Adobe Encore DVD Tutorial.pdf

Tutorial

his Tutorial takes you on a hands-on tour so you can experience some of the top

features for yourself as you refine a DVD about a new car design. Work through

each part sequentially, skip straight to the topics you’re most interested in, or

simply skim the procedures and illustrations in this document for a quick overview.

The exercises build on each other to show the progression from simple drag and drop

authoring to sophisticated graphic design and navigation. You can build the projects

yourself from the assets provided on the DVD, or open and explore the supplied full

projects from each exercise. Each example is short and to the point. Enjoy the tour!

Overview

Here’s an overview of what the Tutorial covers:

1 Drag and Drop Disc Creation

Quickly create a DVD, using simple drag and drop editing to add clips to a menu.

2 Photoshop Menu Design (requires Adobe Photoshop)

Enhance your menus with round-trip editing between Photoshop and Adobe Encore

DVD’s built-in Menu Editor.

3 Adding Tracks and Chapters in the Timeline

Add audio and subtitle tracks to your video clips, and define chapter points to jump to

within the clips.

4 Creating DVD Navigation

Review your project with Adobe Encore’s project management tools to add navigational

links between menus and clips.

5 Transcoding Clips and Building Discs

Use Adobe Encore’s integrated video and audio transcoding to compress your clips to

DVD format, and then build your projects, to burn to disc, or to master for professional

DVD replication.

Note: The assets provided on the DVD should be copied to your hard drive before you begin.

Tutorial

Exercise 1: Drag and Drop Disc Creation

In this exercise, you will see how you can use Adobe Encore to quickly author video clips

to DVD.

With Adobe Encore’s drag-and-drop editing style, built-in library of professionally

designed templates, and integrated video and audio transcoding, you can easily create

great-looking DVDs to showcase your clips on DVD. You can use Adobe Encore to create

prototypes of a project and then, as you will see in the later exercises, come back and use

Adobe Encore’s advanced capabilities to expand and refine the design.

1 After launching Adobe Encore DVD, start a new project by choosing File > New Project.

Adobe Encore will display the New Project Settings dialog; just accept NTSC as default

setting. Adobe Encore then opens an untitled Project window.

2 Adobe Encore uses tabs to organize the interface, so related windows can be docked

together to save screen space, or you can drag a tab out to view it as an independent

window.

ADOBE ENCORE DVD 1.0

Tutorial

3 We’ll start by organizing the asset files that will be used on this project (that you previ-

ously copied to hard disk from the application DVD). To import the main video file,

choose File > Import as Asset, and select DreamMovie.m2v and IntroMovie.avi from the

Exercises and Content\encore-Assets\Movies folder. Adobe Encore adds the video files to

the Project window. You can expand the window horizontally and adjust the columns to

see the attributes of each clip. Also click the IntroMovie.avi clip to play it in the Preview

area at the top left of the Project window.

You also can import asset files by dragging them from Windows Explorer, or just double-

click in an empty area of the Project window. Adobe Encore also provides context-

sensitive menus for common operations: just right-click in the Project window to select an

available option from the right-click menu.

4 Select the IntroMovie.avi clip in the Project window and click the tab for the Properties

palette to display information about this Asset. Notice that Transcode is set to Automatic;

Adobe Encore will automatically compress this AVI file into DVD-compliant MPEG-2

format for you. You can specify transcoding settings in this way for individual files, or you

can change the default settings.

Tutorial

5 Then, to import the background menu graphic, choose File > Import as Menu, and

select MainMenu.psd from the Menus folder. Adobe Encore opens a Menu Editor window

to view and edit the menu. With Adobe Encore, you can use pre-defined menu designs

from the Library palette or import your own custom designs created in Photoshop, and

then edit your menus directly in Adobe Encore, including graphics, buttons, and text.

You can zoom the Menu Editor window with the zoom control at the bottom left of the

window, or use the Zoom tool (magnifying glass) in the Tools window (click to zoom in,

and Alt-click to zoom out)

6 Similarly, while you have complete control of the design of the buttons used with your

menus, Adobe Encore provides a library of pre-defined designs. Click the tab for the

Library palette, and select only the Show Buttons button (second button at the bottom

left). It should appear highlighted while the adjacent buttons to the left and right should

not appear highlighted. Click the Angled Box Button.psd button at the top of the list to

view its design in the Preview area at the top left of the palette. Then right-click and choose

Set as Default Button from the right-click menu.

ADOBE ENCORE DVD 1.0

Tutorial

Use the Library Palette to hold menus, buttons, and images to share among your projects.

The default button design is marked with two asterisks. You will also find a number of

menus, buttons and backgrounds on the DVD. You can add these to the Library using the Add

button in the bottom-right corner of the window.

7 With all your assets organized in the Project window, adding links from menus to your

video clips is as easy as drag and drop. Click to select the IntroMovie.avi clip in the Project

window, and drag it to the Menu window. Import the DreamMovie.m2v also. When you

drag a video clip to a menu, Adobe Encore automatically creates a button for the clip, and

creates a link from the button to play the video. The button is created using the default

design, which includes a thumbnail of the linked video clip, and a text field under the

button ready for you to edit.

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: