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Legal Notices

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Learning About Adobe Encore DVD

Welcome

Getting help

Key features of Adobe Encore DVD

Other learning resources

Adobe Encore DVD page

Adobe Press

The Adobe Certification program

Registration

Customer support

Tutorials

Creating a simple DVD from start to finish

Customizing the menu templates with images and text

Adobe Encore DVD Workflows and Workspace

Understanding Adobe Encore DVD

Understanding workflows in Adobe Encore DVD

Creating a DVD using the templates

Creating or editing templates, menus or buttons in Adobe Photoshop

Creating subtitles

Looking at the Adobe Encore DVD workspace

Rearranging palettes or tabs

Using context menus

Creating Projects and Importing Assets

Planning the DVD

Assembling your content (assets)

Working with non-DVD-compliant content

Working with DVD-compliant content

Understanding bit budgeting

Calculating bits

Average asset size

Sample budget #1

Sample budget #2

Working with projects

Opening a project

Setting the project's TV standard

Understanding disc space and Disc Information settings

Determining the space remaining on the disc

Understanding dual layer and dual side discs

Setting the disc size

Understanding importing assets

Importing assets

Importing graphics as menus

Importing 23.976-fps files

Working with assets in the Project tab

Understanding the columns in the Project tab

Viewing items in the Project tab

Organizing items by folder in the Project tab

Previewing assets in the Project tab

Viewing asset properties using the Properties palette

Working with missing and offline assets

Using the Library palette to store assets

Viewing images in the Library palette

Understanding how the Library palette handles graphics

Adding items to the Library palette

Understanding transcoding

Understanding the Transcoding Settings column

Transcoding assets from the Project window

Working with presets

Preset options for Video

Preset options for Audio

Archiving content

Naming and describing a disc

Working with Menus

Understanding menus in Adobe Encore DVD

What makes up a menu?

Options for creating menus in Adobe Encore DVD

Understanding the menu editing workspace

Understanding the Menu Editor window

Understanding the menu properties

Understanding the Layers palette

Using the column toggles

Changing the stacking order of layers

Understanding the Library palette

Changing the default template in the Library palette

Changing the default button in the Library palette

Creating menus

Creating a menu using a menu template

Creating a menu using predesigned buttons and backgrounds

Creating a menu using still assets from the project

Adding a video background to a menu

Adding audio to a menu

Naming menus and buttons

Adding a drop shadow to a button

Manipulating menu objects

Selecting objects

Moving, copying, and deleting objects

Aligning objects

Distributing objects

Scaling objects in a menu

Understanding type attributes in the Character palette

Font and font attributes

Font style buttons

Alignment options

Anti-aliasing options

Asian text options

Options in the Character Palette menu

Adding text to menus

Entering text freely or with a bounding box

Selecting and formatting text

Working with Adobe Photoshop

Menu requirements

Understanding layer name prefixes for Photoshop menus

Creating a video thumbnail button

Editing a menu in Adobe Photoshop

Creating subpictures and color sets

About subpictures

Creating subpictures in Adobe Encore DVD

Creating subpictures in Photoshop

Defining color sets for menus

Using the Automatic color set

Assigning color sets and highlight groups

Importing and exporting color sets

Setting remote control buttons

Changing the automatic routing preferences

Customizing routing

Working with Assets in the Timeline Window

Understanding timelines

Using the Timeline window

Moving around in the timeline

Viewing the properties of a clip in the timeline

Adding video and still images to a timeline

Understanding audio and subtitles

Using menus to select audio and subtitle tracks

Keeping track of tracks

Working with audio clips

Adding audio to a timeline

Adding chapter points to the timeline

Understanding chapter point placement

Working with subtitles

Defining color sets for subtitles

Adding subtitle files to a timeline

Importing Captions Inc. and FAB format files

Importing text script files

Typing subtitles directly into the Monitor window

Editing subtitles

Changing display time of subtitles

Changing the color group and color set applied to subtitles

Editing assets in the timeline

Trimming and deleting video and audio clips

Editing still images

Previewing the timeline

Navigating the timeline using the Monitor window

Creating and Managing Links

Understanding project navigation

Understanding the types of links

Understanding end actions

Understanding end action overrides

Specifying links

Setting disc navigation and properties

Setting disc navigation links

Setting the link for the Title button of a remote control

Understanding menu display time and looping

Understanding Duration

Understanding Loop# and Loop Point

Setting menu navigation and properties

Setting menu display time and end action navigation

Setting the default button on a menu

Animating video thumbnail buttons

Setting button navigation and properties

Setting button navigation

Setting a button to auto activate

Updating subpicture text automatically

Setting timeline navigation

Setting navigation to select audio and subtitle tracks

Setting the default audio and subtitle tracks

Setting a button to select an audio or subtitle track

Using the Project window to manage links

Changing multiple links and properties

Finding missing links and unassigned assets

Testing and Building a DVD

Understanding previews

Working in the Project Preview window

Using preview controls

Previewing motion menus

Monitoring the preview status

Exiting the preview

Setting the Preview window preferences

Understanding copy protection

Understanding region coding

Setting region coding

Building the finished project

Build Options

Replicating DVDs


Index

A

Activate Buttons option [1]

additional content, specifying [1]

