IntroductionWelcome| 00:03 | Hi, I am Jeff Sengstack, and welcome
to Up and Running with Encore CS6.
| | 00:09 | Inside this course we are
going to cover a number of topics.
| | 00:12 | Topping the list will be
bringing assets into Encore.
| | 00:16 | After you bring those assets in, you need
to create what are called elements inside
| | 00:19 | Encore and those elements include timelines
where the video and audio goes, as well as the slides.
| | 00:24 | And then after you create your
timelines and slideshows, you work on menus.
| | 00:28 | Once the menus are created, we are going to
link up all the buttons to the various timelines
| | 00:32 | and other assets and other menus, and then
we are going to build our project, and you
| | 00:37 | can build it in one of three different ways.
| | 00:39 | You can burn a DVD or burn a Blu-ray
disk or create that flash DVD project.
| | 00:43 | So we are going to cover all those topics and more,
here inside Up and Running with Encore CS6.
| | 00:50 |
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| Setting up the exercise files| 00:00 | If you are a lynda.com Premium Member, you
have access to the exercise files that come
| | 00:04 | with this Up and Running course.
| | 00:05 | So what you need to do is download that zip
file and then unzip it, and when you do that,
| | 00:10 | you should have a folder
structure that looks like this.
| | 00:13 | Exercise Files would be the top folder,
then you've got five folders inside of it like
| | 00:16 | this and then five files like that.
| | 00:19 | That's how your Exercise Files
folder should look, just to make sure.
| | 00:23 | And inside there you are going to have
these five folders--one of which will be Edited
| | 00:26 | Videos--looks like these files here.
| | 00:28 | That has got Encore Projects. These are all
the project folders that are associated with
| | 00:33 | all the project files, and these guys need
to be in the same folder. Every project like
| | 00:37 | this has an associated folder and like that.
| | 00:40 | And we have some other assets here
as well, plus some individual files.
| | 00:44 | So just make sure that everything lines up
like this, so that means that when you open
| | 00:47 | up these Encore Projects that we have
provided, it will easily find all the assets here.
| | 00:52 | And then I suggest you take the Exercise Files
folder and put it some place readily accessible.
| | 00:56 | I have put it here on my Desktop just to
make it easier for me to show you these files,
| | 01:00 | but I suggest you put at some place that
you can get to easily, too, to help you as you
| | 01:04 | go through this course.
| | 01:09 |
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| Opening projects and relinking to assets| 00:00 | I am going to explain how you start up an
existing project, and if by chance you have
| | 00:05 | moved the projects assets some place else or
renamed those assets, how you relink to those assets.
| | 00:11 | Now if you have the exercise files provided
with this course, then you are going to have
| | 00:15 | a whole bunch of files that you are
going to up throughout the course.
| | 00:18 | But if you don't have those exercise files and
make your own projects, the process will be similar.
| | 00:22 | So I am going to go to my exercise files folder
that we are using with this course and double-click
| | 00:25 | on it to open it up.
| | 00:26 | And inside there, there are
something called Encore Projects.
| | 00:29 | Encore Projects look like this. They have
an ncor extension. That means the overview
| | 00:34 | project with the Encore extension.
| | 00:37 | That's a one little file, but all those
little files are connected directly to a folder.
| | 00:42 | So there is 0001-overview, and
then there is 0001-overview folder.
| | 00:48 | Every project file has a folder, and they have
to be in the same folder, so the Encore Projects
| | 00:52 | folder has this folder along with that file.
| | 00:55 | And all these folders have the same subfolders.
They are called Cache and Sources, and those
| | 00:59 | files inside there may be small, but they are
important. You have to have these two guys together.
| | 01:04 | So if you happen to separate this folder or rename
the folder from this name down here, it won't open.
| | 01:10 | So do be careful when you create projects or
use these projects that the name here matches
| | 01:14 | out up there and that those folders exist
inside there, just to make sure things open that way.
| | 01:19 | What I have done in this case is I
have messed up a couple of things.
| | 01:21 | I am going to open up a project that it won't be
able to find some things, and I'll show you why.
| | 01:25 | Back here in the exercise files folder that we
provide with this course for premium members,
| | 01:29 | I have a folder called Edited videos.
| | 01:32 | But for this demo I changed the
folder name to Edited videos-old.
| | 01:35 | So when it wants to find files inside this folder, it
won't be able to find them because it has a new name.
| | 01:41 | Also, down here in the Slide show assets, I
changed the names of two files from FarmToTable-1
| | 01:46 | to FarmToTable-1-old and
FarmToTable-2 to FarmToTable-2-old.
| | 01:52 | So when Encore tries to find those two
files, it won't be able to find them because
| | 01:55 | their names won't match
up to what the project has.
| | 01:57 | So let's go back and see what
happens and how we deal with that.
| | 02:00 | I am going to go back to Encore Projects, I
am going to go down to 0001 and double-click
| | 02:05 | on this to open it up, and after it opens
up, I get this Locate Asset dialog box.
| | 02:12 | It wants to know where is FarmToTable-2.
| | 02:14 | Well, we know it's right there, we can track it down,
but it can't track it down because it has a new name.
| | 02:19 | Well, it's okay that it has a different name
here. We're just going to say look at wherever
| | 02:22 | you've got FarmToTable-2 here, inside your project.
Use this file for that thing you've got over here.
| | 02:28 | So if I select that like this and click Select,
and that will replace it, that will put it
| | 02:32 | there, or if I double-click on it, same thing.
| | 02:34 | So let's just double-click
on it. So now it's found.
| | 02:37 | Now something confusing happens. Sometimes
you get this Open Project box here that says
| | 02:42 | 100%, but it's not opening the project.
It's like your project just froze.
| | 02:46 | Look behind it and you'll see that it's
actually looking for another asset, FarmToTable-1.
| | 02:51 | So this is kind of just a confusing thing.
This just hovers here, it looks like you've got
| | 02:55 | a project that's not going to go work,
| | 02:56 | but just pull away for a second, you'll see
that you got to find this Asset now, too, and
| | 03:00 | that's one right here--not the one we
looked at before, but this one here.
| | 03:04 | This one I am going to skip because I want
to show what happens if you don't load one
| | 03:07 | up, how you can check it later.
So I am going to go skip.
| | 03:10 | Now it says okay, where are these other ones inside this
missing folder? It says where is FarmToTable-6 minutes?
| | 03:16 | That's inside that folder that I
changed the entire folder name for.
| | 03:18 | I am going back up one notch here because
the Edited videos-old folder, that should
| | 03:23 | be just Edited videos, so Encore can't find it
because I changed the name, so double-click it.
| | 03:27 | Now I am looking for Farm To Table-6 minutes,
that will be a video file right there, and
| | 03:33 | when I select it, Encore is going to be
able to connect with all the rest of the files
| | 03:36 | in this folder, because now it knows that
this folder has been changed to old instead
| | 03:40 | of just Edited videos.
| | 03:42 | So I am going to select it, and it's
going to find the other four files as well.
| | 03:46 | And now it's going to open up.
| | 03:48 | Now after it opens up, there's
still a file that's not properly linked.
| | 03:51 | Let's scroll down here to the Slide show assets
and see if we find that one that has italics on it.
| | 03:56 | The italics tell you this is not linked.
Something is not working in this file.
| | 04:00 | If I click on it, and you get this little
icon here that says, woo, where is this file?
| | 04:04 | Well, you can link to a file from within
Encore, if you just select it and go File > Locate
| | 04:10 | Asset or Replace Asset, well, we are
going to Locate Asset, in this case.
| | 04:13 | So I can click on that, or I can right-click
on this to the context menu and then go down
| | 04:18 | here to Locate Asset.
| | 04:19 | And now I need to go to the Slide show
assets FarmToTable-1 and say this is the one we
| | 04:25 | really meant to put there.
| | 04:27 | Select it, and now you get this red thing for a
second when I click away, and there is that image.
| | 04:33 | So that's how you connect to assets where
the links might have been broken, because
| | 04:37 | you moved the folder or
renamed the folder or renamed a file.
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| Installing and linking to the Adobe functional content| 00:00 | There is a known problem with some
installations of Encore CS6. And that known problem is that
| | 00:06 | the so-called functional content is not
properly installed. And you'll know that the functional
| | 00:11 | content is not installed for you if you look
down at the Library panel here on your first
| | 00:15 | opening of the product and you see nothing
here. This should be populated with all sorts
| | 00:21 | of assets, hundreds and hundreds of files.
| | 00:22 | And if you see nothing here, then you know
that the functional content--the Library, as
| | 00:26 | it is called--was not installed.
| | 00:28 | It's not a difficult thing to
remedy. Let me show you to do that.
| | 00:31 | We need to go to our website first.
| | 00:33 | Here is that website, and you can see that
it's called library-functional-content-missing html.
| | 00:38 | So you might want to copy down this
URL there and load it up in your browser,
| | 00:44 | then go to this page, and there
are two ways to do the download.
| | 00:46 | You can then download it one way, if you
have a disk or work inside the creative cloud,
| | 00:51 | or if you had the electronic software delivery
service, then you follow the directions down here.
| | 00:55 | But in any event, you're going to download
a fairly large file, for Windows it's that
| | 00:59 | much and for Mac it's a little bit more,
and unzip these guys, or open them up, and then
| | 01:04 | follow the installation process. You can
end up with about 1.8 or so, 1.9 gigabytes of
| | 01:09 | material just for Encore.
| | 01:11 | By the way, if you have After Effects, this
problem affects you as well. You need to
| | 01:14 | go to the After Effects Exchange to
get those functional content files.
| | 01:18 | In any event, once you have installed them
they should show up. Let me show you what happens.
| | 01:24 | You should see this. You should see all sorts of
stuff here, all kinds of files down here in the Library.
| | 01:29 | In addition, you should see more than just
general in this dropdown list, all kinds of sets there.
| | 01:35 | If per chance they don't show up, but you have done the
installation, then you need to link to the installation.
| | 01:41 | To do that, you go to Edit > Preferences, or
on a Mac you go Encore Preferences down here
| | 01:45 | like this and then go to Media.
| | 01:48 | Now here you're going to see a Library Content
section, and this is where you'll link up to the Library.
| | 01:53 | Now, if you've installed Encore in some
place other than the default installation, it's
| | 01:56 | probably why it couldn't find it.
| | 01:58 | In any event, browse to the place where the
Library is installed, which should be in your
| | 02:02 | Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Encore CS6 and then
go get the Library that way, and once you've
| | 02:06 | connected it, then click OK, and once you
click OK, things should show up over here,
| | 02:10 | and we can get going here, get
Up and Running with Encore CS6.
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1. Getting StartedIntroducing the Encore workflow| 00:00 | I'm going to explain the Encore CS6 Workflow.
| | 00:03 | It's a fairly straightforward workflow that
you'll probably follow it to the letter every
| | 00:07 | time you make an Encore project.
| | 00:09 | The first order of business is to import
assets. And those assets include video files, audio
| | 00:13 | files, images, and graphics, and as is the
case with Premiere Pro, you are not moving
| | 00:17 | those assets from one hard drive location to
another, you're merely creating references to them.
| | 00:22 | You can also dynamically link to Premiere
Pro sequences from within Encore, and if you
| | 00:26 | have the Adobe Master Collection or Production Premium
Suite, you can also dynamically link to After Effects comps.
| | 00:32 | Once you've got your assets inside your
project, then you create and edit project elements,
| | 00:36 | and those project elements
include Timelines and Slide shows.
| | 00:39 | The Timelines have video and audio files in them, and
the Slide shows have images and sometimes audio as well.
| | 00:45 | Once your elements are in place, then you
build menus. You can build menus from templates
| | 00:49 | provided inside the Encore library, you can
customize those templates, or you can build
| | 00:53 | them from scratch inside Photoshop.
| | 00:56 | Once you've created your menus, you need to
link buttons inside those menus to assets,
| | 01:00 | such as Timelines and
Slide shows or other menus.
| | 01:03 | Now once you set up all your links, you need
to preview your project. You can preview as
| | 01:07 | if you're looking at a DVD on a television
screen, or you can use an Automated process,
| | 01:11 | and along the way you'll discover perhaps
that you missed some links or you forgot to
| | 01:15 | link certain things up, and that
process will show you what things went wrong.
| | 01:18 | But once you've got everything all set up,
then finally you can Export your project,
| | 01:22 | and there are three different
ways that you can export it.
| | 01:24 | You can burn a DVD, you can burn a Blu-ray
disk, or you can create what's called a web
| | 01:27 | DVD, or flash DVD, that runs inside
a browser but doesn't need a disk.
| | 01:32 | So we're going to go through all of
these various steps inside this course.
| | 01:37 |
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| Creating a new project| 00:00 | In this movie I'm going to show you a couple of
different ways to start a new project inside Encore.
| | 00:05 | So to get going, I'm going to start up
Encore by double-clicking on my icon here.
| | 00:08 | And eventually you see this splash screen with three
options on it, New Project, Open Project, and What's New.
| | 00:14 | If I click on What's New, that's going to
open up the Adobe web page for Premiere Pro, and
| | 00:18 | of course Premiere Pro also has Encore included
in, so it talks about Premiere Pro and Encore.
| | 00:23 | If I click on Open Project, I can track down a
project that I've worked on before, and typically
| | 00:27 | the Recent Projects you have worked on will
show up here in a list, but because this is
| | 00:30 | the first time we've opened Encore,
there's no Recent Projects to show here.
| | 00:33 | Well, we want to click on New
Projects. We'll click on that.
| | 00:36 | It opens up the New Project dialog box.
| | 00:38 | It's pretty straightforward here. You just
want to put a Name in for your project.
| | 00:41 | I'm going to call it Project.
| | 00:42 | And then you need to select the Location.
I'm going to put in my Documents folder.
| | 00:46 | I don't want to put it in the Exercise Files
folder because I don't want to mess up that folder.
| | 00:49 | I want to keep that in
its original state.
| | 00:51 | Now you need to select the Project Setting,
as that is going to be Blu-ray or DVD, and
| | 00:54 | the thing is you can change this later,
it's not so critical to select it now, but I'm
| | 00:59 | going to go with Blu-ray, because I'm going
to work with high-definition material here
| | 01:02 | in this upcoming project.
I'm going to leave it Blu-ray.
| | 01:04 | The Television Standard is something you need
to select now because you can't change it later.
| | 01:07 | So I'm going go here and select NTSC.
It's North America and Japan.
| | 01:11 | PAL is for just about everywhere else.
| | 01:12 | We don't have SECAM here inside Encore, so just
these two, NTSC or PAL. I'm going to go with NTSC.
| | 01:18 | Now checking the Advanced tab, if I click
on that, there won't be any options here for
| | 01:21 | me because this is only if I've got a third-
party playback card, here, and I don't.
| | 01:25 | I'm just going to pick the Standard Player,
so I go back to Basic and click OK.
| | 01:30 | That opens up this project to just this empty
container waiting for us to fill it with assets.
| | 01:34 | Now let's say you are working on a project,
and you want to start a project from within Encore.
| | 01:37 | That's fairly straightforward.
I'll just go to File > New > Project.
| | 01:41 | It will ask me if I want to save the current
Project that I'm working on, which I probably
| | 01:46 | want to do, and then when I click Yes, then
it will open that same New Project dialog box.
| | 01:50 | We are going to click Cancel
here and just call it a day.
| | 01:53 | So that's how you create a
new project inside Encore.
| | 01:58 |
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| Importing assets| 00:00 | I'm going to explain how you Import assets.
| | 00:02 | I'm going to click on the New Project button
here, I'm going to call this one Importing,
| | 00:07 | and I'll put it in my documents
folder Blu-ray NTSC and click OK.
| | 00:12 | Now there are a couple of ways to import assets.
You can import assets as an Encore element.
| | 00:17 | Now this is different than the way you work
within Premiere Pro. In Premiere Pro you just
| | 00:20 | Import an asset. It can be a video file, a graphic,
audio, what have you. It just comes in as an asset.
| | 00:25 | In Encore, you can bring in an asset as an
element. You can kind of save a step down the road.
| | 00:30 | Now I'm going to explain how you take an
asset and turn it into an element in an upcoming
| | 00:34 | movie, but for now I'm going to explain the
different ways that you can bring in assets,
| | 00:37 | either straight as an asset, or as an element.
So start off by just bringing in as an asset.
| | 00:42 | If you've worked with Premiere Pro, you'll
probably know about the little shortcut that
| | 00:44 | you can use to bring in an asset. That's just double-click
in an empty space inside the Project Panel,
| | 00:48 | so I'm going to do that.
| | 00:50 | That opens up the Import Asset dialog box.
I want to go to the Exercise Folder right there.
| | 00:55 | I want to bring in just an audio file, so
the Farm to Table-menu music_WAV file.
| | 01:00 | Now I can just double-click it,
and that'll bring it in.
| | 01:02 | Or I can just select it here and click Open.
Now there is that asset.
| | 01:07 | Why would I bring in just as an asset?
| | 01:08 | Well, typically I bring something in as an
asset because I'm going to have this be an
| | 01:11 | audio file that runs in a menu, so
the menu has some music playing in it.
| | 01:15 | I wouldn't use this in a timeline, so I
don't need to create a timeline with this asset.
| | 01:19 | So that's typically why you bring
something in as an asset as opposed to an element.
| | 01:23 | But let's bring something in as an element now.
| | 01:25 | If I double-click again here, I don't get
the option of choosing something as a timeline
| | 01:29 | or as a slide show. I need
to do it a different way.
| | 01:31 | So I'm going to click Cancel here.
| | 01:33 | To bring something in as an element, I go
File > Import As, and now I can choose from
| | 01:40 | the various elements, Asset--which we know
how to do--and then Menu, Pop-up Menu, which
| | 01:44 | is a Blu-Ray element, which we're
not going to discuss in this course.
| | 01:47 | So I'm going to select Menu now.
| | 01:50 | You can only use a Photoshop file to create
a menu, so the only things that show up here
| | 01:53 | are Photoshop files. I've got two of
them, so I'm going to select both of them.
| | 01:57 | Now to select two things inside an Import
dialog box like this or basically any other
| | 02:01 | kind of Window like this,
you can use multiple shortcuts.
| | 02:04 | When I click on one, and I want to select
the other one, so I'll hold down the Ctrl
| | 02:08 | key in Windows, or the Command key in Mac,
and I click another one, that's how you select
| | 02:11 | non-contiguous things, but
here they are contiguous.
| | 02:13 | So let me show you the contiguous method.
I'll click on one and then Shift-click on
| | 02:17 | the other, and that selects contiguous items, or
I can do my favorite things, when I'm selecting
| | 02:21 | contiguous items. Let's click away here and
click somewhere down here and drag a marquee
| | 02:25 | around them--it's called the Marquee
selection--so I've got these two guys selected.
| | 02:29 | They'll come in as two
separate menu backgrounds.
| | 02:32 | I click OK or click Open, and there they are,
they don't come in as Photoshop files, they
| | 02:37 | come in as menu backgrounds.
| | 02:38 | It says background because that's the name
of the file, but they are in fact menus.
| | 02:42 | If I double-click on them, they'll open up
here inside the menu panel just as this image,
| | 02:46 | which we'll put buttons on later.
| | 02:48 | So they are in fact sort of the
beginning of a menu-building process.
| | 02:51 | Let's import something as a timeline.
Go back to File > Import As > Timeline.
| | 02:59 | I'm going to go over to the Edited videos
folder, I've got fives files here, I've got
| | 03:03 | an MP4 file which has audio and video in it,
then I've got two MPEG files, M4V and M2V,
| | 03:09 | and they have separate audio files.
| | 03:11 | You can bring in videos that have separate
audio and video like this as a single timeline,
| | 03:15 | I'm going to show you to do it in a second.
| | 03:16 | Let me just first focus on
this one that has audio in it.
| | 03:19 | If I just double-click on it or click on it
and click Open, that will bring it in as a
| | 03:22 | timeline, so I'll double-click on it, and
unlike the Photoshop file which comes in
| | 03:26 | as just a menu, when you bring in a timeline,
it brings in the asset itself--this Farm to
| | 03:32 | Table promo_mp4 video--and also it creates
a timeline above it. So you see this little
| | 03:35 | timeline icon there? That's this little
timeline showing up down here, and here is the original
| | 03:40 | video/audio file right there.
| | 03:42 | So it brings in both the video and the timeline
at the same time. Let's go back and get another
| | 03:46 | timeline that has two assets associated with it.
I go File > Import As > Timeline.
| | 03:53 | I've got Farm to Table 3 minutes_m4v. That's
the video file, and WAV is the associated audio file.
| | 03:59 | So I click on one, and I can do Ctrl-click,
Shift-click, or marquee select the two of them
| | 04:03 | together like that to select two
things together and click Open.
| | 04:06 | Now it's going to bring in these two files
as separate files, but it's going to create
| | 04:09 | a timeline with both of
them in that single timeline.
| | 04:12 | Right now it says it's italic because it's
actually loading it up, and you get this sort
| | 04:18 | of media pending thing there for a while, but once
the italics go away, that means that you can view it.
| | 04:23 | So now the italics have gone away. That means
it's fully loaded up, and we can view it here
| | 04:27 | by sliding this along like that and viewing
it inside the monitor panel. All right.
| | 04:31 | Let's bring in a slide show.
| | 04:32 | So I want to go back here and go
to File > Import As > Slideshow.
| | 04:36 | I want to go to the
slideshow folder, Slide show assets.
| | 04:41 | Now here we have an audio
file and several JPEG files.
| | 04:45 | You can use JPEG files, or any other kind
of image file basically. Unlike working with
| | 04:50 | menus where you have to have a Photoshop file,
when you make a slideshow there can be a
| | 04:53 | variety of different kinds of image files.
| | 04:55 | So I'm going to select this slideshow audio,
then I'm going to go down to the bottom here
| | 04:59 | and Shift-click on the last one to select all of
them, all the contiguous files here, and click Open.
| | 05:04 | What's going to happen here is we're going
to create a slideshow and then all of these
| | 05:07 | guys are going to be
inside it, including the audio.
| | 05:12 | Scroll down here, you can see we've added
this little slideshow here, these are all
| | 05:16 | the images down here, and notice the slideshow
is named after the first image file, as Farm
| | 05:21 | To Table 1, and we look up a little bit
there, there is the audio file right there.
| | 05:25 | If you look down here in the slideshow, there
is the audio file as well, so it automatically
| | 05:28 | added the audio file to this slideshow.
| | 05:30 | Now the order of the slides is the numeric
order, and you can change that order later.
| | 05:34 | So that's how you Import
assets as assets or Encore elements.
| | 05:37 | I'm going to explain how you dynamically
link to Premiere Pro sequences and After Effect
| | 05:42 | Comps in a separate movie.
| | 05:47 |
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| Linking dynamically to Premiere Pro and After Effects| 00:00 | One of the cool things about Encore is how it
works hand in hand with some other Adobe products.
| | 00:04 | In particular, how you can use Adobe
Dynamic Link to work with Premiere Pro sequences,
| | 00:09 | and if you own the master collection, or the
Adobe Production Premium Suite, how you can
| | 00:12 | dynamically link to After Effects Comps.
| | 00:14 | I want to show you both methodologies here in this
lesson, starting off with the Premiere Pro sequence.
| | 00:19 | Let me show you the sequence we
are going to work with first of all.
| | 00:23 | This is a typical Premiere Pro sequence with
a number of clips and a couple of interview
| | 00:26 | sound bites and some
titles and adjustment layer.
| | 00:29 | And we are going to bring this into Encore,
and the neat thing about this is that we don't
| | 00:32 | have to render this as a video file, we
can just take the sequence directly.
| | 00:36 | And if we decide later to maybe change one
of the effects or change the title or add
| | 00:40 | another couple of clips or whatever, those
changes will immediately show up inside Encore,
| | 00:44 | no need to render it again and again and again.
| | 00:46 | You don't need to render it all until
you are done with the Encore project.
| | 00:49 | Let's switch back to Encore now.
| | 00:52 | So to dynamically link to a Premiere Pro sequence,
I go to File > Adobe Dynamic Link > ImportPremiere Pro Sequence.
| | 01:00 | To link to a sequence I need to find
the project in which the sequence resides.
| | 01:03 | So I'm going to go to the exercise files folder
just scrolling down here to the Adobe Premiere
| | 01:08 | Pro project, the Farm to Table-P Pro project
and down inside here is a Farm to Table project.
| | 01:13 | I click on that, and I find any sequences
inside it, in this case there's only one sequence.
| | 01:18 | I click on that to make it active, you'll
see that the OK button now is ready, click
| | 01:21 | on that, and that brings in
the sequence, simple as that.
| | 01:24 | And the sequence will play here
inside this little preview monitor.
| | 01:29 | It's playing not because we have Premiere
Pro open in the background, we don't have
| | 01:34 | to have Premiere Pro open, but it will
play using the Premiere Pro engine from within
| | 01:37 | Encore, but right now it's
just this asset that sits there.
| | 01:41 | We can convert it into a timeline, which
means we can use it in our DVD project, or I can
| | 01:44 | leave it like this and use it as a menu
background, you don't have to create timeline if you want
| | 01:48 | to use a video menu background.
| | 01:50 | But there it sits, we brought
it in, very straightforward.
| | 01:52 | And if I go back to Premiere Pro now and
make a change, that change will show up here.
| | 01:57 | Let's now link it to an After Effects Comp,
let me show you that comp first of all.
| | 02:01 | This is a fairly straightforward After
Effects composition that we are going to use as the
| | 02:05 | introduction to our Encore
project as we work through this course.
| | 02:09 | Now I'm going to create a separate video file
that you can use instead of this comp if you
| | 02:12 | don't want to use it or don't have the ability
to dynamically link to an After Effects comp.
| | 02:16 | Let me just show you how this works here,
we've got this comp, it's got four layers,
| | 02:19 | some text, video file, audio
file, and a Photoshop file in it.
| | 02:23 | This is going to be our introductory video
when we come into our Encore DVD project,
| | 02:27 | so there it sits, but if I make changes to
this, after I bring it in to Encore, those
| | 02:31 | changes will show up inside Encore, that's such a
great thing, you don't have to render this video.
| | 02:35 | Now if I make changes to this after I bring it
on Encore, those changes will show up in Encore.
| | 02:40 | It's a real cool thing, because you don't
have to render this as a video over and over
| | 02:43 | again if you make changes just keep it here
as an After Effects Comp, and those changes
| | 02:47 | will show up inside Encore in real time.
So let's switch back to Encore now.
| | 02:52 | And I'll dynamically link to that After Effects
Comp, by just going File > Adobe Dynamic Link,
| | 02:57 | and I have two choices here for After Effects, New After
Effects Composition or Import After Effects Composition.
| | 03:02 | We are really importing an
After Effects composition here.
| | 03:04 | If I click New, that will start a whole new
comp, we don't need to worry about that, we
| | 03:08 | need to just import the existing one.
| | 03:10 | And these guys won't show up if you don't
have the master collection or the Production
| | 03:13 | Premium Suite, so I'm going to click
on Import After Effects Composition.
| | 03:17 | Here we need to track the After
Effects project, the AEP file.
| | 03:20 | Once we've got that, then we can
select the comp from within it.
| | 03:23 | Here is that project, and
there are two here in this case.
| | 03:27 | This is the comp we are going to use.
| | 03:28 | The title text is a comp that's nested inside
the Farm to Table just like you nest the sequence
| | 03:33 | inside a Premiere Pro sequence
we've nested this comp inside, this now.
| | 03:36 | So we select just this one, but it will
bring this one in along the way, so I click OK.
| | 03:42 | And there is that After Effects Comp right
there, it has a different icon, there's a
| | 03:45 | little link there, and it shows an After Effects
icon there, at least that's what it is supposed to be.
| | 03:48 | If I click on this little Playback
button, we can preview it as well.
| | 03:52 | There you go. And just as with the
Premiere Pro sequence, this is just residing here,
| | 03:59 | waiting for us to convert it to something else.
| | 04:01 | Since I'm going to use this as an
introductory video down the road, I do need to convert
| | 04:04 | it to a timeline just for now I want to show
you can dynamically link to both a Premiere
| | 04:08 | Pro Sequence and an After Effects Composition.
| | 04:13 |
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| Managing assets in the Project panel| 00:00 | After you've imported a bunch of assets, it's
a good idea to organize them inside the Project
| | 00:04 | Panel, and that works similarly to
how you do it inside Premiere Pro.
| | 00:07 | And what I want to do is I want to
organize them into folders and also change some of
| | 00:12 | the names of some of these files.
| | 00:14 | Now inside Premiere Pro, you've got a separate
button, create a New Bin as it's called inside
| | 00:18 | Premiere Pro, but you
don't have that here in Encore.
| | 00:21 | You click on this New Item icon, which
inside Premiere Pro would create like a sequence,
| | 00:25 | but here it has an option to create a
folder just like a bin inside Premiere Pro.
| | 00:29 | Click on that, and I want to
create a folder called Timelines.
| | 00:33 | So if you look the icon you can see that's
a timeline icon, and we are going to talk
| | 00:37 | about Timelines in upcoming movies, but I
just want to set things up here so you get
| | 00:41 | a sense of how this all works.
| | 00:42 | So, I'm going to take all the timelines and
put them inside that newly created folder,
| | 00:46 | which is tucked way down here.
| | 00:49 | So to select those timelines in a bunch, I
could Ctrl-click, or Command-click, on them
| | 00:52 | one at a time like that and like that.
| | 00:54 | But it's much easier to track them down if
I use the Type column here, click on Type,
| | 00:59 | that puts all these guys into
the Type of asset that they are.
| | 01:02 | You can see we've got a JPEG image type there,
and scrolling down we've got MPEG videos,
| | 01:06 | menus, slideshow, and then
here are all those timelines.
| | 01:09 | If I click on the first one and Shift-click
on the fifth one like that, I'll just drag
| | 01:14 | them to that folder, which has been
around--now where did that folder go?
| | 01:18 | Way up here at the top.
| | 01:19 | So I will take those guy here and drag them
all up, like so, just click on the icon, and
| | 01:24 | drag it towards the top, it will scroll through
like get to the top, let go, and it puts those
| | 01:28 | five guys inside the Timeline folder here.
| | 01:30 | I will open it up, and you will see
those five guys there, there we are.
| | 01:33 | I want to do the same for the Slide show asset, so
I'll make a new folder for the Slide show assets.
| | 01:39 | Spell it with two words, by the way.
Inside Encore they spell it as one word.
| | 01:42 | But the proper spelling is two words. We are going
to go with the proper spelling here like that.
| | 01:45 | Take these guys here, scrolling
down and get all of those images, and then
| | 01:51 | I want to go get the slide show audio and the
slide show itself, so I Ctrl-click, or Command-click--
| | 01:57 | Ctrl on Windows, Command in Mac--and get that.
| | 02:00 | I need to get the audio file that goes with
that as well, move audio file down here, and
| | 02:05 | it's the slide show music, I'll Ctrl-click
on that guy, Command-click on Mac.
| | 02:11 | And I want to drag these guys
to the slide show like that.
| | 02:14 | Open up the Slide show folder, here they are.
| | 02:17 | We are going to do the same thing here with
the menus and with the assets, rather than
| | 02:23 | have you go through the process and watch
me do it, we'll jump ahead to that after I
| | 02:27 | have completed this process.
| | 02:28 | Now we've got four folders here, we've got
the assets here, these imaging assets we've
| | 02:32 | brought in, video files, audio files, and
notice they have little video icons, but they
| | 02:35 | can be video with audio or without, they don't
differentiate here with a separate icon for that.
| | 02:40 | Now here we've got the Menus, these are just the
Photoshop files that we've brought in as Menus.
| | 02:46 | And then there's the Slide show with all
the Slide show assets and then the Timelines.
| | 02:51 | What I like to do is change some names here,
so I'm going to go to the Timelines, we've
| | 02:55 | got the Farm to Table sequence. This is
the Premiere Pro sequence that I converted to
| | 02:59 | a video file to save you the
trouble of using a Dynamic Link.
| | 03:02 | I'm going to change the name of
this to just the Premiere Pro sequence.
| | 03:06 | So to change the Name in Premiere Pro, you
just click it once, and click it again and
| | 03:10 | you get that blue text.
| | 03:11 | We can't do that in Encore. You need to right-click
on it here and choose Rename, then you get
| | 03:16 | this little Rename Timeline dialog box over
here. Rather than getting the blue text over
| | 03:20 | here, I'm going to call this the P
Pro sequence, like so, and click OK.
| | 03:26 | The same process for other things. I'm going
to go to Farm to Table DVD intro-Blu-ray.
| | 03:30 | This is the After Effects comp that we are
going to use an introductory video.
| | 03:34 | Rather than have that long name there, I
want to convert it to intro video.
| | 03:36 | So I right-click on it and say Rename, I'll
call it Intro video. There we go, click OK.
| | 03:44 | And the process is the same for other things.
| | 03:46 | The Slide show always takes on the name of
the first image file, so it's going to be
| | 03:50 | called Farm to Table-1 right there, I want
to change that Slideshow, Right-click on that,
| | 03:55 | Rename to Slideshow, here
we go. Let's go up there.
| | 04:01 | I don't need to change the names of the assets,
these are names as they came of the hard drive,
| | 04:06 | and since we don't work with the assets
directly, except when we add them to, let's say, menu
| | 04:09 | backgrounds, or for audio for menus, we
really don't need to change their names.
| | 04:12 | So I'm going to close that down like that.
| | 04:14 | So that's the basic process to organize
assets and elements inside the Project Panel.
| | 04:19 |
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2. Creating Timelines and SlideshowsMaking timelines| 00:00 | I am going to explain how you convert assets
that you bring it to Encore in the Timelines,
| | 00:04 | and if you want to follow
along, open up 0201-timelines.
| | 00:07 | And here we've got a bunch of
assets inside the Project Panel.
| | 00:10 | These are video files and audio and video
files, let me show you how you can tell that
| | 00:14 | these are either straight video
files or video and audio files.
| | 00:18 | Now typically you can see an icon here
inside Premiere Pro that shows video and audio if
| | 00:22 | it includes both video and audio in the file.
| | 00:25 | But Encore doesn't have that little icon there,
it just shows a filmstrip, and it could be
| | 00:28 | either a straight video or video and audio.
So how do you know?
| | 00:31 | Well, in the Project Panel you will
typically slide over to the right, and somewhere along
| | 00:34 | here you are going to see
something that says, okay, it's audio.
| | 00:38 | But not happening today. It doesn't
have a little column that says audio here.
| | 00:42 | But to see that column, if you right-click on
the column header here any place just right-click
| | 00:47 | and say Columns you can add
this one called Media Category.
| | 00:50 | That will put the Media Category column at
the end, which, by the way, you can drag to
| | 00:54 | the front if you wanted.
| | 00:55 | But now you can see video, video,
video, audio, audio, video and audio.
| | 00:59 | Scroll to the right, that's this guy
here the MP4 file, that has video and audio.
| | 01:04 | So that's a way to see what kind of a file you've
got, if it's both video and audio or just video.
| | 01:10 | Click the alphabetization
there and bring that to the top.
| | 01:12 | I want to convert this
little fellow to a Timeline.
| | 01:14 | So it says video and audio are a unit,
it's a very simple one step process just go up
| | 01:19 | to File > New > Timeline.
| | 01:24 | And now it turns this little video
file into this timeline down here.
| | 01:28 | So why take a video file and
convert it into a timeline?
| | 01:30 | Well, this is just the way that Encore works, it has
to have a Timeline to show up inside an Encore project.
| | 01:36 | But there is kind of a practical side to it too.
It allows you add extra audio tracks.
| | 01:40 | For instance, let's say you want to have a
director's comments or a foreign language
| | 01:44 | track, we can add more audio
tracks down here below this one.
| | 01:47 | You right-click and say Add Audio Track.
| | 01:48 | We are not going to be talking about the
sort of higher level bit of Encore Author inside
| | 01:52 | this course, but this is where
you put those extra audio tracks.
| | 01:55 | And further down below here if you right-click
again, you can Import Subtitles.
| | 01:59 | If you want to have subtitles for your project,
you put them down here, so this whole structure
| | 02:03 | of having a timeline enables you to have
extra audio tracks which people can then access.
| | 02:07 | You can't have them play at the same time,
but your viewers can choose from one or the
| | 02:10 | other, and then you can
also have subtitles as well.
| | 02:13 | Again, we are not going to include these little
topics in this course, but you can track these
| | 02:16 | guys down inside the Help file.
That is why you make this little Timelines.
| | 02:20 | Just move on up here to do a different
approach, we've got this Farm To Table-3 minutes.m4v
| | 02:24 | and a WAV file. This is the video file and
the audio file and they need to work together
| | 02:29 | inside the Timeline.
| | 02:30 | So let me select both of them, click on this one
here and Ctrl-click, or Command-click, on the second one.
| | 02:35 | Now I've got them both selected, and instead
of going File > New, I am going to right-click
| | 02:40 | into the context method.
| | 02:41 | If I click on it, there is a context menu,
all kinds of context menu is inside Premiere
| | 02:46 | Pro and Encore and other Adobe products.
The context menu show up when you right-click.
| | 02:50 | I go down here to New, and it says Timeline,
it takes those two files and puts them here
| | 02:56 | separately inside the Timeline.
You can see the m4v view and WAV file here.
| | 03:00 | Two separate files, but
they create one Timeline.
| | 03:02 | And you can view your Timelines
here inside the monitor panel.
| | 03:06 | Let me show you one other way, I'll click
on this one, here, the Farm to Table-6 minutes,
| | 03:09 | and I am going to marquee select them, I am
going to drag up here and marquee select the
| | 03:13 | two of them like that.
| | 03:14 | And here is the keyboard shortcut, inside
Windows it's Ctrl+T--timeline--inside Mac
| | 03:20 | it's Command+T. Hold down the Ctrl key
on Windows, and now it makes the Timeline.
| | 03:26 | There is a Farm to Table-6 minutes Timeline
that shows up down here as well, same little
| | 03:29 | process, which we can view
inside the monitor panel.
| | 03:32 | And then you can make a timeline in kind of
a multistep process, a little more tedious.
| | 03:36 | I am going to select just the video file here,
Right-click on it and say New > Timeline.
| | 03:41 | There we go, now it's just the Timeline with
just video, but I can add audio to it simply
| | 03:46 | by dragging this audio
file down to it like that.
| | 03:48 | If I want to add more audio tracks just
drag them below here and add more audio tracks.
| | 03:52 | Finally, I want to make a
Premiere Pro sequence into a Timeline.
| | 03:56 | Now I didn't include the sequence in this
project file, because sometimes when you take
| | 04:00 | a Premiere Pro sequence in an Encore
project and put them in a new folder on a new hard
| | 04:04 | drive some place, they won't necessarily
automatically dynamically link together the first time you
| | 04:09 | try to open it up inside Encore.
| | 04:10 | It may cause Encore to sort of sit
there in a holding pattern for a while.
| | 04:14 | If that happens to you, you want to then open
up the sequence inside Premiere Pro and save
| | 04:18 | it and then when you go to
Encore, it should load up just fine.
| | 04:21 | So to avoid that gotcha I didn't include
the sequence here as a dynamic link, when I do
| | 04:25 | that now manually, and you can see how it work.
| | 04:27 | I am going to go up here, go to File > Adobe
Dynamic Link > Import Premiere Pro Sequence,
| | 04:33 | track down that sequence inside our exercise
files folder here, on to the Farm to Table-P
| | 04:39 | Pro project, click on it.
Select the sequence and click OK.
| | 04:43 | That brings in the sequence as a Premiere
Pro sequence, it doesn't come in as a timeline,
| | 04:49 | just comes in a sequence right there.
| | 04:51 | Now I am going to right-click on it and say
New > Timeline, and there we go. Now I have
| | 04:58 | converted that into Timeline, and you have to
do that when you dynamically link to Premiere
| | 05:01 | Pro Sequence or an After Effects project.
If you are going to use them as a timeline
| | 05:05 | as opposed to using them as
a video background for menu.
| | 05:08 | So that's how you take assets that you bring
into Encore and convert them into timelines.
| | 05:13 |
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| Adding timeline chapter markers and poster frames| 00:00 | Feature films on DVDs and Blu-ray disks
have scene selection menus, and you go to those
| | 00:05 | menus and click on links to
jump to places within the movie.
| | 00:09 | To create those little scene selection
links you need to put chapter markers inside the
| | 00:13 | timeline, and that's what we
are going to do in this lesson.
| | 00:15 | If you follow along go to 0202-chapter markers.
| | 00:19 | Now inside this project we have got the Farm
to Table-6 minutes timeline using those two
| | 00:23 | files, the video file and the audio file.
| | 00:25 | We've got some music here underneath this
menu, we've got the scene selection menu.
| | 00:28 | We are not going to work with the scene
selection menu per se, we might touch it here and there,
| | 00:32 | but this is just here for a reference as we work
inside the timeline and add chapter markers to the timeline.
| | 00:37 | So to see the timeline, we need to check
the monitor out, so we go to the monitor panel
| | 00:41 | there, and then we can see
timeline inside that monitor panel.
| | 00:45 | Now chapter marker is a little icon that
appears here along the top of the timeline panel,
| | 00:49 | and there it looks like
that might be a chapter marker.
| | 00:51 | But in fact, that's not, that
what's called the poster frame.
| | 00:53 | Let me show you what's going on there.
| | 00:54 | I am going to pull the current time
indicator right to the beginning, now I am going to
| | 00:58 | zoom in on it by dragging this guy to
the right, they kind of zoom in a bit.
| | 01:01 | Now you can see there is a chapter marker
there, you can see the half of that pentagon,
| | 01:06 | this being a chapter marker icon and
here is what's called the poster frame.
| | 01:09 | This is a very clever thing that Encore does,
it automatically puts a chapter marker on
| | 01:14 | the first frame of all timelines.
