Whew!

Spot|DSE wrote on 9/2/2004, 7:03 PM

I know some of you have been waiting a while for the new Vegas book, me included. However, today I approved everything from the DVD, which is the last thing to be approved, go thru legal, etc, etc, etc.

I'm thrilled to say it's going to be here really soon now. Legal and Layout are where this stuff gets screwed up/slowed up.
To make up for the wait, the DVD contains:

And more... :-) I don't want to give it all away just yet.
I felt terrible, even though it's out of my control, that the book was delayed, hence the extra, extra effort on the DVD contents to make up for it. The ACID loops alone are worth twice the cost of the book.
Special thanks to Cheno and Mitch Richardson for helping me get the book done and out by early June. The book also contains a couple really sexy veg files from Mike Chenoweth, one of them is 50 layers deep.

Thanks to you guys for your patience.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/6/2004, 9:15 AM

The big Vegas book, we have nothing to do with the layout. That's all managed by the publisher, CMP. For the Instant Series, we use InDesign, which Adobe is replacing Pagemaker with. InDesign is like Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker all rolled into one. It opens Quark, but it does more than Quark. Not an easy learn though. I rarely have anything to do with Layout, that's managed by Ben Nielsen for us. I did do much of the layout on our Basics of DV book which is going into its second edition, and ships next week along with the Basics of DV DVD that ships October 1.

Stonefield wrote on 9/6/2004, 9:59 AM

Spot I'm sorry didn't catch this but when was the "proposed" release date on the big book/DVD again ?

Yveske wrote on 9/6/2004, 11:27 AM

Spot, could you post an ISBN number?

apit34356 wrote on 9/6/2004, 5:23 PM

Spot posted at the top of thread a link to VASST book page, the book is there. You can find it at all major bookstores that are online. Amazon, Walmart,..... I believe that Walmart has the best price + shipping cost.

Spot|DSE wrote on 9/6/2004, 9:16 PM

The scheduled release date was August 15. Then Sept 1. Now it's looking more like September 14, so nearly a month delayed. Walmart has the best price, beating Amazon by a couple quarters or so. But I like Amazon's customer service better. Walmart will have it in the very large "A" stores, from what I'm told. The Instant Series can be found in the "A" stores.
I don't know the ISBN number yet, that's all managed by the publisher. I don't see that until the day the book ships, although I'm certain it's signed out long ago.