IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
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Hi, I'm Maxim Jago.
I'm a director, editor, trainer and author.
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As a filmmaker I've worked on over 50
productions, often as editor.
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As a trainer, I taught creatives working
just about everywhere including
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broadcasters in several countries.
Independent filmmakers, and educators.
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I often work for Adobe, providing
specialist training for creative
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organizations like the BBC.
And I've produced course materials for
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global training programs.
I like to think my creative work gives me
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a special, highly biased view of the
tools I'm teaching.
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And I'll be sharing with you, my best
practice workflows.
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Adobe Encore is amazing, it's far and
away the most user friendly DVD authoring
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tool I know.
And yet many owners are afraid to get
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started, this is often simply because
they've never encountered object
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orientated design before.
Where the way items like buttons, menus,
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shapes and timelines behave is governed
by a single properties panel.
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We'll jump this tiny hurdle right at the
start.
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Before you know it, you'll be creating
advanced, complex DVDs blu-rays and web videos.
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We'll also be learning a little about
dynamic linking with Premium Pro, After
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Effects and Photoshop.
All of the assets used in these lessons
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are included for you to work alongside.
Or to experiment with later.
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As well as partially complete Encore
project files, so you can get started
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super quickly.
I think you'll find these videos are all
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you need to get creating with Adobe
Encore.
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1. Introducing EncoreIntroduction| 00:00 |
Adobe Encore is far and away my favorite
DVD authoring application.
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It's super user friendly, very, very fast
to produce really complex interactive
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DVDs with great ease.
And once you get the gist of the
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object-oriented design principle, where
you select items and having made a
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selection, you may change this based on a
Properties panel here for example.
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I can change the color of my text, there
we are.
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Once you get that simple principle,
you're really set to go and produce these
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complex interactions.
You can make Blu-ray DVDs with pop-up
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menus, you can have your secret Easter
Eggs, you can have multiple chapter
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playlists and regular playlists.
You can have multiple languages, subtitles.
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It' a really user friendly application.
And it even allows you to use Photoshop
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to edit your menus, because the menu
items themselves are literally Photoshop documents.
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So what we'll be covering in this course
is an overview of the complete workflow
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of producing DVDs.
We're going to look at producing DVDs
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dynamically from a Adobe Premiere Pro as
well.
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And we're going to look at producing
things like playlists, which allow you to
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select multiple items to view in
different orders within a DVD.
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We're going to have a look at chapter
playlists as well.
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We're going to look, here we go, here's
one of those, chapter playlists.
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Allow you to have the same item, but
viewed in a different order.
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And so, if you think of the classic
movie, Memento, which was shot and filmed
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and edited in reverse order, you can
produce all of those kinds of effects,
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and then reverse them.
Very useful for music video DVDs.
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We'll be looking, of course, at menu
creation, and menu management, slide shows.
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Here's a slide show, and so on, and so
on.
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We'll be looking at all of the processes
of producing a DVD.
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And then, we'll be looking at Output, and
we'll be looking at the different forms
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of output you can produce from Adobe
Encore.
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Including, of course, regular DVDs,
Blu-rays, and Flash.
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And one of the lovely features of Encore
CS5 is that you can take any movie
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content, produce it as a DVD, and then
output that directly as a Flash movie SWF
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file, embedded in an HTML page, which
will work on any web browser.
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Right, something like 90, I forget the
figure, it's something like 96% of all
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computers can play it.
And you just say, yes, please, and uncle
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does the work for you.
You don't need to know anything about
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Flash or about HTML, which is pretty
good.
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So, we'll be covering pretty much
everything you need to know to produce
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DVDs and to output them.
We'll also be talking a little bit about
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Compression and Media formats.
Now, you could spend easily a couple of
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days on compression, and algorithms and
GOP structures, and so on.
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I'm going to try and keep it simple and keep
the focus on the things that you need to
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know to make choices for burning DVDs and
producing web videos.
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So, we'll keep it just focused on the
core workflow for producing DVDs.
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| Getting to know Encore| 00:02 |
So let's get to know the Adobe Encore
interface a little bit so we've got a
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sense of what's going on and what we're
looking at.
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I think familiarity is a really important
stage in getting to know applications
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like this, and once you know what things
are for, it kind of helps you to get a
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sense of what you're suppose to do when
you're using the application.
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So first all we've got several different
panels.
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And you'll notice that when you click
into a panel you get an orange outline
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around that panel and that outline is
telling you which panel is active which
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is pretty straight forward.
We've got file edit and object menus.
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These are all kind of standard options
that you'd expect to find in applications.
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There are things that are repeated in
those menus.
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And I find when I'm using Encore, I don't
tend to go into the menus up here that often.
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I tend to find the the more localized
options, like making new items down here
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for example, in the project panel.
They tend to work for me anyway, I, I
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don't need to go into these menus very
often.
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So, first of all, we have the project
panel which contains the various assets
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that I intent to use in my DVD.
Now if this were a non linear editing
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system I would probably say that the
project panel contains assets that I may
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or may not choose to use in a DVD.
But actually no.
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In this case, I would say that you put
the assets in that you actually intend to
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use in your finished program, your
finished output.
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This, just because it makes life easier
to organize, and easier to plan out, your contents.
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Now along the top here I also have a
menus entry and a timeline entry and what
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these are doing is filtering out and
sifting the contents of my project panel.
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So,if you see here under Video, I've got
three video assets, these are video
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files, and I've got three timelines, one
for each of those assets.
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I also have a timeline up here, which is
my main movie.
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If I click on my Timelines panel, I get
all four of those exclusively, and I get
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a list of chapters if I click on one of
them.
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Now all this is doing is for me as a
human being is helping me to see what
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assets I have.
Because it can get pretty cluttered, as
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you can see already I've got a playlist,
a slideshow, menu's and you can end up
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with quite a lot of items here, although
the icons are different it's helpful to
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be able to break things down a little
bit.
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I also have a build panel, which is
really the last place that you're likely
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to go to when you're producing a DVD.
And this panel allows me to specify the
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settings for output, if I'm going to burn
straight out to a DVD disc, or if I'm
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going to produce an image file for my
duplication.
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These are my output settings.
Also though, there's a check project
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option here, and the check project item
Allows you to not think too much about
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the orphan process.
Because, if you've got for example, I'll
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just select and item here and kill the
end action for it, so I can demonstrate.
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If I check project.
You'll notice that encore automatically
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comes up saying oh, hold on a moment,
your end action isn't set.
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And this means that when that video
finishes playing, nothing's going to happen.
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Of course, that's not a particularly good
idea.
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If I just control zed to undo and that
restores the item here in my properties panel.
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Start again no problems.
And its really, real assuring when your
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offering a DV, particularly a complex
interactive one, to be able to go into
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this check project panel and hit start
and find that this is just empty, its great.
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You know that what ever happens the DVD
will play, it will be responsive, and
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weird stuff won't happen for the user.
Just above these panels, you'll see I've
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got a series of tools.
Now, I'm, I guess most of these tools are
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for working on your menus.
If I open up a menu here, you'll notice
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the buttons are selected with the main
selection tool.
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There we go.
Selection tool with the shortcut v which
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is standard across Adobe applications.
And then the direct selection tool allows
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you to get inside of those items.
If I choose that tool I can click and
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access the text inside a button.
Or here for example this is text but not
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a button.
I can select that with the direct
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selection tool, I cannot select that with
the regular selection tool.
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And I got other similar items here like
moving and rotating, adding text, I gotta zoom.
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Interesting here, I got the option to
edit my menu in Photoshop and also
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preview button.
Now, there is a keyboard option which is
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control, alt, space or Apple option space
and I tend to use the keyboard shortcut
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again rather than going to the menu.
So, I've got a monitor for viewing the
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contents of my timeline.
If you build timelines inside of areas in
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much the same way that you would with
Premiere Pro to produce sequences.
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It's the timelines that go on the disc,
not the video assets.
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That's important.
Because you can, if you want to, string
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multiple video assets into a single
timeline.
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You can combine things, and do very very
rudimentary editing inside of Encore.
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I also have a flow chart view which
allows me, I'll just make this go full
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screen here you can press the apostrophe
key on your key board to have things re sized.
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And it just make it easier for you to see
what's going on, particularity if you're
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short on screen space on your computer.
And this, flow chart view allows me to
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see very, very clearly, the relationship
between the elements on my DVD.
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I can see here, for example, if I just
zoom out a little bit, I've a lot of
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complex connections, but everything kind
of flows from the moment that you put the
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disc into the computer.
Just put that back to regular size.
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This chapter playlist is an entry that
you can open or close.
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If you do have chapter playlists you can
see the contents of it, and organize the
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structure of the playlist.
But the really important panel I want to
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show you is this properties panel.
This is fundamental to the way that
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Encore functions.
If you select any item in the project
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panel, you get properties for that item
over here.
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And if I go into a menu, and select an
item, say a button.
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I get the options and specify the
settings for that button over here.
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So any item that you select you get the
properties for it and this is really
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where you define the interactivity and
the functionality of your dvd.
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And then I've got some other more
specialist entries like character
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controls if I'm working on text.
Here I can slect the text do things like
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change the font for example and change
the color.
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There we go.
So, this is very familiar to anybody
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who's used any kind of text editing
application.
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I also have a meta data panel.
And if I choose an item that I've
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imported I get access to meta data about
that item.
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And this is part of the XMP engine that
Adobe uses across all of the creative applications.
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That engine allows Adobe, I suppose, as a
creative application company, to carry
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metadata, that's information about
information.
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Information about your media, from one
application to the next.
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Very useful for staying organized.
Down at the bottom of my Encore interface
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here I've got a library of lots of
pre-built menus and button shapes and
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little icons and so on.
This is very, very useful because
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although you can use Photoshop to
generate your menus if you want to, no
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problem at all, the way in which the
menus are designed in order to be tagged
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with things like buttons and Inserted
video, it's a little bit complicated.
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There are special naming conventions for
the layers which you can memorize and if
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you get into it that's fantastic.
You'll develop much more advanced and
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subtle menus but it can be a lot easier
to start with one of these templates and
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then modify it in Photoshop.
We'll be looking at that later on.
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Styles, of course, is preset styles for
your text.
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So I could go for a plain shape look,
let's go with just my text entries here,
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swimming pool look, these are real basic
ones but you can add your own styles, of
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course, over time.
And layers shows me the individual layers
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of my menu.
This is very much about the menu
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structure rather than any other aspect of
your DVD.
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Our resource central item allows us to
download additional template menus and
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its got links to tutorials and so on.
This is kind of a portal onto the web,
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you see if I hover over any of these
items, I'm getting, links to the Internet.
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So that's the Resource Central tab.
To be honest, I think Resource Central is
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a great ideal, but there's not that much
in it, yet.
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And it might be that over time, it grows
in the amount of content available improves.
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But I tend not to go looking there too
often at the moment.
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Like pretty much any creative application
these days.
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You'll find that Encore has work spaces.
So I can jump between different layouts automatically.
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I tend to work in the default layout.
And access things as I come to them manually.
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And down at the bottom of the project
panel.
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Just, the last thing to show you.
Is we have this filtering option.
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I can choose not see certain types of
item and I've got the option to generate
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new items.
I can make folders for my assets, make
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new menus, popup menus for the Blu-ray,
DVDs and so on.
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We'll be looking at all of these over
the, lessons in this course.
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So that's overview of the Adobe Encore
interface hopefully enough to give you a
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sense of the kinds of tools available and
the kind of work that you would be doing.
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| The DVD authoring workflow| 00:02 |
Let's just have a look at the overall
workflow for producing a DVD, just to
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give us a sense of the context of the
other tools that we'll be using inside of Encore.
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First of all you're going to start up the
application, you're going to choose new
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project, you'll give the project a name,
I think today is a Wednesday,INAUDIBLE.
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So there you go Wednesday and choose a
location for it.
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Default settings are usually fine once
you've produced a couple of DVDs.
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Then you're into the application proper.
You're going to import some media.
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Let's have that.
Then you'll make a timeline from that media.
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There we are.
You need the timeline for the DVD to play.
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Lovely.
Then we might well add some chapters, and
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you could use the asterisk key your
numerical keypad to do that.
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Chapters are good because it allows of
course the viewer to jump between
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sections of the movie.
You might well produce a menu for this,
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because by default it's just going to play
so maybe I'll have, let's have a look.
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That will do.
I'm going to double-click, to open up
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that menu.
Now this menu is a four by three menu,
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but if I look at the properties panel
here I can toggle it to 16 by 9 and it
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kind of looks okay.
It looks strange when you're used to
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seeing it four by three first, but it
looks fine.
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Then on here, I'm going to select the
play movie button, and I'm going to link
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that by dragging this pick whip over to
the SLI, the Somebody Loves You timeline.
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Notice I don't drag it to the video, I
drag it to the timeline.
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Then I'm going to select that timeline, and
I'm going to have the end action, I'm
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going to drag over to my menu.
But while I'm there, I might as well
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select the menu, and change the name to
main menu.
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Notice when I do this, it updates in the
project panel as well.
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Essentially, the rest of DVD authoring,
is linking things together.
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So, I might well get rid of these extra
buttons I don't need.
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Notice these are all separate items in
this menu document.
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And I'm then going to have, maybe I'll have
a scene, chapter menu.
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I'm just going to double-click to choose
that.
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Make it 69 again, and then I'm going to
grab my chapters.
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Let's just grab that, put that on episode
one, drag that to two, three, four, five,
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six, and I'm going to be lazy and delete my
number seven.
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So now I've got chapters.
I need to link that together.
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So let's get my scene selections button.
Link that to my chapters menu.
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I'll rename that, chapters.
Great.
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And then on my chapters menu, maybe I'll
take the main menu button.
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Notice these are all created
automatically as part of the template.
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I'm going to drag and link that to my main
menu.
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I don't need the next and previous
button, because I've just got one page of chapters.
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Great, and now lets have a look and see
if I've missed anything.
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I'm going to go to my build panel, click
check projects, and start.
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No, everything's fine.
I've chosen DVD, I'm going to put a blank
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disc in, and I'm going to click build.
That is the DVD authoring workflow.
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There's a lot of other stuff you can do
as well.
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I could, for example, import some stills.
Let's have that, and then I could build
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those stills, into maybe a slideshow.
Fine.
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And then I could link to the slideshow
maybe from my main menu.
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I could alt drag to create a copy of a
button here.
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I'm holding down the alt key, option on a
Mac.
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The type tool, double-click to get into
the text.
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And let me just zoom in a little bit so
you can see.
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In fact what I need to do is, first of
all select, there we are, that's with the
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direct selection tool and here I'll just
say, a slide show.
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Escape to come back out.
Click away.
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Click back to select the button, and then
I can use this pick whip to drag to my slideshow.
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Here we go.
And in the slideshow, I'm going to select
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it and set as an end action, from the
menu here, I'll choose return to last menu.
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And again, now, if I go to my flowchart
view, that's it and I'm going to use the
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panel menu on the flowchart, to choose
maximize frame.
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We can see here the DVD goes in.
I need to name it.
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It's still called untitled project.
That just goes straight through to play
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my movie, which is wrong because I need
it to go to the menu first.
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From there, I've got three buttons which
link and yes, my slide show doesn't go
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back to anywhere.
It just returned to the last menu.
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That's fine.
I just restore the frame size here, and
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I'm going to go to my project panel.
And in the project panel, I'm going to
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deselect everything so that I get my,
disc properties in the properties panel.
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I'm going to call this Somebody Loves You,
which is the name of this music video,
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and I'm going to say the first play, which
is currently the Somebody Loves You
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timeline, instead I'm going to link that
to my main menu, and that changes the
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flow chart for me automatically.
So that's the overview.
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The gist is that you're going to get some
media assets into your project panel,
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you're going to make those into
timelines, or a timeline.
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You might well put chapter points on it,
then you're going to generate menus,
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you're going to link the various menus
together, and you might produce
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additional assets, like, for example the
slideshow.
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There's a slideshow, and link those
together as well.
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What you're creating is a kind of network
of assets, that have links between them.
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Every item has properties, including the
individual buttons inside a menu.
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As you can tell, there's quite a lot of
flexibility here in the approach that you take.
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You could be building multiple
slideshows, multiple chapter menus, and
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so on.
And really approaching it in quite a
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non-linear fashion.
Which is completely fine, but do be
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careful as you're working on particularly
complex DVD authoring projects, that you
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don't end up with a lot of loose ends.
And that's where, under the build menu
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here, the build panel, you've got this
checked project option which is very,
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very useful.
In fact, you'll notice that because this
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is a separate tab.
You can have this embedded in the interface.
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But you don't have to.
If I close that panel I can then go to my
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window menu, and choose check project,
and it will pop up as a floating panel as well.
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If fact, if you look under that menu,
there's even an F 4 keyboard shortcut to
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bring that option up.
You might well, along the way, preview
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your DVD, which will be file, preview, or
as you can see here, alt control space,
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option apple space on a Mac, and this
will allow me to test the DVD and see,
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yep, that seems to work fine.
You might well produce motion menus,
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where you've got video playing in the
background of your menu.
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That won't play, in the preview panel.
Again, that will not play on the preview
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panel, until you go to the file menu, and
choose render, motion menus.
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It's grayed out because I don't have any.
When you render the motion menus, Encore
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produces the video files that will play
on the DVD.
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Then you can see them moving in the
preview panel.
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So there you are, that's an overview of
the workflow when using encore to
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produce DVDs.
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2. Creating a ProjectCreating a new project| 00:02 |
When you first start up Adobe Encore,
there's going to be a small number of
| | 00:05 |
settings that you need to specify for a
new project, and obviously, we've got a
| | 00:08 |
list of recent projects here.
I suppose in principle, you could open an
| | 00:12 |
existing project and then save it as a
different name to generate another project.
| | 00:17 |
But the proper way of doing it, would be
to click on the New Project button here.
| | 00:20 |
You can browse to open a project, you can
get information about what's new with the application.
| | 00:25 |
If I click New Project, I get a small
number of options that are kind of key to
| | 00:29 |
the creation of the DVD you're going to
produce.
| | 00:34 |
And of course you might be producing a
web video, in which case, wow the options
| | 00:37 |
you choose for your project settings for
DVDs will still be relevant.
| | 00:41 |
So the first thing you might do is set a
name.
| | 00:44 |
Now I'm working on a DVD for a music
video called Somebody, woops that's not
| | 00:48 |
how you type it, Somebody Loves You, and
you're going to choose a location.
| | 00:54 |
Well, I'm happy with the location or
perhaps actually I'll, I'll maybe add an
| | 00:59 |
extra directory here, so we're going to
make a Creating a project folder.
| | 01:06 |
There we go.
Great.
| | 01:08 |
And then, under Project Settings, I can
choose whether I'm going to author as a
| | 01:11 |
Blu-ray or a DVD.
Now you can change this later, it doesn't
| | 01:15 |
really matter if you set it now but it,
kind of is, I guess it's good to start as
| | 01:18 |
you mean to go on.
If I choose DVD, I get information about
| | 01:23 |
the transcode settings.
Now, the word transcode just means
| | 01:26 |
converting video from one format to
another, or, I guess, converting audio
| | 01:30 |
from one format to another.
So that's that conversion process, but,
| | 01:34 |
to my mind, the word also implies a sense
of conforming to a particular standard.
| | 01:39 |
In this case, we're going to be conforming
to an MPEG-2 file with 720 by 576
| | 01:43 |
dimensions, a frame rate of 25, and low
filled first fields.
| | 01:48 |
Now fields is to do with interlacing with
video.
| | 01:51 |
If you imagine a film camera would be
shooting what would be called in video
| | 01:55 |
terms, progressive video or progressive
media.
| | 01:59 |
That's whole frames, 25 of them a second.
With interlaced video each of those
| | 02:04 |
frames is divided into odd and even
lines.
| | 02:07 |
If you imagine your TV screen is drawing
horizontal lines across the screen, and
| | 02:11 |
all the odd lines get drawn first and
then all of the even lines.
| | 02:15 |
Or not, it could be the other way around,
and that's down to the coefficient
| | 02:19 |
standard that you're using.
We've got here, an audio transcode scheme
| | 02:23 |
of using Adobe digital, and in fact,
although you need a license from Adobe to
| | 02:27 |
be able to say on your DVD boxes that
it's encoded with Adobe, the encoder is
| | 02:30 |
included as standard with Encore, and it
does produce nice AC3 audio.
| | 02:36 |
Then we've got the maximum bit rate, and
this is what we need to think about and
| | 02:40 |
have a look at.
We can obviously choose between PAL and
| | 02:44 |
NTSC, and you do need to think carefully
about this because PAL and NTSC are
| | 02:47 |
fundamentally different formats.
They really are completely separate, and
| | 02:52 |
they've got different frame rates,
they've got different sizes, different
| | 02:55 |
color system, and you need to be thinking
carefully about what your output is going
| | 02:58 |
to be.
I would not recommend putting PAL media,
| | 03:02 |
even if it let you, putting PAL media
into Encore for an NTSC project.
| | 03:08 |
Try to get your assets right first and
then, again, continue with the same
| | 03:11 |
format start as you mean to go on.
If I choose NTSC, you can see that the
| | 03:16 |
frame rate changes to 29.97 frames per
second.
| | 03:19 |
Actually, you'll be working at 30 frames
per second, but the playback is 29.97,
| | 03:23 |
which matches the transmission standard
for NTSC, the dimensions change, and so on.
| | 03:29 |
If I choose Bluray, of course then, I'm
going to get different dimensions, but
| | 03:33 |
the framerates are much the same.
So, I'm going to go for DVD here, because
| | 03:38 |
I'm working with regular Pal media, and
it's standard def, 720 by 576 power media.
| | 03:45 |
If I click on the default transcode
settings button, now you're probably not
| | 03:48 |
going to change this to often while your
working with Encore.
| | 03:52 |
What we've got here is the maximum bit
rate, now the bit rate if you like is the
| | 03:56 |
amount of water flowing through the pipe,
it's how much data per second is going to
| | 04:00 |
be used to playback the media.
And as they say, a picture paints a
| | 04:05 |
thousand words.
Well, how many words do we have per frame
| | 04:09 |
to describe the contents of the image?
Now, in principle, a regular DVD set-up
| | 04:14 |
top box will play back up to 9.4
megabits, that's million bits per second,
| | 04:19 |
it's quite a lot.
