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Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

DVD’s are the fastest-growing consumer electronics product in history. However, taking advantage of the remarkable popularity of the DVD format requires mastery of the technical process of DVD creation. This is where this course comes in. VTC Author James Gonzalez provides all the information you’ll need to quickly create full-featured, Hollywood style DVDs using Encore DVD 2.0, Adobe’s leading DVD authoring tool. Encore has been designed from the ground up to be simple to use and to greatly streamline DVD production while still providing excellent control over your work. In this course you will learn how to author DVDs containing videos, full motion menus with audio, animated buttons, scene selectors, multiple language tracks, closed captions, subtitles and much, much more. To get started simply click on one of the lessons below.

Author: Vtc

Introduction to Encore DVD 2

About this Course

What is Encore DVD 2

About DVD Media

DVD-Video Specifications

Encore DVD 2 Workflow pt. 1

Encore DVD 2 Workflow pt. 2

Supported Import File Formats

The Encore DVD 2 Workspace

Exploring the Interface

Set Encore DVD Preferences

Customizing the Workspace

The Project Panel

Timeline Viewer pt. 1

Timeline Viewer pt. 2

The Layers Panel

The Library Panel pt. 1

The Library Panel pt. 2

The Styles Panel

The Menu Viewer

The Monitor Panel

The Slide Show Viewer

Flowchart Panel

Planning a Project

Planning a Project

Bit Budgeting

More on Bit Budgeting

Organizing the Project Panel

Prepare Video and Audio Assets

Preparing Source Graphics

Determining Disc Capacity

Creating a New Project

Importing Menus

Create Project Timelines

Creating Timelines

Managing Timelines

Working with Audio Tracks

Navigating the Timeline

Creating Chapter Points

Creating Poster Frames

Trimming Clips

Editing Clips in Premiere Pro or After Effects

Creating Slideshows

Creating Slideshows

Formatting Slideshows

Formatting Individual Slides

Adding Audio to Slideshows

Adding Slide Transitions

Adding pan and Zoom Effects

Adding Subtitles to Slides

Creating and Editing Menus

Menu Basics

Using Pre-existing Library Menus

Menu Basics

Building Menus with Library Elements

Editing Menus

Working with Text

Using Styles

Using Photoshop to Create Menus

Advanced Menus

About Motion Menus

Adding Video to a Menu Background

Adding Audio to a Menu

Setting Audio and Video Loop Times

Animating Buttons pt. 1

Animating Buttons pt. 2

Creating Video Thumbnails in Photoshop pt. 1

Creating Video Thumbnails in Photoshop pt. 2

Guidelines for Creating Video Thumbnails

Working with Button Subpictures

Creating Button Subpictures in Photoshop

Working with Menu Color Sets

Pasting Image as Subpictures

Guidelines for Creating Subpictures

Linking

Link Types pt. 1

Link Types pt. 2

Linking Methods Setting an End Action

Disk-wide Link Settings pt. 1

Disk-wide Link Settings pt. 2

Setting End Actions

Setting Override Actions

Customizing User Operations

Adding Links to Subtitle and Audio Tracks

Button Routing

Checking and Fixing Links

Subtitles

About Subtitle Tracks

Creating Subtitles Manually

Importing Image-Based Subtitle Files

Working with Image-based Subtitles

Importing Text-Based Subtitle Files

Editing Subtitles

Working with Subtitle Colors

Adding Closed Captions

Testing and Transcoding

Previewing Projects

Preview Controls

Checking Projects

About Transcoding

Working with Transcode Presets

Transcode Preset Options

Working with Custom Presets

Burning a DVD

Preparing for Final Output

Copy Protection

Adding DVD-ROM Content

Building the DVD

Build Options

DVD Disc Formats

Course Wrap-up

What You Have Learned

About the author