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  • Page 1 CS 3 ADOBE ENCORE ® ® USER GUIDE...
  • Page 2 The content of this guide is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Adobe Systems Incorpo- rated.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

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  • Page 4 Chapter 7: Timelines and slide shows Timeline basics ............... . . 115 Editing assets in timelines .

  • Page 5: Chapter 1: Getting Started

    Note: For more information, see the Read Me file on the installation disc. Activate the software If you have a single-user retail license for your Adobe software, you will be asked to activate your software; this is a simple, anonymous process that you must complete within 30 days of starting the software.

  • Page 6: Adobe Help

    LiveDocs Help includes all the content from in-product Help, plus updates and links to additional instructional content available on the web. For some products, you can also add comments to the topics in LiveDocs Help. Find LiveDocs Help for your product in the Adobe Help Resource Center, at www.adobe.com/go/documentation. ENCORE CS3...
  • Page 7 • Topics may contain links to the Help systems of other Adobe products or to additional content on the web. • Some topics are shared across two or more products. For instance, if you see a Help topic with an Adobe Photoshop®...
  • Page 8 Accessibility features Adobe Help content is accessible to people with disabilities—such as mobility impairments, blindness, and low vision. In-product Help supports these standard accessibility features: • The user can change text size with standard context menu commands.

  • Page 9: Resources

    The Adobe Creative Suite 3 Video Workshop offers over 200 training videos covering a wide range of subjects for print, web, and video professionals. You can use the Adobe Video Workshop to learn about any Creative Suite 3 product. Many videos show you how to use Adobe applications together.
  • Page 10 When you start the Adobe Video Workshop, you choose the products you want to learn and the subjects you want to view. You can see details about each video to focus and direct your learning. Community of presenters With this release, Adobe Systems invited the community of its users to share their expertise and insights. Adobe and lynda.com present tutorials, tips, and tricks from leading designers and developers such as Joseph Lowery, Katrin...
  • Page 11 Extras You have access to a wide variety of resources that will help you make the most of your Adobe software. Some of these resources are installed on your computer during the setup process; additional helpful samples and documents are included on the installation or content disc.
  • Page 12 Bridge Home, a new destination in Adobe Bridge CS3, provides up-to-date information on all your Adobe Creative Suite 3 software in one convenient location. Start Adobe Bridge, then click the Bridge Home icon at the top of the Favorites panel to access the latest tips, news, and resources for your Creative Suite tools.

  • Page 13: Adobe Design Center

    Note: Bridge Home may not be available in all languages. Adobe Design Center Adobe Design Center offers articles, inspiration, and instruction from industry experts, top designers and Adobe publishing partners. New content is added monthly. You can find hundreds of tutorials for design products and learn tips and techniques through videos, HTML...

  • Page 14: Adobe Developer Center

    Visit the Adobe Support website, at www.adobe.com/support, to find troubleshooting information for your product and to learn about free and paid technical support options. Follow the Training link for access to Adobe Press books, a variety of training resources, Adobe software certification programs, and more.

  • Page 15: New Features

    Adobe Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. In this environment, customers quickly become productive with new products and technologies. Adobe Labs is also a forum for early feedback, which the Adobe development teams use to create software that meets the needs and expectations of the community.

  • Page 16: Chapter 2: Workflow And Workspace

    Before you import your content into Encore, combine video clips, add transitions, or create special effects in a video-editing or compositing software, such as Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3 or Adobe After Effects® CS3. You can compile the audio in an audio-editing software, such as Adobe Soundbooth CS3.
  • Page 17 The menus give the viewer access to the content. You can create menus directly in Encore, customize predesigned menus included with the software, or create and edit menus in Adobe Photoshop® CS3. For information, see “About menus” on page 58.
  • Page 18 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Library (A) with predesigned menus and Menu Viewer (B) for customizing menus Specify navigation Menus provide the main way for viewers to navigate through the content. In addition to menus, you also use other types of navigation settings, such as end actions and overrides, to guide the viewer. Encore gives you several methods for setting the navigation—you can drag between the elements and buttons in the Menu Viewer, use the Properties panel, or work with navigation in the Flowchart.
  • Page 19 Make video and audio compatible (transcoding) If you imported video and audio files that aren’t DVD or Blu-ray Disc-compatible, Encore transcodes the files before you burn the disc. You can let Encore determine the best settings for transcoding or select the options you feel are best for your project.
  • Page 20 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Controls in Project Preview window simulating remote control Burn the disc You can build and burn the DVD or Blu-ray disc directly from Encore. Or, if you plan to use a replication facility, you can write to a DLT drive, prepare a folder, or create a DVD or Blu-ray image to give to the replicator. For infor- mation, see “Build a DVD or Blu-ray disc”...

  • Page 21: Workspace Basics

    Workspace basics About workspaces Adobe video and audio applications provide a consistent, customizable workspace. Although each application has its own set of panels (such as Tools, Properties, Timeline, and so on), you move and group panels in the same way across products.
  • Page 22 As you rearrange panels, the other panels resize automatically to fit the window. You can use floating windows to create a workspace more like those in previous versions of Adobe applications, or to place panels on multiple monitors.
  • Page 23 Dragging panel (A) onto docking zone (B) to dock it (C) Grouping zones Grouping zones exist in the middle of a panel or group, and along the tab area of panels. Grouping a panel stacks it with other panels. Dragging panel (A) onto grouping zone (B) to group it with existing panels (C) Dock or group panels If the panel you want to dock or group is not visible, choose it from the Window menu.
  • Page 24 When you undock a panel in a floating window, you can add panels to the window or otherwise modify it, as you do the application window. You can use floating windows to make use of a secondary monitor, or to create a workspace like those in earlier versions of Adobe applications. ❖...
  • Page 25 To quickly maximize a panel beneath the pointer, press the tilde (~) key. (Do not press Shift.) Press the tilde key again to return the panel to its original size. Do either of the following: • To resize either horizontally or vertically, position the pointer between two panel groups. The pointer becomes a double-arrow •...
  • Page 26 Use context, panel, and viewer menus In addition to the menus at the top of your screen, Encore also provides context, panel, and viewer menus. Context menus contain commands relative to the active tool or selection. Panel menus contain commands relevant to the active panel.
  • Page 27 For example, if Adobe Premiere Pro creates a conformed audio file, and you import media with that audio into Encore, Encore uses the file from Adobe Premiere Pro instead of creating a new conformed file. The media cache database informs Encore of the conformed file’s location. Click Clean Database to remove any old cached files and free up additional disc space.

  • Page 28: Managing Workspaces

    Managing workspaces Choose a workspace Each Adobe video and audio application includes several predefined workspaces that optimize the layout of panels for specific tasks. When you choose one of these workspaces, or any custom workspaces you’ve saved, the current workspace is redrawn accordingly.