I've seen some issues with set top boxes,
| | 04:23 |
not all set top boxes will play that data
rate.
| | 04:27 |
And in fact, I've seen, not a huge
amount of improvement switching between 8
| | 04:30 |
mega second, and 7 mega per second as a
data rate.
| | 04:34 |
Broadly speaking, I tend to set minimums
and maximums between 5 megasecond and 7
| | 04:39 |
megasecond of data rate, so I often set
this to 7 just to be on the safe side.
| | 04:45 |
And you'll see that the other options
here are grayed out, and this is partly
| | 04:49 |
because the playback settings for DVDs
are absolutely fixed.
| | 04:53 |
There's a whitebook standard that
specifies how the media should be encoded.
| | 04:59 |
That allows the DVD set top box
manufactures to know exactly what their
| | 05:02 |
hardware's going to be doing, and they
don't have to support multiple formats.
| | 05:07 |
Of course alot of the newer set top boxes
are even including things like, USB
| | 05:10 |
socket for you to plug, little USB stick
drive in and access media on there, and
| | 05:13 |
that's supporting all kinds of things.
But if you want to a white book standard
| | 05:18 |
DVD, it must match these settings.
Under the audio transcoding options, I've
| | 05:23 |
got Adobe Digital, frankly my first
choice, MPEG audio, which is pretty
| | 05:26 |
efficient, not quite as slick and smooth
and lovely as the Adobe Digital, and then
| | 05:30 |
PCM which is fully uncompressed.
And you know I, I would probably go for
| | 05:36 |
the Dolby Digtial.
Under BluRay, again, I've got maximum bit
| | 05:40 |
rate, 15 is probably fine, you might need
to experiment a little bit.
| | 05:45 |
Then again, we've got the codec.
Now, the video format for regular DVDs is
| | 05:50 |
just tied down, it's locked down as
MPEC2, motion picture expos group, a
| | 05:54 |
version two.
Of course now we're working on MPEG4
| | 05:59 |
which is really H264.
H264 is kind of a broad name for a
| | 06:02 |
compression standard with lots and lots
of different formats, lots of different
| | 06:07 |
resolutions and frame rates.
My option for blue ray would always to be
| | 06:12 |
for H264, because it's a more advanced
codec, you'll get better picture quality
| | 06:15 |
for the same data rate.
And then we've got dimensions, because
| | 06:20 |
within the Blu-Ray standard you don't
just have to stick to your 720 by 576, or
| | 06:24 |
720 by 480 for NTSC, there's quite a few
options available.
| | 06:29 |
If you're technically, if you're working
on a really long project that you want to
| | 06:32 |
fit onto a single disk, I guess you could
go for 1280 by 720.
| | 06:37 |
And if you're not familiar with HD
formats, just to avoid you being caught
| | 06:40 |
out, so you can impress people at parties
that you know all about HD I guess.
| | 06:45 |
HD formats tend to be referred to in
terms of their vertical resolution.
| | 06:50 |
So 720 is actually 1280 by 720, and 1080,
well, technically, I guess 1080 is 1920
| | 06:56 |
by 1080, that's full-blown HD.
That's, there's well over 50 or 60
| | 07:02 |
different formats for HD.
And HD just means higher definition.
| | 07:06 |
It doesn't really mean a specific
standard, but technically 720 is HD, and
| | 07:10 |
a lot of HD TV is broadcast that way, but
1920 by 1080 is what I would call full HD.
| | 07:17 |
Having said that, some very high end
broadcast high definition cameras, like
| | 07:21 |
the Sony HD Cam System, for example, they
actually shoot 40, 40 by 1080, and the
| | 07:25 |
extra horizontal resolution is
interpreted out for playback.
| | 07:31 |
So 40, 40, by 1080 is a perfectly
legitimate HD standard.
| | 07:35 |
And you can probably tell by the lack of
direction I am giving here, that there is
| | 07:39 |
no official right or wrong option here.
It's down to the results that you want to
| | 07:44 |
achieve as a creative, and then as a
frame rate, this is wonderful, you can
| | 07:47 |
choose 50 frames per second, if you like.
So you could, for example, work with a
| | 07:53 |
really high quality motion.
Of course if your source media isn't 50
| | 07:57 |
frames per second, that's a bit of a
waste of time.
| | 08:00 |
And here, of course, lastly, I've got the
option for Adobe Digital or PCM, you
| | 08:04 |
don't get MPEG audio if you're operating
in this format.
| | 08:09 |
So now, if I go back to, DVD settings,
that's fine, I'll click Okay.
| | 08:14 |
I've got my name for my project, I've got
my location, I've got my encoding
| | 08:17 |
standard, and I'm going to click Okay.
And now I'm into my project, and ready to
| | 08:24 |
start working.
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| Importing media assets| 00:02 |
Here I am in my blank project.
And this is ready now for me to import
| | 00:07 |
some assets.
And importing is super easy with Encore.
| | 00:11 |
I can just double-click on the blank
space in the Project panel, find an
| | 00:14 |
asset, let's say, for example, I'm going
to take this Somebody Loves You movie,
| | 00:18 |
open that up and I've got the asset.
So, if I want to, if I total over to my
| | 00:24 |
folder here, I can drag and drop things
in as well.
| | 00:28 |
Absolutely fine.
There's also a shortcut if I go back into Encore.
| | 00:33 |
I can right-click and choose Import As.
Now, within Encore, just having an asset
| | 00:39 |
doesn't really work in terms of the
contents being included in your DVD disc.
| | 00:45 |
You have to have that asset incorporated
into either a timeline, or a menu, or
| | 00:50 |
just as a slideshow.
So you can import as an asset, this is
| | 00:54 |
the same equivalent of me
double-clicking, and I can choose an item
| | 00:58 |
and import it.
But if you want to shortcut that, if I
| | 01:02 |
just delete these, and selecting them by
lassoing and hitting delete, I can
| | 01:05 |
right-click, Import As for example,
timeline, choose that movie file and Open
| | 01:09 |
and that's generated a timeline for me
automatically that I can use on my disc.
| | 01:15 |
Of course, the longer way around of that
is to import it and then to right-click
| | 01:19 |
or Ctrl-click on it and choose New, and
choose Timeline.
| | 01:24 |
I can do the same thing with still
images.
| | 01:26 |
If I want to, I can double-click, I
browse to some stills, I can select them,
| | 01:30 |
Shift-select all of them, and so on, and
import them.
| | 01:34 |
But if I intend to use those stills as a
slideshow, then I just need to
| | 01:38 |
right-click, Import As > Slideshow, and
then, browse to the items, select all,
| | 01:43 |
Command-A or Ctrl-A, and Open.
And when I do that, Encore's going to
| | 01:49 |
import the items and automatically put
them into a slideshow.
| | 01:54 |
Now, frankly, this, all this is doing for
me is saving me a few clicks.
| | 01:58 |
This isn't transforming the process of
making DVDs, it's just a few clicks quicker.
| | 02:03 |
And now that I've done that, if I go to
my New Item button at the bottom of my
| | 02:06 |
Project panel, and then choose Folder.
Maybe I'll call this, Still images, and
| | 02:12 |
I'll just clean things up a bit.
I'm going to select these images and drop
| | 02:16 |
them in there.
And I'll, I'll maybe put just the images
| | 02:21 |
in there I think.
There we go.
| | 02:25 |
And I'll put the stars in as well.
So, I've got my still images nice and
| | 02:29 |
tidy in a folder and I've got my
slideshow all ready to use.
| | 02:33 |
In fact, it's just taken the first image
name there and named the slideshow after that.
| | 02:40 |
I can right-click and choose rename or
Ctrl-click and I'll call this Slideshow 001.
| | 02:50 |
And you'll notice as I do that it's
updated in the Properties panel.
| | 02:54 |
The very, very important Properties panel
onto the name entry as well.
| | 02:58 |
While I'm here, I suppose it would be a
good idea for me to also bring in the
| | 03:01 |
audio that I'll use for that slideshow,
and let's also import some additional
| | 03:05 |
timelines here.
I've got another video directory, let's
| | 03:11 |
lasso these and there we are, I've
automatically got the timelines.
| | 03:16 |
Now, we're already looking a little bit
busy aren't we as an interface?
| | 03:20 |
So, maybe I'll make a new folder here and
I'll call this Source Video.
| | 03:24 |
I'm just individually selecting each of
these items and I'm going to drag those
| | 03:30 |
into my Source Video folder, this just
tidies up my view.
| | 03:35 |
In, fact while I'm here, I'll be super
organized and have a Source Audio folder
| | 03:40 |
and put that in as well.
So this is just a way of me organizing my
| | 03:45 |
project, and I strongly encourage you, I
want you to picture visions of fields of
| | 03:50 |
sunshine and meadow flowers, and think of
the happy time you'll have if you
| | 03:53 |
organize your project in this way.
If you go the lazy route and just have a
| | 04:01 |
bunch of stuff all cluttering up you
Project panel, it can get pretty mucky.
| | 04:06 |
You can really lose track very easily of
your media and which things are assets
| | 04:10 |
and which things are timelines and so on.
So the more you can organize your assets
| | 04:15 |
at the very, very beginning, the easier
the experience is going to be when you're
| | 04:18 |
making your DVD.
You can also import things as a menu.
| | 04:23 |
And if you've got, for example let me go
back into my media.
| | 04:28 |
Here we go.
I've got a menu start folder and I've got
| | 04:32 |
a PSD here.
If you build a PSD, a Photoshop document
| | 04:37 |
that is designed to be a menu, just to
show this as a Detail here.
| | 04:44 |
There we are.
Then you can import that and Encore will
| | 04:47 |
automatically make it into a menu, rather
than have it as still image.
| | 04:51 |
Now, the upside with this is that it
gives you total control over the contents
| | 04:54 |
of your menus.
Downside with it is that the naming
| | 04:56 |
conventions for the layers of those
Photoshop documents can be rather complex.
| | 05:00 |
Here, I've just got a multilayer
Photoshop document and you can see that
| | 05:05 |
it's got some text on it, and it's a
couple of layers.
| | 05:09 |
It's got my guy here floating on the
hillside, and, it's okay, but really, I
| | 05:14 |
find that, for speed, it is quicker to
take one of the Library standards and
| | 05:18 |
modify the contents of that in Photoshop
than generate from scratch.
| | 05:26 |
As you wish, if you feel that you want to
go ahead and generate your Photoshop
| | 05:29 |
document menus, go for it.
You can right-click, Import As > menu.
| | 05:34 |
It'll work absolutely fine.
The alternative is that I import
| | 05:38 |
something like that image just as an
asset, and then I could perhaps make a
| | 05:43 |
blank menu.
Let's just get Blank menu WIDE, I'm
| | 05:48 |
working with wide screen media.
And I can drag the image on to that and
| | 05:51 |
have it as background.
You can see it's massively bigger than my
| | 05:56 |
menu, so I'm going to need to shrink that
down a lot.
| | 06:00 |
This is taken from a 4K by 3K image and
it's big.
| | 06:05 |
So, either way, you can bring media
assets in and use them as background for
| | 06:10 |
menu, and also have video as background
for a menu, just drag and drop it as an asset.
| | 06:17 |
And you can import prebuilt menus, and
perhaps you got one as a corporate
| | 06:21 |
design, you might take a standard menu
design.
| | 06:25 |
Something real, real simple and you might
if I, if I'd take one of these for
| | 06:29 |
example goodness.
What have we got?
| | 06:33 |
Let's have a simple element menu here.
You might have an item like this, you can
| | 06:38 |
open that in Photoshop, make it your
corporate standard, and then save that
| | 06:43 |
out somewhere else as a Photoshop
document.
| | 06:47 |
And in that case, you might, well,
right-click, Import As > menu and work
| | 06:51 |
with your standard free organization.
So that's importing assets into Encore.
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| Compression settings| 00:02 |
Encore has a really nice facility for
automatically transcoding or converting
| | 00:06 |
your media from whatever the source
format was into your output to your disk
| | 00:10 |
either as a DVD or as a Bluray.
Or for that matter to Flash video for the web.
| | 00:17 |
However, you might have already done your
transcoding.
| | 00:20 |
You might of converted it, your media,
using the Adobe Media Encoder for
| | 00:23 |
example, in which case, Encore will quite
happily just rewrap, or rather, remove
| | 00:26 |
the wrapper from your media, and put it
on the disk.
| | 00:31 |
That's fine too.
But if you are going to get Encore to do the
| | 00:33 |
encoding, one of the nice features of it,
is that it will automatically calculate
| | 00:37 |
the data rate, based on the duration of
your media, and the available space on
| | 00:40 |
your disk.
Let's have a little look at some of these
| | 00:44 |
compression settings and just get a sense
of what the options are.
| | 00:48 |
First of all, I've got four bits of video
in my project here and if I expand out
| | 00:52 |
this panel a little bit, you can see I've
got the DVD transcode status,
| | 00:56 |
untranscoded, and this transcode setting
is set to automatic.
| | 01:03 |
And that just means same thing for the
Bluray and so on.
| | 01:06 |
And that just means that I'm trusting
Encore to know what it's doing.
| | 01:11 |
If I right-click, or control click, on
one of these items, I've got the option
| | 01:14 |
to transcode right now.
don't really need to do that for the
| | 01:18 |
purposes of building the DVD, but I guess
if I'm, going out to lunch or something,
| | 01:21 |
I might set it off and have it ready for
when I get back.
| | 01:25 |
I can have Encore show me the transcoded
file that's being produced.
| | 01:29 |
If I want to just look at it or maybe
even delete it.
| | 01:31 |
What I want here is the transcode
settings options.
| | 01:35 |
Now under the transcode settings, I've
got DVD transcode settings.
| | 01:39 |
Notice the little indentation line around
the settings.
| | 01:42 |
And I've got the Bluray transcoding
settings.
| | 01:45 |
Now, under the DVD transcoding, which is
what we're looking at first of all, and
| | 01:48 |
currently set to automatic.
And then I have a whole series of
| | 01:51 |
presets, which might look a bit archane,
but it makes a lot of sense when you know
| | 01:54 |
what the numbers and letters mean.
First of all it's PAL DV, that's okay.
| | 01:59 |
It's regular PAL 720x576 images.
And then I've got the data rate, 4 meg is
| | 02:04 |
pretty low but it's often okay for things
that aren't moving too fast.
| | 02:09 |
What you'll find with compression is
that, the more quickly the image changes,
| | 02:13 |
the less efficient the compression will
be, because it has to use more of then
| | 02:16 |
information to register the changes,
rather than a nice sharp detailed image.
| | 02:22 |
And you'll see some softening, some
pixelating even on the very fast moving
| | 02:26 |
smoky stuff.
And if you have pictures of trees with
| | 02:29 |
the leaves moving in the wind.
So 8 mega second, 7 mega second.
| | 02:34 |
These are good data rates.
Of course, automatic, will just go as
| | 02:37 |
high as it can.
We've also got a progressive option here,
| | 02:39 |
where it's not interlaced video at all.
Now where it says VBR or CBR that's
| | 02:44 |
referring to variable bit rate or
constant bit rate.
| | 02:48 |
And all that means is that if you have a
constant bit rate the amount of data used
| | 02:53 |
to record and replay one frame of content
will not change over time.
| | 03:00 |
So it's a steady amount of data.
Which is less efficient than the variable
| | 03:05 |
bit rate, which looks at the complexity
of the image, and assigns more data to
| | 03:08 |
the more complex images, and less data to
the less complex images.
| | 03:14 |
In principle, variable bit rate will get
you better overall appearance in your
| | 03:18 |
results, than the constant bit rate, but
it does take longer to encode.
| | 03:24 |
Because in order to do a variable bit
rate, Encore has to look at the media
| | 03:27 |
once, and analyze it, and then do the
compression the second time around.
| | 03:32 |
That's why you'll see here, that VBR is
two pass, and CBR is one pass.
| | 03:38 |
Now even if I leave this on automatic, I
can then go in and edit these presets.
| | 03:43 |
Before I get into that have a look here.
I've got a use maximum render quality
| | 03:47 |
option and I've got a use frame blending
option.
| | 03:50 |
Now these are particularly relevant if
you're scaling your image.
| | 03:54 |
So if you're mixing and matching media
between say HD, high definition and
| | 03:57 |
standard definition content.
Taking this box will mean that the
| | 04:01 |
scaling that takes place, the resizing of
the image, will be better quality,
| | 04:04 |
although it does take longer to render.
Equally, if you are changing the
| | 04:08 |
framerate of your media, perhaps you've
got some stuff that's 24 frames per
| | 04:12 |
second, you're putting in at 25 frames
per second, or at 29.97 frames per second
| | 04:16 |
project using frame blending will do a
much smoother job of generating or
| | 04:19 |
removing the frames that need to be added
or removed.
| | 04:25 |
It does take longer to render, though.
If you're not doing either of those
| | 04:28 |
things, there's not a great deal of
benefit in ticking these boxes.
| | 04:32 |
If I go into Edit Quality Presets, I'm in
an encoding settings window that's very
| | 04:36 |
similar to the one that you'll find
inside of Premiere Pro.
| | 04:41 |
In here I can change the format, I can
choose some presets for the size, I can
| | 04:45 |
choose the quality, the data rate, and
the same for the audio.
| | 04:50 |
So these are more detailed settings for
the encoding.
| | 04:53 |
My advice is, if you know all about
encoding, go ahead, enjoy, change the GOP
| | 04:57 |
structure, set the minimum and maximum
target for regular and MPEG2 DVDs for example.
| | 05:04 |
I commonly set my minimum to five, my
maximum to seven, gives me good results.
| | 05:09 |
If you don't know about these things then
okay works for me.
| | 05:13 |
(LAUGH) If you don't know what encoding
means, what group a picture is, and
| | 05:17 |
you're not too keen on getting into those
detailed controls You're not likely to
| | 05:20 |
see a very very dramatic improvement in
the quality of encoding, the Encore
| | 05:24 |
preforms by tweaking those setting.
You will get some sense of a noticeble
| | 05:30 |
improvement if you are working with, for
example, very fast action material, you
| | 05:34 |
may want to drop the GOP structure and so
on.
| | 05:39 |
But generally speaking, automatic works
fine in Encore.
| | 05:43 |
And here, of course, back on my transcode
settings window, I can choose from my
| | 05:47 |
Bluray whether I'm going to do H264, which
is the more advanced compression system,
| | 05:50 |
or MPEG2.
The H264 takes longer to encode, it's
| | 05:54 |
harder work, but the results are
generally nicer.
| | 05:57 |
Then I've got my frame size, the frame
rate, 25 frames per second or 50.
| | 06:02 |
Again, if you're not working 50 frames
per second media, there's no real benefit
| | 06:06 |
in setting this to 50, it's just going to
reduce the quality effectively, because
| | 06:10 |
you've got more frames taking up space on
the disk.
| | 06:15 |
And then here we've got the quality
presets.
| | 06:18 |
Just like the ones for regular DVDs but
you can use to assign to the individual
| | 06:23 |
piece of media.
So, that's the trench coat setting in a
| | 06:27 |
little bit of detail.
And of course, I can change the default
| | 06:31 |
so that when I first go into on call and
I'm choosing my default blue-ray and DVD setting.
| | 06:37 |
What are they going to be, and you can set
that in here as well.
| | 06:41 |
Generally speaking, if I just cancel out
of this.
| | 06:45 |
You can write local Control Click.
You can specify Automatic, click Okay.
| | 06:50 |
Transcode now.
You don't actually have to transcode at
| | 06:53 |
any point during the authoring process.
You can always leave it till you build
| | 06:57 |
the DVD.
When you click build on the build window,
| | 07:01 |
let's just bring that up, when you click
on that Encore will automatically do the,
| | 07:06 |
encoding for you and then burn the DVD.
Of course it means waiting around for a
| | 07:12 |
while but it does happen automatically.
The DVD can't be burned unless the
| | 07:16 |
transcoding's already taken place.
Just a little note on the compression
| | 07:21 |
settings as well for menus, is that, a
menu is a mysterious thing on a DVD.
| | 07:26 |
Inside of Encore you're working on it as
a Photoshop document.
| | 07:30 |
It's all available for you to click on
items and make changes, and retype
| | 07:34 |
things, that's fine.
But once it gets on to the DVD, it's
| | 07:37 |
actually going to be a flattened layer,
with various invisible layers with color
| | 07:42 |
regions on them highlighting items for
the set top box, to define whether
| | 07:45 |
they're buttons, or text, or whatever.
So, right now, inside of Encore, you're
| | 07:52 |
seeing things in a very editable format.
When you convert your DVD to become a set
| | 07:58 |
top box, playable disc, none of that
stuff is going to be available.
| | 08:02 |
It is a flattened image.
And the same applies, if you have motion
| | 08:05 |
DVDs with video playing in them.
You're going to lose all of that detail
| | 08:10 |
when it's compressed into a video_TS
folder as it will be on a DVD disc.
| | 08:16 |
All of that just becomes a flattened
image with some highlights that the setup
| | 08:20 |
box can recognize to show the user where
the buttons are.
| | 08:24 |
So that's a pretty brief overview of
transcoding a compression settings but I
| | 08:27 |
hope it's enough to get you in there and
playing around with it.
| | 08:31 |
If you feel so inclined, no need though
if don't want to you can just use the
| | 08:37 |
automatic mode.
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3. Creating a Simple DVDSetting up the project and importing assets| 00:02 |
Let's just have a look at the most
straightforward process of building a
| | 00:06 |
suimple DVD in Encore.
So that you're in a position to get some
| | 00:11 |
assets, bring them into Encore, connect
them altogether, and burn them out to a
| | 00:15 |
DVD or a flash video of some kind.
And I just want to show you this so that
| | 00:20 |
there's real clarity for you about what
the different items in the interface are
| | 00:24 |
doing as you go through that process,
before we get into a more detailed
| | 00:28 |
controls and advanced interaction on the
disc.
| | 00:33 |
So, lets imagine we've started up Encore,
in fact, here we are, we have started up Encore.
| | 00:37 |
And I'm going to choose a New Project.
And in here, I'm going to give this
| | 00:41 |
project a name.
And I guess I'll call this just a DVD.
| | 00:46 |
Nice and simple.
And I'm going to give it a location.
| | 00:51 |
Now lets browse, and lets make a folder
here, this is going to be creating a
| | 00:55 |
simple DVD.
Okay, let's put it in there, and then
| | 00:58 |
I've got my project settings and I'm
pretty happy with the standards that I've
| | 01:00 |
used before.
And in fact there's a note on the new
| | 01:02 |
project panel here, a project's authoring
mode can be changed at any time in the
| | 01:04 |
project settings dialog.