It has to do that for the Encore engine to work.
| | 01:19 | But it also puts a poster frame there, meaning,
that's the thing that's going to show up here
| | 01:22 | inside the scene selection menu when you
link this chapter marker to that button.
| | 01:27 | But the thing is the first frame here back
in the monitor, the first frame is black,
| | 01:31 | and that's because we fade up from black in
this particular video, till we finally get
| | 01:36 | to full opacity there.
| | 01:38 | And Encore recognizes that this is not full
opacity that you really want to get to that
| | 01:43 | image and use that in the thumbnail
inside the selection menu, rather than black.
| | 01:48 | So that's pretty clever that it does it.
| | 01:49 | We are going to talk about poster frames and
how to set poster frames if they are different
| | 01:53 | than the chapter marker
location in just a moment.
| | 01:55 | So that's what's going on there.
| | 01:57 | Now we don't want to use this particularly
chapter inside the scene selection menu, we
| | 02:00 | can, but for our purposes we are going to add a whole
bunch of scene selection menu chapter points here.
| | 02:05 | So let's just zoom back out a bit here
and see the whole thing here, here we go.
| | 02:09 | And I want to start adding some chapter markers.
| | 02:11 | Now you can add chapter markers inside
Premiere before you dynamically link from Premiere
| | 02:15 | into Encore, but I am going to show you how
to add chapter markers here, this is probably
| | 02:18 | where you do it anyway.
| | 02:19 | So let's go find a place
to add a chapter marker.
| | 02:21 | So we take the current time indicator here
and pull along here, and there's a little
| | 02:25 | shot of the farm. So I think that'll
be our first chapter marker there.
| | 02:30 | To add a chapter marker is very simple, I
just click in this little icon here to add
| | 02:33 | a marker, and there we go, and
there is the chapter marker right there.
| | 02:35 | No poster frame is showing up here, because
we are not asking it to put a poster frame
| | 02:39 | some place other than the marker.
| | 02:40 | What I want to do now is name the marker.
It's not critical that I do this, but it saves
| | 02:45 | a step later, if I name the marker. And
I go over here to the scene selection menu
| | 02:49 | I can set up this button such that when I drag
the marker to the button, this text will change
| | 02:54 | to the name of the chapter marker.
So I go back to the monitor here.
| | 02:57 | To change the name of a marker, I
need to click it to make it active.
| | 03:00 | Whatever is currently selected shows up
here inside the Properties panel inside Encore.
| | 03:04 | If I were to click let's say on this timeline, that
will change the timeline here in the Properties panel.
| | 03:08 | I click on the chapter marker there, and
now it's active inside the Properties panel.
| | 03:13 | I am going to change the name from Chapter
2 to something else. I am going to change
| | 03:16 | the Name to Farm, click Enter there, and now
it's going to take that marker, and if I click
| | 03:21 | on it again, I go from 1 to 2, for example.
You see that it shows up as Farm now for that
| | 03:26 | chapter. Let's move on a little bit to
select another chapter, and we go just a little bit
| | 03:30 | farther here, and we'll talk
about the history there of the farm.
| | 03:33 | So let's just say right about there,
that's where he starts talking about history.
| | 03:36 | Let me see what he says here.
| | 03:37 | So this is right there where he starts talking
about the history, so right there is where it starts.
| | 03:46 | So I am going to click on the chapter marker
like that to Add a Chapter Marker, or I can
| | 03:49 | do a keyboard shortcut. And the keyboard
shortcut is the Asterisk key on the numeric keypad
| | 03:54 | or Shift+8 to do the asterisk key on the standard
keypad, and that adds a chapter marker right here.
| | 04:00 | Click on it to make it selected, notice that this one
is still selected, even though you've added this new one.
| | 04:04 | So, I'll click on that to
make it active or selected.
| | 04:06 | I am going to change that one to
History, press Enter to select it.
| | 04:11 | Now the thing is I want the history
thumbnail to be different than that.
| | 04:15 | That doesn't say History, right?
| | 04:16 | So I am going to pull the current time
indicator to some place that looks like history.
| | 04:21 | How about right there?
| | 04:25 | I want that to be what
shows up inside the thumbnail.
| | 04:28 | That's called the poster frame.
| | 04:29 | So I can have that to be the poster frame
for marker 3 by making sure that marker 3
| | 04:33 | is active and right-clicking on
it and setting the poster frame.
| | 04:36 | That puts up a little rectangle
there just like the guy over here.
| | 04:39 | So that's the poster frame that's going to
show up inside the scene selection menu. And
| | 04:42 | just to confirm that just go to Scene
Selection Menu here, I am going to drag this marker
| | 04:47 | to the Scene Selection Menu, and you'll
see that that poster shows up like that.
| | 04:51 | Notice that our History showed up too, because
that's what we told the button to do, to take
| | 04:56 | on the name of the chapter marker. That's why it's
helpful to change the name of the chapter markers.
| | 05:01 | Let's go back to the monitor here,
a little bit further in here.
| | 05:04 | Let's say where they are
harvesting here--we call this the harvest.
| | 05:08 | I can press the Shift+8 key there again,
make sure it's active, type in Harvest.
| | 05:13 | Now I want to add a couple more, I want to
have six buttons altogether keeping in mind
| | 05:20 | that Chapter 1 is what we are not going to
use, so when we're done we are going to have seven
| | 05:23 | chapter markers, six of which we are
going to use in the Scene Selection Menu.
| | 05:27 | Okay, we've added the rest of the chapter
markers, we have seven altogether, six we
| | 05:33 | are going to use in the Scene Selection Menu, so you
edit these six here and let me just run you through those.
| | 05:36 | I am going to go to the first one here,
after the default first one, by navigating to it
| | 05:41 | inside the monitor panel.
| | 05:42 | I can click on this little button here to
navigate to each next marker, so there is
| | 05:45 | the next one there, click on it to make it active,
so I can see the name of it, it's called Farm.
| | 05:51 | Next one, click on it to make
it active that's called History.
| | 05:55 | Next one here, make it active, it's Harvest.
| | 05:58 | I've got the Loading Truck, and I've got this one
called Farmers Market, and this one called the Chef Comments.
| | 06:08 | Now let's say I want to change
something, let's say I want to move it.
| | 06:10 | Now I have got the loading truck right there,
but in fact, they are kind of loading it back
| | 06:13 | here, where they start weighing things,
let's see it back a little bit there.
| | 06:18 | So I realize I rather have it be here, it's
easy to move a marker just put the current
| | 06:22 | time indicator where you wanted it to go just to
give you a reference, click on it and drag it over.
| | 06:26 | And let's say I want the poster frame to be
different here, so I slide it to the right
| | 06:29 | a bit, I want the poster frame to be right
there, because it really is loading a truck.
| | 06:34 | So I right-click on this
and say Set Poster Frame.
| | 06:37 | And you know, let's say I don't really
like this next shot. I really want to just get
| | 06:41 | rid of the marker altogether.
| | 06:42 | I click on it, and I press Delete, and
that gets rid of the marker, but I am going to
| | 06:45 | keep this one, but that's how I get
rid of that marker if I want to do that.
| | 06:47 | I do want to move that a little bit more too,
so let me slide this to the left a bit here
| | 06:50 | to where the market where it
begins, let's say right there.
| | 06:53 | So that's how you can move markers around,
and I am going to change the poster frame
| | 06:57 | for it as well till that, so I am going
to right-click and say Set Poster Frame.
| | 07:02 | So that's the basic process for how you
work with chapter markers inside a timeline, as
| | 07:06 | to how you connect them to a Scene Selection
Menu, we'll cover that in a separate movie.
| | 07:11 |
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| Creating slideshows| 00:00 | In this movie I'm going to explain
how to create and edit a slideshow.
| | 00:04 | I've got this project 0203-slideShows open,
and inside the Project Panel we've got a dozen
| | 00:09 | JPEG files, and this music we are going to use in
the slideshow as a background as we play the slides.
| | 00:14 | I could have imported these files as a slideshow,
but I want to show you how to create a slideshow
| | 00:19 | from scratch here just to have
one more step in the process.
| | 00:23 | So the first order of business is to select
all of the JPEG files, I'll click on the first
| | 00:26 | one here, and then I Shift-click
on the last one to get all 12.
| | 00:30 | And there are couple of ways to make a slideshow,
I can right-click and open up a context menu
| | 00:34 | and say New > Slideshow.
| | 00:35 | I can go up here and go to File > New >
Slideshow try that, I can also go Ctrl+G.
| | 00:43 | That puts all those JPEG files down here in
these little placeholders, 12 of them, and
| | 00:48 | it puts them in the order that they
appeared up here inside the project panel.
| | 00:52 | Nevertheless, the order down here is not what
I want, it's not the sort of sequential order
| | 00:56 | that I want to place here in terms of
growing the produce and then bringing it to market.
| | 01:00 | So I want to rearrange the slides.
| | 01:03 | So to do that I just need to drag them around a
bit. I want to start with this one, but I want to
| | 01:06 | have this shot be next. So to move it around,
simply drag it click and drag, and you'll
| | 01:10 | notice this little black bar appearing here
between slides, that's where I want to place
| | 01:13 | it, right there between 1 and 2, I want to
bring this one next, kind of a tight shot,
| | 01:18 | bring it up to between 2 and 3.
| | 01:20 | Go to the orchid here, between 3 and 4,
shoving everything to the right.
| | 01:24 | Get a tight shot of all those oranges,
get these oranges here inside this group.
| | 01:28 | Now I want to get a shot that takes us to
market, and I don't want this wide shot to
| | 01:32 | be the one that does it, I want a tight shot
that's kind of a cut away shot, so I get this
| | 01:35 | shot down here with a little sign in it.
| | 01:37 | So, I'll drag it up between 6 and 7, there
we go, and now we are at the market, that
| | 01:41 | works up pretty good for 8.
| | 01:42 | Let's have a tight produce shot that go
between 8 and 9, get this guy here, and I want to
| | 01:47 | bring our produce shot ahead of our guy here
who is the person who we were featuring inside
| | 01:52 | the story here, BD Dautch.
There we go. That's our order.
| | 01:55 | So we've now placed things in order.
| | 01:57 | What I want to do now is bring the audio in.
there are a couple of ways to bring the audio in.
| | 02:01 | Let me scroll up here and show
you the audio clip there. There it is.
| | 02:04 | And there is the slideshow we just created,
we are going to rename it in a second.
| | 02:07 | I can bring the audio clip in very simple, by
just dragging it down to this little placeholder
| | 02:11 | here right here, and I've added audio to it.
| | 02:14 | The audio was just about
a minute 3 seconds long.
| | 02:17 | That's one way to do it, but kind of fun way
to do it is to use something called a pick
| | 02:20 | whip, so I'm going to back off there by
pressing Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, to undo that.
| | 02:23 | This little icon down here is called the
pick whip, and you drag it to something that you
| | 02:27 | want to appear here inside this panel.
| | 02:29 | We are going to use the pick whip a lot in some other
panels, but this is our first instance here inside Encore.
| | 02:34 | So you click on the pick whip and drag it to
the thing you want to bring into that panel.
| | 02:38 | In this case that audio file and then let her
rip, and that comes down there and sometimes
| | 02:42 | it leaves little traces of it behind here.
| | 02:44 | I'm going to make those traces go
away by resetting the workspace.
| | 02:46 | I can go up here to Workspace, click this
dropdown list here, and go to the Default workspace,
| | 02:52 | and that makes it go away--also
kind of went away on the way anyways.
| | 02:55 | Now I've got this audio here. This audio
file is 1 minute and 3 seconds long, which is a
| | 03:01 | little bit less than the total length of the
this slideshow. The default length for a slide
| | 03:04 | we are bringing in is 6 seconds,
and that's set inside preferences.
| | 03:08 | If you go to Edit > Preferences in Windows, or
Encore > Preferences in Mac, you'll see that.
| | 03:12 | Go to Preferences here and then go to Timelines.
| | 03:14 | We are talking about slideshows
here, but it's a part of a timeline.
| | 03:18 | And there it says Still Image Duration is
6 Seconds, that's the default length.
| | 03:21 | You can change that if you want. That's really
not that important because you can always
| | 03:24 | change the length individually later.
So we'll click Cancel out of that.
| | 03:28 | So in fact, the slideshow will be a little
bit longer. It will be a minute 12, because
| | 03:31 | we have 12 things times 6, 72 seconds, it's a
minute 12, and we wanted it to be less than that.
| | 03:37 | Well, we can try to cut down each
slide a little bit to have it fit.
| | 03:40 | But an easy way to do this, I click this little check
box down here to Fit Slideshow to the Audio Duration.
| | 03:44 | So we are going to go from 6 seconds
per slide to something less than 6 now.
| | 03:48 | Here we go, you can go up and take a look at it.
| | 03:50 | First one goes from 0 to 5:07, so now it's
going to fit the length of the audio, which
| | 03:55 | is really nice, because when the
audio ends, the slideshow ends.
| | 03:58 | Finally, I want to change
the name of the slideshow.
| | 04:00 | It always takes on name of
the first image that you select.
| | 04:02 | So I'm going to go up
here and just click on this.
| | 04:05 | Now before I had you change the name of
something by right-clicking on it and going to Rename.
| | 04:09 | Another way to do it is to click on it
making it active and go to the Properties panel.
| | 04:13 | Whatever is selected will show up inside
the Properties panel, and there it says Name,
| | 04:17 | you can always rename it this way.
| | 04:18 | So I'd Name it Slideshow, like that, and
click Enter, make sure we are done, and that is
| | 04:25 | the process to create and edit a slideshow.
| | 04:27 | Now there are more things you can do to a
Slideshow, you can have transitions between
| | 04:30 | the slides, and then you can put the slides in
motion, and I discuss those features in a different movie.
| | 04:39 |
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| Applying slideshow transitions and motion| 00:00 | In addition to rearranging the slides in the
slideshow and having those slides match the
| | 00:05 | duration of the audio that you've applied
to a slideshow, you can do a couple of other
| | 00:09 | things: you can put transitions between slides, and
you can put slides in motion, have them zoom and pan.
| | 00:14 | I'm going to show you both of
those features in this movie.
| | 00:16 | We're picking up where we left off from the
previous movie. To apply a transition to all
| | 00:21 | the slides at once, you need to select the
slideshow as a whole. There are a couple of ways to do that.
| | 00:25 | Right now you can tell that the slideshow
is not selected because you can look over
| | 00:29 | here and see that's active and look over here in the
Properties panel it says Asset, so that's not the slideshow.
| | 00:34 | To make the slideshow active, we go down here
into the timeline panel. Just click anywhere
| | 00:38 | outside of these frames to select the entire
slideshow like that, and that puts an orange
| | 00:42 | border around it, telling you that it's active,
and up here you can see that it's selected.
| | 00:46 | Now if I click on one of these thumbnails
that will select the slide itself, not the
| | 00:51 | slideshow, and you can tell you've done that
because it says slide there instead of slideshow.
| | 00:54 | If I click outside of thumbnail but inside
the frame, you think you would be selecting
| | 00:59 | that particular slide, but you're not.
You're selecting the entire slideshow again.
| | 01:02 | So it's a little confusing, see? Right now
that little thumbnail is not active, and you
| | 01:06 | see it says slideshow up there.
| | 01:07 | We've got the slideshow active, now I want to apply
a transition to every single slide in the slideshow.
| | 01:13 | Remember when you make the slideshow active
you're going to see the basic tab there, let's
| | 01:17 | switch over to the transition tab and select
the transition, really simple. With this dropdown
| | 01:22 | list, and there are all those transitions
that you've seen from Premiere Pro.
| | 01:26 | Let's select the de facto transition of Cross
Dissolve, click on that, and there we go.
| | 01:31 | It's a going to be a two second duration
cross dissolve. To see that I want to be able to
| | 01:35 | go to the beginning of this slideshow. Right now
we're hovering at the junction between two slides here.
| | 01:40 | To go to the beginning I click over here to
select that slide, and I'll jump to the beginning,
| | 01:43 | you can see it's the
beginning because it says 0 here.
| | 01:46 | Click the Play button, and we're going to
watch this guy go from one to the next, and
| | 01:49 | since it's a two second duration transition,
right around 4:07, that's when the transition
| | 01:55 | will begin, and it'll end right around 5:07, because
that's the edit point there. Let's see what happens.
| | 02:02 | (video playing)
| | 02:08 | There you go. That's for a simple transition,
and notice what happened when we went from
| | 02:12 | one slide to the next, went from that
slide to that slide, and it showed up here, and
| | 02:16 | the second slide is now active.
| | 02:18 | Let's change the duration of all of these
transitions by again selecting the slideshow.
| | 02:22 | Right now that slide is active, so
I'll click outside the thumbnail.
| | 02:25 | Now the slideshow is active. Let's change
this to one second, very simple to do that.
| | 02:28 | Just click inside there and change it to 1,
as you would expect click away, and now 1
| | 02:32 | second is now the duration for this thing,
and I could play it again, but I think you
| | 02:35 | get the drift of how that works.
| | 02:36 | But you can tell that you've applied
transitions to all these slides by looking down at the
| | 02:40 | little thumbnails, and you can see this
little icon there, that's the transitional icon.
| | 02:43 | And you also see a red bar and the red bar
says it's not so much that a transition has
| | 02:47 | been applied, but that you need to Transcode
this slideshow. It's no longer a collection
| | 02:51 | of still images, it's now going to be a
video because you've applied these effects.
| | 02:55 | So when you finish your project, and you
transcode it to create a DVD or Blu-ray or a flash DVD,
| | 03:00 | you're going to have to create a video of
the slideshow, and that will take some more
| | 03:03 | space up on the DVD or Blu-ray,
but it's not that big of a deal.
| | 03:07 | But do be aware that this will have to be
transcoded now, because of all this extra
| | 03:11 | activity that's going on here.
| | 03:12 | Well, let's just talk about adding a transition
between two slides, now that it would be different
| | 03:16 | than the one that's being applied with the
entire slideshow as a whole. To do that we
| | 03:19 | need to select a slide.
| | 03:21 | So I'm going to go up to this slide here
and say I want to change the transition from
| | 03:24 | this slide to the next and with that guy
active, now the slide is active, and I go click on
| | 03:28 | the transition tab there, and it says Match
Slideshow, that's the default thing, all the
| | 03:33 | slides will match the slideshow.
| | 03:35 | And so as the duration is 2 seconds, well we
know that the slideshow duration is 1 second
| | 03:40 | for the transition, so what's going on here?
| | 03:41 | Let's just in case you change it, that's being
overridden, because it says Match Slideshow here.
| | 03:45 | Let's change it to something else, click
the dropdown list, we'll go to let's say Wipe.
| | 03:50 | When you click on that, you've got some options
showing up here. Suddenly, you've got a Border,
| | 03:54 | which you've seen inside Premiere Pro and
a Border Color and Anti-aliasing, so let's
| | 03:58 | change this border width from 0 to
something much larger, that will go to let's say 30,
| | 04:02 | for example, so you can see the border, and
click on this little color swatch bar here,
| | 04:06 | and it'll open up the color picker, and
I'll pick a color that's pretty obvious like a
| | 04:09 | red, can't miss that one, right?
| | 04:13 | And it should be 2-second duration now, and
really do not worry about anti-aliasing, because
| | 04:16 | it's west-east, meaning in a vertical line here.
| | 04:19 | If we're diagonally, you might to turn
on anti-aliasing, but now off is fine.
| | 04:22 | I'm going to play this and see how it looks. It'll take
a few seconds to get there. We'll see what happens there.
| | 04:29 | (video playing)
| | 04:34 | There's an easier way to preview this.
Let's go back to that slide and click on it
| | 04:37 | again and change it to a different transition.
Let's say we go to Zoom, which is kind of
| | 04:41 | an interesting one, has the same features,
but it behaves differently, has a position
| | 04:44 | and says where the zoom is going to start
or end, and the position is based upon the
| | 04:48 | cartesian coordinates that they don't quite
match what you'd expect to see in geometry,
| | 04:52 | but it starts at 0, 0 up here and goes down
to 1920x1080 down here, so I'm going to change
| | 04:57 | this to something, let's say 500, and I'll
make this one 600 or something like that,
| | 05:02 | and we'll just see how that comes off. Got
the border width here, and what I want to do
| | 05:05 | now instead of clicking on the Play button
here, I click on the Preview button here,
| | 05:08 | and it's much faster preview.
| | 05:11 | (video playing)
| | 05:14 | And then it goes right back
and lets you work on it again.
| | 05:16 | So that's how you can add a different
transition between slides and override the transition
| | 05:21 | that's been applied to the entire slideshow.
Let's talk about putting these slides in motion.
| | 05:26 | I'll click on a different
one here, make that active.
| | 05:29 | And you'll see that it has an Effects tab
here. If I click on that you'll see that it
| | 05:32 | says Pan & Zoom. It doesn't say
Pan & Zoom tab, it is an Effects tab.
| | 05:36 | Well, let's say we want to apply Pan & Zoom
to the entire slideshow, let me just click
| | 05:39 | away here to select the entire slideshow,
and you notice there is no Effects tabs when
| | 05:44 | you select the entire slideshow, just an Audio
tab, so you can only do the panning and zooming
| | 05:47 | on a per slide basis, and when you go
back to the particular slide, click on that.
| | 05:52 | To turn on panning and zooming you click on
this little button here, that little check
| | 05:56 | box, and notice what happens when you do that,
you get a little fx showing up down here.
| | 05:59 | That tells you that you've applied a zoom
or a pan or both there, and the default will
| | 06:04 | be whatever you are left off with the last
time you did this, in this case, west-east
| | 06:07 | and zoom in, but you don't have to do both.
You don't have to do both a pan and zoom,
| | 06:11 | you can select one or the other.
| | 06:12 | I'm going to click on pan here and dropdown
list will say None, and just do a Zoom In on this.
| | 06:16 | Let's see how that looks by
clicking the Preview button.
| | 06:21 | (video playing)
| | 06:28 | It's very effective to have these slides
put in motion like that, so it's a good thing
| | 06:32 | to do it let's say selectively. You don't
need to do it every single one, but you can
| | 06:36 | select a few and do that. Let's instead of
doing a Zoom In let's change it into a pan,
| | 06:39 | so let's have this be None, and go to Pan, we'll go
from east to west like that, now I'll preview that.
| | 06:45 | (video playing)
| | 06:52 | So I think you get a sense of how that
works. You do it on a per slide basis, versus
| | 06:55 | an entire slideshow basis, so that's how you
apply transitions to slides, to the entire
| | 06:59 | slideshow and how you apply zooming and
panning to individual slides inside a slideshow.
| | 07:04 |
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3. Building MenusUnderstanding menu features| 00:00 | In this chapter I'm going to discuss menus,
and before we dive into creating menus and
| | 00:05 | editing menus, I'm going to
just talk about menus in general.
| | 00:07 | First of all, why have menus?
| | 00:08 | Well, obviously menus are the way that you
access the assets, access your timelines, and
| | 00:13 | your slideshows, and other
menus inside your DVD project.
| | 00:17 | You access them by clicking on buttons that have
links to those timelines, slideshows, and other menus.
| | 00:23 | What do menus consist of?
| | 00:24 | Well, menus can have static backgrounds like this,
they can have video playing in the background,
| | 00:28 | they can have text buttons, or buttons that
are made up of graphics, or buttons that look
| | 00:33 | like this, that have these little placeholders
where you can place still images or videos playing.
| | 00:37 | You can also have audio inside menus so
that's the basic way that menus can look.
| | 00:42 | All menus inside Encore are Photoshop files,
and that's very important because you can
| | 00:46 | edit all your menus inside Photoshop and those
edits will show up immediately back on Encore.
| | 00:51 | They have such close relationship, that all
you need to do is click on this little button
| | 00:54 | here to open up these files inside Photoshop
if you have Photoshop. Clicking in that will
| | 00:58 | open up this menu inside
Photoshop. Let's do that.
| | 01:03 | This is what a menu looks
like inside Photoshop.
| | 01:06 | It consists of these layers and layer groups,
each group here is a button. And these little
| | 01:11 | funny things at the beginning tell Encore
what kind of button this is. A plus sign says
| | 01:16 | it's a button, and then the one next to it
says this is a Return to the Main Menu button
| | 01:20 | and are called Main button.
| | 01:21 | This is the Previous button, meaning Return
to the Previous Menu, to the Next Menu, so
| | 01:25 | the number sign tells that this is a Chapter
button that says you got this little placeholder,
| | 01:30 | that's how that will work inside Encore, so
there is reasons for these little naming conventions
| | 01:33 | that tell Encore what
these buttons are all about.
| | 01:35 | There's also a text layer on top here, the
little T tells you they are the Text layer,
| | 01:39 | if you've worked with
Photoshop you know about that.
| | 01:41 | And that every single Photoshop file has to have a
Background layer like that, and that's the Background layer.
| | 01:46 | As I mentioned if you make changes inside
Photoshop and save them, they will show up inside Encore.
| | 01:51 | So let me go down here, add a new Hue/Saturation
layer above this one. Let's just change things.
| | 01:57 | Let's change it to a different color like that.
| | 01:59 | Not that's a good color,
but I'm just changing it.
| | 02:02 | I'm going to save this, I go File > Save,
don't need to name it, just save it.
| | 02:07 | I can close Photoshop now and go back to Encore.
| | 02:12 | And the change shows up inside Encore.
It's an amazing feature. It works so well.
| | 02:16 | That structure that you saw inside
Photoshop shows up inside Encore. If I select a menu
| | 02:20 | by clicking somewhere inside, like clicking
on one of these elements just click here to
| | 02:23 | select the menu and go down to the Layers panel,
here is that same structure, same naming convention.
| | 02:29 | So open it up, and there is the layer
group with all those elements inside it.
| | 02:32 | Now I have two kinds of menus here, I have
what's called the Main Menu and a Scene Selection Menu.
| | 02:36 | If I go over to the Main Menu and double-click
on that, you'll see that it's a bunch of text buttons.
| | 02:40 | That's typically the way that
your opening menu looks.
| | 02:43 | Then the Scene Selection Menu typically
has these little thumbnails that allow you to
| | 02:47 | put video clips or static images inside there,
so you select scenes from within a video.
| | 02:51 | That's typically the way things lay out.
| | 02:53 | Now you don't have to do it this way, but
that's just sort of the general approach.
| | 02:56 | Let me go back to the Main
Menu and take a look at that.
| | 02:59 | It has another element inside here called
the Replacement layer. You can tells it's
| | 03:02 | a replacement layer by this little icon here.
That's this special kind of layer inside Photoshop
| | 03:06 | that has a mask in it, and the mask
creates this rectangular look here.
| | 03:09 | But we change that to a different look if
we want to, and that's one of the cool things
| | 03:12 | about working with menus.
This menu started its life as a template.
| | 03:15 | If I go to the Library panel here like that,
I click on the Entertainment set, and click
| | 03:22 | on the menu button here and scroll down a
bit, you see I have menus called Studio Menu
| | 03:27 | HD--High Definition--and that's how this
menu started. It's just the template. I didn't
| | 03:32 | change it, that's just the
way it looks inside Encore.
| | 03:34 | But if I want to change it, I can.
| | 03:36 | So for example, if I wanted to change this
replacement layer from that rectangular shape
| | 03:40 | to something else, I can go over to the
replacement layer group over here, change it back to General--
| | 03:45 | for example--go down here to this Horizontal Oval.
I want to replace this. I'm going to I click on this.
| | 03:50 | I want to delete it, take
this one and drag it up there.
| | 03:55 | I've changed the shape, and what the
replacement layer does is I can take an image and put
| | 03:59 | it inside there and replace it with what's
inside there, and that's what it looks like
| | 04:01 | now instead of rectangular.
| | 04:03 | So I've customized this menu, and there are all
other kinds of things you can do to customize menus.
| | 04:07 | You have to use a template.
| | 04:08 | I've changed the buttons to something else,
all kinds of button possibilities besides
| | 04:11 | the ones that came with the template.
I can have little graphics that go inside there.
| | 04:18 | Graphics can reside on their own, or I
can convert them to buttons if I want to.
| | 04:22 | I can change the background from this collection
of backgrounds just by dragging in a new background.
| | 04:27 | Change the way that text looks from that
sort of relatively straightforward white text,
| | 04:31 | to something like this, and I can add
graphics that are all blue like this, but then you
| | 04:35 | can apply styles to them to make them look
different, and you can also convert them into
| | 04:39 | buttons if you wish to.
| | 04:41 | Now I mentioned backgrounds, and here are
some backgrounds over here, and if I bring
| | 04:44 | these backgrounds in, they won't fill this
whole thing, because this is HD and these
| | 04:47 | are not HD except for that one.
| | 04:48 | I will fill it in, but I will change this one,
though. It won't be full screen like the other one.
| | 04:54 | So if you want to replace a background,
let's say with a Photoshop file, you can't just
| | 04:57 | drag a Photoshop file in here and
just say, okay, replace the background.
| | 05:00 | It just adds it as an image.
| | 05:02 | But there is a way to replace that
background with your own background, rather than the
| | 05:05 | one that comes with Encore, and I'll
show you how to do that in a separate movie.
| | 05:08 | So that's a basic overview of menus.
| | 05:10 | We're going to cover how you make menus from
templates, how to customize those templates,
| | 05:14 | and how to change other elements
of menus in the upcoming lessons.
| | 05:19 |
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| Adding menus to projects| 00:00 | I'm going to explain how you add menus
to your project from the Encore Library.
| | 00:04 | To do that, let's start a new project.
| | 00:06 | Click on the New Project button,
and I'm going to name this Menus.
| | 00:11 | Now I'm going to choose Blu-ray and NTSC,
but I want to discuss NTSC versus PAL in a
| | 00:16 | moment and also DVD versus Blu-ray. I am
going to click Blu-ray NTSC and click OK.
| | 00:20 | You can select PAL if you want, that's fine.
| | 00:22 | When I make menus or working menus,
I like to a different workspace open.
| | 00:26 | Let me switch over to the Menu Design Workspace.
So just as in Premiere Pro, you can open up
| | 00:30 | a different space by going up here, clicking
this dropdown list here, and selecting Menu Design.
| | 00:35 | What that does it just brings the Character
panel forward and the Layers panel forward.
| | 00:40 | Now I want to find a new menu that I want
to add to my project. To do that, I need to
| | 00:45 | go down to the Library panel--make that
active for the time being here--and I want to look
| | 00:49 | only at menus. All these little buttons
represent various elements inside the library.
| | 00:52 | I want to look at only menus.
| | 00:53 | So I click on this first button, that's
the menus button, and there are all the menus
| | 00:57 | inside the General Set.
| | 00:58 | If I want to go back and open up all of
these buttons again, I hold down the Alt button
| | 01:03 | in Windows, or the Option button in Mac, and
click on that, that opens up all the guys back up again.
| | 01:07 | If I want to just have a selected group of
these items, I'll click on one and Ctrl-click
| | 01:12 | or Command-click on another like that, if I want
to go back to just the menus and click on that.
| | 01:17 | Now inside the General Set here, I want to look
at these first three. If we're in a different
| | 01:21 | set, let's say we're inside Entertainment
or something, you want to get those first
| | 01:24 | three--we'll just look at that in a second.
There won't be any blank menus over here.
| | 01:26 | So I want to go back to the General
Set and look at those blank menus.
| | 01:29 | This says Blank Menu HD, Blank Menu White,
and Blank Menu with nothing after it.
| | 01:34 | This is a consistent naming method
throughout the entire group of menus.
| | 01:38 | HD means that when you open up this menu or any other
menu that has HD after it, it's going to be 1920x1080.
| | 01:43 | If it says WIDE, it's going to be 720x480 in
NTSC. If you're in PAL, it's going to be 720x576.
| | 01:50 | If it says Blank Menu, it's also going to
be 720x480 or 720x576, but the difference is
| | 01:57 | that the pixels are at different width that create the
Wide Screen look versus the Standard Definition look.
| | 02:02 | When you're working in HD, you want HD menus.
If you do have--let's say--a Standard Definition
| | 02:06 | menu, you are going to have black bars
along the side when the menu is displayed.
| | 02:09 | The videos still display fine, but the
menus will have these little bars along them.
| | 02:13 | So basically, when you're
working in HD, use HD menus.
| | 02:16 | For Standard Definition you can choose a
regular menu or a wide menu, whatever you like.
| | 02:20 | The wide menu will show up as a letterbox thing,
where there are bars along the top and the bottom.
| | 02:24 | Nevertheless, we're going to work with HD
menus here, and I want to work a menu template,
| | 02:28 | not just a Blank Menu.
| | 02:29 | But I want to load up a menu that actually
is a template, so I'm going to go over to
| | 02:33 | the Entertainment Set and click on that, and
if you've opened up the set before, then it
| | 02:37 | will show up instantly like this, but if you
haven't, it will load up and take a few seconds
| | 02:40 | to do that, but once it's loaded,
you don't need to load it again.
| | 02:43 | And I want to load up this menu template there,
the Studio Menu HD, and you notice that has
| | 02:47 | a star next to it. That means
it's the default menu in this set.
| | 02:50 | So if I go up to File > New > Menu, that
will load it up because it's the default menu
| | 02:57 | in the set, just selects it automatically,
whether I've got it activated here or not.
| | 03:01 | If I want to load up the Studio Submenu, I
can change that to be the default menu by
| | 03:05 | right-clicking on it and saying Set as Default,
or I just simply just double-click it, and
| | 03:09 | that loads up that menu as well.
| | 03:11 | And now that these menus are loaded, you can
start customizing them if you choose to, so
| | 03:15 | I'm going to explain how you
customize menus in a separate movie.
| | 03:20 |
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| Customizing menus| 00:00 | I'm going to explain how you can customize
menus that you have loaded up from the Library
| | 00:03 | panel, or create menus from scratch
using elements from the Library panel.
| | 00:08 | I've got the scene selection menu here,
and I want to just show you a few things here.
| | 00:11 | The first order of business is to select things
within a menu, and there are a couple of ways to do that.
| | 00:16 | There are two selection tools over here, one
is called the Selection tool, and one is called
| | 00:20 | the Direct Select tool, and
there's reason there are two of them.
| | 00:23 | The Selection tool allows
you to select an entire button.
| | 00:26 | A button consists of multiple layers,
and this selects all the layers at once.
| | 00:30 | I will click on that.
There's the border around the entire button.
| | 00:33 | If I scroll down here a little bit, you will
see there's the button group. Inside the button
| | 00:37 | group are separate layers.
| | 00:38 | But we didn't select the individual layers, we
selected the group which has all the layers at once.
| | 00:43 | If I want to just move that around, I can just drag
around and drag the entire group of layers around.
| | 00:48 | If I want to select an element within a
button, I need to use the Direct Select tool.
| | 00:53 | So I click on that, and I go over here. If I
click on just this part of the button, then
| | 00:57 | I can select just that
element, and I can move it around.
| | 00:59 | As I do so I change the border
of the button. You can see that.
| | 01:03 | If I change the size of it, I can drag that up
and change the size, like so, and the proportions.
| | 01:08 | If I click on the word SCENE, you might
not be able to move it around, because it's so
| | 01:14 | small so I can zoom in a little bit, and I
will go down here to where it says Fit now,
| | 01:18 | I'm going to, let's say go to 50%, and that
will zoom out quite a bit, and now I can get
| | 01:22 | a better chance of grabbing
this and moving it around.
| | 01:24 | If I move it up, you notice the border
doesn't change, and you may wonder why that is.
| | 01:29 | I'll explain that in a second.
| | 01:30 | If I move to the right that will expand the
border to the right, because the border of
| | 01:33 | the button is always as
large as the elements in it are.
| | 01:37 | So I want to expand it to the right, expand
it this way, but not having the bottom move
| | 01:42 | up, and there's a reason for that, because
there's an element down here that you don't see.
| | 01:46 | That's this highlight.
| | 01:47 | It's called the sub-picture
highlight, and it's purposely turned off.
| | 01:50 | You can't turn it on over here.
| | 01:51 | The only way to see the Subpicture
highlight is to click one of these two buttons.
| | 01:55 | This is the so-called Selected Subpicture
Highlight button, and this is the Activated
| | 01:59 | Subpicture Highlight button and sometimes the
colors are different, sometimes they're the same.
| | 02:02 | In this case the colors are same.
| | 02:04 | This is what happens when people hover their
cursor over your DVD button when they're viewing
| | 02:08 | this inside a TV screen.
| | 02:10 | That's why when you see the little highlight like that,
they know that they're now hovering over this button.
| | 02:14 | You need to have that there so people can
tell which button they're hovering over.
| | 02:18 | So depending on which button
they're then these guys show up.
| | 02:20 | If I right-click on this thing and say
Preview from Here, and as I hover over one, you'll
| | 02:24 | see that these little highlights show up as
I go across those things saying I'm hovering
| | 02:28 | over that particular button.
That's what they are for.
| | 02:30 | Let me get out of that.
| | 02:32 | So if want to move this around I need to
use the Direct Select tool and click on it.
| | 02:35 | Now sometimes it's too small do that.
| | 02:36 | Let me click on it and see
if I get it. There we go.
| | 02:38 | So I'll move around.
| | 02:39 | It might be a little tricky, but there we
go, oops, hard to do, it's really hard to
| | 02:43 | select something that's small.
So you usually need to zoom in a bit to do that.
| | 02:46 | I can scroll through
there to the left here a bit.
| | 02:48 | Let's scroll down a little bit.
| | 02:49 | There it is let me try again, select it, I
am going to move it around. There we go.
| | 02:52 | Now notice how the button boundary is changing,
because we are bringing in a little bit more.
| | 02:56 | If I click on one of these bounding
boxes here, I can expand it. There we go.
| | 03:01 | So, sometimes things get confusing.
| | 03:02 | You've got the Direct Select tool selected,
and you want to move an entire button around,
| | 03:07 | and you click inside the button thinking,
okay, I got the button there, but in fact
| | 03:10 | you have got just one element of the button,
and you start moving, and it's like, oh my
| | 03:13 | gosh, what I have done.
I have moved just part of the button.
| | 03:15 | So I'll just do Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, to undo
that and then switch over to the Selection
| | 03:19 | tool, and now you can move the
entire button around, like so.
| | 03:21 | Let me go back to Fit here, there we are.
Now I want to select some text.
| | 03:27 | So if I go to the Selection tool and
click on text, nothing will happen.
| | 03:30 | I know that's text, because I'm going to go up
in the Layers panel, and there's my text line.
| | 03:35 | I uncheck the eyeball and the text goes away.
So that is in fact text.
| | 03:39 | Now there's a boundary box.
| | 03:40 | So let me take my Selection tool and see if
I can grab that and move it. It goes away.
| | 03:44 | It won't let me select it
with the Selection tool.
| | 03:46 | I need to use the Direct
Select tool to move text around.
| | 03:49 | Let me turn that back on, do the Direct
Select tool, hover over the text. Even though it's
| | 03:53 | not a part of a button it still requires the
Direct Select tool to move it around. There you go.
| | 03:57 | So the Direct Select tool is used for
everything except for selecting an entire button.
| | 04:01 | Here is this text part of a button, click
on that, move in just the text part of the
| | 04:06 | button, here is the Subpicture highlight
there at the left of the little cross there.
| | 04:09 | I can sort of select, that's hard
to do, because it's kind of small.
| | 04:12 | Again, I need the Direct Select tool to do that.
That's how you move things around.
| | 04:16 | If you want to duplicate things or delete
things, let me go back to the Selection tool.
| | 04:21 | Let's say I want to
delete that particular button.
| | 04:23 | I'm going to select it like that and
press the Delete key and away it goes.
| | 04:26 | I'll do Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, to bring it back.
| | 04:28 | If I want to duplicate something I will just
select it like that and go Ctrl+D, or Command+D.
| | 04:32 | If I go up to the Edit menu, we'll see that
the duplicate keyword shortcut is Ctrl+D in
| | 04:38 | Windows, Command+D in Mac.
| | 04:39 | So I'm going to click on this, go, Ctrl+D
or Command+D, and that will duplicate it.
| | 04:42 | And what it does is it lays right on top, and
we have two buttons on top of each like this.
| | 04:46 | Here they're intersecting, and you can't
have buttons intersect in a finished project.
| | 04:50 | It will just not work
when you try to run the DVD.
| | 04:52 | So you need to separate them, and if I try to
separate them now, they're both selected, I think.
| | 04:56 | Let's see what happens when I move it.
Just that one selected, okay.
| | 05:00 | Sometimes they're both selected, sometimes not.
| | 05:01 | So I'll just drag this, go out of the way,
and now they're no longer intersecting, and
| | 05:06 | I'm moving this one way out of the way, not really
a good place to put it, but you see how that works.
| | 05:10 | Now I want to add some elements to a menu.
| | 05:12 | So rather than add it to this one and make it
really messy, I'm going to create a new blank menu.
| | 05:17 | So I've got the general setup in here.
I'm going to double-click on the Blank Menu HD.
| | 05:21 | That will create a new menu
that's just blank, by golly.
| | 05:24 | And I want to just add some elements to it.
| | 05:26 | Now we've got some buttons
and some other things here.
| | 05:28 | Let me click in the buttons first.
I could select any of these buttons.
| | 05:31 | So I'll just kind of scroll through with my
arrow key to try to pick one that works for
| | 05:35 | this particular demonstration.
There's a good one.
| | 05:37 | Just double-click on the Sunset button.
That adds this little button here.
| | 05:41 | I want to do it again, I'll just double-
click again, or I can just select it, and click
| | 05:44 | on this little button here to place it.
That will place it right there.
| | 05:47 | I can also just drag it up there, like so,
that's how you can add buttons. Let me add one more.
| | 05:53 | I will just double-click
it there, one more comes in.
| | 05:54 | I have four buttons there.
| | 05:55 | Let me kind of move it
around a bit. Here we go.
| | 05:59 | This one we'll move it around like that.
| | 06:01 | Sometimes you bring these guys in and they're
maybe too small, and you want to make them bigger.
| | 06:05 | I am going to marquee select all of them.
| | 06:07 | If I change the size of one, it
will change the size of all of them.
| | 06:10 | So I will just hover over the corner here
in the bounding box and stretch it out a bit.
| | 06:13 | They only get larger like that.
| | 06:15 | Pretty soon they will start overlapping, and I
will get the little red guy when I let go off here.
| | 06:19 | There you go. So we will just not do that.
| | 06:21 | It'll be nice if I could
arrange them a little bit.
| | 06:23 | Let me select all four again like this.
| | 06:26 | I can arrange them vertically or
horizontally, a couple of ways to do that.
| | 06:29 | If you go to the Object menu over here on
the left-hand corner, you see there's Arrange,
| | 06:34 | Align, and Distribute.
| | 06:36 | Arrange means that you bring
things forward or backwards.
| | 06:38 | Let's say you have a graphic on top of
something you really wanted below it, then you'd use
| | 06:42 | the Arrange part of this Object
menu to move it backwards or forwards.
| | 06:46 | Aligning is a little bit different, I want to
align, left, center, or right top, middle, bottom.
| | 06:50 | If you say center it, it tries to get them
centered based upon whatever one is in the center.
| | 06:54 | So let put them all there, whichever one is
towards the center, it aligns them all up,
| | 06:58 | but that's really not what you want.
| | 06:59 | You don't want them
crushing each other like that.
| | 07:01 | You want to spread them out a little bit.
| | 07:02 | So you need to use
Distribute to spread them out.
| | 07:03 | I am going to click away so
they're all not selected at once.
| | 07:06 | I select one on the bottom
one here and drag it down.
| | 07:09 | Here we go, way down like that.
Now I am going to select all four of them again.
| | 07:14 | I want to distribute them so
they're not all crunched up like that.
| | 07:17 | So instead of going to the object menu and
distribute, like so, I'm going to right-click
| | 07:21 | on them, open up the Context menu, and you
see we have the same three things down here,
| | 07:24 | Arrange, Align, and Distribute.
I'll go Distribute, and I want to go Vertically.
| | 07:28 | I want them to be distributed
vertically evenly. There they go.
| | 07:31 | Now they're all distributed evenly vertically.
| | 07:33 | I'm going to move a couple out of the way
horizontally just to get them lined up again.
| | 07:37 | So if I do like this and go right-click and
say Distribute > Horizontally, it's not going
| | 07:42 | to make them nice and even.
| | 07:43 | It just kind of evenly spaces them out,
but it doesn't make them line up to the left.
| | 07:48 | You need to use the other approach to that.
| | 07:50 | Right-click and go Align, and I
can align left, center, or right.
| | 07:53 | So I do them on the right, I'll take the right
most thing and align everything else up to it's align.
| | 07:58 | So I go Align > Right, there you go,
they align up on the right most element.
| | 08:03 | So that's how you arrange things if you
want to get them all aligned up or distributed.
| | 08:06 | So I'll right-click again and say
Distribute > Vertically, now everything is happy.
| | 08:10 | You can add other elements besides buttons.
| | 08:12 | If you click over here, it adds what are called
pictures, even though they're really not pictures.
| | 08:17 | They're more like graphics.
| | 08:18 | If I just double-click on the airplane icon
there, that brings it in right there in the
| | 08:22 | midst of these guys.
| | 08:23 | If I have the Selection tool selected, I
cannot move it even though it's got a bounding box
| | 08:27 | around it and my cursor seems to indicate
that I can grab it, but if I click, it goes away.
| | 08:32 | So I need to use the Direct
Select tool to grab this graphic.
| | 08:35 | You need to be kind of careful about it.
| | 08:36 | If I grab down here, I might also
grab the button where I start moving it.
| | 08:39 | I'm going to try to move it here
without grabbing the button. There we go.
| | 08:42 | I can change the size of it. I can rotate it.
I'll hover near the edge like that, there we go.
| | 08:47 | Some other things down here
like an Arabesque, they call it.
| | 08:49 | Double-click on that, it has a
little graphic on the middle again.
| | 08:52 | Hit the Direct Select tool to
move it around, change its size.
| | 08:56 | When you add objects like this
you can add drop shadows to them.
| | 09:00 | Now with the black background
you really can't see a drop shadow.
| | 09:03 | So I want to put some
kind of menu background here.
| | 09:05 | So the next button over is backgrounds.
| | 09:08 | There aren't HD backgrounds here except for
Crib, which doesn't really work in this case
| | 09:12 | when something is not so busy like that.
So I want to create my own HD background.
| | 09:17 | I want to add it to this Library.
| | 09:18 | It would be nice if I could just take let's say
this Photoshop file and add it as a background,
| | 09:23 | but you can't do that here from a Project panel.
| | 09:25 | If I just drag this over, it
just adds it as this little image.
| | 09:28 | It doesn't really work as a background.
So I will do Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, to undo that.
| | 09:33 | So what I like to do is add this Photoshop
file to this menu as a background, and I can't
| | 09:37 | do that directly from the Project panel.
| | 09:38 | If I just drag it over here like that,
it add it as an image not as a background.
| | 09:43 | So I'm going to do Ctrl+Z,
or Command+Z, to undo that.
| | 09:45 | So if I needed it to be a background then
the way you do that is you add this to this
| | 09:49 | background part of the library.
| | 09:50 | So with the background open like this with
this active, I can just drag this over to
| | 09:55 | that area just drag it here and let go.
| | 09:57 | It just adds it to it as another element,
another background that you can access.
| | 10:02 | Now with it here inside the background group,
inside the general set, if I just double-click
| | 10:06 | on this or click on this little button
down here to apply it or place it, it will now
| | 10:10 | be background here behind these guys.
| | 10:12 | Now I can see any drop shadows that
I might want to add to these things.
| | 10:14 | I want to select the airplane
using the Direct Select tool.
| | 10:17 | We got that guy selected or the jet.
| | 10:19 | Make it a little larger so you get a better
chance of seeing it, and I want to add a drop
| | 10:23 | shadow to that, and the way you do that is
you go to Object > Drop Shadow, click on that
| | 10:26 | just click the Drop
Shadow check box. There we go.
| | 10:30 | And there are various characteristics here.
| | 10:31 | I will just squeeze it to 100%, make it
larger so you can see it farther away that is.
| | 10:36 | Let's spread it out a bit.
Now we can't miss it. There you go.
| | 10:40 | There's the drop shadow with that guy.
| | 10:41 | Obviously, it's way to big,
but I just want you to see it.
| | 10:43 | I'll try this simply there with Arabesque.
| | 10:45 | Click on that, I'll go to Object > Drop Shadow,
click on the Drop Shadow check box, move it
| | 10:52 | out of the way here, change the
color to simply other than black.
| | 10:55 | Let's just make it a red Drop Shadow.
| | 10:57 | Not necessarily a good idea, but
that way you can see it as well.
| | 11:01 | Spread it out a bit, move it down the
line here, change its angle, like so,
| | 11:06 | move it around like that.
| | 11:08 | That's how you can add a drop
shadow to any object like that.
| | 11:11 | Finally, you can add some graphic elements.
They're called shapes.
| | 11:15 | If I click on this, you follow these blue
shapes, they're blue, because Encore expects
| | 11:19 | you do something with them
besides leaving them blue.
| | 11:22 | So I'm going to add this 10 point star by
just double-clicking it, and there it shows
| | 11:25 | up right there in the middle, and my Direct
Select tool and kind of drag it out of the way here.
| | 11:29 | There you go, make it a little
larger. So what do I do with it?
| | 11:32 | I can apply a style to it.
| | 11:34 | So if I go to the Styles tab here, we've got all
kinds of different kinds of styles. You can see there.
| | 11:40 | Like, I'll go to Glass Styles, load that up.
It's only one here.
| | 11:43 | If I go to the text side of things, only none.
| | 11:46 | Go there, there's a bunch of them now
inside this shape styles, which is what we want.
| | 11:51 | If I double-click in anyone of these
styles, it will change to that style.
| | 11:56 | Instead of Glass let's go to Colors.
We are here to the text side of things.
| | 12:01 | Now we are not dealing with text, but let's
see what happens if I double-click on this
| | 12:04 | text style when dealing with this shape.
| | 12:07 | I double-click once, and it
turns blue, but don't give up yet.
| | 12:11 | Double-click again, and
there it turns into that color.
| | 12:13 | Sometimes you need to double-click twice
to actually have these guys get applied.
| | 12:17 | So even though it says text, you
can apply the style to that shape.
| | 12:21 | So that's how you can take an existing menu
template and customize it or how you can create
| | 12:26 | a menu from scratch using all
these various tools inside Encore.
| | 12:31 |
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| Working with menu text| 00:00 | I'm going to explain how you can add text to a menu,
edit that text, and then apply styles to that text.
| | 00:06 | So in this project we have a blank menu, which
is going to serve as the backdrop for our text.
| | 00:10 | We're going to change the background in this thing
later, but we'll start with it being black like this.
| | 00:15 | There are two text tools, the regular standard
text tool there and then the vertical text tool.
| | 00:21 | Standard text tool goes horizontally and
the vertical obviously goes vertically.
| | 00:23 | Let's try the vertical text tool first,
because it really isn't that effective, and I will
| | 00:28 | show you why in a second.
| | 00:28 | I'm going to click on that and
then bring my cursor into the menu.
| | 00:31 | See, how it changes to the I
beam with some dots around it.
| | 00:34 | That tells you you're going
to apply text vertically here.
| | 00:36 | I'm going to click here anywhere, and that's
going to be the place where I'm going to start
| | 00:39 | adding text, here we go, click.
| | 00:40 | Let's start typing in some text, here is some
text, and you see it's all stacked up vertically
| | 00:48 | like that, which seems nice but you can
take any horizontal text and turn it into this.
| | 00:52 | If I just click away that puts a bounding
box around it, and I can change the shape
| | 00:56 | of the bounding box by grabbing
it with the Direct Select tool.
| | 00:59 | I can't grab it with the
Type tool or the Text tool.
| | 01:01 | I need to use the Direct Select tool.
| | 01:03 | So I switch over here to the Direct Select
tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of A.
| | 01:07 | So here I'm hovering around here.
| | 01:08 | If I type A, it's okay, it's not going to start
typing new text, because I haven't clicked anywhere.
| | 01:12 | So just press A, it turns it into the Direct
Select tool, and then I grab this and change
| | 01:16 | the size what have you.
But I can also rotate it.
| | 01:19 | If I rotate it it's going to look very much like
regular old horizontal text eventually just like that.
| | 01:24 | So using the vertical text
tool is not all that effective.
| | 01:27 | You can just take horizontal text
like that and turn it into vertical text.
| | 01:31 | So it's one of those things that you may
not need to use the vertical text tool.
| | 01:34 | It can taken be care of using
just a little bit of rotation there.
| | 01:38 | I'm going to delete this by
selecting it with the bounding box around it.
| | 01:41 | Since it's already selected, I press the Delete key,
and we'll start over again with the standard text tool.
| | 01:45 | There we go.
| | 01:46 | You notice the I beam now is looking vertical,
meaning it's going to be horizontal text,
| | 01:50 | click here and type in here is more text.
| | 01:53 | If I press Return or Enter,
it's going to go down a line.
| | 01:57 | It's not going to be done editing the text.
It'll just go down one more line.
| | 02:00 | So I'll click away to accept that.
There is the bounding box again.
| | 02:04 | Click on the Direct Select tool or press the A key
for the shortcut to make this guy larger like that.
| | 02:10 | I can also change the characters to take
all the text down here in the character panel.
| | 02:13 | I can change the font if I want to.
| | 02:16 | As long as there is a bounding box around it,
it will change every single thing inside there.
| | 02:19 | So if I change the font let's say to
Times New Roman or something like that.
| | 02:22 | Let me just scroll in down here.
| | 02:24 | Click Times New Roman and
change it to Times New Roman.
| | 02:26 | If I go there and click on this little guy again,
it starts off at the top again, which is unfortunate.
| | 02:31 | I wish there was a scroll
bar here, but there isn't.
| | 02:34 | I'll click on Blackoak Standard,
that's really an obvious change.
| | 02:37 | There we go, more text,
and now it's kind of too big.
| | 02:39 | So I'll just change the size of the
bounding box a bit like that. There we go.
| | 02:44 | I can just change the color here by
clicking on the color swatch, there you go.
| | 02:47 | Let's change it to
something like red, there we go.
| | 02:50 | Click OK, it makes it red.
| | 02:52 | Let's say I wanted to just
have the word here be red.
| | 02:54 | I am going to go get the
Type tool, the text tool.
| | 02:57 | If I hover inside the text it's going to change
from this little dotted box around that little
| | 03:01 | I beam into an I beam into an I
beam with no dotted box around it.
| | 03:05 | See how that changes there.
| | 03:06 | That tells you that if you click here
you're going to click inside the text.
| | 03:09 | So I can click there, and I can drag to select
this text. And wouldn't it be nice if I could
| | 03:13 | change that to a different color?
Let's try it and see what happens.
| | 03:15 | So I go over here and click on this, I'm
going to click on some obviously different colors,
| | 03:19 | scrolling down here, let's
say green, click on that.
| | 03:21 | That changes the text for all of the text.
| | 03:24 | You cannot select the text within the
box and have that change only that change.
| | 03:28 | You have to change everything inside the box.
| | 03:30 | If you want here to be one color and is to
something else, you need to create two different
| | 03:34 | text boxes, one for here and one the
rest of this stuff here. So there we go.
| | 03:38 | That's what happens when
you deal with color here.
| | 03:39 | You need to work on the entire text string,
not just part of the string, unlike some other
| | 03:44 | text tools that you might find
in Premiere Pro and elsewhere.
| | 03:45 | You can also change the
characteristics down here.
| | 03:48 | You don't need to highlight anything.
| | 03:49 | Just anything the bounding box will change,
you make it italics, all caps, small caps,
| | 03:55 | that kind of stuff, underlined or
strikethrough, that kind of stuff. So that's it.
| | 04:02 | You've got these colors here, and you
might think well, gee, what else can I do?
| | 04:06 | Well, you can apply styles, you can apply
Photoshop styles that have been set up for you.
| | 04:10 | Let me start off by looking at the library,
though, before I get the styles, because you
| | 04:13 | may think that you can apply styles down
here, because you got this little T there.
| | 04:16 | If I click on there, it says text items.
| | 04:18 | So okay, sure I should be able to apply
that style or something like down here to this
| | 04:23 | text, if I just scroll through here it's going
to apply that style to this text. Not quite.
| | 04:28 | This is an item, not a style.
| | 04:29 | So if I want to have that kind of color,
let's say this one here applied to that text.
| | 04:34 | Let's say I select the text,
because it's got a bounding box.
| | 04:37 | If I double-click this,
will it change that? It won't.
| | 04:41 | It's going to add a whole new item.
Little-bitty item there, you can barely see it.
| | 04:45 | But in fact is that text there, I'll drag it up
so you can see it on top of there, there you go.
| | 04:51 | So it added this as a
separate item, not as a style.
| | 04:53 | I will do Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, to undo that.
| | 04:56 | If I select the text again with the Direct
Select tool with the bounding box around it,
| | 04:59 | I can go down here, here it says replace.
| | 05:02 | Oh! Great, so I'll replace it, but again
it's not going to replace it with this style.
| | 05:06 | It's going to replace it with the letters
ABC, which you really can't see on top of
| | 05:10 | the black background.
You can change it do something else.
| | 05:12 | I do Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z.
Have this one instead with the white around it.
| | 05:16 | I'll replace it again, and
there it goes, it just makes it ABC.
| | 05:19 | It doesn't actually change the style.
It replaces the entire text string.
| | 05:23 | Not what we wanted to do.
So let me do Ctrl+Z,or Command+Z, to undo that.
| | 05:26 | Instead what we want to do is
we want to apply a style to it.
| | 05:28 | So if I click on Styles like that.
Here we got three different options here.
| | 05:31 | We've got the styles for image styles.
| | 05:33 | We've got the text styles,
and we've got shapes styles.
| | 05:37 | So you think, okay, I can only
use text styles. Well, not really.
| | 05:40 | You can probably use most of these guys.
Some of them might not work, but most will work.
| | 05:44 | So let's start with the
text styles first though.
| | 05:47 | I like that candlelight.
| | 05:48 | If I just double-click on this, or click on
this little button down here to apply the
| | 05:51 | style, it'll change it without changing the text,
which is a lot nicer than changing the text to ABC.
| | 05:56 | Scroll down here to Double Green Slime, double-
click on that, instead of using this little apply
| | 06:01 | down there, you can just double-click
on something to apply. There we go.
| | 06:04 | Everyone looks a little
different. There we are.
| | 06:07 | Let's go over here to
the image styles, try that.
| | 06:10 | If I go over to brown screen, double-click
on it, where is the brown screen?
| | 06:15 | Sometimes with these guys you got to
double-click on twice. There we go.
| | 06:18 | Now we're getting the brown screen.
| | 06:19 | Let's go down to metallic gold, double-click on
that. Where is the metallic gold? Double-click again.
| | 06:25 | There it is. That's much better.
| | 06:26 | So sometimes it takes twice, don't
give up just double-click on it again.
| | 06:30 | Let's move over here to the shapes styles.
Again, let's scroll through here.
| | 06:34 | Mostly these guys are sort of like edges.
| | 06:36 | Let me double-click on
the black diagonal stripes.
| | 06:39 | All these guys, black
stroke, where is the inside?
| | 06:43 | I'll double-click twice, and then
it shows up on the inside like that.
| | 06:45 | It would be nice if we can see
this applied against the background.
| | 06:48 | So let me go back to the Library and here
we got the backgrounds, and if you added the
| | 06:51 | Farm to Table menu background before,
then it should be there for you to apply now.
| | 06:55 | If not you can take another background like
Crib HD, which is not going to look great here,
| | 06:59 | but if you don't have this one loaded
up you can use something else that's HD.
| | 07:03 | I'm going to double-click on this, and that
will apply the background here, and you can
| | 07:06 | see the text over that over that background.
| | 07:09 | You can also apply drop shadow to text just
the same way you apply drop shadow to objects.
| | 07:13 | Let's just select the text with the Direct
Select tool and go up to Object > Drop Shadow,
| | 07:19 | click on this little check box.
| | 07:20 | Let me get it out of the
way so that you can see it.
| | 07:22 | Drop Shadow shows up there, and let's just make
it a little bit farther away so you can't miss it.
| | 07:27 | Spread it out a bit, like so. There we go.
Make it 100% opacity so you can really see it.
| | 07:32 | So we are going to apply drop
shadow that way. It's nice.
| | 07:35 | Finally, if you actually want to edit the
text itself, you are going to click away here
| | 07:38 | so it's not selected for a moment.
