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Chapter 5: Creating projects and
importing assets
Working with projects
About projects
Adobe Encore DVD files are called projects. A project stores links to all the content that you intend to include on the
DVD, as well as the menus and timelines (which combine video or stills, audio, and subtitles). Adobe Encore DVD
creates a folder for your project in the same location as the project file.
A project must conform to one of two TV standards, either NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) or
PAL (Phase Alternating Line). TV standards are the specifications to which any video intended for broadcast in a
certain country or region must conform. These specifications include, among other things, specific frame rate and
frame size requirements of the video. Your final output from Adobe Encore DVD will comply with one of these
standards:
TV standard
Frame rate
NTSC
29.97 fps
PAL
25 fps
Note: The table above specifies output requirements. Requirements for imported assets vary. See "Supported file formats
for import" on page 63.
To 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.
Unless you have changed the preferences setting, Adobe Encore DVD prompts you to select a default TV standard
when you create a project.
If you generally create projects using the same TV standard, you can set the default standard (the standard used for
new projects) in the Preferences dialog box. A project can conform to only one TV standard.
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To set the TV standard preferences for new projects, choose Edit > Preferences > General. Specify your TV
standard.
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To create a new project, choose File > New > Project. If Adobe Encore DVD prompts you to select a TV standard
for the project, select NTSC or PAL.
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To open an existing project, choose File > Open Project. Navigate to the project you want to open, and click Open.
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To open a recently saved project, choose File > [file name]. (At the bottom of the File menu, Adobe Encore DVD
lists the last five projects you saved in the order in which you saved them.)
Frame size
Aspect ratio
720 x 480 pixels
4:3 or 16:9
720 x 576 pixels
4:3 or 16:9
Regions
North America,
Japan
Europe
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