In fact, if you're working with high
| | 01:09 |
definition media and you want to produce
a high-def and a standard-def version of
| | 01:16 |
the same DVD, it's completely fine to do
that.
| | 01:22 |
Make the entire thing in high definition.
First, you've got the maximum picture resolution.
| | 01:27 |
And then, when you go to your Build menu,
you can just switch it over to being a
| | 01:30 |
DVD, and output that as a DVD.
And Encore will re-transcode.
| | 01:35 |
In fact, it doesn't replace the existing
transcoded files, the existing converted files.
| | 01:40 |
It will make new versions.
So you can toggle backwards and forwards
| | 01:43 |
between the 2 whenever you like.
You can even take the same assets, and
| | 01:47 |
produce a web DVD version as well.
So it's pretty easy to choose the output
| | 01:51 |
later on.
I don't need to change any advance settings.
| | 01:55 |
There aren't any, I only have one player
installed on my machine.
| | 01:58 |
I'm pretty happy with that.
I'm going to click Okay.
| | 02:01 |
Now let's just re-size things a little
bit.
| | 02:03 |
So I'm now in my empty interface for
Encore and I'm going to import some media.
| | 02:08 |
And I'll do this the long way around.
So I'm going to double Click to browse to
| | 02:13 |
My Imports as asset window.
So again if you don't do import as.
| | 02:18 |
I just cancel out.
Right Click or Control Click Import As,
| | 02:22 |
if I import As a timeline this process
will be shortcut.
| | 02:26 |
I'm not going to do that, I'm just going to
browse up a little bit here and here we
| | 02:30 |
go the Somebody Loves You movie is what
I'm going to include on this disk.
| | 02:35 |
I click Open and that's now in my project
panel.
| | 02:38 |
Now, If I wanted to, all I would have to
do to make this into a DVD that would
| | 02:42 |
play as soon as you put the disk into a
setup box is turn this movie file into a timeline.
| | 02:49 |
So in Encore, assets don't go onto DVDs.
It's timelines, it's chapter playlists,
| | 02:55 |
those kinds of things that actually
appear on the disc.
| | 03:00 |
And I need to put this movie into a
timeline in order for it to work.
| | 03:05 |
And I see actually I've got some blank
timelines down here in my interface, so
| | 03:09 |
I'm just going to close down these, I don't
have any slideshows, that's fine.
| | 03:14 |
So now I'm going to select this item and
I can either Right Click or Control Click
| | 03:18 |
on it and choose New Timeline or what I'm
going to do is select it and go to the New
| | 03:22 |
item button this posted note's a standard
feature in Adobe applications and I'm
| | 03:26 |
going to choose Timeline there.
And this is going to generate a timeline
| | 03:32 |
for me and pen it in a Timeline panel.
You have multiple timeline panel open at
| | 03:37 |
the same time in the same project.
But here we are, that's generated and if
| | 03:42 |
I drag through this, there we are,
there's the contents of my movie.
| | 03:46 |
Now you'll notice that this file,
actually it's pretty low resolution, if I
| | 03:50 |
have it selected in My Project panel I
can see at the top here I get a thumbnail
| | 03:53 |
that I can view.
This is a 526x288, pretty low resolution
| | 03:58 |
version, just to make it easier for you
to download the assets.
| | 04:02 |
That accompany this workshop video, and I
can see it's 25 frames per second, and I
| | 04:07 |
can see the duration's about 5 minutes 49
seconds.
| | 04:12 |
Now that I've created that timeline,
which represents the first asset that
| | 04:16 |
will actually appear on my disk, you will
hopefully be able to see there's a little
| | 04:20 |
circle on the top left corner of the
timeline icon, which has got a little
| | 04:24 |
tiny triangle in it, and that icon tells
me that this is the first play.
| | 04:32 |
In fact, if I select the Timeline, you
can see it says first play in My
| | 04:35 |
Information panel here.
And what that means is that whatever I
| | 04:39 |
have as the first play is the first thing
that will be displayed when the disc is
| | 04:43 |
put into my setup box.
And really, if I just want to have a disc
| | 04:48 |
that I can give to somebody to play and
have a look at what I produced.
| | 04:53 |
I literally can go to the Build panel
now, make sure that I've got the DVD
| | 04:57 |
selected, rather than for example,
Blu-ray or Flash.
| | 05:01 |
Then if I have a disc in the drive, which
of course I don't right now.
| | 05:05 |
I can click Build, it's grayed out right
now because I don't have a disc to burn to.
| | 05:10 |
If I change this to Flash format, which
will generate an HTML page containing a
| | 05:14 |
flash movie version of my DVD, I can
build this right away.
| | 05:20 |
If I have this set the DVD though, I put
a blank disk to my recorder, I click
| | 05:24 |
build and that's it.
Oncall automatically transcode this movie
| | 05:29 |
file, if I just drag across a little bit
here, you can see that DVD transcode
| | 05:33 |
settings are set to Automatic.
So Encore will look at the available
| | 05:38 |
space on my disk and based on my maximum
bit rate, which I set when I set my
| | 05:41 |
project settings, which was seven
megabits per second, in this case it's
| | 05:44 |
going to max out at seven megabits per
second, because there's plenty of room
| | 05:48 |
for it, but it'll generate that media and
then it'll burn the disk.
| | 05:54 |
And that is it, that is all that you need
to do in order to generate a simple DVD.
| | 05:59 |
Now, if I want it to go a little bit
further and produce some kind of
| | 06:03 |
interaction, I might well decide that I
want to have a simple menu.
| | 06:09 |
So, maybe what I'll do is import an image
to use as the background for a menu.
| | 06:13 |
I'm just going to Double-Click again.
I'm going to go to My Stills Folder here.
| | 06:18 |
Let's have this as extra large icons and
see what might make a good background.
| | 06:23 |
Actually, I kind of like that first one.
I've got a bunch of stills here that were
| | 06:26 |
taken from the original media.
Yeah, that one's kind of good.
| | 06:31 |
let's just go for this close up, I think
that's kind of a cool background, okay?
| | 06:36 |
Now that I've done that I can use this as
the background of a menu.
| | 06:43 |
Now, you could be caught out here because
if I wanted to, I could select the item,
| | 06:47 |
pick on the New Item button and choose
menu.
| | 06:51 |
But what I'm going to get is Encore's
Default menu, as a Default.
| | 06:55 |
menu type, and that's not really what I
want to happen, so I'm just going to undo that.
| | 07:00 |
And instead, I'm going to go to My Library,
I'm going to scroll up to My Blank menu
| | 07:04 |
Wide, I'm working with wide screen media,
and I'm going to Double Click.
| | 07:09 |
And this is going to generate an Empty
menu for me.
| | 07:12 |
Now, apart from this media, if I just go
back to My Timeline, apart from this
| | 07:16 |
media being low resolution, it's 526 by
288.
| | 07:21 |
It also has letter boxing on it.
So what you're seeing here at the top and
| | 07:25 |
bottom of the image is not part of the
Encore interface, it's because black bars
| | 07:28 |
top and bottom to make this a truly
widescreen movie.
| | 07:33 |
If I now go to My menu I can drag and
drop that JPEG onto it.
| | 07:38 |
See it's pretty low resolution there but
I can just click and resize this and that
| | 07:42 |
will now make a background for my menu.
I'm going to need to make this the first
| | 07:48 |
play so I'm going to select the item in the
Project panel over in My Properties panel.
| | 07:53 |
I'm just going to rename this main menu.
Just for my benefit not for Encore, so I
| | 07:57 |
know what's going on.
And I'm going to maybe make a link to
| | 08:01 |
play the movie, so I'm going to select the
Text tool and maybe I'll put this on his
| | 08:06 |
chin, and I'll say, Play.
There we are, I go back to My Selection
| | 08:13 |
tool here and in My Character Settings
menu I'm going to make this maybe a lot
| | 08:17 |
bigger, maybe 72 point.
Let's see, how is that, how does that
| | 08:22 |
look if I put it over his mouth.
Maybe pretty ridiculous, so let's just
| | 08:26 |
put it, maybe I'll put it on the black
bar down at the bottom here.
| | 08:30 |
Now I need to be careful, because if I
turn on here, I've got show safe area.
| | 08:35 |
Now just re-size this window a little
bit.
| | 08:38 |
You can see that now, the outer box is
the safe action area, that means that on
| | 08:42 |
most TVs.
This is going to be on screen, That's fine.
| | 08:47 |
If I move this down, it's going to
potentially be off screen, there we go.
| | 08:52 |
Now, if I move up a little bit, it's
going to be inside the safe title action
| | 08:56 |
zone, which is this inner box.
And that means really on a wonky TV set
| | 09:00 |
with a really badly calibrated screen.
I'm still going to be able to see this text.
| | 09:05 |
And I'm going to just bring it down a little
bit because I don't really want to cut
| | 09:09 |
across his chin there, that's fine.
I can also, just to be on the safe side,
| | 09:14 |
Right Click or Control Click and I can
align this relative to the safe areas,
| | 09:17 |
those are those safe action zones, and
then Right Click, or Control Click and align.
| | 09:24 |
Now, that I've got it relative to the
safe areas I can align it in the center
| | 09:27 |
so it's just a little bit nudging across
there to get it in the middle of the screen.
| | 09:33 |
If I want this to be a button, because at
the moment it really is just text, I can
| | 09:36 |
Right Click or Control Click and choose
Convert To button, and that's a button
| | 09:39 |
that I can now link to My Movie.
First thing I'm going to do though is go to
| | 09:45 |
My Blank Space, I'm going to click on the
Blank Space of the Project panel.
| | 09:50 |
I'm going to go to the Properties panel,
which now gives me the properties for My
| | 09:55 |
Disk and I'm going to rename this my just
a DVD title, and that means that if I put
| | 10:00 |
this disc into a computer of some kind
that'll be the title of the disc, that's
| | 10:04 |
what will come up.
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| Linking everything together| 00:02 |
Now that I've got my assets in place, I
need to link everything together.
| | 00:06 |
And the first thing I'm going to want to do
is set the DVD to use my main menu as the
| | 00:10 |
First Play, rather than this movie.
And the way to do that is, you kinda just
| | 00:15 |
have to know this about Encore.
It's one of the very few things that you
| | 00:19 |
just have to know.
And the way to access the settings for
| | 00:22 |
the DVD, itself rather than any
individual asset is to click into the
| | 00:26 |
Project panel, but not on anything in
particular.
| | 00:30 |
And that's going to give me the Disc
properties in my Properties panel.
| | 00:34 |
And here, I can see I've got several
menus that apply to the disc as a whole.
| | 00:40 |
First of all, I've got my First Play.
And I can click on this menu, and I can
| | 00:43 |
browse to any item that I have on the
disk.
| | 00:47 |
In this case, I've just got a simple menu
where I've got Default and Play.
| | 00:52 |
Now what this is giving me the option to
do is highlight a specific button on my menu.
| | 00:58 |
Now, if I just come away from this, the
bottom of my menu monitor here, I've got
| | 01:01 |
the option to show me, the highlights
that are going to be used.
| | 01:06 |
Now you can change these in the menu
settings.
| | 01:09 |
If I go to the menu menu and choose Edit
menu color set, I can go in and make
| | 01:13 |
changes to the colors that are going to
be used.
| | 01:18 |
And these colors represent the selected
state.
| | 01:22 |
The non-selected state, of course,
doesn't have a color.
| | 01:24 |
It's just the original color.
The selected state is the highlight and
| | 01:28 |
the activated state.
You just get a flicker of it when you
| | 01:31 |
select an item on a DVD menu before it
goes to the thing you've chosen.
| | 01:35 |
In this case, I've got a selected state
which is kind of orange.
| | 01:38 |
That's okay for now, and that sort of
pinky red color for the activated state.
| | 01:43 |
Now, imagine if I had five buttons on
this screen, on this DVD.
| | 01:47 |
I might decide that I'm going to to to
the DVD menu with a specific button highlighted.
| | 01:55 |
Maybe I'll have gone to the Subtitle
options.
| | 01:57 |
When I come back to the menu, I want to
come back with a specific button
| | 02:00 |
highlighted to show the user that they've
taken a journey.
| | 02:04 |
That they've gone into those settings and
come back to them again.
| | 02:07 |
So that's why in this menu if I go back
to my first play I can specify the button
| | 02:11 |
on screen that's going to be highlighted.
Default is a setting that you specify for
| | 02:16 |
the menu itself, what the default button
is.
| | 02:19 |
It's usually First, First Play or
something like that, makes it easier for
| | 02:22 |
people who don't have access to their
remote control.
| | 02:25 |
So in this case, I'm going to actually
use this Pick Whips and, you really need
| | 02:29 |
to get comfortable with using Pick Whips,
because they make life so much easier
| | 02:32 |
when you're creating DVDs.
All I have to do to specify a First Play
| | 02:38 |
is click on the icon and drag, and Encore
will only let me drop the connection on
| | 02:42 |
an item that's a legitimate it's linked
to.
| | 02:47 |
Notice I can't link to that JPEG image,
I can't link to the movie file, I can,
| | 02:51 |
like I link back to itself which is
rather pointless or I can link to the
| | 02:55 |
Somebody Loves You timeline.
And when I do that, it updates, and
| | 03:01 |
automatically, it's linking to Chapter 1.
Well, in fact, I only have one chapter on
| | 03:05 |
that movie, because I haven't added any
others so that's completely fine.
| | 03:10 |
What I actually want to do for my disk is
link to my main menu and this is a common
| | 03:13 |
thing that you will find with DVDs, is
that you will input your assets first.
| | 03:18 |
Well, the first asset that you input is
the one that you want to be the First
| | 03:21 |
Play, and then of course, you might
forget further down the line and when you
| | 03:24 |
preview it, it's coming up as a piece of
video as soon as you start the disc.
| | 03:30 |
You're going to be making this First Play
connection a lot as you produce DVDs.
| | 03:35 |
You can also do things for your discs
like set the available operations.
| | 03:39 |
If I set a custom option here, you can
choose to not let the user do anything at
| | 03:42 |
all, other than let the disc play.
And if you're producing a kiosk video,
| | 03:47 |
for example, a DVD that's going to loop in a
museum or something like that.
| | 03:51 |
You probably want to turn everything off
and just have a First Play that comes up
| | 03:54 |
and loops, and loops, and loops to
itself.
| | 03:57 |
But I'm happy for the user to skip
through things.
| | 03:59 |
You can apply the same kind of operation
limitations to videos that you have at
| | 04:03 |
the start of your DVD.
Maybe you'll have a copyright notice or
| | 04:07 |
something like that.
So now, I've got my first play and I want
| | 04:09 |
to make the button I have here, which is
my play button, link to my first chapter
| | 04:13 |
of my movie.
I'm just going to go to my Selection tool,
| | 04:17 |
just click away and click back, so I've
got a whole button selected.
| | 04:22 |
And now, my Properties panel is showing
me the properties for the button that
| | 04:26 |
I've chosen.
Again, I'm going to use the Pick Whip and
| | 04:29 |
I'm going to drag this over to the Somebody
Loves You timeline, and that's now set.
| | 04:34 |
What I haven't done if I select that
timeline is specify what's going to
| | 04:37 |
happen when it finishes.
And if I go to my Properties panel, now
| | 04:41 |
that I've selected it.
Again, I've got the name of the item I
| | 04:44 |
can put a description in which is just
for my benefit.
| | 04:46 |
It's not going to come up on the DVD.
And I've got an end action.
| | 04:50 |
And you need to be thinking about the end
action for every asset on your DVD.
| | 04:55 |
So, I'm going to click on the Pick Whip and
I'm going to drag over to the main menu.
| | 04:58 |
Now, this option means that whatever
happens with my DVD, no matter how I link
| | 05:03 |
the user to that timeline, the timeline
will finish and always link back to that
| | 05:07 |
menu, which is completely fine.
But it might be that you end up creating
| | 05:14 |
a chapter menu.
And if you do that, you might want the
| | 05:17 |
movie to finish playing and then go back
to that menu, instead of the main menu.
| | 05:22 |
And there's a built-in standard for setup
boxes that allows the DVD to jump back to
| | 05:26 |
whatever was the last menu.
The setup box will remember the last menu
| | 05:31 |
you were on.
And to benefit from that, I go to this
| | 05:34 |
end action menu in our Properties panel,
click on the drop-down menu, and choose
| | 05:38 |
to Return to last menu.
And when I do that, the movie will finish
| | 05:43 |
playing, and whatever menu I came from to
it, it will take me back to that menu.
| | 05:48 |
Having made some connections, this is
probably a good time to go to my Build
| | 05:52 |
panel, to click on checked project and
start, and yet, no problems found.
| | 05:57 |
Everything's fine so far.
How about if we add some chapter points?
| | 06:00 |
I'll just resize this timeline panel a
bit.
| | 06:03 |
And I'm going to click on the Add chapter
button.
| | 06:06 |
And I'm going to do this pretty randomly.
You can have Encore automatically add
| | 06:10 |
chapters, at intervals if you
right-click, you've got at chapter points
| | 06:14 |
at intervals.
That's Control+Click on a Mac and you can
| | 06:17 |
specify, okay, every 5 minutes or every
30 seconds, or whatever you want.
| | 06:22 |
So if you're working on a very long
program and you're in a hurry you can
| | 06:24 |
just set these chapter points
automatically.
| | 06:27 |
But let's say I'm happy with that, I've
got four chapters including the first one
| | 06:30 |
that's there by default.
And I'm going to make a chapters menu, so
| | 06:34 |
again, I'm going to get a blank menu,
let's just resize, double-click Blankmenu WIDE.
| | 06:39 |
Let's import another asset.
Let's go for that white shot standing in
| | 06:43 |
front of a wall.
That's probably a good option.
| | 06:46 |
There we are.
Let's have that on my menu.
| | 06:51 |
Now, this is a thing that catches a lot
of people out.
| | 06:54 |
Right now, I've got my Selection tool,
but it doesn't allow me to select
| | 06:57 |
individual items.
I can't click on that picture.
| | 07:00 |
If I go to the Direct Selection tool,
now, I can click and I can access these things.
| | 07:06 |
And this is a way of differentiating
between for example, buttons and the
| | 07:10 |
parts of buttons.
Particularly, if you want to access button highlights.
| | 07:14 |
So this is going to be my Chapters menu.
I'm going to select it in the :Properties
| | 07:18 |
panel and I'm going to rename it Chapters,
to make life easier for myself, so I know
| | 07:22 |
what's going on.
Then if I go back to my main menu, I'm
| | 07:25 |
going to take this Play button.
I'm going to go back to my Regular Selection
| | 07:29 |
tool, click away, click back, I'm going to
hold down the Alt key, Option on a Mac,
| | 07:33 |
and drag this over to create a copy.
Then I'm going to get my Text tool, I'm
| | 07:39 |
going to double-click, and I'm going to write
Chapters.
| | 07:43 |
There we go.
It's kind of big, isn't it?
| | 07:45 |
So, if I go back to my Selection tool, go
to my Character panel, I'll drop that
| | 07:49 |
down to maybe 48 point.
And I'll position, just somewhere over
| | 07:54 |
here, its not perhaps super elegant, but
it'll work.
| | 07:58 |
Now, I've got that already as a button,
because I've copied an existing button.
| | 08:02 |
So, I'm going to select it, go to my
Properties panel, get my Pick Whip, and
| | 08:05 |
drag that over to my Chapters menu.
So I'm linking menus together in this way
| | 08:11 |
using these buttons.
Maybe I just shunt that up a little bit
| | 08:15 |
into the Into the light space.
Of course, I'm getting into that danger
| | 08:19 |
area of being beyond the Save action
zone.
| | 08:22 |
But if I was outputting for the Web that
wouldn't matter at all.
| | 08:25 |
This is just, if you're working with
monitors that crop the edge of the image.
| | 08:29 |
Now, my Chapters menu.
I need to make some buttons, so I'll get
| | 08:33 |
my text.
In fact, I can use an existing button.
| | 08:36 |
Let me go to my Library here.
I'll do this the quick, easy way.
| | 08:39 |
Let's just use the first thing I can see
here, red facets button.
| | 08:43 |
So I'm going to drag and drop that into my
menu.
| | 08:46 |
There we go.
That's already a button, it's already set
| | 08:48 |
up to operate as a button.
I need four copies of this, so I'm going to
| | 08:52 |
hold down the Alt key on my keyboard, and
click and drag to generate some copies.
| | 08:58 |
There we go.
And there's another one.
| | 09:01 |
I'm just going to Shift-select all of
these, right-click or Control-click, I'm
| | 09:06 |
going to align the center.
There we go.
| | 09:10 |
That just lines them up nice and neatly
together.
| | 09:13 |
I'm going to do the same thing again.
This time, I'm going to distribute
| | 09:17 |
vertically, that keeps it clean.
Maybe, no, maybe I'll just keep it over
| | 09:22 |
there, that's fine.
Now that I've done that, I can link these
| | 09:26 |
together in several ways.
One way is to select the button, go to
| | 09:29 |
the Properties, and drag the link over.
So, let's put that onto my Chapter 1.
| | 09:35 |
Another way is to drag straight from the
timeline.
| | 09:37 |
So I'm going to click this chapter point,
and drop it onto the other button.
| | 09:42 |
Same thing for the third one.
Same thing for the fourth one.
| | 09:45 |
If I now select an item on my menu and
look at it, I can see this is linked to
| | 09:49 |
Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4.
All I'm lacking is a button to go back to
| | 09:54 |
my main menu, so I'll double-click on my
main menu.
| | 09:57 |
I'm going to select, maybe I'll select this
button here.
| | 10:01 |
I'm going to Ctrl+C or Apple+C on a Mac, go
into my Chapters menu, Ctrl+V, and I'm
| | 10:06 |
going to go to my Text tool, which is the
keyboard shortcut T, double-click, Main menu.
| | 10:14 |
Go back to my Selection tool, and maybe,
I just put this under him.
| | 10:19 |
It's not super elegant, but it'll work.
Now, at the moment of course, that link
| | 10:23 |
is still pointing to my Somebody Loves
You, Chapter 1, because I've copied a
| | 10:27 |
button from my main menu.
I'm going to change that link back to the
| | 10:31 |
main menu, and I think I'm good to go.
One last check under the Build panel,
| | 10:38 |
Check project, Start, perfect.
All I need to do now is click build, and
| | 10:43 |
that is how you generates a complete DVD
with chapters, and two menus, very, very
| | 10:48 |
quickly and easily using Encore.
| | 10:53 |
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4. Working with MenusUsing menu templates| 00:02 |
One of the reasons that Encore is such a
user friendly application for generating
| | 00:06 |
DVDs is the inclusion of a large library
of pre-built menus and button designs and images.
| | 00:13 |
And this is a massive time saver.