Go back and select the text tool.
| | 07:42 | I'm going to hover around here, you see that
little box around there as you go over that background.
| | 07:45 | Hover over the text itself it's going to go
away telling you, you are now in the text.
| | 07:49 | If I click anywhere here like there, I can
now press the Delete key or Backspace key,
| | 07:54 | however you want to do it and get
rid of that text just like that.
| | 07:57 | So that's how you can add text, edit text,
and apply styles to text here inside an Encore menu.
| | 08:02 |
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| Creating buttons from text or graphics| 00:00 | I am going to show you how you can convert
an object like graphic, or text, into a button,
| | 00:05 | a replacement layer, or something
called the Subpicture highlight layer.
| | 00:08 | So to do that I have got this project open
with just a blank menu, and let me double-click
| | 00:11 | on it so you can see it on
the Menu Viewer. There you go.
| | 00:13 | Just a black background. We are going to apply some
things to it here in a moment.
| | 00:17 | I want to shift the workspace
to the menu design workspace.
| | 00:20 | I go up here to Workspace drop
down list, go to Menu Design.
| | 00:24 | Now that's a good thing, because I want to be
able to see the library and the styles over here.
| | 00:27 | The character is not that important here,
but we'll have it nice and open there, but
| | 00:30 | the most important thing is this Layers panel.
| | 00:31 | We are going to see things change inside the
Layers panel as we convert things to buttons
| | 00:36 | and other kinds of layers.
Let's add a graphic.
| | 00:39 | Now I have got the Library open here, and
we got all these little buttons selected and
| | 00:42 | first one that shows up is this 10 point star,
which is the one I want to use, but the process
| | 00:46 | that you'd use typically to sort of
narrow things down to just the shapes layer.
| | 00:50 | Click on this little button here just to get to
the shapes layer, and there is that 10 point star.
| | 00:53 | You can use anything you like, but
that's right there at the top and easy to use.
| | 00:56 | I'll just double-click on that to add it.
I want to make it a little bit larger.
| | 01:00 | I have the Direct Select tool selected now.
| | 01:02 | If I use the Selection tool, I click
on it, it won't work. I can't move it.
| | 01:05 | So I've got to go back to the Direct
Select tool, click on it, make it larger.
| | 01:08 | I drag it around like that and sort of distorting
it, hold down the Shift key, that will constrain
| | 01:13 | the propositions, make it look nice and
even like that and kind of center it up.
| | 01:17 | It's not that important.
I just want to able to see it and make it large.
| | 01:20 | I want to make it look pretty too.
So I am going to shift over here to Styles.
| | 01:24 | We've got Colors and Gradients open here.
| | 01:26 | I could have chosen something else, but
I've got Colors and Gradients, and I like that.
| | 01:30 | Most of these colors and gradients tend to
be these kind of flat colors, but way down
| | 01:34 | here I love this little
Colorburst here, where is that?
| | 01:37 | So with this active like I am just going to
double-click on Colorburst or click on this
| | 01:40 | Apply Styles button here
and change it into that.
| | 01:43 | Wow! Isn't that cool?
Now I want to turn that into a button.
| | 01:47 | But before I do that look at the Layers panel.
| | 01:48 | We got a background layer, which is black, and we
got this 10 point star which is just a graphic.
| | 01:52 | It's not a button.
But now I want it to be a button.
| | 01:55 | So I need to select it and have this
panel active to make sure that we can do this.
| | 01:59 | So we have got it activated like
this, and now the panel is active.
| | 02:02 | So you can see the orange stripe marks as I
click there, and I am going to go to Object >
| | 02:06 | Convert to button, watch what happens
to the Layers panel too when I do this.
| | 02:11 | Boom! Things change.
| | 02:13 | The border changed to green to
say this is a button not an object.
| | 02:16 | We've got the layer group now with a plus
sign in front of it saying this is a button,
| | 02:21 | a normal button it's called.
We have the original graphic here.
| | 02:24 | It has a little blue box in front of it,
and here we've got this funny thing. This =1.
| | 02:28 | This is the Subpicture highlight for this,
and this is what's going to show upon when
| | 02:31 | people hover their cursors over this
button or click on the button, depending.
| | 02:35 | Now with the eyeballs off, which
is the way it's supposed to be.
| | 02:37 | It's supposed to be invisible all the time until
people actually click on their button or hover over it.
| | 02:41 | So you won't see it here inside the menu.
| | 02:43 | But you can observe it if you
switch these little buttons down here.
| | 02:46 | This is the normal one in
sort of unactivated state.
| | 02:49 | If I click on this you will see
the selected Subpicture highlight.
| | 02:51 | It will be a different color.
| | 02:52 | It's an overlay, actually. Even though it's
called a Subpicture, it's just an overlay
| | 02:55 | of some color here.
This will be the activated one.
| | 02:57 | This one shows when people click on the button
and usually it's a different color like that.
| | 03:01 | And the colors are determined by something
called the menu colors set, which I am going
| | 03:05 | to discuss in a different movie.
| | 03:07 | We are just going to recognize now that we
have something called the Subpicture highlight
| | 03:09 | layer that's equal to the shape of the star
inside this button, and you can see the color
| | 03:14 | associated with it by clicking on these little
buttons down there or we can turn it off like
| | 03:17 | that and see the original color.
Let's just try this with a text layer.
| | 03:21 | So I am going to click this guy with the
Direct Select tool, and it won't work now remember,
| | 03:25 | because this is now a button.
| | 03:26 | So if I drag it around, it's going to just
change the shape and the size of the button.
| | 03:29 | It's not a good thing.
| | 03:30 | Let's me press Ctrl+Z, or Command+Z, and
undo that and take the Selection tool now.
| | 03:34 | It's a button, folks. I've got to click on
it with the Selection tool, and now I can
| | 03:37 | move it around, the whole thing as one.
Now I am going to add some text.
| | 03:40 | So if click on the Text tool over here and click and
start typing text, type in button. It's pretty small.
| | 03:49 | Click away to put a bounding box around it.
| | 03:52 | Switch to the Direct Select tool by pressing
the letter A, and now I am going to drag this
| | 03:57 | guy a little bit big so you can see it.
It's a blue button.
| | 03:59 | It's blue because the text layer is blue.
And now I want to convert it into a button.
| | 04:03 | Even though it says button we
are going to make it a button.
| | 04:05 | Right now, it's just a text.
Covert to the button, the same process.
| | 04:09 | And I just make sure it's active like this.
| | 04:10 | I can go up to the Object menu and click on
Convert the button or press Ctrl+B, or Command+B,
| | 04:15 | or I can right-click on it up over the
context menu, which is the way I would normally do
| | 04:19 | it and click Convert to button.
Now watch what happens over here.
| | 04:22 | It's not quite the same thing when you are working
with text as is when you are working with a graphic.
| | 04:26 | Covert to button, and you
don't get that little =1 down here.
| | 04:30 | What happens is that Subpicture highlight
is automatically is equal to the text.
| | 04:34 | There isn't an extra layer for this, which
can kind of create some little complexities
| | 04:38 | down the road, if you want to do some customization when
you are working on Subpicture highlights with the text.
| | 04:43 | But nevertheless, it's what it does, and I
turn on the Subpicture highlight for this,
| | 04:47 | it will equal the same overlay as that.
| | 04:49 | It has that kind of orangish color on top
of blue, which creates that purple, and it's
| | 04:54 | kind of red on top of blue,
which makes it a deeper purple.
| | 04:57 | Here the same Subpicture color is applied
to both things inside this menu with these
| | 05:01 | particular buttons.
| | 05:02 | That's how you create buttons
from a graphic or from text.
| | 05:05 | What I want to do now is create a
replacement layer, and I think you have seen them before.
| | 05:08 | Basically, what happens with replacement
layers is that you had this graphic there, and you
| | 05:12 | can drag your graphic to it and our image to
it, and that image will replace that graphic
| | 05:16 | in the shape of the graphic.
| | 05:18 | So let's go back here to
Library and click on the shapes again.
| | 05:21 | Let's scroll down here a little ways
to let's say Brush Stroke, like that.
| | 05:26 | I am going to bring the Brush stroke
here by dragging it to the scene here.
| | 05:29 | It's kind of smallish, make it a little
bit larger, like that, and drag the other guys
| | 05:35 | out of the way here so they don't quite bump into
each other when I covert this to replacement layer.
| | 05:42 | There it is.
| | 05:43 | Right now, it's just this graphic, and I did like
to use the Direct Select tool to move it around.
| | 05:46 | I am going to change its size.
| | 05:48 | Now to covert it to a replacement layer all
you need to do is go up to the Object menu
| | 05:53 | again and Convert the Replacement layer or Ctrl+J or
right-click and Convert to Replacement layer like that.
| | 05:59 | It doesn't look like much happened, but if
you go to the Layers panel you see that it
| | 06:02 | has an exclamation mark there in front of that with
parentheses that says this is not replacement layer.
| | 06:06 | So what does that mean?
I can put an image inside it.
| | 06:08 | Let me just go up and grab an image by double-
clicking here inside the Project panel, go to our exercise
| | 06:13 | files folders, and let's say double-click
on this image here and bring it in.
| | 06:16 | I am going to drag this now to the replacement
layer and watch what happens. It fills it in.
| | 06:22 | Now that looks pretty cool, and you may think, well,
I don't like the way this thing lines up like that.
| | 06:26 | That's just the way this graphic works,
but you can in fact edit this in Photoshop if
| | 06:30 | you want to, if you have that capability.
| | 06:31 | You can take this menu here, click on the
Photoshop button there, open it up in Photoshop,
| | 06:37 | and there is that layer right there.
| | 06:39 | And if you know anything about Photoshop, you
know that's a vector mask as opposed to a layer mask.
| | 06:44 | So vector masks have very short edges to them.
| | 06:45 | So I want to soften that edge, I am just
going to convert that vector mask to a layer mask
| | 06:49 | by right-clicking on it and
saying Rasterize the Vector Mask.
| | 06:52 | Now you see it has a black background.
Now I can paint on it.
| | 06:56 | I am not trying to give you a Photoshop lesson
here, but just want to show you that it can be done.
| | 06:59 | So I can take the Paint Brush tool with
black and paint on that mask and kind of get rid
| | 07:03 | of that thing in the bottom there and
kind of soften it up a little bit, let's say.
| | 07:07 | Now if I save this, let's go File > Save.
| | 07:09 | We don't need to Save it As something
just click Save. Go back to Encore.
| | 07:14 | Now our background there is the change.
| | 07:16 | I want to do one more thing, I want to
create what's called a Subpicture highlight.
| | 07:19 | Now we talked about
Subpicture highlights already.
| | 07:21 | These little equal signs here.
| | 07:22 | I am going to take this 10 point star with
the Selection tool and kind of move it a little
| | 07:27 | bit more in front and center here.
| | 07:28 | Right now, when people click on it with
their mouse or hover the mouse over it, then they
| | 07:31 | are watching this with the
remote control let's says as well.
| | 07:34 | They are going to get these
little colors showing up on top there.
| | 07:37 | Rather than having the lovely colorful star
be covered up with a Subpicture highlight,
| | 07:41 | I just want to have something else
showing up as a Subpicture highlight.
| | 07:43 | So let me go up here and
get a little arrow like that.
| | 07:47 | Let's see, that one will work.
| | 07:49 | Just bring this arrow in like
this way here just a graphic.
| | 07:52 | I am going to stretch it out a bit.
So it looks a little bit thinner.
| | 07:56 | Now I want to make that a
Subpicture highlight for this button.
| | 07:58 | So I am going to right-click on it, and I
am going to say Copy, or I can also do the
| | 08:04 | same thing with the Edits menu.
| | 08:05 | Click on it with the
Direct Select tool, like so.
| | 08:08 | Edit > Copy, or I could cut it as well.
| | 08:11 | Now I am going to take this Selection tool to
select the button, and I am going to right-click
| | 08:16 | here and say Paste as Subpicture.
| | 08:18 | So I am going to take the copied thing and
paste it as a Subpicture inside this button.
| | 08:24 | There just down here.
| | 08:24 | Now you don't see it, because
the Subpicture is turned off.
| | 08:26 | If I click this button here
you'll see that there it is down there.
| | 08:29 | I am going to take Direct Select tool, and I am
going to drag it up here so you can see a little better.
| | 08:36 | There we go.
| | 08:37 | What I want to do is when people click on
this button or hover their cursor over the
| | 08:40 | button, when they're watching this I don't
want the Subpicture to show up here in the start.
| | 08:43 | I just want to show it up down here.
| | 08:45 | So to do that I am going to get rid of
the star sub-picture inside the layer group.
| | 08:50 | At layer group here, that guy right here,
that =1 is the Subpicture for that star.
| | 08:55 | If I select that now, I have now
selected it by clicking on it here.
| | 08:59 | Press Delete, it's gone.
So now this will serve as a the Subpicture.
| | 09:03 | This will be the thing that shows up when people
hover their cursor over this button or click on it.
| | 09:07 | So if I click on the normal state they don't
see it, they don't see the green box either.
| | 09:11 | But when they hover their cursor they see that.
| | 09:14 | When they click it will be a different color
like that, if that's how the menu color set this up.
| | 09:19 | So that's how you can covert graphics and
text in the buttons, how you can create a
| | 09:22 | replacement layer, and how you can convert
something into a Subpicture highlight and
| | 09:26 | add it to a button.
| | 09:31 |
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| Working with menu color sets| 00:00 | I'm going to explain how you can change the
colors that show up when people hover their
| | 00:04 | cursor over a button or click on a button,
the so-called Subpicture Highlight Colors.
| | 00:09 | It's a little bit of a tricky process, so
I'm going to give you just a basic overview
| | 00:12 | on it without diving into too many details.
| | 00:14 | What I've got here in this menu are two
buttons, this little button that we created in the
| | 00:18 | previous movie, and this Text button
that I got from this button down here.
| | 00:22 | I just took that up and just kind of
truncated it a little bit and changed the size of it
| | 00:27 | to be a little more obvious.
| | 00:28 | So, if you look at the Layers Panel, you see
there are two buttons right there, that was
| | 00:31 | the first one that's
highlighted and then this one.
| | 00:33 | And they have these layers here, you've
got this layer here, the Subpicture highlight
| | 00:36 | for this guy which you don't see yet, and
the Subpicture highlight down here for this
| | 00:39 | one which is an arrow
down there plus the graphic.
| | 00:42 | To see the Subpicture highlights, basically
to simulate what happens when people hover
| | 00:45 | their cursor over one of your buttons, you
need to click on these little buttons down here.
| | 00:48 | This shows the so-called
selected Subpicture highlights.
| | 00:51 | That's when people hover their cursor over it, and
that's what they'll see when they hover over it.
| | 00:55 | When they click on a button, they
will briefly see these colors like that.
| | 00:58 | Let me just right-click inside the menu to
show you how that would look in sort of real
| | 01:02 | world scenario, right-click on
this and say Preview from Here.
| | 01:06 | It will open up the Preview panel as if
we are looking at this thing in a TV set.
| | 01:10 | I've got this guy hovered over there, and that
shows up, that's the selected Subpicture highlight.
| | 01:14 | Hover over here, and that little
guy shows up when I hover over it.
| | 01:17 | If I click on it, that will be this
activated state. It will be a different color.
| | 01:20 | We've got this briefly when I click on it.
| | 01:23 | Click on this one, same thing, briefly shows a
different color, that's the activated highlights there.
| | 01:27 | Let me just exit out of here.
| | 01:29 | Why are they red and blue
rather than the same color?
| | 01:31 | Well, it's a little bit of
a trick that I've done here.
| | 01:33 | This button is in what they call Highlight Group 1,
and this button is in what's called Highlight Group 2.
| | 01:40 | You can assign a Highlight Group to a
button. You have the choice of 1 or 2.
| | 01:44 | That's just the beginning
of the complexity, folks.
| | 01:46 | You can also have a different--
what they call Color Set for a menu.
| | 01:49 | If you just click away from the buttons and
just so you select the Menu, with the menu
| | 01:53 | selected in the Properties Panel, you
see it has a Color Set called Menu Default.
| | 01:56 | If I change this to Automatic, that will be
colors that were set when the menu was created.
| | 02:01 | So you notice over here, this
little guy has a green swatch on it.
| | 02:04 | That means when you created this, this
graphic had a green original color, so that means the
| | 02:09 | Subpicture highlights will be that color no
matter whether they are selected or activated.
| | 02:14 | Here you see that one is blue, so that means that
one will be blue whether it's selected or activated.
| | 02:18 | That's what happens when you
work with the automatic color set.
| | 02:20 | So usually I recommend working with
what's called the default color set.
| | 02:23 | But look what happens if
I change the swatch here.
| | 02:25 | I am going to click on this swath like that to
open up this Color Picker, change to something
| | 02:30 | completely different like that orange
there, click away, nothing happens yet.
| | 02:35 | I need to change the Color
Set from Automatic to Default.
| | 02:38 | I will go back to Automatic, and now it's
going to pick up the new color that I added
| | 02:42 | to it because it's picking up
the color of the original graphic.
| | 02:45 | That's the Automatic Color Set.
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So I am going to say don't work with the
Automatic Color Set generally, work with the
| | 02:49 | default one, because if you work with
Automatic, you can't change the colors within what's
| | 02:53 | called the Menu Color Set, which is the
real place that you want to work on colors.
| | 02:56 | I am going to go back to default.
| | 02:58 | Now I want to change those colors
from purple and orange to something else.
| | 03:02 | To do that, I need to make
sure that this is active.
| | 03:04 | I'll go to Menu > Edit Menu Color Set like
that, like this very complex-looking dialog box.
| | 03:11 | And I apologize for the complexity. It's
just one of the little drawbacks to working on
| | 03:15 | something at this level.
It's a high level working.
| | 03:17 | Now here it's not being done
automatically, we can change how things look.
| | 03:20 | So this one reminds you over
here, you see that has =1, =1.
| | 03:24 | That means the buttons could have a
number here from =1 to =3, 1 to a 3.
| | 03:28 | These numbers control--these little guys
over here--these guys determine how these will
| | 03:32 | look based on the number there.
So, we're working with buttons that both say =1.
| | 03:35 | So the colors that are of importance to us here
are these colors there and these colors down here.
| | 03:40 | Let's just move this thing out of the way now.
We have the Menu Default Color Set visible now.
| | 03:45 | Now, I click on Preview so I can see them,
if I click on that, there is the activated,
| | 03:48 | there is the selected.
| | 03:49 | If you take a look at this now, you see
that the Highlight Group 1--which is this button
| | 03:54 | here--has an orange selected state.
| | 03:57 | You just hover your cursor over it in a red
activated state. Switch the two guys to red and orange.
| | 04:02 | If I change this orange into something else,
let's say I change it to this say green, go
| | 04:06 | ahead and put the green, click on that,
you see that's changed into green.
| | 04:10 | It's not bright green like that because it's
47% Opacity, so the black is showing through.
| | 04:15 | I can make it 100% opaque and look like that.
| | 04:18 | I could click OK, and we are done,
and I will change the selected state.
| | 04:22 | When I go back, and hover the
cursor, it will turn green like that.
| | 04:24 | If I change the activated state, I can
change that to a different color as well.
| | 04:28 | Get on to blue instead, that will show
up when I go to activate it, like so.
| | 04:33 | So that's how you can change that
particular button's Highlight Group 1 colors, and you
| | 04:39 | can change the opacity as well.
| | 04:40 | Now, 2 and 3 don't work here because this
little Subpicture highlight, it says =1 next
| | 04:44 | to it, so we're just affecting that one.
| | 04:45 | If you want to change that =1 to some
other number, you can do that inside Photoshop.
| | 04:49 | You can't do it inside Encore.
| | 04:51 | Let's talk about this button over
here which is Highlight Group 2.
| | 04:54 | Now, if I change the Highlight Group 1,
it would behave the same way this one does.
| | 04:57 | But this guy is in Highlight Group 2, so let's
work on this one. Click on this bright purple
| | 05:01 | and make it let's say orange like that.
| | 05:03 | It's going to change. You can see, I am going
to make it 100% opaque, there you go!
| | 05:09 | Change it from blue to something else.
| | 05:11 | So, make it 100% opaque
and click on the Activated.
| | 05:16 | So that is how you can change the
Color Set for this particular menu.
| | 05:21 | If I click OK, we're done, but you might
want to save this Color Set so you can come back
| | 05:24 | to this one later, so you're
not using it over and over again.
| | 05:26 | I want to just apply it to just this menu.
| | 05:28 | So you can click on this little button here,
you can export this Color Set to a file.
| | 05:33 | Then you can always open it back up again
when you import it using that button there.
| | 05:36 | So that, folks, kind of diving deep into Encore
to change how the Subpicture highlight colors
| | 05:41 | show up when people hover their cursors
over your buttons or click on those buttons.
| | 05:46 |
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4. Setting Up Project NavigationExplaining project navigation| 00:00 | In this chapter, I'm going to talk about
project navigation, how to connect all of your assets
| | 00:05 | together to make sure they work right when you
start playing your DVD or Blu-ray or your Flash project.
| | 00:10 | This is the first look at it, so I want to
give you a sense of how it all is tied together.
| | 00:13 | I've got this project
which is our final project.
| | 00:15 | Everything is all linked up and ready to go.