  • Page 29: Chapter 3: Planning The Project

    Chapter 3: Planning the project You can design, author, and build media projects in Adobe Encore CS3 for high-definition Blu-ray Disc and standard- definition DVD. Encore gives you options to burn directly to a disc or other types of output for disc replication. As an added bonus, you can export Blu-ray and DVD projects to Flash format for interactive viewing on the web.

  • Page 30: Balancing File Size And Quality

    The Flowchart panel displays project navigation and, when used with the Properties panel, lets you complete a majority of authoring tasks. For a video tutorial about using the Flowchart to plan your projects, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0240. See also “Flowchart overview”...
  • Page 31 You determine the optimal data rate through the process of bit budgeting. To understand bit budgeting, you first need to understand the variables involved: disc size, types and amounts of assets (audio, video, and motion menus), and data rates and transcoding. Once familiar with the variables involved, you’ll be able to produce a bit budget to guide you in producing high-quality projects that fit within the allotted disc space.
  • Page 32 If you want to create a dual-sided disc, specify which side this project is for. Close the Build panel and save the project. See also “Check the space remaining on your disc” on page 28 Check the space remaining on your disc The Build panel displays the available space and the used space for the specified disc size during the authoring process.

  • Page 33: Bit Budgeting

    Although data rates are a general indicator of quality, there are no hard-and-fast rules to equate data rate to quality. That is, a data rate of 4 Mbps may or may not produce a high-quality asset; quality depends on the image data and type of compression used as well as data rate.
  • Page 34 Note: Keep your calculations simple by working with megabits (Mbits) and not megabytes (MB) when bit budgeting. Mbps denotes megabits per second. Also, hard-disk capacity is typically calculated as a power of 2 (1 KB = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes) while optical disc (DVD) capacity is labeled as a power of 10 (1 KB = 10^3 bytes = 1,000 bytes). Use the power-of-10 scheme for bit budgeting.
  • Page 35 Calculate the data rate of the video. Divide the disc space available for video that you determined in step 2 by the amount of video (in seconds) the project contains. 36,096,000,000 bits / (133 minutes x 60 seconds per minute) = 4,523,308.27 bps.
  • Page 36 Space required for the audio, motion menu, and slide show: • 127-minute audio stream with a data rate of 0.192 Mbps = 127 minutes x 60 seconds x 0.192 = 1,463.04 Mbits; divided by 8 bits = 182.88 MB rounded off to 183 MB. •...

  • Page 37: Chapter 4: Creating Projects And Importing Assets

    Chapter 4: Creating projects and importing assets After planning the navigation of your project and preparing the content, you’re ready to begin. First, you’ll create an Adobe Encore CS3 project and then import the assets. Working with projects About projects Encore files are called projects.
  • Page 38 Create and open projects Before you can import your assets, you need to create or open a project. You can have only one project open at a time. See also “About transcoding” on page 51 “Transcode settings” on page 52 “Preset options for audio”...

  • Page 39: Aspect Ratios

    Note: When you open a project file you’ve moved, a dialog box may appear if the application can’t locate specific assets. You can either relink them in the dialog box, select Offline to open the project without them, or select Skip Missing Files to temporarily set the assets offline (so that the next time you open the project, Encore prompts you again to locate the assets).
  • Page 40 Most digital still cameras and graphic applications use square pixels. You should set the pixel aspect ratio of still- image assets to square to ensure that they display correctly. An exception to this rule are files created in Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe Photoshop CS2. Photoshop lets you work in nonsquare pixels when creating images for DVDs and video.
  • Page 41 Specify the screen aspect ratio Encore determines the screen aspect ratio for you. You can, however, change it if necessary. The type of asset deter- mines how you specify the screen aspect ratio. For menus, and timelines containing still images but no video, you specify the screen aspect ratio in the Properties panel.

  • Page 42: Importing

    16:9 NTSC footage A. Original B. Displayed by a DVD player using the original widescreen format on a widescreen TV C. Using automatic pan and scan to crop the image on a 4:3 TV D. Using automatic letterbox to reduce resolution and display the entire image on a 4:3 TV Importing Supported file formats for import Imported files may require transcoding.
  • Page 43 1440 x 1080 1920 x 1080 Supported still-image formats You can import any of the following types of still-image files: • Adobe Photoshop (PSD), RGB color space • Bitmap (BMP) • GIF • JPEG • PICT • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) •...
  • Page 44 • Digital Theater Sound (DTS) • mp3 • MPG or M2P (including MPEG-1, MPA, Layer II) • QuickTime (MOV) • WAV (32-bit floating-point files are transcoded; 96-kHz 16/24-bit files are not transcoded) • WMA Note: DTS audio files will not play during Preview in Encore, even though they will play from the burned disc. Advantages of transcoding before or after import A DVD or Blu-ray Disc player can play only video that conforms to certain standards.
  • Page 45 You can save a step by importing content directly to a timeline, slide show, or menu. The content must be of the appropriate type to use these shortcuts. While you can import any supported file type as a timeline, you can import only still images as a slide show and only PSD files as a menu.
  • Page 46 Importing from Adobe After Effects You can import a file from Adobe After Effects, either as a discrete movie file, or as an Adobe Dynamic Link. The Adobe Dynamic Link option provides the most workflow-friendly import. It lets you import an After Effects compo- sition without rendering it.
  • Page 47 Add items or sets to the Library The Library panel contains predesigned templates for menus and other design elements, such as buttons, images, and shapes. If you have still images, logos, buttons, and menus that you use frequently, you can store them in the Library, where you can quickly access them from any project.

  • Page 48: Adobe Dynamic Link

    • In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can preview the linked composition in the Source Monitor, set In and Out points, add it to a sequence, and use any of the Adobe Premiere Pro tools to edit it. When you add a linked composition that contains both footage and audio layers to a sequence, Adobe Premiere Pro inserts linked video and audio clips in the timeline.
  • Page 49 Link to a new composition with Dynamic Link (Production Premium only) When you link to a new composition from Adobe Premiere Pro or Encore, After Effects starts and creates a new project and composition with the dimensions, pixel aspect ratio, frame rate, and audio sample rate of your Adobe Premiere Pro or Encore project.
  • Page 50 Note: If you change the name of the composition in After Effects after you’ve created a dynamic link to it from Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro doesn’t update the linked composition name in the Project panel, but retains the dynamic link.

  • Page 51: Working In The Project Panel

    Project panel with an offline composition. You can temporarily suppress a linked clip in Adobe Premiere Pro by selecting the clip and choosing Clip > Enable. To relink the clip, choose Clip > Enable again (a check mark next to the command indicates that the clip is enabled).
  • Page 52 Project panel A. Preview B. Audio C. Menu D. Timeline E. Still image F. Video G. Toggle display of different item types H. Create a new item (If nothing is selected in the Project panel, Encore uses the default assets from the Library panel.) When you select an asset, a thumbnail preview appears in the upper-left corner of the Project panel.
  • Page 53 Displays the asset type. This category is useful for sorting your assets according to their status as Media Category audio or video files, or both. Displays any comments you add to this row. You may type up to 254 characters in the Properties panel. Description Displays date and time of the last modification to the file.
  • Page 54 Rename a folder Select a folder in the Project panel and then choose Edit > Rename. Type a new name, and click OK. Show or hide the contents of a folder ❖ Click the triangle to the left of the folder icon. Preview assets in the Project panel You can preview any asset from the Asset Preview thumbnail at the upper-left corner of the Project panel.