Not necessarily because you will use the
| | 00:16 |
assets exactly as they come, but because
you can use them as the basis for making
| | 00:20 |
some creative changes that makes them
unique to your project.
| | 00:26 |
Using the library is very, very simple.
Here, I've got a project with some video
| | 00:30 |
and a couple of images and, a timeline
set up with that video.
| | 00:35 |
If I want to create a menu based on a
template, I just locate the menu I want.
| | 00:40 |
that's how it looks, choose something,
here we go, like an entertainment menu.
| | 00:45 |
That's fine.
Double-click and I've added it to my project.
| | 00:50 |
You'll see it turns up in the project
panel automatically.
| | 00:53 |
Now this is a four by three menu and
you'll notice that some of the menus, not
| | 00:56 |
that many really, but some of them are
described as wide, which is wide screen.
| | 01:01 |
Some of them are HD, which are much
higher resolution.
| | 01:05 |
It doesn't make too much odds though,
because in effect, if I want to, I can
| | 01:08 |
select the menu, go to my properties
panel, and switch between aspect ratios.
| | 01:14 |
So at the moment I'm four by three, I can
change that to 16 by nine.
| | 01:18 |
Now the picture resolution, if you're
working in standard def, the picture
| | 01:21 |
resolution comparing four by three and 16
by nine media, is exactly the same.
| | 01:26 |
The difference between them, is that 16
by nine media has wider pixels.
| | 01:31 |
So there's no great loss if you toggle
between them.
| | 01:34 |
And now that I've got that menu, I can
use the buttons.
| | 01:37 |
This already has the buttons built in.
And I can link to them, and I can
| | 01:41 |
redesign them, and change them, and I,
later I might decide to open this menu in
| | 01:44 |
Photoshop and make some more significant
changes.
| | 01:49 |
The others I got on the menu here are
buttons, and in fact their are different
| | 01:52 |
sets, so right now I'm look at the
general set, I can look at a corporate
| | 01:55 |
set, I got all kinds of presets in here.
I also got buttons that relate to those
| | 02:01 |
sets, and I can just add a button.
Let's see if I drag and drop, I can add a
| | 02:06 |
button to my menu, it's kind of dinky
isn't it.
| | 02:10 |
I can resize very easily.
how about the high tech button.
| | 02:14 |
And all of these are effectively groups.
If I go to my layers panel, you can see,
| | 02:19 |
there's my intro presentation layer
group.
| | 02:22 |
This is a regular Photoshop layer group,
and you can see its got a special code.
| | 02:27 |
That identifies the layer group as a
button, for Encore's benefit.
| | 02:34 |
And this is literally just the name of
the item inside of Photoshop.
| | 02:38 |
Here I've got a highlight which has got
the equals one in brackets and these
| | 02:41 |
codes are standardized.
And to be honest, you don't really need
| | 02:45 |
to remember them.
If you just want to go in and take a
| | 02:48 |
template and adjust it and adapt it
inside of Photoshop.
| | 02:51 |
But of course, if you were generating
menus in Photoshop directly, you'd be
| | 02:55 |
using these layer names very precisely.
Back in my library here, I've also got
| | 03:00 |
some pre-built buttons.
Now there are not that many, but if I go
| | 03:03 |
to the general tab you can see I've got a
few different items.
| | 03:07 |
And if I wanted to change one of these
into a button, I could just pull in to my
| | 03:10 |
menu, drag and drop.
Then select the direct access tool, right
| | 03:14 |
click or control click and convert to
button, and that will then behave as a
| | 03:18 |
button and Encore will automatically
generate a highlight, but sadly has
| | 03:21 |
generated a red one, which isn't that
clear against that background.
| | 03:27 |
You can change the colors of course under
the menu, menu.
| | 03:29 |
I've also got some regular backgrounds.
These are just images.
| | 03:32 |
Some of the images are motion menus,
they'll move as video when you play the
| | 03:37 |
disk, and I've also got some layer sets.
And there aren't that many of these but
| | 03:42 |
these are just combinations of multiple
items that you might decide to use in
| | 03:45 |
different ways.
So Adobe has just given quite a lot of
| | 03:49 |
different items that you can build and
add together as you wish.
| | 03:53 |
There's also some text presets.
And sadly, I can't apply a text preset by
| | 03:57 |
selecting some text.
Maybe I'll type here in my increasingly
| | 04:02 |
cluttered menu.
Maybe I'll type in main menu.
| | 04:06 |
There we are.
I can't select that and then assign a
| | 04:10 |
look or a feel to it because every time
you double-click or drag and drop, you
| | 04:15 |
just get an example of that text.
Which of course is very easy to edit by
| | 04:21 |
going to the text tool, double-clicking
and typing some new words.
| | 04:26 |
Whoops, that's not how you type that.
So this is the library.
| | 04:31 |
Very simple to use.
It's just a question of locating the
| | 04:34 |
asset that you like and dragging and
dropping it, or double-clicking to add it
| | 04:37 |
to your project.
Notice that resource central, which is a
| | 04:41 |
kind of a web portal.
Gives you access to some downloadable
| | 04:45 |
menus as well.
There aren't that many, there are some,
| | 04:48 |
there's a few good ones, there' a few
really nice ones, and you add these to
| | 04:52 |
your available menu templates, by
clicking on the download button.
| | 04:57 |
And that will download the item to your
project and it'll add it for that matter.
| | 05:02 |
There we go.
That's now been added to my project.
| | 05:05 |
And you'll notice by the by, that some of
the menus have these gray areas.
| | 05:09 |
And these gray areas are specifically
designed to be replaced by video content.
| | 05:16 |
If I drag and drop one of my chapter
points into this button, automatically,
| | 05:21 |
Encore will show the thumbnail that
represents that chapter point.
| | 05:27 |
Really cool feature.
And in fact, if I make my menu into a
| | 05:30 |
motion menu.
Then this will play as this'll actually
| | 05:34 |
have video inside the cut out.
Again, you can generate this if I go to
| | 05:38 |
my layers.
You can generate this as my chapter two
| | 05:41 |
by going to your Photoshop document and
using the correct naming to make that transparency.
| | 05:49 |
You can see here I've got a percentage
sign in brackets.
| | 05:52 |
But a quick shortcut is just to take a
button from another menu, paste it
| | 05:55 |
anywhere you want to.
So that's using the library to access
| | 06:02 |
menus in Encore.
| | 06:05 |
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| Editing tools for text and graphics| 00:02 |
On call has really excellent tools for
linking everything together and creating
| | 00:06 |
the interactive element of a DVD.
And that's pretty good but what it not so
| | 00:10 |
great at is the media design aspect,
which kind of makes sense.
| | 00:14 |
It's designed for you to take assets and
combine them not to generate those assets.
| | 00:18 |
Now, there's excellent links between
Encore and Premiere Pro, and After
| | 00:22 |
Effects and Photoshop.
And the dependence on Photoshop is pretty heavy.
| | 00:27 |
There are some things you can't do at all
in ADS like, for example, just drawing a shape.
| | 00:33 |
There's no easy way for you to just draw
a square.
| | 00:36 |
And add a color to it as you might expect
to be able to do in an application like Photoshop.
| | 00:41 |
And that's generally fine because the
link between Encore and Photoshop is so excellent.
| | 00:46 |
But there are quite a few things you can
do.
| | 00:48 |
I'm going to start off by just choosing,
let's choose something really simple.
| | 00:53 |
A Globe menu wide, or Glow menu wide.
That'll do fine.
| | 00:56 |
I'm going to double-click.
And add that to my project.
| | 01:00 |
Now straight away if I go to my layers
panel, I can see okay I got a bunch of
| | 01:02 |
buttons these are all setup that's great.
And I got a background image which is
| | 01:07 |
locked, which is this kinda colored blue
area here, now in fact I can't even turn
| | 01:11 |
off the visibilty for that, or unlock it,
these are all things I can double-click
| | 01:14 |
to rename it but this is all things that
I would do in Photoshop.
| | 01:20 |
And pretty much the layers panel is just
to give you information rather than to
| | 01:25 |
allow you to do things to your media.
Now if I want to make changes to this,
| | 01:31 |
I'm going to either use the selection
tool which would allow me to select buttons.
| | 01:36 |
There we go.
But not to select any other regular text.
| | 01:40 |
If I want to select other items in the
menu, I need the Direct Select tool and
| | 01:44 |
then I can select those.
Now, be a little bit careful when you're
| | 01:48 |
clicking on buttons because you're going
to click on the parts within the button.
| | 01:52 |
If I turn on here at the bottom of my
menu, I've got three option to show a
| | 01:56 |
normal state.
The highlighted state, this is when
| | 02:00 |
you've made the selection, on the DVD
menu.
| | 02:03 |
And then I've got the activated state,
which is what you get, just for a moment
| | 02:07 |
before the DVD menu disappears.
And as you can see here, it's very common
| | 02:11 |
to have the selected state, and the
activated state, exactly the same.
| | 02:15 |
You can change them if you want, you can
assign different colors for example.
| | 02:19 |
With my Direct Selection tool now, in
fact if I just zoom in a little bit,
| | 02:22 |
maybe I'll go to 150% so you can see
here, I can select the text or I can
| | 02:26 |
select the highlight.
And I can move the highlight
| | 02:31 |
independently, so I can move it up here
if I want.
| | 02:34 |
Or, anywhere I like.
It is a separate layer on the DVD.
| | 02:38 |
But be aware of course, that, you're
increasing the overall size of the button.
| | 02:43 |
If I go to my regular selection here, and
now, my overlap is much bigger.
| | 02:48 |
You cannot overlap buttons on a DVD menu.
So here, although all I've got, if I turn
| | 02:53 |
on my subpicture.
All I've got is a little dot in the top
| | 02:57 |
right-hand corner, the entire button
shape is larger rectangle will overlap
| | 03:01 |
other items even if the blank space
overlaps it.
| | 03:06 |
So, this outer box is the entire button
size.
| | 03:10 |
So, in terms of creating menu assets and
designs in side of Encore, I can move
| | 03:15 |
thing around.
I can select individual elements within
| | 03:20 |
that selection.
I can resize things, and stretch them,
| | 03:25 |
and so on.
And reposition them relative to one another.
| | 03:29 |
I've also got this move tool which is
just designed to prevent you accidentally
| | 03:33 |
clicking on anything else.
It's actually more useful than it might
| | 03:37 |
seen when you first meet that tool
because It's very easy, particularly if
| | 03:40 |
you're working on a more complex menu
with multiple elements in it.
| | 03:44 |
Very, very easy to accidentally click on
something else.
| | 03:48 |
You're going to want to know the keyboard
shortcut though, which is m because you
| | 03:51 |
don't really want to be selecting an item
and then clicking, and clicking, and
| | 03:53 |
clicking to move items around.
Easier to press the m key and then go
| | 03:58 |
back to the v key which is the selection
tool to select something else, and then
| | 04:02 |
the m key.
So you're going to be using the keyboard
| | 04:05 |
quite a lot for this.
Another thing I can do if I just drag
| | 04:08 |
over a bit is rotate.
And if I rotate anything that I've got
| | 04:13 |
selected you'll notice that the selection
box increases in size.
| | 04:18 |
You can only have squares used for the
outlines of buttons like this, which
| | 04:22 |
means that you can see.
Actually making quite a large shape here
| | 04:26 |
if I go back to my selection tool again
I've got that problem with overlapping,
| | 04:31 |
but yep, its easy enough to rotate
things, I can get my direct access tool
| | 04:34 |
here and I can rotate that if I want to,
not that visible at this resolution but
| | 04:38 |
may be if I select the text and do the
same thing You can see I can rotate
| | 04:42 |
individual items.
And of course I've also got, I zoom back
| | 04:51 |
out a little bit, a text tool, to write
words.
| | 04:56 |
And I've got a vertical text tool, to
write vertical words.
| | 05:04 |
There we go.
So now I'm adding these to existing
| | 05:08 |
layers, which is a bit messy.
Let me control x, or apple x, to remove this.
| | 05:14 |
Deselect everything, and then apple v or
control v to paste again.
| | 05:20 |
We're going to do the same for this one.
X, and then V.
| | 05:26 |
What happened there was, that because I
had an existing item selected, as I
| | 05:31 |
typed, I just increased the overall size
of the box containing the text.
| | 05:38 |
If I click away now, you can see, because
I had these interviews text selected I
| | 05:42 |
was working on that item so what we're
looking at here is object oriented design.
| | 05:49 |
You make a selection and then whatever
you do the work that you do is applied to
| | 05:52 |
the item that you've selected.
So its a good idea to get in to the habit
| | 05:57 |
of deselecting.
You'll notice all the time I'm going to
| | 06:01 |
be clicking away somewhere on a blank
space on the menu before I act.
| | 06:06 |
Just as a matter of habit, it's a really
good habit to have when you're working on
| | 06:09 |
your menu designs.
Just quickly if I generate a blank menu
| | 06:12 |
here so I can show you some of the
alignment tools.
| | 06:17 |
So let's just get a blank menu wide.
And I'm going to, in fact what I'll do is
| | 06:21 |
I'll go to my buttons.
Let's see if I can find something nice
| | 06:25 |
and simple.
Zany, okay, so lets have one of those.
| | 06:29 |
Now, if I have multiple buttons, and I'm
going to hold down the alt key, or the
| | 06:33 |
option key, and drag out to produce
multiple versions of this.
| | 06:38 |
There we go.
There are several ways that I can combine these.
| | 06:41 |
If I lasso to select these, and then
right-click, I can align them, so I can
| | 06:45 |
align them in the center for example,
that's the horizontal center and I can
| | 06:49 |
also right-click or control click and
distribute them.
| | 06:55 |
So maybe I'll distribute them vertically
and you see that notch is the middle
| | 06:58 |
button there to position.
Now this is great because it means when
| | 07:01 |
you're generating buttons on a menu it's
not necessary to be particularly careful
| | 07:06 |
about organizing them and positioning
them.
| | 07:10 |
I can distribute these horizontally and I
will get nice lined up layout, all I need
| | 07:14 |
to do is make the button, put the link in
and let Encore do the layout for me.
| | 07:19 |
You'll also notice that you can have
items in front and above each other, now
| | 07:23 |
right now that's not much good because
these are two buttons, but if for example
| | 07:27 |
I just get a graphic here's an arrow for
example.
| | 07:32 |
I might decide, if I get my direct access
tool, I might decide that I want that in
| | 07:35 |
front of a button or behind it.
Just position that sop it's pretty clear.
| | 07:40 |
Just resize that a bit, so you can see
it.
| | 07:43 |
If I right-click or control click, and
choose arrange, I can send items
| | 07:46 |
backwards and forwards.
So if I send this to the back, it'll be
| | 07:50 |
behind the button.
If I choose to send this to the front,
| | 07:53 |
it'll be in front of the button.
So, you've got various tools inside of
| | 07:58 |
the menu to align and distribute the
items that you create.
| | 08:02 |
And those are the design tools that you
have available inside of Encore CS5.
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| Button routing and safe areas| 00:00 |
So I have a simple menu here with a
graphic background, and four buttons on it.
| | 00:05 |
Which are all called the same thing,
because I've taken them from the library.
| | 00:11 |
And if I click on the Highlight View
here, I can see there's an underline for
| | 00:14 |
each of these that appears when the
item's selected same as the activated
| | 00:18 |
picture, so that's fine.
Now I want to link these two items in my
| | 00:23 |
timeline, that's fine, but I also
obviously want to change the names of them.
| | 00:28 |
And I'd like to show you the settings,
the properties that apply to buttons on menus.
| | 00:34 |
First of all I got a name for the button,
of course, I got a number which is used
| | 00:38 |
for linking between menus and also for
the button rooting we're about to look at.
| | 00:44 |
And I can also specify a type.
And this menu is to do with automatically
| | 00:47 |
generating chapter menu so if you got a
really long movie with lots and lots of
| | 00:51 |
chapters, on call can automatically
generate.
| | 00:56 |
Lots of copies of a chapter menu, but you
need to tell it whether each button is a
| | 01:00 |
chapter kind that's going to link to a
specific chapter, whether it's a next or
| | 01:03 |
a previous button and whether it's a
button that links back to a main menu
| | 01:06 |
because Encore needs those definitions in
order to auto generate the other pages.
| | 01:13 |
We also have our link, which is pretty
straightforward.
| | 01:16 |
I can link, for example, to my Somebody
Loves You movie.
| | 01:20 |
And down below that, I've got an
Overwrite Option and this is really clever.
| | 01:25 |
Every item that you have in your DVD will
have an end action, which is what you're
| | 01:28 |
going to see next after the thing finishes
playing.
| | 01:32 |
In this case, the movie finishes, where
am I going to go next?
| | 01:36 |
If I look at this example, I can see that
the end action is set to return to last
| | 01:40 |
menu, but in fact, if I go to My button
here, I can specify that a different end
| | 01:44 |
action occurs for that item when it
finishes.
| | 01:49 |
So a classic example would be, I suppose,
if you've got a chapter menu, and rather
| | 01:53 |
than the movie going back to the main
menu, you want it to go to.
| | 01:58 |
The chapter menu again or another chapter
menu or a different asset that says
| | 02:01 |
something like congratulations you've
watched a chapter.
| | 02:04 |
And this type of feature is what sets
apart navigation from really advanced
| | 02:08 |
DVDs and the, the simple standard ones
where you just press Play and it works.
| | 02:12 |
We've also got an auto activate option,
and the auto activate, simply means that,
| | 02:16 |
as soon as you choose it, you've
activated the button.
| | 02:19 |
And this is used very well for putting
Easter eggs, and secret content inside
| | 02:23 |
DVDs, but you can also use it to have the
appearance of more interesting looking highlights.
| | 02:30 |
All of the highlights on a DVD are just
one color, by necessity because of the
| | 02:34 |
way DVDs are designed to playback on set
top boxes, but you could, for example,
| | 02:38 |
have an option that, if you choose a menu
like this one and you choose that menu
| | 02:42 |
option, automatically, the DVD will link
to a different menu that looks like the
| | 02:46 |
one you're on but with different imagery
on it and the imagery can look like a highlight.
| | 02:55 |
And that's an advanced way of authoring
DVDs that works really, really beautifully.
| | 03:00 |
If you have a text sub-picture, you can
see I have, I've got my highlight on here.
| | 03:04 |
If you create a text sub-picture, the
text itself will be colored too, you may
| | 03:06 |
or may not want that.
And then we've got this option to sync
| | 03:10 |
the button text and the name, and all
this means is that, here for example,
| | 03:13 |
I've got menu item one.
If I Click, and Type, and Change the name
| | 03:17 |
into, for example, chapter one, and press
Enter it updates the text.
| | 03:22 |
If I have this off and I change this to
say chapter one with text, nothing happens.
| | 03:30 |
Turn it on again and you see they link
together.
| | 03:32 |
We can also have the name set from the
links.
| | 03:34 |
If I chose another item here and set name
from link, and then link this to chapter 2.
| | 03:39 |
Automatically updates based on the
chapter I've linked to.
| | 03:43 |
Well, that's a pretty handy option.
And last of all, of course, I've got
| | 03:47 |
enable weblink for Flash.
Which means that, if a user selects it.
| | 03:51 |
A URL is opened up automatically when
this is a web video that's automatically
| | 03:55 |
created from Encore.
Let's just also now, if I shift select
| | 04:00 |
the choose two items in My menu, and this
is where Encore becomes such an elegant
| | 04:04 |
tool to work with.
Now, that I've got two items selected,
| | 04:08 |
there are a lot of settings that I can
define for both of them at the same time.
| | 04:12 |
For example, I can now turn on, or as
many as I choose for that matter.
| | 04:16 |
I can turn on set name from link.
Click Away, select the third one here and
| | 04:21 |
link that to my number 3 chapter, and the
fourth one, and link that to my number 4 chapter.
| | 04:28 |
So being able to lasso a whole bunch of
items and apply settings to them in one
| | 04:33 |
step really does speed up using Encore to
generate menus.
| | 04:39 |
Now that I've got my link set, let's have
a look at the button rooting.
| | 04:42 |
Now if I turn on Show button rooting at
the bottom of the monitor here, you can
| | 04:46 |
see exactly what's going on.
This is button number 1, number 2, number
| | 04:51 |
3, and number 4, and if the user, with a
remote control on their DVD set top box.
| | 04:56 |
For example, had number 4 selected and
they press up, then they're going to go
| | 05:00 |
to number 2.
Equally if they're on number 2 and they
| | 05:03 |
press Left, they're going to go to number 1
and you can see here now, right now, my
| | 05:07 |
number 3 button is linking to number 1 if
you use to press it Up.
| | 05:12 |
And actually what I think I'm going to do
instead is have up go to the number 2
| | 05:16 |
button because this is sort of a zigzag
direction for them to go here.
| | 05:21 |
Now to do this, I have to turn off
Automatic button Routing, which is a
| | 05:24 |
menu-wide setting.
So I'm going to click Away from this button,
| | 05:28 |
so that I've got the menu itself
selected.
| | 05:31 |
And then over on the menu properties,
down here near the bottom, I've got
| | 05:35 |
automatically route buttons.
I'm going to turn that off.
| | 05:39 |
Now if I select the button.
You'll see that if I hover over one of
| | 05:43 |
this arrows, I get a grab hand, I can
click where it says number one and drag
| | 05:47 |
that over to number two and let go and
it's updated.
| | 05:52 |
Equally here, my fourth button, if the
user press this up, it's going to go to
| | 05:56 |
number two, I actually want it to go to
number three Let's just drag that over
| | 05:59 |
and equally from my number one button,
I'm going to to drag from three to two.
| | 06:05 |
So now the user will go down to two, down
to three, down to four and so on.
| | 06:11 |
And in fact, going up I think I'll have
it loop around some, I'm going to jump that
| | 06:15 |
to number 4.
And down I think I'll loop around as
| | 06:19 |
well, and so on.
So this is actually a very easy technique
| | 06:23 |
to apply, but it does catch some people
out when they first start trying to do
| | 06:27 |
button routine simply because they don't
know you have to deselect first and turn
| | 06:31 |
off this Automatically Route buttons
Option in the menu.
| | 06:37 |
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| The Flowchart view| 00:02 |
Working with, comprehensive and complex,
authored DVDs, can get a little bit confusing.
| | 00:08 |
Generally speaking it's okay.