We've got three menus.
| | 00:19 | We've got a Main menu here with five buttons,
and these buttons will link to the Main Movie,
| | 00:22 | the 6-minute movie, and
this one is a 3-minute movie.
| | 00:25 | These are featurettes that were created
here at lynda.com of the local farmer's market
| | 00:29 | and one of the farmers who provides
produce to that market, a guy named BD Dautch.
| | 00:33 | So we've created two different movies for
that, plus a little promo movie that we're
| | 00:37 | going to play a little later.
| | 00:38 | We've got a slideshow where we've taken still
images from some of the clips from that featurette,
| | 00:43 | a Scene Selection menu where we link to
various scenes in the Main Movie--these scenes down
| | 00:47 | here--an Extra Features menu which has the
promo video, plus a little Premiere Pro sequence
| | 00:52 | that I made of the clips from that
featurette without any narration or music.
| | 00:56 | All right! That's the main menu.
| | 00:57 | We have all these little links
that show you the other menus.
| | 01:01 | Here is the Scene Selection Menu
with all these little scenes here.
| | 01:03 | If you click on one of these, it will jump
to one of these chapter markers down here
| | 01:06 | and play it from that point and continue going
forward until you say stop or go back to menu.
| | 01:11 | And so we'll link back to the Main Menu here
and then on to the Extra Features menu.
| | 01:15 | Two extra features here, the promo video, and
little Premiere Pro sequence, plus a link
| | 01:19 | back to the Main Menu.
| | 01:20 | Now, when people play this DVD, they are
not going to see that Main Menu first.
| | 01:24 | They are going to see a little introductory
video, that's this Farm to Table intro.
| | 01:27 | It's 10 seconds long, right there, 10 seconds.
| | 01:30 | You can tell it's going to play
first because that little icon.
| | 01:32 | This is the first thing that will show up
when you put this DVD into the drive or a
| | 01:35 | Blu-ray, or play this Flash project, and it
will play for 10 seconds, and then it will
| | 01:39 | go to the Main Menu.
| | 01:40 | So I wanted to give you a sense of how this works,
so we're going to play this thing from the beginning.
| | 01:45 | There are a couple of ways to preview a project.
| | 01:46 | If you right-click on any menu and then go
down to the bottom, you can Preview from Here,
| | 01:51 | meaning, you can preview this menu and see
how it works, which is a good way to just
| | 01:55 | test the menu, or you can preview the entire
project by clicking this little icon up here,
| | 01:59 | this disk icon, and that
will play it from the beginning.
| | 02:01 | It will play it as if someone had taken a
DVD, Blu-ray, or the Flash project and just
| | 02:05 | started it from the top.
| | 02:06 | So you can see how it really is going
to work in sort of a real-world scenario.
| | 02:10 | So I'm going to click on that, you're going
to see a 10-second introductory video, then
| | 02:13 | it's going to jump to the Main Menu.
| | 02:15 | And so music is going to
play in the Main Menu as well.
| | 02:17 | I'm going to drop the music down to silent.
| | 02:19 | And that way, it will have no music
throughout from that point forward, knowing that all the
| | 02:23 | menus have music and all the videos have
music, except for this little sequence here.
| | 02:27 | So let's start this guy
off and see what happens.
| | 02:32 | (video playing)
| | 02:42 | All right! Let's drop the volume.
| | 02:46 | There we go! So, this point forward all these menus
have audio in them, but we're just going to mute them.
| | 02:51 | Here are the buttons.
| | 02:52 | When you hover over a button, you get that
little subpicture highlight showing up saying
| | 02:55 | that we are now selecting this button.
It's not activated yet.
| | 02:58 | If I click on it to activate it, then the
color will change depending on the menu color set.
| | 03:02 | It won't change much here, though.
| | 03:03 | Let me click on that, there we go! And
it's just going to play this Main Movie, which
| | 03:07 | has music and a narration.
| | 03:09 | What I want to do now is
not have it go for 6 minutes.
| | 03:11 | That would take a long time, right?
I'm going to do what's called the end action.
| | 03:14 | Now you don't have this on a typical DVD
remote player, but here inside the preview, you get
| | 03:18 | this little button down here
that say execute the end action.
| | 03:21 | In other words, do what would
happen when this movie has done playing.
| | 03:25 | So I click on that, it brings us back to the
Main Menu with this button highlighted, and
| | 03:29 | it's this little cool
thing called the end action.
| | 03:31 | I click on this to play that little short
feature which looks for all the world like
| | 03:35 | the other one just that it's half
the size, click on it to end action.
| | 03:40 | That brings us back to the Main
Menu with this one highlighted now.
| | 03:43 | Click on the slideshow, it has music
as well, but we've got it muted, right?
| | 03:47 | In 5 seconds soon it's going to do
a little dissolve to the next slide.
| | 03:50 | We'll do the end action here to come back.
| | 03:53 | Scene Selection Menu has those 6 scenes on it.
If I click on this one, it will jump right
| | 03:58 | to that scene where the chef is making
a comment, click the end action on that.
| | 04:04 | It's going to highlight the next scene like that, or
I click on the Main Menu, go back to the Main Menu.
| | 04:09 | Click on Extra Features, takes us to the Extra
Features Menu, click on this little Promo Video.
| | 04:15 | It's going to look similar
to the ones we've done before.
| | 04:17 | It's got a little narration, a little bit of music.
| | 04:20 | Click the end action, it's going to bring us
back to that menu with this one highlighted,
| | 04:23 | or I just click on the Main
Menu to go back to the Main Menu.
| | 04:26 | So that is the structure.
| | 04:27 | I am going to get out of the preview
here by clicking this Exit and return.
| | 04:31 | And that's basically how
this is all put together.
| | 04:33 | There are all kinds of little steps you
need to do to have that work that way.
| | 04:37 | It doesn't happen automatically, and that's
one of the beauties but also one of the drawbacks
| | 04:40 | of working with a professional tool like this.
| | 04:42 | Nothing happens automatically. You need to
take the steps to make it work exactly the
| | 04:46 | way you want it to work, unlike a typical
consumer DVD authoring product which tends
| | 04:50 | to do things automatically and may
not be what you want to have happen.
| | 04:53 | So we need to go through several steps to
make our project behave the way we want it
| | 04:57 | to behave, and we'll cover all
those steps in the upcoming movies.
| | 05:02 |
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| Setting the first play asset| 00:01 | One step you need to follow when you set the
navigation of your project is to set the First Play.
| | 00:05 | That's the first thing that will play when
people put a DVD in the drive, Blu-ray in
| | 00:09 | the drive, or open up a Flash DVD project.
| | 00:11 | If you don't designate a
First Play, nothing will happen.
| | 00:14 | They get a big blank screen.
| | 00:15 | In this project, nothing
has been set as a First Play.
| | 00:18 | And so if I want to preview it here, I
click the Preview button, and I get this lovely
| | 00:22 | little message saying, whoa! You forgot
to set the First Play destination, fellow.
| | 00:26 | So let's take care of that by clicking OK.
So I want to set something as the First Play.
| | 00:30 | When we created this project, we were thinking
in terms of having an introductory video that
| | 00:33 | then let in to the main menu.
| | 00:35 | So let's set that
introductory video as the First Play.
| | 00:37 | I am going to go to Timelines, and
there is that intro video right there.
| | 00:41 | And setting First Play is mindlessly easy.
| | 00:44 | Just click on it to select it,
go File > Set as First Play.
| | 00:49 | Now you get this little triangle
there saying that is the First Play thing.
| | 00:53 | So, if I click on this little
button now to preview it, it will work.
| | 00:57 | (video playing)
| | 00:59 | Yes, very good! So let's say we don't
have an introductory video, which is common for
| | 01:04 | a lot of DVD projects.
Most folks just go right to the main menu.
| | 01:07 | So let's change the First Play
to something else in this case.
| | 01:10 | I'm going to go to Menus,
there is the Main Menu.
| | 01:13 | I want it to be First Play.
| | 01:15 | I can select it again and go to File > Set
as First Play, and that will change that to
| | 01:19 | First Play, or I can use the Context
menu which is really the way I like to work.
| | 01:23 | I like to use the right-click
Context Menu approach many times.
| | 01:26 | So I am going to right-click on this, and there
is the Set as First Play menu selection there.
| | 01:31 | So now we've changed it, very simple.
| | 01:33 | Now, let's say I don't want anything to be
designated as First Play for the time being
| | 01:37 | because I haven't really loaded up the
asset yet that will be the First Play thing.
| | 01:41 | So I can clear out the First Play
designation by just right-clicking on this and saying
| | 01:46 | Clear First Play, or going back to the
Menu command, File > Clear First Play.
| | 01:50 | Now, this is common because when you start
a brand-new project, the first thing you add
| | 01:56 | will be designated
automatically as the First Play.
| | 01:59 | Let me show you what I mean.
| | 02:00 | I'm going to close this project down
and start a new one, so, New > Project.
| | 02:04 | It's going to ask me to
save this one, I will say No.
| | 02:06 | I will just leave it
untitled for the time being.
| | 02:09 | It's a new project, nothing in it.
| | 02:11 | So anything that can be First Play, when you add that
it will be designated automatically as First Play.
| | 02:16 | So, I just add a blank menu
that will be First Play.
| | 02:19 | I'll just double-click in this Blank Menu here.
Lo and behold, there's the First Play designation.
| | 02:24 | Even though I didn't say Make it First Play,
Encore automatically does that because it
| | 02:28 | kind of assume you want something to
be First Play, right? But maybe not.
| | 02:31 | So the way I deal with that is either
I clear it out, or I get a new asset.
| | 02:34 | So I'm going to go File > Import As >
Timeline and go get this guy to be our introductory
| | 02:41 | video, for example, click Open, there it is! Now,
I right-click on that and say you are First Play.
| | 02:49 | That's the thing you've got to watch out for.
| | 02:50 | Encore will automatically set the first
asset that you add to the Project Panel that can
| | 02:54 | be a First Play menu or a timeline or a
slide show and make it the First Play.
| | 02:58 | So you need to override that when you actually add
something that you really want to be the First Play.
| | 03:03 | So that's how you designate First Play, and
you need to make sure you do this or nothing
| | 03:06 | at all will play when you
put your DVD in the drive.
| | 03:11 |
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| Linking assets and movie chapters to buttons| 00:01 | So after you've set up your First Play, it's
time to link things to all the buttons that
| | 00:05 | you put inside the menus.
| | 00:07 | Buttons expect to be linked to something,
otherwise you wouldn't have made them a button.
| | 00:10 | You would have left them as text or a graphic.
| | 00:12 | So you've got all these buttons, and the
buttons need to have links connected with them.
| | 00:16 | There are a couple of ways to set links.
| | 00:18 | But before we do that, I want to make things
a little bit easier for you by letting the
| | 00:22 | text inside the button reflect
whatever it is you connect to that button.
| | 00:26 | Let me show how that works. Here is the Menu.
| | 00:28 | The Menu is currently selected right there, and
it talks about the menu here but not the buttons.
| | 00:31 | If I click on a button, then that changes
to the button here inside of Properties Panel
| | 00:35 | and the button says the Link is Not Set.
| | 00:37 | Okay, we are going to set
the link here in a moment.
| | 00:39 | But down below here you've get this little
check box that says Sync button Text and Name,
| | 00:43 | and it's checked by default.
| | 00:44 | And below there it says Set Name from
Link, and that's not checked by default.
| | 00:48 | So, what's the difference between synching button
text and name and setting the name from the link?
| | 00:54 | It can be confusing.
| | 00:55 | The name is what you see up here inside the
Properties Panel, that's the name of the button.
| | 01:00 | Well, the name of the button does not have
to be the same as the text you see over here.
| | 01:03 | But by default, if you type in something here,
it shows up over here because it's synching
| | 01:07 | the button text and name.
| | 01:09 | But if you drag something to here, or if you
connect a link from this button to something,
| | 01:14 | you probably want the thing it's
linked to, to be showing up here.
| | 01:17 | Well, the way you can do that, you can
expedite that by turning on this check box the Set
| | 01:22 | the Name from the Link.
| | 01:22 | So, if you click on that, when you link
something to it, this name will change to whatever that
| | 01:27 | linked thing is and then that name
will show up down here inside the button.
| | 01:32 | That's how that all works.
| | 01:33 | So, I want to set Name from Link
for all buttons just to make it easy.
| | 01:37 | So, I am going to select all these
buttons like this by marquee-selecting them.
| | 01:41 | Now, it's going to add this little thing
down here saying, hmm, I'm not really sure what
| | 01:44 | you are doing because one
was checked and four were not.
| | 01:48 | So I'm going to click on it to deselect,
and I'm going to click on it again.
| | 01:50 | Now, all five will be set to Set Name from Link.
| | 01:53 | If I click over and select one of them,
you'll see that they all have that designation now.
| | 01:57 | So that takes care of that little issue.
We'll simplify things as we move forward.
| | 02:01 | Now I want to start to link
up the things to the text.
| | 02:04 | Typically, you link up
timelines to the text or menus.
| | 02:07 | So, I'm going to select the first one in
the upper left-hand corner by clicking on it.
| | 02:10 | Now, that one says okay.
Let's set the link.
| | 02:12 | Then what we're going to do here is we're
linking to a timeline or a menu, so let's
| | 02:15 | open up the Timelines and Menus here in the Project
Panel so we can see them, right there, and right there.
| | 02:22 | That makes it easier for us to do our work.
| | 02:24 | So, I'm back here to this button, it's selected, it's
active, and it shows up here in the Properties Panel.
| | 02:29 | I'm going to use the Pick Whip, one of my
favorite tools here in Encore, this little
| | 02:33 | swirly lariat thing there.
| | 02:35 | I'm going to drag the Pick Whip to
the thing I want to link to this button.
| | 02:38 | And the thing I'm going to link
to this button is the Main Movie.
| | 02:41 | So I'm going to grab the
Pick Whip, and drag it across.
| | 02:43 | Looks kind of funny. I love it. And drag
down here to the main movie. Notice how it gets
| | 02:47 | highlighted there, let go, and that now
creates the link, and notice the name shows up here
| | 02:52 | Main Movie because that's
the name of this object.
| | 02:55 | Then we also synched the
button text up here to the name.
| | 02:58 | So Main Movie shows up early there, and now we have a
link, and you can see it right there, so it's linked.
| | 03:02 | Let's move on down to the next one.
This one will be to the shorter movie.
| | 03:05 | So, let's link the same way to that, just
grab the old Pick Whip right there, drag it on
| | 03:09 | over to the shorter feature. There you go!
Let it rip, and there we got it!
| | 03:12 | Sometimes it has a little vestigial thing here.
Don't worry about that. That will go away in a moment.
| | 03:16 | Let's click on this next one here.
I want that to be going to the slide show.
| | 03:20 | And this is where things are
going to go south a little bit.
| | 03:23 | I'm going to drag the Pick Whip to the
slideshow, over there to the slideshow, and you think
| | 03:28 | that slideshow is what's going to
show up inside the button, right?
| | 03:31 | But instead, it says Farm
To Table 1. Why is that?
| | 03:35 | Well, that's because that's the first slide
in the slideshow, one little anomaly in the
| | 03:40 | setting the name from the link thing.
| | 03:41 | So we need to override that by going up here,
selecting the text up here, and saying slideshow
| | 03:46 | instead, like so, and now that will show
up here, kind of overriding that setting the
| | 03:51 | name from link thing.
| | 03:52 | Let's find another way to set a link besides
the Pick Whip. Although the Pick Whip is so
| | 03:57 | much more fun, but we'll take the more
tedious method here just to show you how to do it.
| | 04:01 | This button down here, I want to
link that to the Scene Selection menu.
| | 04:06 | This is different than setting
things to a slideshow or to a timeline.
| | 04:09 | So let's set it to the menu,
the menus are over here.
| | 04:12 | I could use the Pick Whip
and drag it to the menu.
| | 04:14 | That's fine! But I want to try to
show you a different way to do that.
| | 04:17 | I'm going to open up this flyout menu here,
and you can see all the various things that
| | 04:20 | you can link to right there, all
the Timelines and all the Menus.
| | 04:24 | So I'm going to go down here to the Scene
Selection menu there, and I have all these
| | 04:27 | options, Default, then I've got six
chapter buttons inside, that Scene Selection menu
| | 04:31 | to the six chapters
we're going to link to later.
| | 04:34 | So they show up here from upper left-hand
corner to the lower right-hand corner, six
| | 04:38 | of those little buttons if
you were to look at that menu.
| | 04:39 | But I'm just going to select Default.
| | 04:41 | That means it goes to whatever the default
button is for that menu, which by default
| | 04:45 | is the upper left-hand button.
| | 04:46 | So, I'm going to click Default, and that's
going to be what's highlighted when people
| | 04:49 | go to that menu, and there it shows up there,
linking up nicely with that little Setting
| | 04:53 | the Name from Link.
Okay, let's do the last one.
| | 04:55 | This is going to go to the Extra Features menu.
| | 04:57 | I'm just going to use the
old Pick Whip for that one.
| | 05:00 | So we've got that selected,
drag that Pick Whip over to there.
| | 05:03 | And by default, it's going to have the
Default button highlighted when you go there.
| | 05:08 | You don't have the option of selecting
one of those buttons when go this route.
| | 05:11 | We have now set the links for
these five buttons inside this menu.
| | 05:15 | Let's move on to another menu.
| | 05:17 | Go up here to this little dropdown list and
select the Extra Features menu. There we go!
| | 05:21 | These two guys are waiting for something to
be placed there, and we're going to have the
| | 05:25 | thumbnail showing up here that will play as a video
later when we change this menu into an animated menu.
| | 05:30 | So I want to link this guy to a timeline.
So I am going to click on it.
| | 05:33 | I want this thing to go to the
promo video over here, the promo video.
| | 05:37 | So I need to select that, and we'll
pick whip to the promo video, right there.
| | 05:43 | And it should say Promo Video right there,
but it didn't because I didn't change the
| | 05:46 | Set Name from Link.
| | 05:48 | So, I can do this after the fact by
clicking on it now, and it will say Promo Video.
| | 05:52 | So we can sort of override, in case we forget.
| | 05:54 | I'm going to set this button in advance to
have it set name from link like that, and
| | 05:57 | now we're going to have that
go to the Premiere Pro sequence.
| | 06:00 | I'm going to go use the
flyout for this one here.
| | 06:02 | Go down to the Premiere Pro
sequence right there, Chapter 1.
| | 06:06 | There is only one chapter in this one,
because we didn't add any chapters.
| | 06:09 | So by default, there is always a Chapter 1.
I'm going to click on that.
| | 06:12 | And it's going to show up as Premiere
Pro sequence, which is kind of long.
| | 06:16 | So we can override that by going P Pro, for
example, instead of Premiere Pro sequence.
| | 06:19 | So I'll just do like that, Premiere Pro and just
make it P Pro sequence, click away to set that.
| | 06:23 | Now, in these submenus, I've always got a
button that takes us back to the Main Menu, so there
| | 06:27 | it's just sitting waiting to be done.
So I'm going to click on that.
| | 06:30 | I want to have this linked to the Main Menu.
| | 06:32 | If I drag the Main Menu to it, that's
another way to make a link, lo and behold.
| | 06:39 | I didn't check that little check box to
have the name of the linked item show up here.
| | 06:42 | So let's go back and do that by clicking on
the button, going on the Set the Name from
| | 06:46 | Link, and now it will say Main Menu.
| | 06:48 | Let's go to the last menu,
which is the Scene Selection menu.
| | 06:52 | Six buttons here. I'm going to select all
six, so we can get those guys all properly
| | 06:56 | linked up like that.
| | 06:59 | And these guys get their links from the main
video. So I've got the main movie here, and right
| | 07:05 | now you don't see any chapter buttons except
there because we're zoomed way in on it,
| | 07:09 | so let's zoom out a bit.
| | 07:10 | There we go! We have
these chapter buttons there.
| | 07:14 | We are linking these buttons to these
chapters, which is a little different process, and we
| | 07:19 | name these chapters on purpose to simplify
things down the road so that we don't have
| | 07:23 | to type in the names here.
| | 07:24 | So, I'm going to grab this little marker here and
drag it to the chapter button, right up there like that.
| | 07:29 | There we go! And it shows up here with a little
thumbnail, plus the name of the chapter there,
| | 07:33 | take this next guy, drag it up to there.
| | 07:36 | Notice it's Chapter 3, even though it's a
second button, because we are not using the
| | 07:39 | very first one here which is by default Chapter 1,
Chapter 4 goes to the third button right there.
| | 07:44 | Let's take a look at number 5.