  • Page 55: Transcoding In Encore

    Navigate to the location of the asset you want to use as a replacement, select it, and then click Open. View or edit XMP metadata Metadata is descriptive file information a computer can search and process. The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) lets you embed metadata into a file to provide information about the contents of a document. Appli- cations that support XMP can read, edit, and share this information across databases, file formats, and platforms.
  • Page 56 See also “Transcode assets from the Project panel” on page 52 Transcode settings You can specify an item’s transcode settings (by using a preset) from the DVD Transcode Settings or Blu-ray Transcode Settings columns in the Project panel. (Separate columns, DVD Transcode Status and Blu-ray Transcode Status, display either Transcoded or Untranscoded to show the item’s current state.) When you specify a preset, that preset’s data rate is used, not the data rate you calculated in bit budgeting.
  • Page 57 Override the Automatic data rate setting ❖ To specify the maximum audio/video transcoding bit rate that Encore uses automatically, choose File > Project Settings, click the Advanced tab, choose the data rate limit from the Maximum Audio/Video Bitrate menu, and then click OK.
  • Page 58 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Project Transcode Presets dialog box A. Source or output image B. Preset settings See also “About transcoding” on page 51 Preset options for video Depending on the preset you’ve selected, the Video tab of the Project Transcode Presets dialog box contains some or all of the following options: Specifies the encoding quality.
  • Page 59 data rate. Variable bit rate (VBR) compresses data to fit between a fixed minimum and fixed maximum rate. VBR allows the compression to vary, which can result in better quality than CBR. Specifies the number of Mbps you want the encoded file to have. Only appears if you select CBR as the Bitrate Bitrate Encoding option.
  • Page 60 Create a custom preset Choose File > Edit Quality Presets. In the Export Settings section, choose MPEG2 Blu-ray, MPEG2 DVD, or H.264 Blu-ray from the Format menu, and choose the preset you want to edit from the Preset menu. If applicable, type a comment in the Comment box. Click either the Audio or Video tab and adjust an option as desired.
  • Page 61 Specify a pre- or post-encoding task Included with the transcode presets are pre- and post-encoding tasks. You can use these tasks to make changes to the asset either before or after it’s transcoded. You can apply a filter to reduce noise in the files before they’re transcoded, or you can specify that a text log of errors, warnings, and settings be saved with the transcoded file.

  • Page 62: Chapter 5: Menus

    About menus The main menu in an Adobe Encore CS3 project is usually the first screen the viewer sees. Depending upon the complexity of the contents, your project may contain a single menu or multiple menus. Many projects require that buttons on the main menu link to additional menus, called submenus.
  • Page 63 Menu A. Buttons lead to content B. Subpicture highlights button when selected or activated C. Background Types of menus A menu can include text, still images, motion footage, and audio. Depending on its composition, a menu is considered either a still menu or a motion menu: A menu composed of static images.
  • Page 64 The Adobe predesigned menus and buttons include subpictures. You can let Encore create subpictures for you by using the Create Subpicture command or the Convert To Button command. You can design your own subpictures in Adobe Photoshop. (See “About creating menus in Photoshop” on page 97.) See also “About button subpictures”...
  • Page 65 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Displays remote control routing and button numbers of all buttons in the menu. You can Show Button Routing customize the routing only if the Automatically Route Buttons menu property is turned off. (See “Change the routing order”...

  • Page 66: Creating Menus

    ENCORE CS3 User Guide The Library panel contains the following controls: Displays the currently selected set. Items in the Library panel are organized into thematic sets, such as Education, Corporate, or Wedding. You can create your own sets or add to the existing sets. Contains commands to add or delete items or sets and to rename existing sets.
  • Page 67 See also “Create menus using predesigned assets” on page 63 “Add objects to a menu” on page 64 “About creating menus in Photoshop” on page 97 Create menus using predesigned assets An easy way to begin a project is to base your menu on the predesigned menus, buttons, images, and shapes found in the Library panel.
  • Page 68 Create a menu based on a background and other assets Instead of using a predesigned menu template to create a menu, you can piece together a menu starting with a prede- signed background and then add buttons, images, shapes, and replacement layers included with Encore. These objects are located in the Library panel.
  • Page 69 (If you want to use the still image as a button, select the image and choose Object > Convert to Button.) Note: You can also drag an image from Adobe Bridge CS3 directly to the menu. Use guides to position menu items Guides help you position items in menus.
  • Page 70 Menu with guides displayed A. Zero point of menu B. Horizontal guide C. Vertical guide The guides you create are specific to that menu. They are saved in the menu and transfer with a menu between Encore and Photoshop. Any changes you make to the guides in either program transfer with the menu. Note: When setting guides to align objects in several menus, it is important to remember that you place guides at the pixel location of the menu, not the screen.
  • Page 71 • Click the Show Guides button Name menus and buttons To make menus and buttons easier to identify, you can change their default names in the Properties panel. Properties panel for selected menu (left) and selected button (right) See also “Renumber buttons”...
  • Page 72 Choose Edit > Preferences > Menus (Windows) or Encore > Preferences > Menus (Mac OS) to change the default settings of the Set Name From Link and Sync Button Text And Name options. Specify the default button for a menu Each time a menu appears, one button appears highlighted (selected) for the viewer.

  • Page 73: Editing Menus

    Editing menus Select objects To edit objects on a menu, you need to select them first using one of the selection tools. The Tools panel contains two selection tools for editing objects: Selects an entire button set (a button, its text, and subpictures together) so that it can be manipu- Selection tool lated as a unit.
  • Page 74 Each object you add to a menu appears on a separate layer in the Layers panel. Selecting objects in the Menu Viewer is sometimes easier when you use the Layers panel. Regardless of where an object is in the stacking order, you can quickly select it by selecting its layer in the Layers panel.
  • Page 75 Move objects in a menu When a menu contains multiple objects, it’s often difficult to select just the object you want to move. The Layers panel or context menu can help you isolate an object before moving it. Move menu objects or layer sets Open the menu that you want to modify.
  • Page 76 In the Menu Viewer or Layers panel, select the objects you want to align. Choose Object > Align > Relative To Safe Areas if you want the objects aligned to the title safe area and the option is not already selected. Note: A check mark next to the Relative To Safe Areas indicates it is turned on.
  • Page 77 Change the stacking order of menu objects As in Photoshop, the stacking order in the Layers panel determines whether the content of a layer or layer set appears in front of or behind other elements in the menu. When you create or import a menu, the background is always the bottommost layer.
  • Page 78 Move or copy a menu object into another layer set Open the menu that you want to modify. In the Menu Viewer or Layers panel, select the object. For multilayered menus, it is easier to use the Layers panel to select the object. Choose Edit >...