Particularly if you use the check project
| | 00:12 |
option here in the build panel, then
you'll find your way through, and things
| | 00:15 |
will link together okay.
But if in doubt, Encore has a flowchart view.
| | 00:22 |
And I'll just resize this.
maximize it out, so you can see what's
| | 00:26 |
going on here.
In the flowchart view, if I just zoom in
| | 00:30 |
a little bit, there we go.
Now, here, you can see, I've got my DVD,
| | 00:34 |
which is going to get put into the set top
box.
| | 00:38 |
And already, the first play is being set
up, which is the main menu.
| | 00:42 |
And what I can see on this item is three
buttons that I've set up.
| | 00:46 |
Now, if I just go back out of maximized
size here, and show you the main menu.
| | 00:51 |
On this menu I've got some text, which is
just the artist here, Dan Whitehouse, and
| | 00:55 |
I've got a play button and I've got a
chapters button.
| | 00:58 |
I'll just turn off the highlight for
these so those two buttons, not super
| | 01:02 |
clear on screen but there we are.
Now if I go to my chapter menu, I can see
| | 01:06 |
that I've gotta link back to the main
menu, and I've got chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4.
| | 01:12 |
Now, I can link these together in various
ways.
| | 01:15 |
I can use the pick whips, and so on.
But I'd like to show you what happens if
| | 01:18 |
we use the flowchart view instead.
First of all, here's the disc being put
| | 01:22 |
into the set top box.
And I can see, in my project panel.
| | 01:26 |
There's my main menu, which is the first
play.
| | 01:28 |
There's the little black triangle in a
circle to tell me that that's the first
| | 01:31 |
play for my disc.
And that's what's going to happen here.
| | 01:34 |
I've got a blue line saying, okay, here's
what happens.
| | 01:38 |
When you put the DVD in, it's going to link
to the main menu.
| | 01:41 |
The flowchart view shows me all of the
buttons that are on that menu.
| | 01:45 |
The same thing here, for my chapter menu.
There's my chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and my
| | 01:49 |
main menu.
So the flowchart is another
| | 01:52 |
representation of what's going in the
chapter menu.
| | 01:55 |
And if I click on this drop down here on
the main menu.
| | 01:58 |
And all I need to do to link things
together is drag and drop.
| | 02:02 |
So, for example, here, I've got Dan
Whitehouse.
| | 02:05 |
Well, let me just toggle back to my main
menu.
| | 02:08 |
That is a button, and I don't need to use
it as a button, because it's just there
| | 02:12 |
as information for the viewer.
But it's coming up in the flow chart on
| | 02:17 |
the list as an item.
And actually, this can be a good way of
| | 02:21 |
double checking that you don't have items
that you think are just visuals that are
| | 02:25 |
actually buttons.
So, you're not going to worry too much about
| | 02:29 |
the build check project menu coming up
and saying as one of the items on the
| | 02:32 |
list, look here, you got a button, Dan
Whitehouse that says well, the link's not set.
| | 02:38 |
In fact if I double-click on this, it
takes me to that button, and I can say
| | 02:42 |
oh, actually I don't need that as a
button.
| | 02:45 |
Let me close this panel, and I can right
click, or control click, and convert to
| | 02:50 |
an object.
And when I do that, this stops being a button.
| | 02:54 |
You see I can no longer click on this
with my selection tool, I can only click
| | 02:57 |
on it with my director access tool.
So, back into the flow chart you can see
| | 03:02 |
the buttons disappeared and what I want
to do is have the play button link to something.
| | 03:08 |
Now at the bottom of the flow chart
window here, I've got my Somebody Loves
| | 03:12 |
You timeline.
When I go back to my project panel,
| | 03:15 |
remember it's timelines that play on
DVDs, it's not original assets, not movies.
| | 03:20 |
And all I need to do to link that play
button to the Somebody Loves You video,
| | 03:24 |
is drag the Somebody Loves You timeline
onto it.
| | 03:28 |
You see it highlights there, and there we
go, it's connected.
| | 03:31 |
And straightaway, in my flowchart view, I
can see the link.
| | 03:35 |
If the user chooses the play option, it's
going to link to the Somebody Loves You movie.
| | 03:39 |
Equally my chapters, well, over here,
here's my chapter menu.
| | 03:44 |
And I'm going to grab the chapter menu,
and drag that onto the chapters button
| | 03:48 |
and there we are.
Now you can see how beautifully the
| | 03:51 |
flowchart, adapts and moves and animates
to show you what's going on.
| | 03:56 |
I'm going to zoom out a little bit so you
can see a bit more clearly what's happening.
| | 03:59 |
Over on my chapter menu, I've got
chapters 1, 2, 3, 4.
| | 04:05 |
And the chapter menu button's already
linked to the main menu.
| | 04:09 |
I want to connect these individual
chapter buttons to my timeline.
| | 04:14 |
So, for example, if I want number 4.
Drag it straight on to the number 4, and
| | 04:19 |
there it is linked.
Number 3.
| | 04:20 |
Number two, and if I look down on the
timeline, I'm just going to click on the big
| | 04:24 |
mountains here to zoom in a bit, I've
actually got two items for the number one
| | 04:28 |
chapter point.
You can't really see the number one very
| | 04:32 |
clearly, but it's right there.
And here, I've got a poster frame that
| | 04:36 |
represents that chapter.
And this is quite important, because you
| | 04:40 |
might have a poster that is at the
beginning of a chapter, which would make
| | 04:43 |
sense, unless you're fading up from
black, which is the case here.
| | 04:48 |
If I go to my monitor window here, right
at the beginning it's a blank screen.
| | 04:53 |
That doesn't really make much of a
thumbnail.
| | 04:56 |
If I go on a little bit, I can say
actually, maybe just as he looks at the
| | 05:00 |
camera there, and I can drag this poster
frame over to update it.
| | 05:06 |
Back in my flow chart view, you can see
that's updated and it will do in the main
| | 05:10 |
menu, or rather, in the chapter menu, if
I had a thumbnail in there as well.
| | 05:16 |
Now if I want to put my chapter one, to
be connected to that button, I need to
| | 05:20 |
grab the chapter point marker, not the
poster frame icon.
| | 05:25 |
I'm going to drag that up there.
Lovely.
| | 05:27 |
And then if I click on this item, the
Somebody Loves You Movie, I need to
| | 05:30 |
decide what's going to happen when that
movie finishes.
| | 05:35 |
And the simple way to do that, inside the
flowchart view, is to grab the thing I
| | 05:39 |
want to be the end action, in this case
the main menu, and drop it onto the item.
| | 05:44 |
There it is.
And you can see right away, I've now got
| | 05:47 |
that linked together.
Let's maybe, move things around a little
| | 05:51 |
bit so you can see more clearly.
Great.
| | 05:54 |
So, the flow chart view doesn't add or
remove any particular functionality from
| | 05:58 |
Encore, it really just makes it visible
what's happening.
| | 06:03 |
It can get a little bit busy, it can get
a little bit cluttered, but, I've got a
| | 06:07 |
clear indication there of the journey
that the user can take, as they work
| | 06:11 |
their way through the DVD.
You can use any of the methods in Encore
| | 06:17 |
to link things together.
And all the different display forms will update.
| | 06:22 |
So now if I go to my chapter menu, and
select the first button, let me just get
| | 06:25 |
my regular selection tool with the V key.
You can see here the link has been set.
| | 06:31 |
Somebody Loves You, chapter one.
And that's been done via the flow chart view.
| | 06:38 |
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| Menu properties for motion and pop-up menus| 00:00 |
One of the really lovely features of
Adobe Encore is how easy it makes it for
| | 00:04 |
you to create moving Background menus and
Motion buttons and so on.
| | 00:11 |
So I've set up a little project here to
show you how quickly you can achieve this.
| | 00:15 |
And also, I'd like to show you how to
make pop-up menus for Blu-Ray DVDs.
| | 00:19 |
Because broadly speaking, Blu-rays and
regular DVDs function pretty much the
| | 00:22 |
same way.
But you do get this Pop-up Option where
| | 00:25 |
the menu appears in front of the video
without pausing the video, it's kind of a
| | 00:28 |
cool feature.
So first of all I've imported this power
| | 00:32 |
radiant sub menu wide.
And this has come straight out of the
| | 00:36 |
library and I've just stripped out a lot
of the elements of this.
| | 00:39 |
And left it with the middle buttons.
And I've just done this, because,
| | 00:44 |
frankly, I was too lazy to generate the
buttons manually in Photoshop.
| | 00:47 |
It just did the trick for me perfectly.
I'm just going to Delete that unwanted menu.
| | 00:52 |
And what I've got here is my chapters
already linked to those buttons.
| | 00:56 |
So I've got chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4.
A little bit of text for the name of the
| | 01:00 |
artist, Dan Whitehouse.
And the images are based on the position
| | 01:03 |
of the chapter points in my timeline.
If I want to update these, I can go to My
| | 01:09 |
Monitor panel here and maybe I'll say
that's a better form now.
| | 01:13 |
I go back to My menu here.
That's the image I've got at the moment.
| | 01:17 |
If I go back here.
If I want to change that.
| | 01:20 |
I can select My Chapter Point.
And then Right Click or Control Click,
| | 01:24 |
and choose Set Poster Frame.
If I do that, we should see.
| | 01:28 |
There we go, it's updated.
And I can do this for all of the
| | 01:31 |
different chapters if I want to.
This is really useful if you've got blank
| | 01:34 |
space at the beginning and you want to
have a different image there, so I've
| | 01:37 |
done that already.
Now if I want this menu to have video in
| | 01:41 |
the background it's actually really easy.
And this is a menu property, so I'm going to
| | 01:47 |
select the menu in My Project panel and
go to My Basic Tab in the Properties here
| | 01:52 |
and then in Motion I've got Video, Audio,
and Duration.
| | 01:58 |
So I'm going to drag across here and just
take this Mid Street movie that I've got.
| | 02:04 |
If I just click on it once to show you,
you can see in the thumbnail here, as I
| | 02:06 |
drag through it.
This is a shot of the singer, Dan
| | 02:10 |
Whitehouse Walking along and singing to
the camera.
| | 02:13 |
So all I've done in My menu Settings is
I've used the Pick Whip to take the video.
| | 02:19 |
And notice that I've taken this, and
dragged it onto an asset.
| | 02:23 |
Not onto a timeline, but if I try and
drag across onto a timeline, it just
| | 02:26 |
ain't going to happen, it's a no go.
I can take it onto a movie image but I
| | 02:31 |
can't take it onto a timeline, because
this is an instance where I'm
| | 02:34 |
incorporating a media asset into another
asset.
| | 02:38 |
So in a sense, I guess, the menu is the
timeline for that clip.
| | 02:42 |
Now here I am, I've got My button still
in the foreground.
| | 02:46 |
I've got a bit of a highlight.
I might want to work on the colors later
| | 02:48 |
but still the video is there.
If I now go back to the Properties for My
| | 02:53 |
menu, I've left the Audio Off.
I might for example, decide to link to
| | 02:58 |
the audio from the music.
Or some other piece of audio, perhaps
| | 03:02 |
I'll do an EQ on it, and I'll bring down
the level a little bit and have a
| | 03:04 |
separate file that's just for the menu.
This is just a very simple DVD with one
| | 03:09 |
track on it, but it could be that I've
got for example, if I was filming an
| | 03:12 |
event, I might have the audience rustling
their sweet wrappers and mumbling to
| | 03:16 |
themselves and talking as the curtains
haven't opened yet.
| | 03:21 |
I might use that as a piece of sound
separately to the video.
| | 03:25 |
Then I can specify a duration.
Now the duration is based, by default, on
| | 03:29 |
the duration of the clip, which is a very
short one.
| | 03:33 |
It's 12 seconds 19 frames.
Now this hold forever option is grayed
| | 03:37 |
out because this is a Motion menu, it has
a finite duration.
| | 03:42 |
If this were a Non Motion menu, I'd be
able to specify whether or not the menu
| | 03:45 |
will stay on screen indefinitely or
whether its going to have a duration beyond
| | 03:48 |
which it will time out and perhaps stop
playing the movie or link to another menu
| | 03:51 |
or another screen.
In this case, I'm going to leave it as the
| | 03:56 |
duration of the clip I could make it
shorter if I want to beyond which loop
| | 03:59 |
and repeat.
I can also choose to Animate The buttons.
| | 04:03 |
And if I turn on the button animation and
specify a loop point, let's say for
| | 04:06 |
example, I'll have the buttons play the
first 5 seconds.
| | 04:11 |
Here we go, we've got hours, minutes,
seconds and frames.
| | 04:14 |
I'll let it play 5 seconds of the media
and then I'll have it loop around and go
| | 04:18 |
back to the beginning.
And I can specify whether I'm going to loop indefinitely.
| | 04:23 |
Am I going to Loop for as many as 40 or
even a thousands goes, or just forever
| | 04:27 |
indefinitely or not, and just reach the
end and stop animating.
| | 04:33 |
And that can be quite a nice way is you
have it set not to loop, it's quite a
| | 04:36 |
nice way of building a menu of where int
interesting stuff happens on screen and
| | 04:40 |
then it just sort of comes to a stop so
it creates a sense of a live menu.
| | 04:46 |
And that's pretty much all you need to do
to create a Motion menu.
| | 04:50 |
The primetime preview, so I can Right
Click or Control Click on the menu here
| | 04:53 |
and choose Preview from here rather that
previewing the whole DVD, we'll see
| | 04:56 |
straight away, I still get stillness, I
don't get any movement, and that's
| | 04:59 |
because the Motion menu hasn't been
Rendered.
| | 05:04 |
Although I'm constructing this for
multiple elements and layering them into
| | 05:08 |
menu panel I'm actually going to be
generating a flattened video that looks
| | 05:12 |
like the combination of these four layers
plus the background.
| | 05:17 |
If I just come out of here and go to the
File menu and chose Render, Motion menus,
| | 05:21 |
Encore will build those motion elements
for me as a flattened file.
| | 05:28 |
Here we go, it's counting down.
And there we go, save you waiting there
| | 05:33 |
and now we're back into the DVD Project.
Now nothings there, nothings happen,
| | 05:38 |
nothings changed, if I look at the menu
here and just scroll across, everything
| | 05:42 |
looks exactly as it was, I don't get any
indication that its been rendered.
| | 05:49 |
But if I now Preview from here, I get
Movement and there it is.
| | 05:56 |
And there are My buttons all animated as
well.
| | 06:03 |
So you can preview Motion menus but you
need to render them first of all.
| | 06:08 |
That's how you create Motion menus in
Encore.
| | 06:12 |
Also, if I want to make a menu into a
Pop-up Mmenu, then I can do that very
| | 06:15 |
easily, by first of all specifying which
timeline is going to have it as a Pop-up menu.
| | 06:22 |
So, first of all, here's My Somebody
Loves You timeline, and here, in the
| | 06:25 |
Properties for that, I'm going to choose
Set Pop-up menu, and I've created a menu
| | 06:29 |
by the, by this Pop-up menu, you can't
really see what's going on with it,
| | 06:33 |
because I've made the Background
Transparent.
| | 06:39 |
But perhaps if I put an image in the
background you'll be able to see what's
| | 06:42 |
going on.
Let me just position this for you.
| | 06:46 |
There we go, Right Click or Control Click
send to Back.
| | 06:51 |
So you can see I've got four buttons
here.
| | 06:53 |
We'll still want to put that there, okay.
And you can see what's happen here, is
| | 06:58 |
I've dragged my tool panel, and if I just
move this around, you can see, I can
| | 07:03 |
position it anywhere I want in the
interface.
| | 07:09 |
And because I clicked just slightly off
the tool button itself, it's just left it
| | 07:13 |
first of all as a Floating panel.
I can achieve the same thing by holding
| | 07:18 |
down the control key or holding down the
command key on a Mac, or it's just
| | 07:21 |
dropping it in to different locations.
What I really want is to put it right at
| | 07:25 |
the top, and you'll see if you put this
on, beyond the edge of any of the other frames.
| | 07:30 |
I get a green bar and there we go I'm not
back to having it in position so if you
| | 07:33 |
do get caught out you can always go to
the Window menu and choose Workspace and
| | 07:37 |
choose a Workspace to Restore it.
You can always reset work spaces but you
| | 07:42 |
can also just drag and drop panels
wherever you want.
| | 07:45 |
Now, where was I?
I've got my selection tool and I've got
| | 07:48 |
my buttons.
Here they are and they're all floating on
| | 07:51 |
a transparent background.
So I'm going to remove that background.
| | 07:56 |
There it is, that's ready to be my Pop up
menu.
| | 07:59 |
And I'm going to go to My Timeline.
I'm going to set a Pop-up menu.
| | 08:03 |
So let's just first of all, Enable it.
There's my Pop-up.
| | 08:07 |
I'll go to the pop up tab on the
properties and I'm going to set that as a
| | 08:11 |
Blu-ray Pop-up menu.
On the Somebody Loves You timeline I'm
| | 08:16 |
going to set up the Pop-up menu as well.
So you kind of set both.
| | 08:19 |
You can't just set one and hope it'll
work it out.
| | 08:22 |
You need to show that reciprocal
relationship between the two and then in
| | 08:25 |
the Pop-up menu Settings I can specify
which timeline I'm going to use just for
| | 08:29 |
layout purposes.
Now you can't preview Blu-ray Pop-up
| | 08:34 |
menus inside of Encore.
That will only really work when you put a
| | 08:38 |
Blu-ray disc in a Blu-ray Setup Box and
hit Go.
| | 08:42 |
But what you can do is specify a timeline
to use as a holding image.
| | 08:46 |
And here, I can just type in a number, so
maybe I'll have two minutes 30 seconds.
| | 08:51 |
I can choose the background image I'm
going to see for layout purposes.
| | 08:56 |
Again, to achieve this, you first of all,
need to tell Encore that a menu is a pop-up.
| | 09:01 |
And then you need to specify which
timeline is going to use it as a pop-up.
| | 09:06 |
I just happened to have called this
pop-up menu, and that's why it appears here.
| | 09:09 |
Now, I could have 5, 6, or 7 different
timelines all referencing the same pop-up menu.
| | 09:14 |
That's completely fine, the Layout Option
here is just so you can see, what's going
| | 09:19 |
on when your creating a DVD in Encore.
Apart from pop-up menus creating Blu-ray
| | 09:25 |
DVDs is very, very similar experience to
creating regular DVDs and of course for
| | 09:29 |
flash video it makes no difference
whatsoever.
| | 09:33 |
But that's making pop-up's in Encore.
| | 09:38 |
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| Looking at an existing menu| 00:02 |
So lets take a little look at a menu that
I've created already, and have a little
| | 00:05 |
think about some of the choices I've
made, in the construction of that menu.
| | 00:10 |
In fact I've made two menus here, and
I'll just walk you through, some of the
| | 00:14 |
creative and technical choices I've made.
So first of all, I've got my main menu,
| | 00:19 |
and I'm going to want to make this into my
first play, so I'm right-clicking or
| | 00:22 |
control clicking.
And I'm choosing set as first play.
| | 00:27 |
And this means it's the first thing
that's going to come up on the screen when
| | 00:30 |
the user puts the disc into the set top
box.
| | 00:33 |
And of course, if I make a web video,
it's, it's the first thing that's going to
| | 00:36 |
come up as well.
So what I've got here is essentially a
| | 00:39 |
blank menu into which I've dragged and
dropped.
| | 00:43 |
This image and if I zoom out a little bit
you will see the image is actually a fair
| | 00:47 |
bi bigger than the original vector scaled
it down a little bit because this was
| | 00:52 |
originally a high definition image if I
can just see if I can find it on the list here.
| | 01:00 |
Here we go the mid waistline is 1920 by
1080 but I'm working in a standard
| | 01:04 |
definition project.
And that's great because it means that I
| | 01:08 |
can scale quite a lot and chose the part
of the image that I want.
| | 01:12 |
Just set this back to fit.
Now I've got two buttons in here which
| | 01:16 |
I've taken from the library where I've
just browsed through the different types
| | 01:19 |
and chosen a prebuilt button.
And I tend to do this very often because.
| | 01:25 |
It saves me constructing the layers in
Photoshop.
| | 01:28 |
And getting the naming conventions right,
and so on.
| | 01:30 |
And there are a couple of important
decisions here.
| | 01:32 |
First of all, if I turn on the safe
action and title zones.
| | 01:35 |
I want to make sure that my text is inside.
If I just go to my button selection here
| | 01:41 |
inside that safe title zone.
And you can see if I turn on the
| | 01:45 |
highlights here that a bright red dot
that tells the viewer which option
| | 01:48 |
they're going to select and that kind of
works for me against this rather dull background.
| | 01:54 |
And I might be tempted to go into
Photoshop with this and tweak that
| | 01:57 |
background to give it a bit more punch, a
bit more dynamic range, but it's okay for now.
| | 02:03 |
Now I've named this menu if I go to
select the item in the project panel
| | 02:07 |
going over to my basic details.
I've named this main menu and I've named
| | 02:12 |
my chapter's menu and chapters, just to
make it easier for me to navigate as I'm
| | 02:16 |
creating the DVD.
Creatively, if you look very carefully,
| | 02:21 |
you can see, I've actually rotated if I
just.
| | 02:25 |
Hover the cursor on the corner of this
button, you can see you can rotate, very
| | 02:29 |
easily, in the menu here, and I've
rotated this button to just match the
| | 02:34 |
curve of the line of the ground here, in
the background image.
| | 02:41 |
So it gives it a slightly more organic
look.
| | 02:43 |
And all I've done here, is position the
background image.
| | 02:46 |
I've set a play button that links to the
main video I've got, my chapter one in
| | 02:51 |
that video.
And I've got a chapters button that links
| | 02:55 |
to a chapters menu.
And that's pretty much all I need for the
| | 02:58 |
main menu of this.
Pretty simple DVD, that just links to a
| | 03:02 |
single music video.
If I go into my chapters menu and again
| | 03:05 |
I'll turn on the safe action and title
zones here so you can see what is going on.
| | 03:10 |
I've done the same kind of thing if I
zoom out a little bit so you can see.
| | 03:14 |
The image is much bigger than the total
screen area of my menu so I can position
| | 03:18 |
it as I want.
This back to fit and I've got four
| | 03:22 |
buttons here which again we're just
taking these are the this is under the
| | 03:25 |
corporate set in the library.
This is communication video button now
| | 03:30 |
I've chosen these because again they give
me this red dot which shows up really
| | 03:33 |
nicely against the.
