Robert J. Withoff

Dated and Confused, 14. Mai 2000

As a reference for programming image compositing tools, this book doesn't go deep enough, doesn't use industry-standard terminology, and is crammed with dated information.

I should have first recognized that there would be a problem when I started reading about the time the author spent working with the "Windows 95 beta 3". Sure enough, the book was published in 1995, and contains quite a bit of information specific to Win 3.1 and the 95 beta. It also has a chapter devoted to the Borland C++ 4.5 compiler with an appendix on using the code with Visual C++ 2.0.(!) The enclosed disk (3.5" floppy) contains software written by the author, called "The Image… Mehr dazu

Get this book!, 27. März 2000

Having enjoyed Jay Rose's columns in DV for some years, I was happy to know that he had a book coming out. Jay's style has always been clean and conversational, and his columns filled with good information. I was sort of expecting the book to be a collection of his previous DV articles, but I was happily suprised to find that it was an entirely new work covering the gamut from the physics of sound through the production process and on into how to deal with talent.

Jay provides information in an extremely easy-to-understand manner without being patronizing. The information he provides is practical, do-it-yourself kinda stuff that takes the mystery out of getting great sound. He… Mehr dazu