  • Page 79: Styling And Transforming Menu Objects

    Choose Object > Convert To Object. See also “Convert an object to a button” on page 74 Styling and transforming menu objects About predefined styles Styles let you quickly change the appearance of a layer or object in a menu. Styles are predesigned Photoshop layer effects, such as shadows, glows, bevels, overlays, and strokes, that you can apply to most layers in a menu.
  • Page 80 Apply a style to a button or layer set Select the button in the Menu Viewer or in the Layers panel. In the Styles panel, select the style, and click the Apply Style button If your menu contains a styled layer that you like, you can quickly create a new style by dragging the layer directly to the Styles panel.
  • Page 81 To change the other properties of the drop shadow, drag the double-arrow pointer left or right over a value to decrease or increase it. You can click the Preview option off and on to see the before and after effects of each property. Sets the opacity of the shadow.

  • Page 82: Adding Text To Menus

    Comparison of flipping object horizontally and vertically A. Object as originally placed B. Flipped horizontally C. Flipped vertically Open the menu containing the object you want to flip. In the Menu Viewer or Layers panel, select the object (or objects) you want to flip. Choose either Object >...
  • Page 83 Character panel overview Encore gives you advanced typographic control over your text. Using the Character panel, you can kern, track, shift the baseline, and scale text. You can set type attributes before you enter characters, or you can restyle and reformat existing text.
  • Page 84 positive value loosens the space between letter pairs; a negative value tightens the space. Most fonts come with preset kerning values for specific letter pairs. Metric uses the font’s original kerning values. Note: You cannot apply kerning across a range of selected characters. Kerning works only when an insertion point is placed between a pair of characters.
  • Page 85 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Alignment options in the Character panel A. Align Left B. Align Center C. Align Right D. Justify Last Left E. Align Top F. Align Center G. Align Bottom H. Justify Last Top Text anti-alias options Anti-aliasing smooths the jagged edges of text by softening the color transition between the edge pixels of the characters and the background pixels.
  • Page 86 JIS Weak set Characters that can’t begin a line Characters that can’t end a line Determines spacing between punctuation, symbols, numbers, and other character classes in Japanese Mojikumi type. Encore includes several predefined mojikumi sets. • None turns off the use of mojikumi. •...
  • Page 87 Original text (left) and text with rotation applied (right) (Also called kumimoji and renmoji) Changes the orientation of the characters from vertical to Tate-chuu-yoko horizontal. The characters rotate 90º as a group. You can select, edit, and format the rotated text just as you do the vertically-oriented characters.
  • Page 88 The text bounding box appears. Note: If you don’t see a bounding box, you entered the text freely and must manually change the line breaks. Position the pointer over a selection handle. When it changes to a double-headed arrow, drag the handle to resize the bounding box.
  • Page 89 For more keyboard shortcuts on selecting text, such as entire blocks of text, see “Keys for working with text in menus and subtitles” on page 183. Transform a text block Open the menu that you want to edit. Select the text block by using one of the following techniques: •...

  • Page 90: Chapter 6: Menus: Beyond The Basics

    (See “About menu display time and looping” on page 90.) If you want a smaller image, consider resizing or masking the video in a video-editing application, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, or masking a portion of the video with a layer in the menu.
  • Page 91 See also “Animate video thumbnail buttons” on page 90 Add audio to a menu ❖ Do one of the following: • Select the menu in the Project panel. Then, in the Properties panel, click the Motion panel and drag the Audio pick whip to the audio file in the Project panel.
  • Page 92 Using the chapter property called Poster, you can designate a specific start point or frame to display. Poster frame Otherwise, the thumbnail begins at the first frame of the destination chapter or displays the first bright (nonblack) frame of the chapter if Animate Buttons is turned off for the menu. Video thumbnail button and corresponding button layers in Layers panel Customize predesigned video thumbnail buttons The easiest way to create a video thumbnail button is to drag a button from the Library panel into your menu and...
  • Page 93 If you use a shape tool, such as the Rectangle tool, to draw the placeholder, the shape of the layer becomes the mask for the video thumbnail. You can also create a layer, draw a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool, fill the selection with a color, and then click the Add Layer Mask button in the Layers panel.
  • Page 94 Drag the poster frame marker onto its corresponding chapter in the timeline. Animate video thumbnail buttons You can set video thumbnail buttons to be either still or moving using the menu property Animate Buttons. When you select the menu property, you convert all the video thumbnail buttons on the menu to motion buttons. Thus, each time the viewer displays the menu, the video links play in the thumbnails.
  • Page 95 A. Menu duration B. Background video C. Loop point A loop point is often used when a menu has been animated in Adobe After Effects CS3. For example, you can create a video in After Effects in which the button images fly in from different points and settle into position after 15 seconds.

  • Page 96: Menu Templates

    For video tutorials about using Photoshop and After Effects to create and animate menu assets, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0241 and www.adobe.com/go/vid0258. Create menu templates Custom menu templates provide an easy way to create menus that you can use over and over again in your Encore projects.
  • Page 97 Note: The file name you specify for the template does not affect the original file name of the menu, so whenever you reuse the template, the menu’s original name appears in the Project panel (not the template’s file name). Using menu templates on multiple computers When creating a menu template, you can select the Self-Contained option, which determines how the menu template is saved in the folder structure on disk.
  • Page 98 Dragging an image to a replacement layer replaces the contents of the layer and scales the imported image to fit within the drop zone. You can add replacement layers to the Library panel, where they’re sorted in their own category. (See “Add items or sets to the Library”...

  • Page 99: Chapter Indexes

    Other navigation buttons, such as Next and Previous, are also updated automatically. Automatically generated submenus For a tutorial on creating a chapter index, visit Resource Center on the Adobe website. Create a chapter index menu A chapter index menu contains chapter buttons as well as navigation buttons to take the viewer through the menus that comprise the chapter index.
  • Page 100 The Next and Previous buttons are linked automatically when the index chapters are generated. The Next and Previous buttons are hidden on the last and first submenus, respectively. If you do not include Next and Previous buttons on a menu that results in multiple submenus, Next and Previous buttons are created automatically. You can later change the appearance of these buttons.

  • Page 101: Using Photoshop To Create Menus

    About creating menus in Photoshop Encore is designed to work directly with Adobe Photoshop to build and edit menus and buttons. You can create entire menus or elements for menus (such as buttons and backgrounds) in Photoshop and import them directly into Encore.
  • Page 102 Use a font size of 20 points or greater to ensure that the viewer can comfortably read titles and button text. Font size For a video tutorial on creating menus in Photoshop, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0241. Layer name prefixes for menus For Encore to recognize the components of a menu from Photoshop, you must add predefined prefixes to the layer names.
  • Page 103 Menu item Photoshop component Button Name Layer set that contains button compo- nents Chapter button Layer set that links to the chapter in a timeline or slide show when chapter indexes are created See “About chapter indexes” on page 95 Next button Layer set that links to the next submenu when chapter indexes are created...