Kind of pale green at the background, but
| | 03:38 |
also because they've got video drop
zones.
| | 03:41 |
Now all you need to do, of course, to
make these work is select the button and
| | 03:44 |
link it to the chapter that you want.
In fact, you'll notice that I've set the
| | 03:48 |
first chapter to have a poster frame a
little bit further on.
| | 03:52 |
Just select the chapter Position the
current time indicator and set poster
| | 03:56 |
frame to do that.
Now I only need to do that for the first
| | 04:00 |
chapter because if I go back to the
monitor and drag through to the beginning
| | 04:03 |
you can see this starts off dark and
fades out which is no good for a button
| | 04:06 |
in a menu so I just set the poster frame
on a little bit.
| | 04:12 |
You can also see I've tilted these
buttons quite a lot.
| | 04:16 |
Now the issue with tilting is that you
can see that actually it's increased the
| | 04:20 |
footprint of the button.
The layout options for the menu will only
| | 04:26 |
really support square outlines.
In this way.
| | 04:31 |
And that's fine on screen here, but, if
I just tilt this a little bit more so you
| | 04:35 |
can see, Encore's going to show me that I've
got an overlap between the buttons, if I
| | 04:39 |
tilt this too much.
I'll just undo that to fix it.
| | 04:44 |
And the overlap's very important, because
you cannot have an overlap of buttons on
| | 04:48 |
a DVD, it will just fail to set the
highlight area properly.
| | 04:52 |
And it won't matter which button you're
selecting.
| | 04:54 |
Dvds generally use regions of color that
are hidden from view to specify whats a
| | 04:58 |
button and whats not.
So you musn't have an overlap and that
| | 05:02 |
does limit your choices for rotation.
I've also rotated the button that goes
| | 05:06 |
back to the main menu.
To get, well all of these I guess are
| | 05:09 |
lined up with these diagonals that are
part of the pavement design outside
| | 05:13 |
Birmingham New Street Station where this
was filmed.
| | 05:17 |
And to make this menu a little bit more
dynamic, if I just click into the
| | 05:20 |
background, if I go to the motion tab
here you can see I've set this to animate
| | 05:23 |
the buttons.
And I set the loop point as five seconds.
| | 05:28 |
I'm imagining that the viewer doesn't
really want to watch the whole of the
| | 05:31 |
music track inside one of these buttons
so I just set it to five seconds.
| | 05:35 |
And of course also the longer your loop
point the longer the menu is and
| | 05:39 |
effectively it's turned into a video when
you render it.
| | 05:44 |
Which means it's going to take up more
space on your disk.
| | 05:47 |
If I go to my file menu here and choose
render, I got the option to render motion
| | 05:51 |
menus, which I'll do now, because I
tweaked the settings a little bit.
| | 05:58 |
Okay, just save you the wait there.
And now, if I want to, I can preview my DVD.
| | 06:05 |
And you can see, here's the opening menu
with nothing much going on in it.
| | 06:09 |
I could've put a video in the background,
if I'd maybe got a shot of the singer
| | 06:12 |
here standing around waiting for me to
setup the camera.
| | 06:16 |
It might have been quite an interesting
backdrop for the menu.
| | 06:19 |
I click through to my chapters.
There we go.
| | 06:24 |
Now the resolution's not great on the
computer screen here, but you can see the
| | 06:28 |
highlight and, if I choose one of these,
I'm going to go straight through to that
| | 06:32 |
part of the video and I can jump back to
the menu.
| | 06:36 |
So Let's just close that down.
Pretty straightforward stuff really.
| | 06:40 |
The key here is to make use of erxisting
assets and tweak them to get the most
| | 06:44 |
from them.
And just one last thing to note of
| | 06:47 |
course, I've set the somebody loves you
main video timeline so that the end
| | 06:52 |
action is to go back to the last menu.
Return to the last menu means that
| | 06:57 |
whether the viewer's gone from the
chatter menu or from the main menu.
| | 07:01 |
t'll go back to that menu when it
finishes playing.
| | 07:04 |
More useful, of course, if you've got
say, 12 tracks, on a music DVD than if
| | 07:08 |
you've got just one.
But I guess you get the point.
| | 07:13 |
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|
5. Slideshows and PlaylistsSlideshows| 00:02 |
Slide shows are a great way for you to
add a little bit of extra detail and
| | 00:06 |
interest to a DVD with very, very little
work.
| | 00:10 |
Very often if your working on a
production of course you might have an
| | 00:12 |
onset photographer and they'll produce a
hole series of stills for you and you
| | 00:15 |
don't really have any use for them.
But with Encore, you can incorporate them
| | 00:21 |
automatically into a slideshow.
Now this is really easy to do.
| | 00:26 |
I've got a series of images here that
I've imported, and I'm going to shift
| | 00:29 |
select to get the whole list of them.
Then I'm going to click on the new item
| | 00:34 |
button here and I'm going to choose
Slideshow.
| | 00:37 |
Now a slideshow is an item like any other
that exists inside of your project, and
| | 00:42 |
you can see here, there it is, it's been
named after the first item, so I'm just
| | 00:46 |
going to click on the name here and rename
this to Slideshow, just to make it easier
| | 00:50 |
to find in my project.
And I'll perhaps pull it out, so that it
| | 00:58 |
sits in my project more generally.
Let's put it in with the other items there.
| | 01:03 |
So I've got my various different
timelines, and I've got my slideshow.
| | 01:07 |
And I don't really need this stills photo
anymore, because all of the items I just
| | 01:11 |
put into the slideshow, have all popped
up inside this slideshow panel.
| | 01:15 |
Now, the slideshow panel has appeared
automatically, because I created the slideshow.
| | 01:20 |
But if you ever want to go looking for
it, you can go to the window menu, and
| | 01:24 |
you'll find it just here.
The tick's next to it because it's
| | 01:28 |
displayed right now.
So what have we got for controls inside
| | 01:31 |
this panel?
I've got the images themselves, which
| | 01:34 |
will now be described as slides.
And you'll notice that these are numbered.
| | 01:39 |
I can click and drag these into different
positions.
| | 01:43 |
So, I might decide I'll have these black
and white shots, near the beginning.
| | 01:47 |
There we go.
And maybe we'll come to the color images
| | 01:50 |
later on.
That works for me.
| | 01:53 |
You'll notice also that there's a
duration displayed here, and the duration
| | 01:58 |
of a slide is based on your preferences.
You can specify if you go into the Edit
| | 02:04 |
menu here, go to Preferences, and choose
Timelines.
| | 02:10 |
We can see the default image duration is
six seconds.
| | 02:13 |
Now this is specified on import, but it's
not that important.
| | 02:16 |
If I just cancel out here, you can see I
can specify a new duration down inside
| | 02:20 |
the slideshow panel.
If I set this to seven seconds, then you
| | 02:24 |
can see the numbers all update
automatically.
| | 02:28 |
I also have the option here to zoom in
and out so I can see more or less of the slids.
| | 02:32 |
And if I'm working with lots and lots of
images I might want to make this pretty small.
| | 02:36 |
If I make this bigger, then I can scroll
up and down.
| | 02:39 |
And if I find an image that I don't want,
let's say for example this one, the
| | 02:42 |
colors are a little bit different.
I can click on the trashcan and it's
| | 02:47 |
gone, it's not gone from the harddrive,
it's just gone from this slideshow.
| | 02:51 |
Now you'll notice, there's an audio box
here, this is great, very straight
| | 02:54 |
forward to use, I can drag and drop, I've
got an MP3 of the soundtrack from this
| | 02:58 |
music video here.
So I'll just click and drag that straight
| | 03:02 |
into the box.
And I can create a list of audio here, so
| | 03:05 |
If I've got several images that I want to
show, a really long slideshow, or maybe
| | 03:08 |
even just very short audio clips, I can
put them in order in this box.
| | 03:13 |
In fact, if I had just undo this, you'll
see there's one of these lovely picwip
| | 03:17 |
menu options here I can click and drag on
to the item that I want.
| | 03:21 |
It achieves the same effect.
Now, this audio has quite a long
| | 03:24 |
duration, five minutes, 48.
And you'll notice there's a tick box
| | 03:28 |
down here to fit the slideshow to the
audio duration.
| | 03:31 |
So if I took thjis box you'll notice that
suddenly my slide duration, each
| | 03:35 |
individual slide, is 34 seconds in 21
frames which is pretty long, so I don't
| | 03:39 |
think I'll tick that box.
But you'll notice that it's kept the
| | 03:44 |
setting so I'm just going to click in here
and rewrite this.
| | 03:47 |
I'm going to go for quite short.
I'm going to go for three seconds.
| | 03:51 |
There we are.
And of course if my slides are much
| | 03:53 |
longer than my audio I can take the box
to loop the audio, which is pretty
| | 03:56 |
unnecessary in this instance, but it's an
option there.
| | 04:00 |
If you've got lots and lots of images and
just a short piece of sound.
| | 04:04 |
I think that might get a little bit
frustrating for the viewer.
| | 04:06 |
Now if I want to, and let me just resize
this a little bit here, so I can see all
| | 04:10 |
of the controls on screen.
I can also specify transition effects
| | 04:16 |
between these images or I can specify
default transition.
| | 04:20 |
So if I maybe go for a dip to black so
it's nice and obvious, you can see I get
| | 04:23 |
a little symbol next to each of these
images and a red line that tells me that,
| | 04:27 |
effectively this is going to need to
render before it can play back.
| | 04:32 |
These images will be converted to video
before they're played on the DVD.
| | 04:37 |
If I want, I can right-click and I can
choose a different transition for one of these.
| | 04:42 |
Maybe I'll go for a clock wipe on that
one.
| | 04:44 |
And this is just the option I've got.
For each individual item, we'll override
| | 04:49 |
the settings for the default transition.
If I turn on this random pan and zoom
| | 04:55 |
option then Encore will automatically
zoom in a little bit, and animate, and
| | 04:58 |
move around inside the image, just to
give life to it, which I'll turn that on.
| | 05:04 |
And if I turn on manualUNKNOWN, which
I'll leave off for now.
| | 05:08 |
Then effectively each image will behave
like a chapter, and the user, the
| | 05:11 |
viewer's going to need to press next
chapter, next chapter, next chapter to
| | 05:14 |
move between the different images.
Now that I've created my slideshow, then
| | 05:20 |
all I need to do is render it to view it
and I'm going to need to link to it from
| | 05:23 |
somewhere to play it back.
So, first of all, let's render, that's
| | 05:28 |
this button down here, Render Effects and
Transitions, and this is going to take a few moments.
| | 05:34 |
Okay, and that's done, and now I get a
green line to show that this is ready to watch.
| | 05:42 |
Now, because this behaves like any other
asset, if I select this in the Project
| | 05:46 |
panel you'll notice that like any other
timeline, I've got a end action, I've got
| | 05:50 |
a menu remoter option, and I can link to
it.
| | 05:54 |
So, in this particular project, I don't
have a menu setup, but I can set the end
| | 05:57 |
action to link straight through to the
main movie, if I wanted to, and I could
| | 06:00 |
link to it like anything else.
Now if I double-click on the item in the
| | 06:05 |
project panel I'm going to see it just as
a list of slides.
| | 06:09 |
If I want to see this play back, Then I
can right-click inside the slide show, or
| | 06:14 |
Ctrl+click on a Mac, and choose Preview
from here.
| | 06:19 |
Just pull this onscreen so you can see
it, and there's our animation.
| | 06:25 |
(music playing) Now you can see there's a white
line at the edge there which is caused by
| | 06:29 |
these being extracted from an existing
video and the easy way to fix that is to
| | 06:33 |
pop into Photoshop and crop them.
I haven't bothered to do them for this project.
| | 06:41 |
(music playing) That there we are.
There's our random moving around inside
| | 06:45 |
the shotMUSIC and our transition
between each of the images.
| | 06:49 |
(music playing) I'll just exit and return.
So, again, creating a slideshow is very
| | 06:53 |
much a question of just choosing the
images that you want.
| | 06:58 |
You can shift select or control click,
command click to select individual items.
| | 07:03 |
Click on the new item button and choose
slideshow.
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| Playlists and chapter playlists| 00:00 |
Playlists and chapter playlists, are some
of the easiest ways to add some of the
| | 00:05 |
coolest functionality to DVD's,
interactivity in DVD's.
| | 00:11 |
I'll just show you how quick and easy it
is to build these, and to incorporate
| | 00:15 |
them into your projects.
First of all, I've got a sequence here.
| | 00:19 |
I've just taken my music video, and added
a lot more chapters to it.
| | 00:23 |
So This is pretty short movie, in this
case, to have 11 chapters, but it'll make
| | 00:27 |
sense when we get into the chapter
playlists.
| | 00:30 |
First of all lets have a look at a
regular playlist.
| | 00:32 |
And we need to make a clear distinction
between playlists and chapter playlists.
| | 00:37 |
First of all I'm going to go to my
project panel and I'm going to click on
| | 00:40 |
the new item menu and I'm going to choose
playlist.
| | 00:44 |
Notice chapter playlist just underneath
it Just click on that.
| | 00:47 |
Encore's going to ask me to name the
playlist, because I'm generating a new
| | 00:50 |
item in my project now.
I'll just call this playlist, nice and
| | 00:54 |
simple, and there we are.
Now, all of a sudden, not very much has
| | 00:58 |
happened at all.
I've got the playlist entered in my
| | 01:01 |
project panel.
And now, if I select it over in my
| | 01:04 |
properties panel, I get an empty
playlist.
| | 01:08 |
And this is very very easy to populate
with items.
| | 01:11 |
And what I'm going to do is select from
the four timelines I have here remember
| | 01:16 |
we are working with timelines rather than
with video assets, here is my source
| | 01:20 |
video for those timelines, I am going to
add these to my playlist in the order I
| | 01:24 |
want them to appear and the playlist will
be a single item that I can link to from
| | 01:29 |
a single button in a menu.
All I need to do is get the Pick Whip
| | 01:37 |
here in the playlist panel, and just
choose the items that are going to be included.
| | 01:43 |
Now, perhaps the best example of how you
might use this would be if you had a
| | 01:47 |
music video.
And perhaps you've got, say, ten tracks
| | 01:51 |
by a band.
And you've got each track with its own
| | 01:54 |
timeline, but you might want the option
of just playing them all back to back.
| | 01:58 |
Rather than duplicating the content on
your DVD, which would halve the
| | 02:01 |
efficiency of the compression because
you'd have to share it out, I guess not
| | 02:05 |
the efficiency, the useful of the
compression, because you're sharing the
| | 02:08 |
available space between two copies of
everything.
| | 02:12 |
You could just put your items on the
disk, you can have a chapter menu of sort
| | 02:16 |
that links to it, and then you can have a
playlist that allows you to play them one
| | 02:19 |
after another back to back.
Now that I've got my playlist here, I can
| | 02:24 |
move items up and down the list on it,
and I can specify an end action, which, I
| | 02:28 |
guess in this case, I don't have a menu
in this DVD yet, I guess could easily be
| | 02:31 |
to go to a slideshow.
And in fact, I could slap my slideshow
| | 02:37 |
and I can set the end action to go to my
playlist.
| | 02:40 |
So, the playlist item really behaves
exactly like a timeline, it's just that
| | 02:44 |
it incorporates multiple timelines inside
of it.
| | 02:48 |
This makes for very efficient use of
storage space on your DVD.
| | 02:52 |
Now, a chapter playlist is the same
principle, but rather than organizing
| | 02:57 |
individual timelines into a new order.
You can use it to organize chapters, and
| | 03:04 |
chapter playlists always apply within a
single timeline.
| | 03:09 |
So let's have a go.
I'm going to choose New > Chapter
| | 03:12 |
Playlist, and Encore's going to say,
well, you've got four timelines to choose
| | 03:15 |
from, which one do you want to use?
I'm going to choose the Somebody Loves
| | 03:20 |
You timeline and click OK.
Now chapter playlist get a properties
| | 03:24 |
panel all in their own right.
You noticed that our regular playlist
| | 03:27 |
gets it's settings popping up in the
standard properties panel but, chapter
| | 03:31 |
playlists that's a whole other window.
And what I'm seeing here is every
| | 03:35 |
chapter, one to 11 for this particular
timeline here and on the left is the
| | 03:39 |
available chapters and on the right is
the order in which they're going to appear.
| | 03:44 |
Actually I can just drag and drop these
over.
| | 03:47 |
Let's just take a few of these.
I can put them in any order I want.
| | 03:51 |
I can select a chapter and press the
button here to send it over to the list.
| | 03:55 |
You'll notice that I can have more than
one instance of a chapter.
| | 03:59 |
That's no problem at all.
And what I'm getting here is entry number
| | 04:03 |
on the left, one to seven so far, chapter
number in the middle here, which is the
| | 04:06 |
actual chapter we're going to see.
And the there's a name for the chapter,
| | 04:11 |
because you can add names as well in
Encore.
| | 04:13 |
Now the obvious question is, how does
Encore know where to stop playing a
| | 04:17 |
chapter, because chapter points are
usually described as starting points?
| | 04:21 |
And the answer's pretty simple.
If, for example, I was playing Chapter
| | 04:25 |
three, then that chapter lasts from the
Chapter mark to the Chapter four mark.
| | 04:31 |
So, that distance between the two is the
duration of the third chapter.
| | 04:35 |
So this would be another way around, of
producing that music video.
| | 04:39 |
You might have say, an hour of back to
back music in a single timeline, as a
| | 04:42 |
single media file, break that into
chapters so that the viewer can jump from
| | 04:46 |
one to the next, and then, use a chapter
playlist, to put them in different orders
| | 04:49 |
if you want to.
I've produced a feature length
| | 04:54 |
documentary some years ago, where it was
following two theater practitioners, and
| | 04:58 |
I produced two chapter playlists.
One which just had the scenes for one
| | 05:02 |
practitioner and another that had the
scenes for the other.
| | 05:05 |
Of course another way of doing this would
if you wanted to break one media asset
| | 05:09 |
for the most efficient compression, if
you wanted to break one media asset into
| | 05:13 |
separate parts.
Another way would be to make it a chapter playlist.
| | 05:18 |
Choose the timeline and just put one
chapter in it.
| | 05:23 |
And then make another one, choose the
same timeline and put the second chapter
| | 05:28 |
in it.
And that's all you need to do.
| | 05:31 |
Of course, now I've got three chapter
playlists.
| | 05:35 |
And I need to make sure that I name these
very carefully.
| | 05:38 |
So I would call this chapter one.
(audio playing) And call the second one chapter two.
| | 05:46 |
And the benefit of this, of course, again
is that I've got one meter asset with one
| | 05:50 |
set of compression, maximizing the
storage space on my DVD.
| | 05:54 |
And I can treat that one asset as either
multiple short assets, or as one asset.
| | 06:00 |
Or, for that matter, generate a
completely different order through it.
| | 06:03 |
Just like regular playlists chapter
playlists are items that have an end
| | 06:07 |
action and it can be linked to from any
other item on your dvd.
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So that's playlists and chapter
playlists.
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6. Working with the LibraryCreating menu templates| 00:02 |
It might be that while you're working in
encore you get used to a particular
| | 00:05 |
layout for a menu and you want to
generate your own templates in the library.
| | 00:11 |
Now this is very, very easy to do.
Let's say for example I'm happy with this
| | 00:14 |
menu and it's just a bunch of text with
some simple styles on it.
| | 00:19 |
Let's say this works for me.
All I need to do is have the menu
| | 00:22 |
selected, go to the menu menu, and choose
Save menu as template.
| | 00:26 |
I can save it out as a file to pass on
generally, but saving it as a template
| | 00:29 |
creates an extra file.
So I'm going to put this on my hard
| | 00:33 |
drive, and I'll just give this a name.
Let's call it somebody since that's the
| | 00:39 |
first bit of text there.
And you'll notice that the save as type
| | 00:44 |
is many templates EM.
This is the bit that gets imported into
| | 00:47 |
Encore when you import it.
Of course, you'll also be generating a
| | 00:51 |
PSD file, a Photoshop document, which
contains the actual layer information.
| | 00:55 |
All the graphics and so on.
But the .EM file is what Encore will
| | 00:57 |
refer to.
And you'll notice also I got a self
| | 01:00 |
contained option here, now if I embedded
video and audio, by default those items
| | 01:04 |
will be left wherever they are on my hard
drive and the menu will link to them,
| | 01:08 |
that's fine if I am going to import this
template into the same computer, but if I
| | 01:12 |
move this menu to another computer.
Perhaps I want to bring some designs with
| | 01:19 |
me on a USB stick.
Give them to a friend, than its perhaps
| | 01:22 |
to create a self contained file.
Now the downside with creating a self
| | 01:26 |
contained file is that, because it's
going to incorporate all the video and
| | 01:30 |
audio assets, and they can be quite
large, it might end up taking a lot of
| | 01:33 |
extra space on your hard drive.
It's your choice.
| | 01:38 |
So I'm clicking Save and that's it.
It's done.
| | 01:41 |
If I now go to my Library panel, I've got
my new item button, the same design as
| | 01:45 |
the one at the bottom of the project
panel and I'm going to click and I've got
| | 01:48 |
options here to import.
Now, here's an existing one I'll show you
| | 01:54 |
in a moment, a company standard document
but you'll see now, I've got my
| | 01:57 |
Somebody.em and my Somebody.psd which is
the as I say the actual Photoshop document.
| | 02:02 |
I'm going to choose the am file and click
open and that's now going to appear.
| | 02:07 |
Here it is, on my list of menus.
And I've added it to the general set and
| | 02:11 |
I can generate new set if I want and I
can generate menu from this.
| | 02:16 |
So if I click generate menu, I've now got
a copy of that menu in my project, which
| | 02:20 |
I guess, I don't need.
Making a new set, by the way, which is
| | 02:25 |
just a category, is in the panel menu on
the library.
| | 02:28 |
Here we go.
Make a new set.
| | 02:30 |
Now if I've got a document that I'm happy
with, and perhaps I've worked on it in
| | 02:33 |
Photoshop, that I want to spread around.
Perhaps a company standard.
| | 02:37 |
Here's an example.
If I click on the new item button here
| | 02:40 |
and import my company standard psd.
Now you'll notice that I don't have an EM
| | 02:44 |
file and that's completely fine.
This is going to be generated when I
| | 02:47 |
import the document.
I click open and there it is on my list
| | 02:51 |
and this is just an example of a, a
double-click to a added to my project, an
| | 02:54 |
example of a kind of company standard
corporate DVD menu.
| | 02:58 |
So you can see the benefit here is that
you can have a corporate identity that
| | 03:01 |
travels from machine to machine, product
to product and has a look and feel that
| | 03:05 |
is consistent company wide.
