A valuable guide with room for improvement

This Focal Guide sets out to describe in fine detail all the possibilities for DVD creation in Encore, and to do so - or material on a website -- so the reader can work through the steps with the same movies and still pictures as those illustrated in the text.
As a complete novice to Encore I learned a lot just from reading the book, and I now certainly appreciate the enormous, complex capabilities of the software -- far more than I had originally imagined. But I can't really sit at the computer and work through the chapters using my own raw materials as effectively as I could have with the same bits and pieces (sorry, 'assets') that are illustrated throughout the text.
As a reference text the book is useful, but one is pretty much forced to read long sections of chapters to get nutshell information on specific topics.

A waste of time, money and paper

I need a book that walks me through an average interactive DVD project. All this book does is bore you to death with nonsense, and never walks you through a project.

If I could sue for false advertisement, I would.

Wow! A great book to learn Encore 2.0!!!

I'm an experienced video editor and DVD author with experience using a previous version of Encore. I got the book to learn the new features in Encore 2.0. I'm very pleased with the easy to read style, lots of great examples, and many wonderful tips on how to make my DVDs better using Encore. This book really rocks!!! I would recommend it for people new to Encore, also.