  • Page 104: Using After Effects To Enhance Menus

    Photoshop file. For information on creating buttons or layered Photoshop files in After Effects, see “Work with Adobe Encore” in After Effects Help. For a tutorial on using After Effects to create a motion menu, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0258. Overview of animating a menu If you have After Effects 7.0 or later, you can use the Create After Effects Composition command in Encore to quickly...
  • Page 105 A good practice is to create a layer marker in After Effects at the frame where you want the animation to end and the menu looping to begin. Name this marker “Loop Point, ” and set an ending keyframe at this same location for each attribute you plan to animate.

  • Page 106: Button Subpictures

    The menu saves as a PSD file and opens as a project in After Effects. The layer sets and buttons convert to nested compositions. In After Effects, animate the menu elements as desired. Set keyframes for position, scale, rotation, or any effects at the times when you want the animation to start and stop.
  • Page 107 Button subpictures A. Normal state B. Selected state C. Activated Regardless of how you create your button subpictures—using predesigned buttons from the Library panel, using the Create Subpicture command, or designing your own in Photoshop—you set the colors used for button subpictures in the Color Set dialog box.
  • Page 108 Paste an image as a subpicture The Paste As Subpicture command lets you quickly create a single-color subpicture from a layer in the menu. You can create invisible buttons by using the Paste As Subpicture command in a layer without any buttons selected. Open the menu.
  • Page 109 You build the image used for the subpicture by creating separate layers for each color. The layer names must include the following prefixes: (=1) for areas using color 1, (=2) for areas using color 2, and (=3) for areas using color 3. (=1) (=2) (=3)
  • Page 110 Automatic color set generated from layers subpicture overlay, Encore does create a color set based on those values. By applying the colors you want for the selected state of the button to the three layers, you are able to design the highlight color in Photoshop and save time editing the color set in Encore.

  • Page 111: Menu Color Sets

    View subpictures You can view the subpictures in the Menu Viewer in each of the button states. These views show the subpictures of all the buttons at the same time using the menu’s assigned color set and each button’s Highlight group. To preview the subpictures with the mouse or a simulated remote control, see “Preview a project”...
  • Page 112 Menu Color Set dialog box A. New Color Set B. Active menu C. Currently applied Color Set (and Color Set menu) D. Normal Group E. Highlight Group 1 and 2 F. Preview state buttons The Menu Color Set dialog box contains the following options: Creates a new color set based on the current color definitions, and adds its name to the Color Set New Color Set pop-up menu.
  • Page 113 Click the color swatch of any color you want to change. The Color Picker dialog box appears. If you want to limit your color selection to NTSC-safe colors, choose RGB colors between 16 and 235. Adjust the color using one of the following methods (the color you select appears in the top half of the color swatch;...
  • Page 114 Click the New Color Set button Adjust the colors and opacity settings as needed. (See “About color sets for menus” on page 107.) Click OK when you have defined all the colors to your satisfaction. Encore applies the new colors to the menu. To dynamically update the color set to reflect changes you make in Photoshop, switch back to the Automatic color set.

  • Page 115: Button Routing

    Import a color set Open a menu to which you want to apply the imported color set. Choose Menu > Edit Menu Color Set. Click the Import Color Set button Click OK. Encore applies the color set to the active menu. Button routing Renumber buttons Encore assigns each button a number.
  • Page 116 Comparison of the preset routing options for remote control buttons A. Wrap around left/right, wrap within the same row (default) B. Wrap around left/right, wrap to the next row C. Wrap around up/down, wrap within same column D. Wrap around up/down, wrap to next column Change the routing order When you turn off automatic routing, you can manually set the path for the remote control through the menu buttons.

  • Page 117: Creating Styles For Menu Elements

    An advanced authoring technique uses multiple versions of a menu that change when the viewer selects certain buttons. Instead of using subpictures to highlight a button, the buttons auto activate when selected and link to another version of the menu. The advantage to this approach is that you can use different images to simulate button selection.
  • Page 118 Create a new style in Photoshop Open Photoshop and create a new image. Set the image size to around 150 x 150 pixels, and delete the background layer to make the image transparent. Type a character or draw a filled pixel shape or a shape layer, depending upon the type of style you want to create (text, image, or vector).

  • Page 119: Chapter 7: Timelines And Slide Shows

    Chapter 7: Timelines and slide shows Timelines and slide shows bring together the assets of an Adobe Encore CS3 project. After planning the project and importing the assets, you are ready to combine the video clips, still images, audio clips, and subtitles together into timelines or slide shows.
  • Page 120 Timeline Viewer overview A Timeline Viewer displays all of the components of a timeline, including its time ruler, a video track, and optional tracks for audio and subtitles. The time scale used in the ruler depends on the editing timebase of the project: for example, 29.97 fps for NTSC media and 25 fps for PAL media.
  • Page 121 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Specifies the location of the current-time indicator within the timeline. The format of the Timeline timecode timecode uses semicolons (hours;minutes;seconds;frames) for NTSC projects and colons (hours:minutes:seconds:frames) for PAL projects. You can edit the timecode to set the current time in the timeline. Specifies the location of the current-time indicator within the video clip (using the video clip’s Source timecode timecode).
  • Page 122 The Monitor panel includes the following controls: Moves back to the first frame of the previous subtitle. Previous Subtitle Moves forward to the first frame of the next subtitle. Next Subtitle Trims the subtitle so that it starts on the current frame. Trim Subtitle In-Point To Here Trims the subtitle so that it ends on the current frame.
  • Page 123 See also “Trim video and audio clips in timelines” on page 122 “About timelines” on page 115 Add videos or still images to timelines When you add a video or still image asset to an existing timeline, Encore positions it as a new clip at the end of the track adjacent to the last clip and automatically adds a chapter point at the beginning of the new clip.
  • Page 124 If the Monitor panel is hidden, choose Window > Monitor. Position the current-time indicator at the location where you want to begin. Click the Track Selector (next to the track name) to activate the audio and subtitle tracks you want to play. Click the Play button to begin viewing the timeline.
  • Page 125 Move to the next or previous GOP header Do one of the following: • To move to the next GOP header in MPEG-2 video, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Skip Forward button in the Monitor panel. (See “About chapter points” on page 132.) •...