And here I've got a, Gothic widgets
| | 03:10 |
company making vampire widgets at 1604.
Doesn't really matter what the content
| | 03:14 |
is, of course you can transfer it
anywhere.
| | 03:16 |
Of course in principle, there's no reason
why I can't select part of this, and
| | 03:20 |
perhaps make a change to it, move a bit
of text down here, go to menu and again
| | 03:24 |
click on save menu as template and send
that back out and re-import it again.
| | 03:30 |
So it's pretty flexible for you to be
able to create your own libraries of
| | 03:35 |
standardized menus.
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| Styles| 00:02 |
As well as creating your own menu
Templates.
| | 00:04 |
Its quite possible you're going to want
to create Templates that describe your
| | 00:08 |
look and feel for text and image outlines
and so on.
| | 00:12 |
And what we're talking about here really,
is the kinds of layer effects you would
| | 00:15 |
apply inside of Photoshop if your
familiar with that application.
| | 00:19 |
So here, for example, I've got some text
which is being used as a button, and it
| | 00:23 |
has a stroke, it's got an Alta stroke,
which is semi transparent gray.
| | 00:27 |
And here, for example, I don't have any
kind of layer effect, and it's pretty
| | 00:31 |
clean text.
But let's say for example, I wanted this
| | 00:34 |
text where I've got the chapters and so
on, and I wanted that to be a look.
| | 00:39 |
Now, what we're going to record here is
not going to include the Font.
| | 00:42 |
And it's not going to include the color
of the Font.
| | 00:45 |
Those things are not stored in layer
styles as you would expect in the
| | 00:48 |
Photoshop, for example.
You don't get the contents of the layer,
| | 00:51 |
you just get the, I guess the edging
around it, that kind of things.
| | 00:55 |
So, here, in my Styles panel, I'm first
of all going to make a set for myself.
| | 01:00 |
I'm going to go to the panel menu and choose
New Set, and I'll just call this, My
| | 01:05 |
Lovely Set of Styles.
Okay, and straight away, by default, I've
| | 01:10 |
got a Clear All Styles option.
And I can apply that by double-clicking
| | 01:14 |
on it, or right-clicking and choosing
Apply Style.
| | 01:17 |
I'll just undo that, so I've got a kind
of, a default starting point where
| | 01:21 |
everything's clean.
If I want to have this particular Layer
| | 01:25 |
Style, all I need to do is click on the
text and Drag it directly into the Styles
| | 01:29 |
panel, and let go.
Encore's going to say, okay, that's fine,
| | 01:34 |
what do you want to call it.
I'll call this, Outline, that'll do fine,
| | 01:39 |
and now if I look at my Text Styles I've
got my Outline option.
| | 01:45 |
I can click other bits of text in my menu
here and the Outline is added.
| | 01:52 |
So it's very simple to create your own
Layer Styles, and you can create styles
| | 01:55 |
that are applied to graphics or images or
shapes.
| | 01:59 |
But again, do be aware that you're not
going to change the contents.
| | 02:03 |
If you want to store the contents, that
is, the Fonts, the Look and Feel of the
| | 02:06 |
text, you're going to want to create a menu
template to do that rather than a style.
| | 02:10 |
So there you are, that's creating styles
inside of Encore for text and objects.
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7. Using Dynamic LinkDynamic Link with Premiere Pro| 00:00 |
One of the most amazing features of the
creative suit is the dynamic link engine
| | 00:04 |
and what this does is it allows you to
share assets, projects, creative
| | 00:08 |
decisions, any kind of media between
multiple applications in the suite live,
| | 00:13 |
and so really, really big time saver but
it also means you can think a lot less,
| | 00:17 |
which I'm a big fan of.
So let's have a look at an example.
| | 00:25 |
First of all, with permea probe.
I've got an on call project here.
| | 00:29 |
Got a simple menu with some buttons.
Got a little bit of audios maybe I use as
| | 00:33 |
a background for the DVD but I don't have
any kind of media assets.
| | 00:37 |
I don't have any content for my DVD.
If I toggle over to Premier Pro, I've got
| | 00:42 |
a project here with a simple sequence.
Let's say this is really an assembly edit.
| | 00:47 |
I haven't done much in the way of
editing.
| | 00:49 |
I've just put some clips down here onto
my timeline.
| | 00:52 |
And I want to get this over to Premier Pro.
Well, ordinarilly I would do this by
| | 00:58 |
going to file, export.
Media, I would choose some settings, and
| | 01:03 |
I would just output the file in a
flattened file.
| | 01:09 |
Now the upside with that is that it's
unified, you can't really make changes to
| | 01:11 |
it, and that's a good thing in some ways.
But the downside with it is, well, the
| | 01:15 |
same, you can't make changes to it.
So it's simplified by exporting as a
| | 01:19 |
single file, but it also locks down your
creative freedom, and the other issue of
| | 01:23 |
course is I've got to know exactly what
format I am exporting it as.
| | 01:28 |
And I don't need to do that if I make use
of dynamic link.
| | 01:31 |
So I'm just going to resize Premiere Pro
here a little bit, and so now I can see
| | 01:35 |
Premiere Pro in the foreground and Adobe
Encore in the background.
| | 01:39 |
And all I'm going to do is grab this
sequence and drag and drop it directly
| | 01:43 |
into the project panel in Encore.
If you look closely you're going to see that
| | 01:47 |
the grab hand icon I've got there has got
a no go sign.
| | 01:50 |
It's like a strike through line, which
should mean I can't do what I'm about to
| | 01:54 |
do, but that's not true.
If I let go, I now have that media inside
| | 01:58 |
of encore.
And again, the beauty of this is that I
| | 02:01 |
haven't had to think.
This media is now being shared by encore.
| | 02:05 |
But it's not just the media.
It's the output of my sequence inside of premier.
| | 02:09 |
Just like any imported media, I can
right-click, choose new, and timeline.
| | 02:15 |
And now in my monitor window I could see
here is my timeline, beautiful.
| | 02:20 |
And this is taken live from Premier Pro.
So for example, I can put chapter points
| | 02:25 |
on, let's have some chapters.
I can treat this like any other piece of
| | 02:29 |
media that I've imported.
If I go to my menu, maybe I'll get my
| | 02:32 |
Play button here and I'll link that to
this timeline.
| | 02:36 |
Remember, it's timelines that you link
to, not assets.
| | 02:39 |
And that's it, I'm good to go.
I'm ready to begin working on my DVD.
| | 02:44 |
So I can begin this in parallel with my
Premier Pro edit.
| | 02:49 |
And here's where the real magic happens.
Now that I have a dynamically linked
| | 02:52 |
sequence, view-able in both Encore and
Premiere Pro, and of course Encore will
| | 02:56 |
also make the encoding, trans-coding
process.
| | 02:59 |
It'll deal with that for me
automatically, so again I don't have to
| | 03:02 |
think about.
Formats and frame rates and any of those details.
| | 03:06 |
I can toggle back to Premiere Pro.
I just go to full screen again with this.
| | 03:11 |
And I'll just do something really
obvious.
| | 03:12 |
I'm going to grab one of these clips and
move them later on the timeline.
| | 03:15 |
Then I'm going to toggle back on Encore.
Straight away we can see here the gap has appeared.
| | 03:21 |
But of course also my timeline has gotten
longer.
| | 03:24 |
So if I zoom out a little bit with the
minus key I should be able to, there you go.
| | 03:28 |
I've justUNKNOWN out the clip, there's
the second gap and there is the clip I've moved.
| | 03:33 |
So just to show you that in Premier Pro
I've got a clip then I've got a gap, 2
| | 03:36 |
more clips and a gap and the sky.
There it is on a timeline in Premier, and
| | 03:41 |
toggling back to Encore, there it is in
Encore.
| | 03:44 |
I find this amazing, I know exactly how
it works, but I still find it amazing.
| | 03:48 |
I haven't had to save, I haven't had to
do anything.
| | 03:51 |
In fact, if I toggled back to Premier
Pro, I can even get effects, let's maybe get.
| | 03:56 |
Let's get a color effect.
I'll do a real simple one.
| | 04:00 |
let's go for the fast color corrector,
drag that onto a clip, go to my effect controls.
| | 04:05 |
I'm just going into the effect settings
here.
| | 04:08 |
I'm going to make this really, really
obvious.
| | 04:10 |
I'll go for an orange sky, there we go,
orangey yellow sky.
| | 04:13 |
Nice and visible change to my timeline.
I'm going to toggle back, I'm just using alt
| | 04:17 |
tab here to toggle back to Encore.
And straight away, even before it's
| | 04:21 |
updated the interface.
You can see it's displaying the effect.
| | 04:24 |
I can put titles on, I can make any
changes I like inside of Premier Pro.
| | 04:28 |
A little update automatically inside of
Encore.
| | 04:31 |
So effectively I can collaborate, I can
work dynamically I can start designing my
| | 04:36 |
DVD, while I'm still finishing off my
editor premier pro.
| | 04:41 |
And when the editing in Premiere Pro is
finished, I don't really need to do
| | 04:44 |
anything else.
I can just leave Premiere Pro where it
| | 04:47 |
was and continue finishing off the DVD.
So that's dynamic link connecting
| | 04:52 |
Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore.
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| Editing a menu in Photoshop| 00:00 |
The integration between Encore and
Photoshop is really complete.
| | 00:06 |
In fact, the Encore DVD menus are just
Photoshop documents.
| | 00:11 |
And in fact, it's so close, the
connection between these two
| | 00:14 |
applications, there's even a button
inside of encore to edit the current menu
| | 00:18 |
inside of Photoshop.
And if I just click that, up comes the
| | 00:22 |
menu as a Photoshop document inside my
Photoshop interface.
| | 00:27 |
And I can just edit this as I would with
any other item inside of Photoshop.
| | 00:31 |
If I look at my layers, let's just resize
this a bit, we can see each of those
| | 00:35 |
buttons, I'll just flatten these layers a
bit so you can see what's going on, and
| | 00:39 |
there are the bracket plus text items,
that tell Encore that these are buttons,
| | 00:43 |
that's my random extras, and so on.
If I toggle back to Encore, you can see,
| | 00:51 |
in my Layers panel, here they are.
Those are my buttons.
| | 00:55 |
So this really is just a question of
using text, to tell Encore what each item
| | 00:59 |
is onscreen.
I can click on this layer, for example,
| | 01:03 |
Somebody Loves You, I can move it around.
I can even scale it and make it a little
| | 01:06 |
bit bigger.
Let's just zoom that up, and stick, yep,
| | 01:10 |
that works fine.
And while I'm here, I might as well add
| | 01:13 |
an adjustment layer.
So I'm going to go to my adjustments,
| | 01:16 |
maybe I'll do curves, and I'll just
deepen the shadows a little bit, raise up
| | 01:20 |
the highlights, and just make that a bit
more dark as a background.
| | 01:27 |
And in fact, if I go back to my layers
here you can see I now got a curves
| | 01:30 |
adjustment layer, in front of my jpeg.
All I need to do now is save and close.
| | 01:37 |
Jump back in to Encore.
And it's saying, do you want to update it?
| | 01:44 |
Yes, I do.
And there it is, it's changed.
| | 01:46 |
Now, if I select my menu and go back to
my layers, you can see I've got a curves
| | 01:50 |
layer added inside of Encore.
Now, I can't generate curves adjustment
| | 01:55 |
layers inside of Encore.
In fact, there's quite a lot of things
| | 01:59 |
that I can't do.
To generate content inside of Encore that
| | 02:03 |
I can generate inside of Photoshop.
And of course, the beauty of adjustment
| | 02:07 |
layers, is, if I go back into Photoshop,
I can say, you know what, actually, I
| | 02:11 |
think I'll just turn that off.
Save it with control s or Apple s, go
| | 02:16 |
back into Encore, and the adjustment
layer is still present.
| | 02:20 |
But it's no longer applied.
There it is, not visible.
| | 02:24 |
So if you know Photoshop, if you're
comfortable working with it, there's an
| | 02:30 |
awful lot that you can do with your
Encore DVD menus.
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| Creating menu transitions with After Effects| 00:00 |
As well as dynamic link integration with
Photoshop and Premier Pro, Encore also
| | 00:05 |
has a really nice connection with
after-effects.
| | 00:09 |
And in fact you can share after-effects
compositions as assets in exactly the
| | 00:14 |
same way that it can Premier Pro.
But there's even a shortcut for
| | 00:19 |
generating an After Effects composition
from a menu.
| | 00:22 |
And there's a nice little workflow I can
show you, that makes use of that.
| | 00:26 |
First of all, here's a simple menu.
I've got a main menu with just a play
| | 00:30 |
button and a chapters button.
And the chapters button is linked to a
| | 00:34 |
chapters menu, and there's the chapters
menu.
| | 00:37 |
Just a picture in the background, and
some foreground links to chapters.
| | 00:41 |
Now, in my main menu, I want to create an
animation, so that when the user clicks
| | 00:45 |
on or chooses the chapters option here,
instead of just going blank and switching
| | 00:49 |
to the chapters menu, I'd like it to
animate, and that's what we're going to
| | 00:53 |
do now.
So first of all, I'm going to have my
| | 00:58 |
main menu selected.
And I'm going to go to my menu, menu and
| | 01:02 |
choose create aftereffects composition.
And when I do this, encore is going to
| | 01:07 |
ask me where I want to put a PSD, which
is the Photoshop document of the menu
| | 01:11 |
that aftereffects can use for the
animation that I'm going to create.
| | 01:17 |
and that location's fine, so I'll click
Okay.
| | 01:20 |
And up comes After Effects.
Now if you're not familiar with After
| | 01:23 |
Effects it's an amazing application, that
gives you incredible controls for
| | 01:27 |
animation, compositing affects, grading
and more.
| | 01:32 |
All I'm going to do is open up the
composition that's automatically been
| | 01:35 |
created, and there we are.
I'm just going to get rid of the guides here.
| | 01:40 |
They probably just going to clutter up the
view a little bit.
| | 01:42 |
So there is our image and this is a
Photoshop document being displayed in
| | 01:45 |
after effects because like on call, after
effects has the Photoshop document engine
| | 01:49 |
in it so I can view things natively and
view layer effect and so on.
| | 01:54 |
Pretty cool, so what I got here now is a
composition with my background.
| | 01:59 |
Can turn that off and on for visibility.
This is my conversation, which behaves
| | 02:05 |
very much like a timeline in Encore, or a
sequence in Premiere Pro.
| | 02:09 |
I've got my chapters, and I've got my
play button.
| | 02:12 |
And these are actually nested
compositions, but we don't need to worry
| | 02:15 |
about what that means right now.
All I want to do is, as this passes
| | 02:20 |
through time.
I want the play and chapters buttons to
| | 02:23 |
fade away and then after that I want
background to fade away.
| | 02:27 |
This is pretty straight forward to do.
I'm going to select those layers, I'm going to
| | 02:30 |
press the T key for transparency.
That let's me turn on the opacity key
| | 02:35 |
frames for the play and the chapters
buttons.
| | 02:39 |
In fact I'm going to add ones at the start
as well.
| | 02:42 |
And then jump onto these keyframes and
have the opacity set to 0, so there we
| | 02:45 |
can see over about a second and a half
roughly, that's going to fade away.
| | 02:51 |
Then I'm going to, let's see now around
about the same time I'm going to add p
| | 02:55 |
frames for the background so again, and
I'll press the t key, bring up the opacity.
| | 03:03 |
I can do this a long way around by
expanded the layer manually but We quick
| | 03:06 |
adjust to press t and then I'm going to
drag to the end of this little mini
| | 03:10 |
timeline and drop the opacity to zero and
that's going to add a keyframe for me automatically.
| | 03:17 |
So now as I drag through this you can
see, there we go, it fades away nicely.
| | 03:22 |
Now, the duration of his composition is
set pretty much by the last composition
| | 03:25 |
duration you created in After Effects.
So, it's come up as three seconds for me.
| | 03:30 |
The default when you first Install After
Effect, I think, is something like 30 seconds.
| | 03:34 |
But if you want to change the duration of
this composition.
| | 03:38 |
You just right-click or control click on
it, and choose composition settings.
| | 03:42 |
There's lots of options here.
But the one you're looking for is down
| | 03:45 |
here at the bottom, duration.
Just specify the duration you want for
| | 03:48 |
the animation.
So now I've got my animation completed, I
| | 03:51 |
can RAM preview this in After Effects.
And that plays back pretty nicely, I'm
| | 03:56 |
pretty happy with that.
All I need to do is get that into Encore.
| | 04:01 |
I'm just going to save for safety's sake,
I'm going to double-click to resize the
| | 04:05 |
After Effects window here, so I can now
see Encore and After Effects.
| | 04:10 |
I'm going to grab this composition.
I'm going to alt tab over to Encore and
| | 04:15 |
I'm going to drop it directly into my
Encore project panel.
| | 04:20 |
There we are.
Now this is a dynamically linked After
| | 04:23 |
Effects composition.
And it functions just the same as a
| | 04:26 |
dynamically linked Premeire Pro
composition.
| | 04:29 |
I can drag through the little thumb nail
here and I can see there's my animation
| | 04:32 |
playing just fine.
It's telling me the duration is correct,
| | 04:36 |
the frame size is correct and so on.
An important thing is that because this
| | 04:40 |
is based on my original Photoshop
document from Encore, it should match
| | 04:44 |
pixel for pixel, the original image.
There should be a seamless join between
| | 04:50 |
the two items.
All I need to do to turn this into an
| | 04:53 |
animated transition is to go to my main
menu Select my Chapters button, go to the
| | 04:58 |
Transition tab for that button.
So I've got the button selected in my
| | 05:04 |
menu and then with the Properties panel,
I'm going to Transition Settings and I'm
| | 05:08 |
going to drag and drop this Pick Whip onto
that After Effects project composition.
| | 05:14 |
There it is coming up in the menu.
Now, all I need to do is preview it to
| | 05:17 |
see if it's worked.
My main menu is my first play, so I can
| | 05:21 |
use the keyboard shortcut, Control > Alt
> Space, or Control, or Apple > Option >
| | 05:25 |
Space on a Mac, and click on chapters.
And there is fading, and fading, and its
| | 05:32 |
gone into my main menu.
A bit clunky in the preview panel here,
| | 05:36 |
it did give me a little bit of the
original menu there for a second before
| | 05:39 |
going on to the other menu.
But when you do this for real, when you
| | 05:44 |
burn the DVD or make your Flash movie,
it'll be absolutely seamless.
| | 05:49 |
There are lots of different ways you can
use this functionality.
| | 05:52 |
Not least, the fact that you can be in
aftereffects, if I double back over to
| | 05:56 |
this, and produce any kind of media you
want, any kind of asset, and drag that
| | 05:59 |
directly into Encore.
In theory, I although, I have to admit I
| | 06:05 |
haven't tried it.
You should be able to bring a premier pro
| | 06:09 |
project into After Effects dynamically
And then dynamically link that also on
| | 06:13 |
into Encore.
This dynamic link feature is absolutely
| | 06:18 |
amazing once you start working with it.
| | 06:22 |
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8. Previewing and OutputtingPreviewing your DVD| 00:02 |
So once your DVD is complete and you've
made any playlists you're going to make, any slideshows.
| | 00:07 |
You've got chapters and chapter menus.
You're all ready to go to produce your DVD.
| | 00:12 |
And you might think that the first thing
to do would be, burn a DVD.
| | 00:16 |
And that might work just fine.
But before you do, it's a good idea to
| | 00:19 |
use the preview window to just have a
look at everything.
| | 00:23 |
And check the links between everything.
And go through the user experience that
| | 00:27 |
you're creating with Encore.
Now most of the features of Encore can be
| | 00:31 |
tested using the preview window.
There are a couple that just won't work
| | 00:35 |
and there's some things you need to
prepare first.
| | 00:37 |
So let's have a little look.
If I go to the File menu here and choose
| | 00:40 |
Preview, this is going to take me into the
Preview Window.
| | 00:45 |
Now this is going to be the first play
which in this example, if I just close
| | 00:48 |
the window for a second is My Main menu
here.
| | 00:52 |
And you can always change the first play
of course be deselecting anything in the
| | 00:56 |
Project panel and grabbing with the Pick
Whip in the Properties for your disk, or
| | 01:01 |
you can right-click or control click on a
Mac and set as first play.
| | 01:07 |
If I, in any case, go back into the
Preview Window here.
| | 01:10 |
I can see what happens, if I mouse over.
I've got these kind of rough hewn
| | 01:16 |
overlays for my buttons and my Play
button.
| | 01:18 |
This is some text, and I have some very
useful functions down along the bottom here.
| | 01:23 |
Now, the Preview Window tries to emulate
the remote control that the user would have.
| | 01:28 |
And give the kind of feedback and
information that the user would have.
| | 01:31 |
When they're watching this with a set top
box.
| | 01:34 |
And here, I've got a zoom control which
is just really if you, a bit short on
| | 01:37 |
screen space and I guess if you just want
to test the connections between things.
| | 01:42 |
I've got the kind of information that you
would get when you're looking at a DVD
| | 01:46 |
player, whether it a menu, chapter
number, that kind of thing.
| | 01:50 |
And I've got the Title Remove button and
the menu Remote button, now these two
| | 01:54 |
buttons relate to the Settings you
specified for the disc or that you've
| | 01:57 |
specified for an individual piece of
video, an individual time line, and this
| | 02:01 |
is really down to personal preference,
you might set as the Title menu the Main
| | 02:04 |
Film, the Main Program on your disc, and
the menu button might vary from timeline
| | 02:08 |
to timeline.
It might be that you just have one menu,
| | 02:14 |
that's absolutely fine.
But if you're working with multiple bits
| | 02:17 |
of video in a really complex architecture
of a DVD you might have specific menus
| | 02:21 |
that you want the user to go to if they
press the menu button might be a pop up
| | 02:25 |
for example.
And this is really just down to the way
| | 02:30 |
that you design the disk.
So, here I can click on things and I can
| | 02:34 |
also press the Up and Down arrows as the
user would have.
| | 02:38 |
If they were working with a remote
control.
| | 02:41 |
And if I go in for example, to My
Chapters menu here.
| | 02:45 |
Now this Chapters menu is set up as a
Motion menu and these buttons are
| | 02:49 |
supposed to be animated.
