Working In The Project Panel - Adobe ENCORE 2 Manual

Working in the Project panel

About the Project panel
The Project panel contains all the audio, video, and still-image assets you can use for a project. It also lists the
timelines, menus, slide shows, playlists, and chapter playlists created for the project. Each asset you bring into Adobe
Encore DVD is identified by a representative icon in the asset list. The list can be customized to group assets into
various categories, and to group them into folders you create.
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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
When you select an asset, a thumbnail preview appears in the upper left corner of the Project panel. If the asset
contains video or audio, a play controller appears below it so that you can preview the asset. Next to the thumbnail
is information about the displayed asset. If you select more than one asset, the text next to the thumbnail indicates
the number of assets selected.
Note: You import subtitle script files directly into the timeline in which they belong, not the Project panel. (See "About
subtitles" on page 154.)
Project panel columns
The Project panel contains the following columns, which provide information about the assets you've imported:
Displays the name of the asset or element. You can rename any element.
Name
Displays the asset type or element type.
Type
Displays the duration of the asset or element, where applicable, in the format hours; minutes; seconds;
Duration
frames.
Displays the dimensions of the image, in pixels. This field is useful for identifying still-image assets that
Dimensions
are not the correct size for the broadcast standard for the project.
Displays the transcoded state of the asset: transcoded or untranscoded.
Transcode Status
This column displays the setting used to encode the asset. (See "About transcoding" on page 28.)
Transcode Settings
Displays the file size of the asset.
Size
Displays the bitrate of the selected asset. (For untranscoded assets, the bitrate is an estimate.)
Bitrate
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