  • Page 126: Editing Assets In Timelines

    You can trim the In point or Out point of a clip, but if you need to remove a section from the middle of a clip or make more advanced edits, use the Edit Original command to edit the clip in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 or Adobe After Effects CS3.
  • Page 127 • In the Properties panel, select the Duration timecode and type a new timecode to shorten or lengthen the clip. See also “Edit clips in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects” on page 124 Delete video or audio clips from timelines The method you use to delete a video or audio clip determines whether subsequent clips remain in place or shift to the left to fill in the gap.
  • Page 128 In the Project panel, select the video file (not the timeline) you want to edit. Choose Edit > Edit Original. Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects (depending upon which is pointed to in the project link) starts and opens the video project.
  • Page 129 Change the display time of still images Although the Slideshow panel is the preferred method for creating a slide show, you can also add still images to a timeline to create a slide show. The default timeline duration for a still image is 6 seconds. You can increase or decrease the duration of any still image after you place it, or you can change the default duration before you place it.

  • Page 130: Slide Show Basics

    Note: Encore scales or crops the image as a clip in the timeline. It does not affect the original clip in the project or on your hard drive. Each instance of the image in a timeline can have different scale settings. Save frames as still images When you save a frame as a still image, Encore exports the still image as a Photoshop file (.psd).
  • Page 131 Slideshow Viewer A. Slides area B. Audio area C. Slideshow options Create slide shows Do one of the following: • To create a slide show from assets in the Project panel, select the still images and audio clips, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the selection, and choose New >...

  • Page 132: Editing Slide Shows

    • Delete a slide by selecting it and pressing Delete. This removes the slide from the slide show, but it does not remove the image from the Project panel. • Adjust the properties of the slide show and individual slides. (See “Changing individual slide settings” on page 128.) Note: It isn’t necessary to use the Slideshow Viewer to create slide shows.
  • Page 133 The audio files are played in order during the slide show. Create a slide show, and import one or more audio clips as assets in the Project panel. Drag the audio assets from the Project panel to the Audio area of the Slideshow Viewer. If necessary, adjust the order in which the audio files are played by dragging them elsewhere in the list.
  • Page 134 Apply a pan and zoom effect to slides The pan and zoom effect provides a sense of motion to still images. Panning refers to moving across the image, and zooming refers to changing the image’s magnification. A pan and zoom effect is often used in documentaries to make pictures appear more dynamic.
  • Page 135 Create subtitles for slides Adding subtitles to your slide show is easy. Use the name or description of each slide as the subtitle. You can change other options, such as the color group, stroke, and position of the subtitle. The starting time and duration of the subtitle match those of the slide.

  • Page 136: Chapter Points

    Note: Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects can export markers in AVI, MOV, MPEG-2, and H.264-Blu-ray files. Encore uses the markers to create chapter points. (See “Importing from Adobe Premiere Pro” on page 42 and “Importing from Adobe After Effects” on page 42.) Add chapter points at specific locations Open the timeline to which you want to add chapter points.
  • Page 137 Choose Window > Monitor to view the video as you add chapter points. Move the current-time indicator to the frame where you want a chapter point. If you are working with MPEG-2 or other video that you have already transcoded for DVD, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) either the Skip Forward button or the Skip Backward button see the next GOP header.

  • Page 138: Chapter 8: Audio And Subtitles

    You can use an audio- editing application, such as Adobe Soundbooth CS3, to combine audio sound effects, music, and dialog into a single audio clip.
  • Page 139 • To add an audio clip to an existing track in the timeline, drag the clip from the Project panel into the track until the pointer changes to a “+” and then release the clip. Adobe Encore CS3 adds the clip to the right of the last clip in the track.

  • Page 140: Subtitle Basics For Dvd

    In the Timeline Defaults pane, do any of the following, and then click OK: • Specify the default number of audio tracks and the default audio language. • Specify the default number of subtitle tracks, the default subtitle language, and the default subtitle length. (Subtitles are not supported for Blu-ray Disc or Flash export.) Subtitle basics for DVD About subtitles in DVD projects...
  • Page 141 • To add subtitles to an existing track, click the Track Selector (to the left of the subtitle track name) of the desired subtitle track. Choose Window > Monitor to open the Monitor panel, and click the Show Safe Area button to display the safe area guides.
  • Page 142 Change any of the following options in the Properties panel: • Choose the desired color group from the Highlight Group menu. (See “About subtitle colors” on page 147.) • Set the desired width option from the Stroke menu. The stroke outlines the type to increase the contrast and improve readability.
  • Page 143 • To change the color group, stroke weight, or alignment, click a selection tool, and select the clip in the timeline. Then, change the appropriate option in the Properties panel. (These properties apply to the entire clip, not to individual characters.) Move the current-time indicator to the next subtitle you want to edit, select the subtitle clip, and repeat the previous step.

  • Page 144: Subtitle Scripts

    Change the default display time of subtitles Choose Edit > Preferences > Timelines (Windows) or Encore > Preferences > Timelines (Mac OS). For Subtitle Duration, type the number of seconds you want subtitles to display, and then click OK. Encore changes the display time of all new subtitles. Existing subtitles remain unchanged. Duplicate entire track of subtitles After you create the first set of subtitles for a timeline, you can duplicate the entire track and use it like a template for other languages you need to create.
  • Page 145 Importing subtitles Note: Subtitles are not supported by Blu-ray Disc or Flash. See also “Structure of script files” on page 144 Import text script files Open the timeline to which you want to add subtitles. Choose Timeline > Import Subtitles > Text Script. You can import directly from the timeline by right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac OS) the subtitle track header and choosing the appropriate import option from the menu.
  • Page 146 Import Subtitles (Text Script) dialog box A. Subtitle within bounding box B. Text formatting and alignment options C. Coordinates of the text bounding box D. Options for formatting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters E. Subtitle track and language F. Color set options G. Timecode offset options H. Text orien- tation I.
  • Page 147 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Sets the position of the clip within the bounding box. A value of 0% aligns the Text position within bounding box first line of the subtitle with the top of the bounding box for horizontal text, and with the right edge of the bounding box for vertical text.
  • Page 148 Although many professionals obtain image files from a subtitling house or service, you can create your own. As with the subpictures you create to highlight buttons, you achieve the best results by limiting image files to three colors or fewer. Use sharp edges for text and graphics, avoiding gradients, feathering, or anti-aliasing. Image files can be in JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, or BMP format.
  • Page 149 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Important: Regardless of the type of script (text or image based), always save a script as a text file (TXT). To ensure that all the characters are correctly interpreted, choose Unicode UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding when you save. This encoding option is available for text files in most text editors, such as Microsoft Notepad or TextEdit for Mac OS.
  • Page 150 Display_Area (000 000 720 480) Directory C:\Subtitles\Image Files\Caption Inc Images\ (Windows) or directory /Subtitles/Image Files/Caption Inc Images/ (Mac OS) 1 00;00;02;02 00;00;03;15 CATTALESS001.TIF 2 00;00;05;18 00;00;09;20 CATTALESS002.TIF Structure of FAB image scripts FAB image scripts contain separate position information for each image file. Unlike image scripts, you specify where to find the image files when you import a FAB image script.