Adobe Authorized Learning Providers [1]

Adobe Certified Experts [1]

Adobe Certified Instructors [1]

Adobe Encore DVD

about [1]
customer support [1]
Help [1]
task lists [1]
workflows [1]
workspace [1]

Adobe Photoshop

creating menus [1]
creating subpictures [1]
editing menus [1]
interaction with [1]

aligning

objects [1]
text [1]

anti-aliasing text [1]

archiving content [1]

Asian Text options [1] [2]

aspect ratio

preset options [1]
previewing [1]

Asset preview thumbnail [1]

assets

about [1]
deleting from timeline [1]
editing in timeline [1]
missing [1]
offline [1]
preparing video [1]
previewing in Project tab [1]
properties [1] [2]
storing in Library palette [1]
trimming [1]
viewing in Library palette [1]
viewing properties [1]
working with in Project tab [1]

audio

adding to a timeline [1]
adding to menus [1]
creating a timeline for [1]
creating button to select [1]
deleting from timeline [1]
trimming [1]
working with audio clips [1]

audio tracks

about [1]
creating in timeline [1]
removing from timeline [1]
setting default [1]
using menus to select [1]

Auto Activate option [1]

automatic color set [1]

automatic routing [1]

Automatically Route Buttons option [1]

AVI files, importing [1]

B

background

adding to menu [1]
predesigned [1]
video [1]

baseline shift [1]

bit budgeting [1]

automatic [1]

bit rate encoding [1]

Bottom-to-Bottom Leading option [1]

bounding box for type [1]

building a DVD

build options [1]

Burasagari option [1]

Button/Object column [1]

buttons

activating thumbnail [1]
adding drop shadow [1]
adding to menu [1]
applying highlight group [1]
auto activate [1]
converting to [1]
Create Subpicture option [1]
creating subpictures in Adobe Photoshop [1]
default [1]
highlighting [1] [2]
in Library palette [1]
Link option [1]
naming and renumbering [1]
navigation [1]
offset [1]
override [1]
predesigned [1]
properties [1]
routing [1] [2]
setting default [1]
subpictures [1]
subtitle track [1]
to select audio track [1]
video thumbnail [1] [2]

C

Captions Inc. files, importing [1]

CGMS [1]

chapter points

about [1]
adding to timeline [1]
displaying frames at [1]
icon [1]
limit on timeline [1]

Character palette [1] [2] [3]

CJK characters [1]

Classroom in a Book [1]

color sets [1]

about [1]
applying to menu [1]
automatic [1]
changing in subtitles [1]
editing [1]
exporting [1]
importing [1]
menus [1]

comments, adding to project [1]

context menus [1]

copy protection

about [1]
CGMS [1]
CSS [1]
Macrovision [1]
restriction [1]

copying a DVD See replicating [1]

copying objects [1]

Create Subpicture option [1]

Create Text Subpicture [1]

Crisp (anti-aliasing) [1]

CSS [1]

current-time indicator [1]

cycle through tracks [1] [2]

D

default elements

buttons [1]
templates [1]

deleting objects [1]

Disc Information, setting [1]

disc size, setting [1]

disc space

remaining [1]
used [1]

Display/Hide column [1]

distributing objects [1]

double-byte characters [1]

drop shadow [1]

dual layer disc

about [1]
specifying [1]

Duration option [1] [2]

DVD

naming in Project tab [1]
replicating [1]

DVD-compliant footage, importing [1]

DVDVolume [1]

E

End Action

about [1]
menu [1]
timeline [1]

exporting color sets [1]

F

FAB format files, importing [1]

file formats supported for import [1]

First Play [1] [2]

fonts

attributes [1]
changing color of [1]
size recommendations [1]

formatting options [1]

G

global changes [1]

GOPs (Groups of Pictures) [1]

graphics, importing as menus [1]

H

Help

Adobe Encore DVD Help [1]
task-based Help [1]

highlight group, applying to button [1]

highlighting [1] [2]

Hold Forever [1] [2]

horizontal lines [1]

horizontal scale [1]

I

I-Frames icon [1]

importing

23.976 fps files [1]
23.98 fps files [1]
24 fps files [1]
assets [1]
AVI files [1]
Captions Inc. files [1]
color sets [1]
DVD-compliant footage [1]
FAB format files [1]
graphics as menus [1]
preparing video for [1]
PSD files as menus [1]
supported file formats [1]

K

kerning [1]

Kinsoku Shori option [1]

kumimoji [1]

L

layer breaks [1]

layers

converting [1]
hiding [1]
locking [1]
prefixes [1]
reordering [1]

Layers palette [1] [2]

leading [1] [2]

Library palette

about [1] [2]
adding items to [1]
customizing [1]
file formats supported [1]
opening [1]
storing assets in [1]

