Logic Pro that have led many of the world's top producers, composers, and engineers to make this program the centerpiece of their music ...

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create and edit audio with Soundbooth CS3, Adobe's new audio-editing application targeted at creative professionals in all disciplines (no sound engineering ...

A book written by a musician for other musicians, "Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters" teaches you how to utilize the Pro Tools 7 digital audio workstation to record demos on your computer, edit tracks, add effects, and even ...

Scott Kelby, author of the groundbreaking bestseller "The Digital Photography Book, Vol. 1" is back with an entirely new book that picks up right where Vol. 1 left off. It skips the technical jargon and provides straight-to-the-point, ...

Need to learn Pro Tools fast? Try a Visual QuickStart!This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with the industry-standard digital audio production software in ...

In "The Digital Photography Book," world-renowned author Scott Kelby offers simple, practical advice for taking quality photos using the same tricks of today's top digital pros. Rather than focusing on abstract theories of photography, ...

Scott Kelby, author of the world's #1 bestselling Photoshop book, The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, brings his same award-winning, step-by-step, plain-English style, look and feel to The Lightroom Book for Digital ...

There’s no better way to learn to create professional audio files for film or video than this self-paced, Apple-certified guide to Soundtrack Pro 2—the only digital audio tool designed specifically for Final Cut Pro users. ...

Best-selling author Scott Kelby pairs up with Matt Kloskowski to deliver the definitive book on using Photoshop Elements 6 to create the best possible images. With this newest release of Photoshop Elements, Scott and Matt show readers how ...

Whether you want to create your own podcasts or just would like to locate and then listen to audio programs on your portable player, this is the book for you. In Secrets of Podcasting, Second Edition, author Bart G. Farkas provides ...

Designed for video-production professionals, Final Cut Server sets the standard for intuitive media asset management, making it easy to manage large collections of media files efficiently. In this Apple-authorized reference guide, system ...

Fully updated for Aperture 2, this comprehensive book-DVD training combo starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, ...

In this guide to Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing application, award-winning colorist David Gross starts with the basics of color balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading. Topics ...