  • Page 151: Subtitle Colors

    Subtitle colors About subtitle colors Timeline color sets specify the colors used in subtitles. You can use the same color set for the entire project or define a color set for each timeline. A color set is divided into three groups. You can select the appropriate color group for each clip to ensure maximum visibility or to distinguish, for example, between characters in a film.
  • Page 152 Click OK. The new color replaces the original color in the Timeline Color Set dialog box. Choose the desired opacity level from the Opacity menu adjacent to the color swatch. Repeat steps 5 through 9 for any color you want to change. For any subtitle group, select Create Anti-Alias Color From Fill And Stroke to automatically create an anti-alias color based on the values for Fill and Stroke.

  • Page 153: Navigation For Audio And Subtitle Tracks

    Change the color group applied to a subtitle clip You can use color groups to vary the subtitles depending upon the background or to help identify or distinguish between subtitles (such as to identify speakers). Open the timeline containing the subtitle colors you want to change. Select the subtitle clip (or clips) that you want to alter in the timeline.
  • Page 154 The default setting for Set Audio and Set Subtitle is No Change, which leaves the audio track as set in the DVD player. For example, if a viewer has a DVD player set to French, and a DVD has a track identified as French, the DVD player chooses the French track automatically if No Change is selected.

  • Page 155: Closed Captions Basics

    See also “Project navigation and links” on page 152 Indicate the active audio or subtitle track You can indicate to the viewer which audio or subtitle track is currently active when a menu is displayed. For example, if a viewer uses a menu to turn on French subtitles, watches the DVD, and then returns to the menu with subtitle options, the French subtitle option is selected, even if it wasn’t the default.

  • Page 156: Chapter 9: Creating And Managing Links

    Adobe Encore CS3 lets you link to practically any destination in the project, whether it be a menu, timeline, slide show, playlist, or chapter playlist. (ROM content is the exception. ROM content must be accessed by using a computer’s desktop.)
  • Page 157 End actions for menus are optional. You use them when you want to control the display if a viewer does not activate a button on the menu. Menu end actions are useful in projects that remain playing in a public place or educational setting.

  • Page 158: Setting Navigation And Properties

    This dissolve is achieved by playing a video asset that contains the transition frames. Typically, the transition frames are created in an application such as Adobe After Effects CS3 or Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, where they’re rendered as movie files.
  • Page 159 In the Properties panel, choose a destination from the desired link menu (Link, End Action, or Override), and then choose the desired content from the submenu that appears (for example, a specific button, slide, or chapter). The link menus display up to 20 of the most recently used elements (such as menus, timelines, and slideshows). If the element you want is not listed, choose Specify Link (see below).
  • Page 160 (Optional) Temporarily changes the end action of the element you chose for First Play. Override Specifies what displays when a viewer presses the Title button on the remote control. You generally set Title Button the Title Button to return the viewer to the main menu of the disc. Identifies the primary feature on the disc.
  • Page 161 In the Properties panel, specify a destination for Link. Encore displays the new link in the Properties panel using the format Menu:Button or Timeline:Chapter. (For information on using the pick whip, see “Specify a link” on page 154.) If you want to change the end action for the Link set in step 3, select a destination for Override in the Properties panel.
  • Page 162 Selecting multiple menus, timelines, or buttons lets you make global changes to their properties. Click the Project, Timelines, or Menus panel. (The Project panel displays all the elements in a project, while the Timelines and Menus panels only display the single element type.) Select the desired elements.

  • Page 163: Playlists And Chapter Playlists

    Playlists and chapter playlists Playlists A playlist is a group of timelines, slide shows, or chapter playlists that play sequentially (from each one’s specified chapter) and can include one end action. Playlists provide more efficient navigation possibilities than end action overrides alone.
  • Page 164 Enter a name for the playlist, and click OK. Encore creates a playlist and populates it with the selected assets. Select the playlist in the Project panel, and bring the Playlist Properties panel to the front, if it’s not visible. Edit the list of assets in the Playlist Properties panel as desired, by rearranging the order, or deleting or adding more of the assets.
  • Page 165 Drag chapters from Master Timeline panel (A) to Chapter Playlist panel (B) where you can reorder them and change their properties. Create a chapter playlist You can create a chapter playlist to present the chapters of a timeline in a nonsequential order. Choose File >...

  • Page 166: Working In The Flowchart

    The lines joining the element thumbnails also convey useful link information. By noting the line style, you can differ- entiate between normal links, links that have been overridden, and other useful link attributes. For a video tutorial about using the Flowchart, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0240. ENCORE CS3...
  • Page 167 ENCORE CS3 User Guide Quick glance at section of Flowchart: Main Menu’s thumbnail shows that it’s a menu, indicated by its type icon (A), with default button set to Party Life, indicated by its info badge (B). Party Life button invokes link transition, indicated by link transition icon (C), before it plays Party Life, indicated by arrow (D).
  • Page 168 Type icons The icon in the upper left corner of an object’s thumbnail denotes the type of item: menu playlist , chapter playlist , or slide show Info badges The info badge in the upper-right corner of an item’s thumbnail details certain attributes, depending on the type of item.
  • Page 169 Set navigation in the Flowchart For smaller projects, you can drag items directly into the Flowchart panel and arrange them manually. For large, complex projects, you can use auto layout, letting Encore position items in the Flowchart. You can also choose to work with a combination of auto and manual layout.
  • Page 170 • Drag an element from the Project panel to the Flowchart. Note: If you can’t drag a file from the Project panel, make sure it’s been converted to an element type. For example, you can’t drag a movie file, but you can right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the movie file, choose New Timeline, and then drag the resulting timeline to the Flowchart.

  • Page 171: User Operations

    You can open elements from the Flowchart directly into their corresponding viewer, start Project Preview mode from any point in the Flowchart, or open a menu from the Flowchart to edit it in Adobe Photoshop CS3. In the Flowchart, do any of the following: •...
  • Page 172 Lets the viewer move among chapters. Previous/Next Chapter Lets the viewer search for a specific chapter. Search For Chapter Lets the viewer use the Title button on the remote control. Title Remote Lets the viewer use the Menu button on the remote control. Menu Remote Note: Blu-ray Disc players (and remote controls) do not support the Menu Remote setting for a timeline.

  • Page 173: Chapter 10: Testing And Building The Final Product

    Before you build your final project or export it to an Adobe Flash format, it is important to preview and test your project. Previewing allows you to verify your navigation, menus, and buttons. Adobe Encore CS3 can also check your project for broken links, orphaned menus, bit rate problems, and other issues.
  • Page 174 Do any of the following: • To specify the audio output device, click the Audio Output Device button and make your selections in either the ASIO DirectSound Full Duplex Setup dialog box. • To display the Menu Viewer on an attached device, select Show Menu Editor On DV Hardware, choose the attached device from the Device menu, and click OK.
  • Page 175 Specifies the magnification of the preview. Display Area Zoom The menu displays the available audio tracks and their language code, highlighting the currently Audio Track selected track. Toggle Subtitle Display On Or Off and their language code, highlighting the currently selected one. Displays the name of the timeline or menu in the first line.
  • Page 176 In the Check Project dialog box, deselect any problems you do not want to identify. For example, if you have not set any overrides, you don’t need to check for problems with them. Adobe recommends using the default setting, which checks for all possible problems.

