Sonic launch top flight DVD at Work 2003 seminars

Sonic Solutions have announced the launch of a new seminar series entitled DVD at Work 2003 to be offered in February and March of this year.
The seminars, being held in major US cities are designed to guide creative professionals through a step-by-step discussion and demonstration on how to create and distribute compelling DVDs using Sonic's industry-standard authoring solutions.
DVD is now the standard for delivering high-quality entertainment, training, corporate messaging, product information, and event video content to millions of people in every market segment. Using Sonic's industry-proven professional DVD creation technology, creative professionals can now encode video and audio content, author exciting menus and interactivity, burn the most compatible DVDs, and distribute their titles faster and easier than ever before. The DVD at Work 2003 tour is designed to provide creative professionals with the information they need to design and promote DVD titles quickly and easily.
With a special emphasis on breakthrough technology in DVD production to speed title production time to market, Sonic's DVD at Work 2003 tour will focus on real-world approaches to preparing content, handling assets, and creating elaborate interactive DVD titles.
The seminar series will expand on a focused range of topics including MPEG encoding, software transcoding, and OpenDVD technology that allows DVDs that have already been created to be re-opened and revised without reference to any original source materials. Sonic's simplified point-and-click interactivity and automatic navigation programming interface will also be discussed and demonstrated.
Seminar speakers will explain workflow concepts, including DVD editing and revision concepts available with OpenDVD-compliant authoring, and how DVD producers can create extremely advanced DVD titles very quickly using multiple languages and subtitles, AVI files, and MPEG from their NLE suite.
Step-by-step demonstrations of the DVD production process will feature solutions such as Scenarist Studio, the latest addition to Sonic's Scenarist range of products used to create the vast majority of Hollywood and commercial releases.
Scenarist Studio is designed for independent studios, professional multimedia designers, and anyone needing to tap the same technology that powers the Hollywood DVD industry - at an affordable price. Attendees can also find out more about Sonic's advanced DVD Producer system including the SD-Series encoders, designed to simplify the production of sophisticated DVD titles.
Visit the Sonic website at www.sonic.com/seminars/ for more information about the seminars.
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