I achieve that of course, by having the
| | 02:54 |
Chapter menu open, going to My Motion Tab
and ticking the Animate button's box.
| | 03:00 |
And that's just all you really need to
do.
| | 03:01 |
I can specify a loop point and so on, but
that's fine.
| | 03:04 |
If I want to go back in to previewing
this menu directly I can Right Click on
| | 03:08 |
it and choose Preview from here.
And I can do the same thing inside the
| | 03:13 |
chapters menu screen so I can actually
dive in to individual parts of my DVD as
| | 03:17 |
well, and let's just do that now.
I'm going to Right Click, Control Click on a
| | 03:23 |
Mac and Preview from here.
Now although this is a Motion Amenu,
| | 03:26 |
you'll notice that it's not moving and
that's because I haven't rendered it.
| | 03:31 |
And there's kind of two distinct
processes inside of Encore for generating
| | 03:35 |
your final MacBook standard media for
your DVD.
| | 03:39 |
One is to transcode the project, and that
can either happen automatically when you
| | 03:43 |
build the DVD.
Or if I just close here, I can select an
| | 03:47 |
Asset by Right Clicking or Control
Clicking, and I can choose Transcode Now.
| | 03:52 |
That will, piece by piece, transcode the
individual items that I select.
| | 03:56 |
The second part of the media creation
process is what happens with Motion menus.
| | 04:01 |
Now, I can do an overall render of my
Motion menus by going to the File menu,
| | 04:04 |
and choosing Render, and choosing Motion
menus.
| | 04:08 |
You'll see slide shows is greyed out
because I don't have any slide shows in
| | 04:11 |
this project.
I can just render the entire project if I
| | 04:14 |
want to as well.
But if I do Motion menus, any Motion
| | 04:17 |
menus that have been created will all be
Rendered.
| | 04:20 |
And then I'll be ready to preview inside
of Encore.
| | 04:24 |
In this case though if I got back to
preview from here, inside the menu
| | 04:27 |
Preview Window, I've got an option here,
Render Current Motion menu or Slide Show,
| | 04:31 |
and this will tell Encore to render this
particular item.
| | 04:37 |
It'll flatten it into a movie file which
will playback.
| | 04:41 |
And it'll have layers of highlights on
the screen to highlight buttons.
| | 04:46 |
And what's happening here in the
background, is that encore is generating
| | 04:50 |
a flattened MPEG2 file, or I guess an
H264 for a Blu-ray which looks like the
| | 04:54 |
result of all of these layers of video.
So I've actually got seven layers,
| | 05:00 |
including the flattened still frame of
the background.
| | 05:04 |
Which will all become just one layer that
happens to look like this and that's what
| | 05:09 |
you get on a DVD disc.
Other useful buttons along the controls
| | 05:13 |
here, are of course, Skip and Play, and
Pause, and so on.
| | 05:17 |
But a really useful one is here, I've got
execute end action, so if you're just
| | 05:20 |
going through your disk and checking out
whether the connections work whether the
| | 05:24 |
results of your settings are correct, you
don't have to watch all the way through,
| | 05:27 |
you don't have to skip chapter by chapter
to get to the end of an asset, you can
| | 05:31 |
just jump to the end and see what Encore
does.
| | 05:37 |
Whether the end action is going to take you
to the right place, or whether it's going to
| | 05:39 |
take you somewhere totally different and
you need to check your settings.
| | 05:44 |
You can even punch in a number for a
specific chapter that you want to go to.
| | 05:47 |
So if you know that you've got 20
chapters, and you want to go about
| | 05:50 |
halfway through your movie, you can just
type in 10 here and go to that chapter.
| | 05:55 |
And then last of all along here, we've
got exit here, which will take me back to
| | 05:59 |
My Project, but it will take me back and
display this asset, however I got into My
| | 06:02 |
Preview Window.
So I might be on my fifth menu somewhere
| | 06:07 |
deep inside the architecture of my DVD.
If I want to find that menu in My Project
| | 06:12 |
I can just Exit here and Encore will take
me back to it.
| | 06:16 |
Of course, I was already there soLAUGH
it's pretty easy.
| | 06:20 |
And Exit and Return just takes you back
to the Project generally, it takes you
| | 06:23 |
back to where you came from originally.
So let's just Render this Motion menu,
| | 06:29 |
and there we go.
So, now that that's rendered I can see
| | 06:32 |
all of My Motion menus are moving, and
this one over here is moving, but there's
| | 06:36 |
not a lot going on in it.
And I can see exactly what the user's
| | 06:41 |
going to get when they Play this menu.
Now if I choose one of these chapters, I
| | 06:46 |
can Skip to the end.
And yup, it takes me back to the Main menu.
| | 06:52 |
So it's very easy to navigate your
content and just check that it's working correctly.
| | 06:57 |
There are other ways of testing your DVD.
This is integrated into Encore and
| | 07:03 |
frankly, it's my first port of call for
checking a disk.
| | 07:06 |
Another way is to go to the Build menu,
and rather than outputting a disk to
| | 07:10 |
output a DVD folder and if you have DVD
playback software that connects this DVD
| | 07:15 |
folders which just has the contents of
the disk in a file then perfect.
| | 07:22 |
Things like power DVD maybe, there's a
few DVD playback applications that will
| | 07:26 |
let you access that.
And that's kind of a neat way of doing it
| | 07:30 |
as well because you really do get the
output of the disk.
| | 07:33 |
Of course, you could also produce a DVD
image, and then if you've got
| | 07:36 |
applications that let you view image
files as drives on your computer, you can
| | 07:39 |
use that and, like Virtual Clone Drive,
for example, lets you access an ISO as if
| | 07:43 |
it were a disc, and you can test it
exactly as the user will receive it.
| | 07:49 |
So it's just one specific thing that you
can't preview and that's unique to
| | 07:54 |
Blu-ray DVD's, which is if you produce a
popup menu of any kind, the popup menu
| | 07:58 |
wont display in the Preview Monitor.
All you can do is see that on a proper
| | 08:04 |
Blu-ray DVD player.
You'll have to burn a disc to see that.
| | 08:09 |
You can have a holding image fine.
For example, we'll just set this as a
| | 08:13 |
Blu-ray popup.
I could specify a time line if set up
| | 08:17 |
this timeline here to use that Pop-up
menu.
| | 08:20 |
I'm going to make a particularly good pop-up
because there's no, oh, I guess it's got
| | 08:26 |
some see through stuff in it now.
I can specify a frame to use.
| | 08:29 |
Maybe I'll have 30 seconds in so I can do
layouts within but I can't preview it in
| | 08:34 |
the preview monitor.
So that's previewing your project in
| | 08:40 |
Adobe Encore.
| | 08:42 |
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| Outputting to DVD and Blu-ray| 00:02 |
So once your DVD content's complete and
you've previewed the DVD and you're ready
| | 00:06 |
to burn it, you're going to go to the build
menu.
| | 00:10 |
And on this panel you've got all the
options to burn disks directly from
| | 00:13 |
Encore or to produce image files.
Let's have a little look at the options
| | 00:17 |
that relate to burning.
Regular DVDs and to Blu-Ray DVDs.
| | 00:22 |
Of course, the first thing you're
probably going to do is click on the
| | 00:24 |
Check Project button, you're going to
click Start.
| | 00:27 |
And straight away I can see I've got an
Orphaned Playlist.
| | 00:30 |
So let's just fix that.
Back to my project panel here.
| | 00:33 |
And let's see now, I've got a Playlist
button.
| | 00:37 |
Let's just link that.
There we go.
| | 00:40 |
Now, back in my Build menu > Check
project > Start, perfect.
| | 00:45 |
It's a really good idea just to do a last
minute check like that even if you're
| | 00:48 |
pretty certain everything's fine.
It's amazing how easy it is to miss just
| | 00:52 |
a little link that's broken in that way.
Now, I have three options in the Format
| | 00:56 |
menu here.
I can either produce a regular DVD, a
| | 01:00 |
BluRay or a Flash.
I'm going to concentrate on the DVD and
| | 01:03 |
BluRay in this lesson.
Right at the top I've got a Build button
| | 01:07 |
and, to be honest, if I'm pretty happy
with the settings I've used before, I'm
| | 01:10 |
probably just going to be able to click
Build Now and it's going to burn the DVD,
| | 01:13 |
and it'll be fine.
However, the Output menu here gives me
| | 01:19 |
several options for what's going to be
produced when I click Go, when I hit the
| | 01:23 |
Build button.
First of all the DVD disc is pretty
| | 01:27 |
obvious its going to burn a DVD disc.
I need to physically put some media in to
| | 01:32 |
my burner and hit go and it'll burn one
disc at a time straight out of on call.
| | 01:37 |
If I make a DVD folder.
Encore will put the contents of that disc
| | 01:41 |
just as files and folders on my hard
drive.
| | 01:45 |
Now, you can't take that contents and
burn that as data onto a blank DVD using
| | 01:49 |
any other DVD burning software, or any
data burning software like Nero and so on.
| | 01:56 |
The reason you can't do that is that the
folder structure is a little bit
| | 01:59 |
different, the naming conventions are a
little bit different.
| | 02:02 |
You can use these folders for previewing
using applications that support it, so
| | 02:06 |
it's a good way of testing things outside
of the environment of Encore.
| | 02:10 |
But you don't want to be using this
content to burn regular DVDs, it won't
| | 02:14 |
work on a set-top box.
A dvd image would be an ISO file that
| | 02:19 |
really is the total contents of the disc
as it would be burned.
| | 02:23 |
And that you can use other applications
for and in fact some replication
| | 02:27 |
facilities will simply ask for a dvd
image.
| | 02:30 |
Of course the downside with creating an
image file is that nothing's really going
| | 02:34 |
to be able access on your computer for
testing.
| | 02:37 |
Though there are some applications, like
a virtual clone drive, that will let you
| | 02:40 |
access the contents of an ISO, as if it
were a drive on your machine, a very good
| | 02:43 |
application for that.
The DVD Master option makes use of DLT drives.
| | 02:51 |
And you need to physically have a
digital linear tape drive connected to
| | 02:54 |
your machine for this.
This is what a lot of the replication
| | 02:58 |
facilities will ask for if you're going to
have a DVD glass mastered and mass produced.
| | 03:03 |
Very broadly speaking, a glass mastered
disk is used to produce I don't know what
| | 03:08 |
word to use proper, correct DVD's that
you'd find from Hollywood movies, with a
| | 03:12 |
proper disc that you get when you rent
out a DVD and so on.
| | 03:18 |
The other kind of discs that most people
are producing, semi-professionally or,
| | 03:23 |
very often releasing, direct-to-DVD, is
something like a DVD-R, a writable DVD disc.
| | 03:29 |
Which is almost always compatible but
doesn't quite have the 110% absolutely
| | 03:33 |
guaranteed compatibility that a glass
master disc has.
| | 03:38 |
The cost are also different.
The glass master disc, it's a lot cheaper
| | 03:42 |
per disk but you need to be producing a
large quantity of them to make it worthwhile.
| | 03:48 |
A DDP image is the same thing as a DVD
master except you FTP it and your
| | 03:52 |
duplication facility will guide you
through this process.
| | 03:58 |
So, best to check with them before you
start producing either DLT master files
| | 04:03 |
or DDP images for FTP.
They will guide you very, very clearly.
| | 04:09 |
So broadly speaking, I'm either going to
produce a disc which gives me one set of
| | 04:12 |
options, in this build menu.
And if I just look down, I can say if I'm
| | 04:16 |
going to use the current project, or if I'm
going to use an existing file.
| | 04:20 |
I can choose what the recorder will be,
what the right speed, if I'm using
| | 04:23 |
rewritable discs, which I generally don't
do, because the compatibility with set
| | 04:26 |
top boxes tends to be a little bit lower.
But I can alter, erase rewritables.
| | 04:32 |
Then I've got here options for the size
of the disk.
| | 04:35 |
Encore will tell me how much free space
I've got.
| | 04:38 |
And I've got the name of the disk, which
is based on the properties for the disk,
| | 04:42 |
as you would expect.
Encore supports single and dual air discs.
| | 04:48 |
There's also support for single and two
sided discs.
| | 04:51 |
If you've got enough content to go over
the join between the layers in a disc,
| | 04:54 |
you can either let Encore handle that
jump between one or the other.
| | 04:59 |
Or if you want to avoid potentially
having the most significantly emotional
| | 05:03 |
scene in your movie broken by a little
pause, you can always set this to manual.
| | 05:08 |
And if you've got enough data, Encore
will pop up asking you, well, okay then,
| | 05:11 |
which chapter do you want it on?
You can also include ROM content.
| | 05:16 |
This is data that would be included on
the disc that would come up if you put
| | 05:19 |
the disc into a computer.
And then we've got region codes.
| | 05:23 |
Now, by default, when you create a DVD
disc directly using a DVD-R burner.
| | 05:29 |
Now, that's really a consumer device and
it doesn't usually allow the support of
| | 05:35 |
the region codes.
So you're going to find that if you put a
| | 05:39 |
region code in, you can see here by
default, just everything's on, it'll work anywhere.
| | 05:45 |
But if you put a region code in, you
really want to be glass mastering.
| | 05:49 |
You want to be using the DLT tape or the
DTTP image option, the master or the
| | 05:52 |
image option, to produce the disc and
then let the replication facility pick up
| | 05:56 |
the tags.
I could, for example, put in a custom one here.
| | 06:02 |
And I can say where shall we have this,
let's say this is just going to be on cruise
| | 06:06 |
ships and aeroplanes.
So, putting that region code in will mean
| | 06:10 |
that unless the player has that region
code in theory the player will reject the
| | 06:14 |
disk and refuse to play it.
This is a control mechanism that studios
| | 06:19 |
use all the time to.
Manage the release dates of their titles
| | 06:23 |
and, oop I forgot to turn off Japan.
So, (LAUGH) this system will work if you
| | 06:28 |
mass duplicate your DVD because the
duplication facility will put the correct
| | 06:33 |
tags in when they create the glass
master.
| | 06:38 |
But it's not going to work if you use a
regular burner direct from your machine.
| | 06:42 |
You can put the code in but it's not
going to work.
| | 06:44 |
Equally, if you put copy protection, here
you can specify limits whether copies can
| | 06:48 |
be permitted or not for the disk.
This is a feature that is supported even
| | 06:53 |
with the DVD player build into computers.
And again this is something that, if you
| | 06:58 |
want to do it properly, you're only going to
get this to work if you have a
| | 07:01 |
mass-duplicated glass master DVD.
You also need to get a licensing file.
| | 07:06 |
It's not particularly expensive, but you
need to get a licensing file to link on
| | 07:12 |
there that protects your copyright.
Again, both of these region codes and
| | 07:17 |
copy protection particularly relate To
producing disks for mass duplication.
| | 07:20 |
If I switch over to making a file, let's
say a DVD Image, for example, I get
| | 07:24 |
pretty similar options.
But if I choose, say the DVD Master, the
| | 07:28 |
destination, well, you can see I've got
None Found because I don't have a DLT
| | 07:33 |
recorder attached to my machine.
So I suppose the good news here is that
| | 07:38 |
which ever options you choose, Encore
knows exactly what's going on and it's
| | 07:41 |
only going to give you the options that
relate to the project you're working on
| | 07:44 |
and the hardware you have available.
If I go to my format menu here again and
| | 07:51 |
choose Blu-Ray, I get very, very similar
options.
| | 07:55 |
Now I'm making a Blu-Ray disc, a folder
or an image a little bit simpler than
| | 07:59 |
producing the DVDs.
It's a pretty basic menu here for burning
| | 08:03 |
the disk.
Again what am I going to burn, am I going to
| | 08:05 |
use the existing image or am I going to
use the current project?
| | 08:10 |
Do I have a Blu-Ray burner?
It looks like I don't, but if I had one
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it would come up here and I could specify
to produce multiple copies.
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And once again I can produce rom content
if I like.
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That would come up if the user put this
disc into a computer.
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If I make an image file, again, I get
very simple options.
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I can browse for the destination for the
file.
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And by the way, this is the same for
making a DVD image.
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I need to browse to a location on my hard
drive to produce the file because this is
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just going to be a big file.
Let's just go back to Blue-Ray for a second.
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And again I can produce Blue-Ray DVD ROM
content as well.
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So not that many options really and as
you can probably see from the lack of
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changes I've been making.
Really if you're going to burn a disk mostly
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what you're going to do is look down the
list and think, yeah that's the correct size.
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That's particularly important if you're
going to get Encore to, let's just turn a
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little more regions.
If you're going to have Encore
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automatically transcribe your media
Encore has gotta know how much space
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you're going to have available.
But you're probably going to work on the
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same size discs a lot.
and you're going to click build and that
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will burn your DVD.
And then you're ready to put it in a
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set-top box and try it out.
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An absolutely wonderful feature of Adobe
Encore is the option to take content that
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is designed and intended for DVD's and
Blu-rays and instead convert all of that
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into flash movies embedded in an hml page
that you can put on the net.
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I have commonly used this feature to
create an automated version of a review
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and approval version of a film for
clients.
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And it's really easy to do.
You just put it into a directory on your
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website and let people have the url.
If you put it in a locked directory in a
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website it's really easy to protect the
content and just give specific access to
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people to look at it.
Now in part, this is being replaced as
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functionality, by the new CS review
feature, in Premiere Pro.
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But if you're not using Premiere Pro, or
if you're just wanting to have all of
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that interactivity that you get on a DVD
as well, this is a fantastic option.
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All you need to do to create the flash
movie version of your DVD, is go to the
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Build panel and under format choose flash
and the option here is pretty straight forward.
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Output well, guess what it's going to be a
.swf file.
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I can still check my project.
I can create it using my current project only.
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And if I look at my destination here,
let's put this on my desktop.
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That's okay.
In fact I'll make a folder called flash example.
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Okay.
And then we can choose a name that'll
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appear in the xtml page and then I have
these two options fo whether I'm going to
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produce an F4V or an NFLV.
So the issue here is that an FLV is not
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as efficient compression.
Its pretty good its going to look pretty
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nice as a flash video, its not as
efficient as the 4v format which has H264
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media embedded inside the flash wrapper.
So that's a more advanced codec and it's
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more efficient compression.
The only downside with the F4V format, is
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that not all systems are updated
regularly.
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The flash players are often locked down
on desktop machines in enterprise
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environments, and that means pretty much
anywhere where there's an IT department
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controlling the updates that are
installed on computers.
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And that means that a big part of your
potential demographic is just not going
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to be able to see your disc.
I suppose one option is to produce two
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versions of your site.
You can have one that says "Click here if
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you can't see this video" and that links
to the FLV version, but you just need to
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make a choice.
Frankly, the FLV is going to be perfectly
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fine picture quality.
Then we need to specify the output resolution.
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You can see there are some widescreen
options and some four-by-three options.
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Think I'm just going to go for 480 by 270
medium quality, that will work for me on
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this one.
You can go HD though I've got 1280 by 720
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as well, if you have provided subtitle
file to your DVD you got the option of
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whether or not you want the images ot be
included as an overlay.
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And then we've got templates for the html
file now you can generate your own
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templates and all this is going to be is
some html with a window in it for your movie.
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And I can look for example I can preview
one of these.
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Let's have a look.
Just pull this onscreen so you can see
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what it looks like.
There isn't that much going on here.
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This is just a panel with an image in the
background and you can see where the
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flash movie is going to go.
The last option on here is whether I'm
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going to have the flash video inside the
.swf file.
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The .swf file is the actual flash movie.
We need to make a distinction between
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flash video and flash movies.
A .swf file, which is described broadly
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as a flash movie from the old Macromedia
days.
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Is the actual container, it's the thing
that the user's going to interact with.
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Flash video is a video format that sits
inside a flash movie, if that makes any sense.
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We've got the option here of keeping the
video file inside the flash movie or
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uploading the video separately to a
server where you can link the media.
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This is only really going to work if you
have a dedicated server that can supply
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the flash movie as required, You want to
keep it simple, put the movie inside this
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.swf file.
If I am happy with my settings and you'll
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notice that all I have really done here
is choose a destination and specify a
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preset size and maybe I will choose one
or other template, there's not that many
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that come included Encore, but I'll stick
with the corporate one there.
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It kind of works for this media.
I'm going to click build, and when I do
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this, Encore's going to save the project,
and it's going to begin transcoding all of
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my media, and all of my menus, into a
swift file, with embedded flash video.
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There we go, that's all finished.
I'm going to click okay and I'm back into
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the Encore interface.
So lets have a little look at what Encore
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has produced.
Here's my folder which I created on the
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desktop, I just named it flash example to
keep everything in one place.
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And inside of there I've got a folder
which has the name of my project,
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"Somebody loves you." If I look inside
that folder I've got an html file and
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this is probably a very important file.
Index.html is a standard naming
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convention for html documents that are to
be viewed by web servers or people
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browsing web servers.
If the browser finds any item in the web
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serve directory called index or html, or
index.htm, it'll presume that that's the
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first page that should be seen.
And Encore's generated this file for me automatically.
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I will got my .swf file which is embedded
in the html or at least it's referred to
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by the html.
And then I got sources.
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And in here, we'll see, I got lots of F0V
files, this is my video and PNGs for
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overlays and graphics, and my menus and
everything will be in here.
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And you'll notice that the names are not
super clear.
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It's not super clear by looking at this
which one is my main menu, which one is
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my chapters menu and so on.
So you really just have to trust that
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Encore knows what it's doing when it's
generating this media.
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If I double-click on the index.html item.
There we go.
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There's my media and I can see actually
it's not a perfect fit for the html is it?
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But if I hover over this I can choose
options.
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I've got access to my menus.
There we go, there's my motion menu, all
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fully functioning.
I can select an individual item and play it.
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Pause it, I got volume controls, all of
this has been generated for me totally
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automatically for me by Encore.
And as I say this is a beautiful way to
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allow clients to see the work that you
are doing, and even just to show things
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to others that may want to have a look at
your work.
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You can embed this sort of thing inside a
web browser.
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And you can embed it inside any other
website.
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You even have a full screen mode that
allows you to see whatever you've created
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in a nice big picture.
Of course one issue with this if you are
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an experienced media practitioner.
Is that there's not a lot of control over
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what you are creating.
This process is not for people who
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totally get flash, and they want to
generate exactly the content with their
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screen overlay controls and so on.
This is no what this is for, if you want
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to produce flash movies in that way, then
you'll probably output the contents of
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your DVD, not as a DVD, but just as media
files and you'll generate that
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interactivity using the flash
application.
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But if you want something quick and easy
with good quality results, with a couple
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of clicks of the mouse.
This is frankly amazing.
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