Link option [1]

links

broken [1]
changing multiple [1]
managing [1]
missing [1]
specifying [1]
types of [1]

Lock/Unlock column [1]

Loop # [1] [2]

Loop Point [1] [2]

M

M frames [1]

Macrovision [1]

Make command

options [1]

Menu Editor window [1] [2]

about [1]

Menu preferences, routing [1]

Menu Remote [1] [2]

menus

about [1]
activating thumbnail [1]
adding audio [1]
adding type [1]
aligning objects [1]
background video [1]
color sets [1]
copying objects [1]
creating in Photoshop [1]
creating using template [1]
creating with Library items [1]
creating with stills [1]
default button [1]
default template [1]
display time [1] [2]
distributing objects [1]
editing in Photoshop [1]
end action [1] [2]
importing graphics as [1]
in Library palette [1]
motion [1]
moving objects [1]
naming [1]
navigation [1]
properties [1]
requirements [1]
scaling objects [1]
still [1]
templates [1] [2]

Microsoft Windows Explorer, adding items to Library palette from [1]

missing assets [1]

Mojikumi option [1]

Monitor window

previewing, use in [1]
typing subtitles in [1]

motion menus

about [1]
previewing [1]

moving objects [1]

N

N frames [1]

naming a DVD [1]

NCOR file [1]

notes, adding to project [1]

O

offline assets [1]

Oidashi option [1]

Oikomi option [1]

online Help [1]

orphans [1]

override

about [1]
button link [1]
first play [1]
menu end action [1]
timeline [1]

P

Palette window [1] [2]

palettes, rearranging [1]

preferences See specific preference category [1]

presets

audio options [1]
creating [1]
deleting [1]
exporting [1]
importing [1]
video options [1]
working with [1]

Preview command [1]

Preview preferences [1]

previewing

about [1]
assets in Project tab [1]
controls [1]
exiting [1]
motion menus [1]
project [1]
render current motion menu [1]
status [1]
timeline [1]

project navigation [1]

Project Preview window [1]

Project tab

Asset Preview thumbnail [1]
explained [1]
organizing items in [1]
Transcode Settings column [1]
viewing items in [1]

Project Transcode Presets [1]

Project window [1] [2] [3]

projects

about [1]
opening [1]

Properties palette [1] [2] [3]

asset properties in [1]
button mode [1]
disc mode [1]
menu mode [1]
timeline mode [1]
trimming assets in [1]

PSD files, importing as menus [1]

R

rectangular pixels [1]

region coding

about [1]
setting [1]

Relative to Safe Areas [1] [2]

remote control buttons [1]

renaming

buttons [1]
menus [1]

renmoji [1]

renumbering buttons [1]

replicating [1]

RGB color [1]

Rotate Character option [1]

routing

about [1]

routing, customizing [1]

S

scaling objects [1]

Show Asian Text options [1]

Smooth (anti-aliasing) [1]

square pixels [1]

stacking order, layers [1]

status area [1]

still images

adding to menu [1]
default length, changing [1]
editing in timeline [1]

still menus [1]

Strong (anti-aliasing) [1]

subpictures

about [1] [2]
color sets [1]
creating [1]
creating in Adobe Encore DVD [1]
creating in Adobe Photoshop [1]
layer prefixes [1]
update text automatically [1]

subtitle groups [1]

subtitle track

button to select [1]
setting default [1]

subtitles

about [1]
adding to a timeline [1]
color set, changing [1]
defining color sets [1]
display time, changing [1]
editing [1]
formats [1]
formatting [1]
importing Captions Inc. and FAB files [1]
importing text scripts [1]
typing into Monitor window [1]
using menus to select [1]

T

tabs, rearranging [1]

Tate-chuu-yoko option [1]

testing. See previewing [1]

text scripts [1]

text. See type [1]

time graph. See timelines [1]

timeline

about [1]
adding chapter points to [1]
adding video and still images [1]
deleting assets in [1]
editing assets in [1]
magnifying [1]
navigating [1]
previewing [1]
properties [1]
tracks, understanding [1]
trimming assets in [1]
zooming [1]

Timeline window

about [1]
contents [1]
navigating in [1]
properties of assets in [1]
using [1]

Title button [1] [2]

Top-to-Top Leading option [1]

tracking [1]

tracks See specific track type (audio, video) [1]

Transcode Settings column [1]

transcoding

about [1]
bit budgeting [1]
choosing a preset [1]
previews [1]

Tsume option [1]

TV standard [1]

24 fps files

importing [1]

23.976 fps files

importing [1]

23.98 fps files

importing [1]

type

adding to menus [1]
attributes [1]
entering [1]
selecting and formatting [1]

V

vertical scale [1]

video

activating thumbnail [1]
adding to menu [1]
deleting from timeline [1]
preparing for import [1]
thumbnail [1] [2]
thumbnail layer [1]
trimming in Properties palette [1]
trimming in timeline [1]

W

workflows [1]