  • Page 177: Security And Additional Content

    Click Start. The software lists any problems found. You can double-click a problem asset to open it. After you open and fix all the problem items, check the project again to make sure that you’ve corrected all the problems. Note: The Name and Problem columns appear by default. To view additional informational columns (such as Description and Menu), right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a column name and choose the desired column from the Columns menu that appears.
  • Page 178 Specify the copy-protection settings, and then close the Build panel and save the project: Restricts the number of copies that can be made of your disc. Choose No Copies Allowed For CGMS to enable CGMS cascading style sheets (CSS) and Macrovision®. Encrypts the video data, and then includes decryption keys that can only be read from the original disc.

  • Page 179: Building The Finished Project

    ROM material is only available on personal computers. Furthermore, it’s only available from the desktop, not from the video content of a disc. You can specify a folder of additional ROM content to be added to the disc when Encore builds your project.
  • Page 180 Click Build. Save the project if prompted. If you have any problems in your project, you are prompted to manage them or ignore them. Adobe recommends that you fix all problems, and then click Build again. When writing is complete, click OK.
  • Page 181 • Read-only format for computer software, games, and movie distribution BD-ROM Image Type For DVD output, Disc Info also includes the following settings: • The name entered in the Disc Properties panel appears here. To change the disc’s name, enter a new one.

  • Page 182: Exporting Projects To Flash Format

    Replicating discs To produce multiple copies of your DVD or Blu-ray disc, you can burn them yourself, either in Encore or by using a third-party mastering application. Producing them in Encore works best for limited quantities and requires the appropriate hardware or software. However, if you require a large quantity of discs, use a professional replication facility for mass production.
  • Page 183 4. Adobe Flash Player ignores the Default Button setting in the Menu Properties panel. Consequently, buttons set to appear highlighted by default will not do so in your Flash projects. Also, Flash has no keyboard navigation, so viewers can’t use Enter or arrow keys to select a button.
  • Page 184 ENCORE CS3 User Guide See also “Creating menus” on page 62 “Setting navigation and properties” on page 154 “Set disc properties and navigation” on page 155 “Export your current project to Flash” on page 178 “Tips for creating Flash projects” on page 179...

  • Page 185: Chapter 11: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Chapter 11: Keyboard shortcuts Adobe Encore CS3 provides a set of keyboard shortcuts. Because many commands and buttons have keyboard equiv- alents, you can create a project with minimal use of the mouse. Using keyboard shortcuts Find keyboard shortcuts ❖...
  • Page 186 Keys for working in the Project panel Result Windows shortcut Replace selected asset Alt + Shift + R Open asset Double-click Open selected asset Enter or Return Select asset above current Up Arrow selection Select asset below current Down Arrow selection Duplicate selected asset Ctrl + D...
  • Page 187 Result Windows shortcut Replace selected item Alt-double-click an item in the Library panel Replace selected item Alt-drag an item from the Library panel or Windows Explorer onto the item Replace without scale Ctrl-click the Replace button in the Library Replace without scale Ctrl + Alt-double-click an item in the Library Replace without scale...
  • Page 188 Result Windows shortcut Move cursor to previous para- Ctrl + Up Arrow graph Move cursor to beginning of Home line Move cursor to end of line Move cursor to beginning of Ctrl + Home text Move cursor to end of text Ctrl + End Increase selection of text Shift-click...
  • Page 189 Keys for working in the Timeline Viewer Result Windows shortcut Play/Pause (toggle) Spacebar Ripple delete Shift + Backspace Slip audio or video independently Alt-drag or Alt-click the audio or video portion of the clip with the Selection tool Move current-time indicator to end of last clip in timeline Move current-time indicator to Home...
  • Page 190 Result Windows shortcut Zoom out Alt-click with zoom tool Zoom out - (minus) on numeric keypad Zoom out Ctrl + , (comma) Keys for working in the Project Preview window Result Windows shortcut Open Project Preview window Shift + Spacebar Activate current button Enter Activate a specific button...
  • Page 191 Reset keys in registry file Ctrl + Shift while Encore starts Keys for working with Adobe Bridge This isn’t a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. This table lists only those shortcuts that aren’t displayed in menu commands or tool tips.
  • Page 192 Result Add an item to the selection Display Help Rename next Rename previous Select inverse in Filter panel Clear filter items Display Loupe tool in Preview panel Additional Loupes in Preview panel (multiple selection) Move Loupe tools simultaneously Zoom in with Loupe tool Zoom out with Loupe tool Zoom in with Loupe tool (multiple selec- tion)

  • Page 193: Index

    Adobe Premiere Pro accessibility of Help 4 activated state, menu 59 Adobe Video Workshop 5 activation of software 1 After Effects. See Adobe After Effects Add Chapter Point command 133 aligning Adobe After Effects converting menus to compositions 101 animating...
  • Page 194 111, 148 remaining space 28 options 108 size, setting 27 subtitles 147 specifying properties for 155 display time offline, with Adobe Dynamic about 90 Link 47 changing 139 setting in menus 92 Display/Hide column, layers 70 distributing objects 72...
  • Page 195 134 naming 155 previewing 169 replicating 178 ROM content, specifying 174, 177 viewing free space 28 Dynamic Link. See Adobe Dynamic Folder output for DVD or Blu-ray Link font installation 2 fonts Edit Menu In Photoshop command 99...
  • Page 196 Manual layer break setting 177 manual layout 166 display time 90 See also chapter points drop shadows 76 importing from Adobe Premiere duration 90 Pro 42 guides 65 importing from After Effects 42 looping 91 Photoshop, using 99...
  • Page 197 95 replacement layers prefixes 98 about 93 converting objects to 94 about 47 creating in Adobe Encore DVD 94 Asset Preview thumbnail 50 creating in Photoshop 94 organizing items in 49 prefixes 98 Transcode Settings column 52 replicating DVDs 176, 178...
  • Page 198 Sync Button Text And Name system requirements 1 about 59, 102 tate-chuu-yoko text 82 color sets 107 templates creating in Adobe Encore DVD 103 See also menu templates creating in Photoshop 104 adding to Library panel 43, 93 layer prefixes 98...
  • Page 199 text scripts, subtitles 140 tryouts 10 text. See type tsume text 81 thumbnail buttons TV standards creating 87 creating in Photoshop 88 customizing 88 thumbnail videos type animating buttons 90 prefixes 98 time graph. See timelines timecode about 146 moving current-time indicator 121 Timecode Offset, subtitles 143 Timeline Bitrate Too High 172 Timeline Viewer...

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