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Chapter 12: Testing and building DVDs
Testing DVD projects
About previews
Once you have assembled your project and set your links, you should preview and check your project before you
build the DVD. Previewing provides a way to evaluate the performance of your project from an audience perspective,
and the Check Project feature identifies broken links, orphaned menus, bitrate problems, and a host of other disc-
related issues. Once you are satisfied with your project's performance, you build it into a file that's ready to be burned
to DVD.
You can preview the project on your computer monitor or an attached DV (IEEE 1394) device. Previewing your
project as you create it, and prior to building it, is a necessary part of the authoring process. Previewing lets you step
through the navigation and view the quality of transcoded assets. For example, a link destination may not make sense
after you've viewed it in context with other links, or you may discover that there are problems with the quality of
video or audio you have transcoded.
In addition to the actual preview, the Project Preview panel displays controls for navigation and transport, zoom,
audio and subtitle tracks, and the other preview functions. The navigation (menu-related) and transport (timeline-
related) controls duplicate the appearance and functionality of the standard controls found on remote controls and
consoles for television DVD players, as well as those found in the playback windows of computer-based DVD
players. The behavior of the transport controls, such as Play, Pause, and Skip Forward, are standard among most
DVD players, but the button routing reflects the settings you specified during the authoring process.
See also
"To check a project" on page 189
To set the Audio/Video Out preference
By default, video plays on the computer monitor, and audio plays from the computer's speakers. You can choose to
play previews, other output (such as video playing in the Monitor panel), or both, on an attached DV device. Set the
Audio/Video Out preference as follows:
Choose Edit > Preferences > Audio/Video Out.
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Choose any of the following options:
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To specify the audio output device.
Audio Output Device
To display video on an attached device, select it from the Device menu. If the device doesn't appear in the
Device
menu, make sure it's turned on, and then click the Check Status button. (This setting applies to all video except
previews.)
Show Menu Editor On DV Hardware
Adobe audio and video applications share a media cache database. The database tracks
Media Cache Database
media accelerator files that improve performance and speed. For example, if Adobe Premiere Pro creates a
conformed audio file, and you import media with that audio into Adobe Encore DVD, Encore uses the file from
Premiere Pro, instead of creating a new conformed file. The media cache database informs Encore of the conformed
To send the Menu Viewer to the attached DV device.
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