Number 5 has a poster frame associated with it.
| | 07:48 | And so you may think well, really I'm dragging the
poster frame because that's what I want to show up there.
| | 07:52 | But you grab the poster frame and not the
chapter marker, it's going to slide all over
| | 07:56 | the place as you move it around, and that
won't work, and it won't show up in there.
| | 07:59 | That's not a good thing.
| | 08:00 | So, don't grab the poster marker by mistake.
Grab the chapter marker and take it up there
| | 08:04 | and then that will work the way you want it to.
| | 08:06 | Number 6 is the same thing, but you may have trouble
seeing number 6 because they are so close together.
| | 08:10 | That may be a little bit of an issue.
| | 08:12 | So you can zoom in on
that just a little bit there.
| | 08:14 | Let's slide over number 6
there, a little bit farther.
| | 08:19 | There you go! I'll drag that up there.
Remember, 6 is the second to last one.
| | 08:23 | Slide number 7 now.
| | 08:28 | There we go! Finally got done, and the
Main Menu is already linked up in advance.
| | 08:32 | So now we are done.
| | 08:33 | We have created links to all the buttons,
and you think okay, we've got First Play,
| | 08:38 | we've got button Links, we're
ready to go. But we're not.
| | 08:40 | We need to do something called End Actions,
and perhaps as an option, we want to do something
| | 08:45 | called an End Action Override, and we
do those two things in two other movies.
| | 08:51 |
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| Setting asset end actions| 00:00 | Well, now that you have your first play set,
and you have linked up all of the buttons,
| | 00:05 | you might think that okay, we are done. We
are going to burn this DVD and put it in our
| | 00:09 | player, and it should play
smoothly, flawlessly, no problems.
| | 00:12 | But it won't play properly, because you
haven't set what are called end actions.
| | 00:16 | You haven't told the timelines in the slideshow what
to do when they are done playing. That's called an end action.
| | 00:22 | If you have a consumer DVD authoring product,
it will probably set end actions automatically,
| | 00:26 | but here this is a professional product,
so you need to tell it exactly what you want
| | 00:30 | it to do when they are done playing.
| | 00:32 | Let me show you what happens if you don't
set an end action. All of these timelines
| | 00:36 | in this particular project do
not have end action set yet.
| | 00:39 | So I am going to right-click on this menu
and say preview from here, play the Main Movie,
| | 00:46 | and this is a 6-minute movie, so I am
going to jump ahead to the end by clicking this
| | 00:50 | little button down here
to execute the end action.
| | 00:53 | And it doesn't do anything.
| | 00:55 | Nothing to execute, because we haven't told
it what to do when it gets to the end, and
| | 00:59 | this would be like this when you played
inside your DVD. It'll just sit there and stop.
| | 01:03 | So you need to tell it what to do
when it gets to the end of that timeline.
| | 01:06 | So let me exit out of here, and
now we are going to go to work.
| | 01:09 | So I put all the timelines in the slideshow
in one little folder here because that makes
| | 01:14 | it easier to do this end action stuff, and
the end actions will be set by generally going
| | 01:18 | back to a menu. We are going to have the
end actions for these five timelines and the
| | 01:22 | one slideshow typically
take viewers back to a menu.
| | 01:26 | So let's open up the Menus, too, so
we can have that visible as well.
| | 01:28 | So we've got these guys
all organized like that.
| | 01:31 | First one we are going on is the Intro.
This is the Intro video that starts things off.
| | 01:35 | When it's done playing, you need to say, okay,
when you are done, go display the Main Menu.
| | 01:40 | Quite simple to do that. I'm just going to
make it active like this, it shows up in the
| | 01:43 | Properties panel, it says Timeline, and
the Name of the Timeline right there.
| | 01:46 | We want to set the end action right here, and the end
action should be to come back to the main menu.
| | 01:51 | So I am going to use the old pick
whip. We love the pick whip, right?
| | 01:54 | Drag it over to the main menu here and let
her rip, and so now the End Action is Main
| | 01:58 | Menu:Default, Default meaning the upper left-
hand button, generally speaking, and this little
| | 02:02 | procedural thing here will go
away when we work on the next thing.
| | 02:05 | Right here is the main movie.
I'll click on that to make it active.
| | 02:08 | I want its end action to be a little bit different
than the one I just set for the Farm to Table Intro.
| | 02:13 | I want to come back to the Main menu again,
but I want to be very specific about which
| | 02:17 | button will have the
Subpicture highlight displayed.
| | 02:20 | I want to basically lead viewers to
the next button in a logical sequence.
| | 02:24 | They are going to come back from the Main
Movie when they click on the Main Movie button.
| | 02:28 | When it's done playing, I want to have this
button highlighted, so they can say, well,
| | 02:31 | it's like the next logical thing in the sequence.
You don't have to do that, but to me that's
| | 02:35 | kind of good form when you make a DVD.
| | 02:37 | So it helps your viewers by sort of telling
them this is the next thing that I would expect
| | 02:41 | you to want to check out.
| | 02:43 | So I am going to click on the Main Movie here
and make it active, over to the Timeline the
| | 02:47 | Properties panel for that Main Movie.
| | 02:48 | I want to set the end action for that
Timeline to come back to the Main Menu, but I want
| | 02:52 | to highlight this button.
| | 02:53 | I am just going to drag the pick
whip to that button. How cool is that?
| | 02:59 | Now you can see that it says come back to
the Main menu and highlight the Subpicture
| | 03:02 | highlight for that Shorter Feature button.
Just a nice little touch when you make your DVD.
| | 03:07 | Now I want to set the end action for the
Shorter Feature. When you click on this thing, what
| | 03:10 | happens when it has done playing--so I'll click
on the Shorter Feature--when it's done playing,
| | 03:13 | I want to come back to the Main
Menu and highlight the Slideshow.
| | 03:16 | Let me show you a different way to do that, then.
| | 03:18 | I've got the Shorter Feature selected here, so
it's active here inside the Properties panel.
| | 03:21 | I am going to use this flyout menu instead
and click on that and go down to Main menu,
| | 03:26 | and I want this time to have
the Slide show highlighted.
| | 03:28 | When we come back from the
Shorter Feature, click on that.
| | 03:31 | Now that will be what's highlighted
when we come back from the Shorter Feature.
| | 03:34 | Now we need to set the End Action for the
Slideshow, click on that, and it's the same
| | 03:39 | basic process. Even though it's not technically a
Timeline, it has the same basic controls over here.
| | 03:44 | We want its end action to be to the Scene
Selection Menu, so let's just follow the same
| | 03:47 | procedure we did before.
| | 03:49 | Over here, Main menu, Scene
Selection Menu, there we go.
| | 03:52 | And now we have got two more things we
want to have End Actions or which don't relate
| | 03:56 | to this menu, they relate to a different menu.
| | 03:58 | So let's change menus here
to the Extra features menu.
| | 04:02 | It has two buttons here for these two
other guys, Promo Video and P Pro Sequence.
| | 04:06 | So the Promo Video will set the End Action
for it, and we want its End Action to come
| | 04:10 | back to this menu and highlight that button.
| | 04:12 | So we are going to take the Promo Video end
action and drag to that button. There we go.
| | 04:17 | And now it says Extra features Menu, and the P Pro
sequence will be highlighted when we come back from that.
| | 04:22 | And now something a little bit different.
We are going to take the P Pro sequence like
| | 04:26 | this and have its End Action to be to highlight
this button down here. We are not highlighting
| | 04:30 | one of these buttons up here, we are seeing
the next logical step in the order here will
| | 04:33 | be to go back to the Main menu when
you are done watching the sequence.
| | 04:36 | Now this is not a hard and fast rule. You
can decide how you want to end actions to work.
| | 04:40 | But this is my process when I make DVDs.
| | 04:42 | I like to sort of lead people to the
next logical button in the sequence.
| | 04:46 | So I got this P Pro Sequence, come back ,and
highlight this button there by dragging it
| | 04:50 | to end action down to there. There we go.
And now all the end actions are properly set.
| | 04:56 | We are going to talk about how you can
build the DVD later, but I want to check to see
| | 04:59 | that all my End Actions were set by
going to Build Menu now and clicking on that.
| | 05:03 | There is something here called Check Project.
I'll click on that, and these things will Start.
| | 05:08 | Now it's going to check to see that everything
that should have an end action does have one,
| | 05:12 | and every button that should have a link, does
have a link. Let's click on that to see what happens.
| | 05:16 | Great! Nothing showed up which means everything has
been properly set, which means we can now create our DVD.
| | 05:22 | But there is one more thing I want to do,
which is called an End Action override, which
| | 05:27 | sounds kind of confusing, but it's a little
trick I want to show you about that's kind
| | 05:30 | of a higher level way to do DVD Authoring but will
make your project work out a little more smoothly.
| | 05:34 | So we are going to do that in another movie.
| | 05:39 |
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| Setting button end action overrides| 00:00 | You go to the trouble of setting up End
Actions for all of your Timelines and Slideshows,
| | 00:05 | and then you think, maybe I want to override
an end action, and right now you are probably
| | 00:09 | trying to figure out why you would want to
do that, but there are times when you want
| | 00:12 | to override an end action.
| | 00:14 | Typically, what happens when you override
an end action is because you are accessing
| | 00:17 | some timeline or slideshow from a different place
than the default place. Let me show you what I mean.
| | 00:22 | If I go back to the Main menu here, if I were
to click on this button, I'd play the Main Movie.
| | 00:28 | And when the Main Movie ended, it would
bring viewers back to the Main menu and highlight
| | 00:33 | the Shorter Feature button.
That's the way we set things up.
| | 00:36 | But let's say we start viewing the Main Movie
from a different menu. Let's say we access the Main
| | 00:41 | Movie from the Scene Selection Menu, which
is how this works. If we click one of these
| | 00:44 | buttons, it takes some place inside the Main
Movie, some place inside that timeline and
| | 00:49 | will play to end if we let it go to the end.
| | 00:52 | Well, what happens when it gets to the end?
It bounces viewers back to the Main menu,
| | 00:56 | which is not really what I want to do. I
want to bring it back to this menu, because this
| | 00:59 | is where they accessed
the Main Movie at this time.
| | 01:03 | So I need to override the end action of the
Main Movie's Timeline, and I do that by setting
| | 01:07 | an end action override in a button.
| | 01:09 | If you tell the button to send the message
to that timeline: when you get to the end
| | 01:14 | action don't go back to where you are
supposed to go, come back here where I tell you to
| | 01:18 | come back to. But this one, I'm going to override the
normal end action, you do that inside a button.
| | 01:22 | So I'm going to select a button here, make
that active, when you select the button, you
| | 01:26 | see a little Override down here, Not Set, which is
the default thing. Normally you don't override things.
| | 01:31 | But right now it says this is going to link
to this Main Movie, and it's going to play
| | 01:34 | it, when the main movie is done, it's going to
play the end action and go back to the Main menu.
| | 01:38 | I don't want to do that. I'm going to override that
by dragging this pick whip to the next button here.
| | 01:44 | Logically, if they start here by clicking on
this one and it gets to end of the movie,
| | 01:48 | we are bringing it back to the Scene Selection
Menu, and we can highlight some buttons.
| | 01:51 | Let's highlight the next button in the
sequence just as kind of a logical thing.
| | 01:54 | So I'm going to override that by dragging
this pick whip to that button like that.
| | 01:58 | So when the Main Movie is done playing, it
brings people back to this menu and displays
| | 02:02 | that little highlight on that particular button.
| | 02:04 | We can go right down the line do an Override
for every one of those guys, by just displaying
| | 02:08 | the next button, clicking on one
button at a time, overriding that way.
| | 02:12 | This is called an End Action Override. You
do it like one button at a time, in this case,
| | 02:16 | to display the next button, highlighting the
next button when folks come back to this menu.
| | 02:22 | And then we start by clicking on this one,
and you play the sort of the last chapter
| | 02:26 | in that little Main Movie. When it's done,
let's highlight this button down here to take
| | 02:30 | folks back to the Main Menu if they click on it.
| | 02:33 | So that's how you set End Actions for Timelines.
You don't do it in the Timeline itself, you
| | 02:37 | do it in the button that accesses that
Timeline by doing it one button at a time like this.
| | 02:42 |
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| Using the Flowchart to set project navigation| 00:00 | I've shown you several ways to link buttons
to assets or to set end actions or end action
| | 00:06 | overrides, including using the Pick Whip tool--
this little layered thing--or the flyout menus
| | 00:10 | over there, or let's say drag assets to something,
like dragging the Scene selection menu to
| | 00:15 | that button, for example.
| | 00:17 | Well, there's another way to set
links, and that's the Flowchart.
| | 00:19 | Now, if you don't see the Flowchart up here
as a tab, you can go to Window > Flowchart,
| | 00:24 | there you go, it will bring it
up front and center like that.
| | 00:26 | The Flowchart tends to take up a fair amount of
real estate, so I want to open it full screen.
| | 00:31 | You can open any panel to full screen by
hovering your cursor over that panel and pressing the
| | 00:35 | Tilde key, which is in the upper left-hand
corner of your keyboard, also called Accent
| | 00:39 | key, press that guy.
| | 00:40 | Now, if you want to go back to the
original state, you can press the Tilde key again,
| | 00:44 | and you return back to that original state.
| | 00:46 | So let's go back to full screen
there to work on the Flowchart that way.
| | 00:49 | Now, I've purposely disconnected just
about everything in this project so that we can
| | 00:53 | have some fun here re-linking stuff.
| | 00:55 | Right now, you have this little disk icon
saying that the name of your project is Farm
| | 00:59 | to Table, but it has no idea what to do
when you put it inside a DVD player.
| | 01:02 | It's just going to sit there doing nothing.
You need to start linking things up.
| | 01:06 | First order of business, of course, is the first
play. The first play is going to be our little
| | 01:10 | intro a video, and you can spot the videos
down here, there's this Slide show icon, and
| | 01:14 | there are the menu icons there.
| | 01:15 | If you hover over this, you see that it says
Farm to Table-Intro, so that is our introductory
| | 01:20 | video, that's our first play, so I'm going to drag
it up to the disk, or I can drag the disk down to it.
| | 01:25 | I'll take the disk and drag it
down to it and say that is first play.
| | 01:28 | You can check that it's first play by
going back to the Project Panel by pressing the
| | 01:31 | Tilde key, and let's go check it, going to Timelines,
and there it is now first play, how about that?
| | 01:36 | So let's go back to the Flowchart by hovering over
here, pressing the Tilde key, and now we're back.
| | 01:41 | What happens when the Farm to Table-Intro
finishes, it needs to then have an end action.
| | 01:45 | The end action is to go to the Main menu.
| | 01:47 | So I'm going to click on the right side
here to say the end action and drag it down to
| | 01:51 | the Main menu like that.
That tells it what to do when it's done.
| | 01:53 | And here is the Main menu with all those buttons
already named. I'm not going to have you rename
| | 01:57 | everything, so I'll just leave it like that.
| | 01:59 | This little guy over the right here with
this lower Opacity, that's an alias.
| | 02:03 | That means that when the menu is done
playing it comes back to the menu.
| | 02:05 | So what we want to do now is start linking
these buttons down here, these are the names
| | 02:08 | of the buttons there.
| | 02:10 | I can just drag a button to let's say the
Main movie, so let's drag this button down
| | 02:13 | to the Main movie, and that creates a link
to the Main movie. There it is, right there.
| | 02:16 | Do the same thing with the Shorter Feature,
right there, Slide show, pretty straightforward.
| | 02:22 | Scene selection, now, this is a menu, not
a timeline, but it works the same way, drag
| | 02:26 | it down to the menu, the
Scene selection menu, there we go.
| | 02:28 | And the Extra features is
another menu, drag it down.
| | 02:31 | That menu is pretty straightforward,
but we need to set some end actions here.
| | 02:35 | You can take a look here, we've got all
these little movies here, but nothing coming out
| | 02:38 | of them, nothing that happens when they're done.
| | 02:40 | So you need to set the end
actions for all these little movies.
| | 02:43 | And we're kind of having a little trouble
with real estate here, it's hard to really
| | 02:46 | see things in this monstrous view here, so
I'm going to make the thumbnail smaller by
| | 02:51 | dragging this guy to the left here so we can
see things, so little bit better like that,
| | 02:55 | there we go, drag this down a bit.
| | 02:57 | Well, the end action of the Main movie to
come back to the Main menu and highlight the
| | 03:01 | next button, so let's drag the right side
of this thing back to the Main menu here,
| | 03:05 | down to this little button there, and now
we've got that little end action that's going
| | 03:08 | to come back to the Main menu, and then it's
going to highlight B2, button number 2, which
| | 03:12 | is what we want. That's the second button.
| | 03:14 | Same thing with the little Shorter Feature,
when it's done, you want to come back and
| | 03:18 | highlight the thing below it,
which is this Slide show.
| | 03:20 | The name has been changed because it links
to the name here, and it takes that first slide.
| | 03:23 | We can fix that later, but I
think you understand how that works.
| | 03:27 | That's the Slide show.
| | 03:28 | When the Slide show is done, we need to have
it come back and highlight the Scene selection
| | 03:31 | menu, and now we don't worry about end
actions for the Scene selection menu because it's
| | 03:35 | a menu, not a timeline, so
that's how that all works.
| | 03:37 | I'm scrolling down a little bit
farther and see if anything is missing here.
| | 03:40 | Well, the Scene selection menu has those
three links, there's the first one, second one,
| | 03:44 | third one, those are the
links that go to chapters.
| | 03:46 | And you see it says C2 there, it's linking to the
second chapter of the Main movie, third chapter, fourth chapter.
| | 03:51 | Remember, we don't link to the first chapter because
it's the beginning of the movie, we link inside there.
| | 03:56 | But these last three here, Farmers' market,
Chef comments, they're not linked to anything.
| | 04:01 | We need to link to a chapter.
| | 04:01 | Well, that's not so easy. You just can't
drag something to him. You've got to tell
| | 04:05 | it what chapter to go to.
| | 04:06 | So you just click on these links here like that,
and you right-click now and say Specify Link.
| | 04:12 | This is a little tricky inside the Flowchart
like this, but this is an extra thing you've
| | 04:16 | got to specify the link here, click on that.
It opens up this dialog box.
| | 04:20 | We're going to specify the link
from this button to something.
| | 04:23 | We're going to go to the Main movie, and
we're going to go to the Farmers' market chapter
| | 04:26 | right there, click on that, and click OK.
| | 04:29 | So now it's going to go to
that chapter, which is chapter 5.
| | 04:33 | Click on the Chef's comments, right-click
there and do the same thing, we're going to
| | 04:36 | go down to the Chef's
comments in the Main movie, click OK.
| | 04:39 | Get down to this last one, Market testimonials,
right-click on that, specify the link, Main
| | 04:45 | movie, Market testimonials, there you go.
| | 04:49 | And what happens when these movies are done,
you need to bring them back to something.
| | 04:52 | You want to come back to this button, if I click on
this thing, you'll notice that it highlights all of them.
| | 04:57 | We can't do the overrides here. We want to
be able to override each button, remember that.
| | 05:01 | But we can't do that here.
| | 05:02 | So I'm going to just not worry about it
because the Main movie has an end action over here.
| | 05:07 | You can take a look at it. There's an end action
to come back here, so the end action is already set.
| | 05:11 | I can't change it here. I can't do an override,
so we have to do that manually back inside
| | 05:16 | each little property panel
for that particular button.
| | 05:18 | I'm going to scroll down a little bit farther
to this last one here. This is the Extra features
| | 05:22 | menu with the Promo video and the P Pro
sequence. We need to set those guys up.
| | 05:26 | So I'm going to drag this down
to the Promo video like that.
| | 05:28 | I'm using my scroll wheel and my mouse to go up
and down here, take this guy and drag to that.
| | 05:34 | We need to set the end action for them too,
so the end action for this little guy.
| | 05:37 | The Promo video is to come back to
this menu and display that button.
| | 05:41 | The end action for this guy is to come back
to the menu and display the Main menu button,
| | 05:46 | and now things are pretty well linked up.
| | 05:48 | We can't do end action overrides, but
you've got pretty much everything else here.
| | 05:51 | So I'm going to press the Tilde key to come
back out again, go back to the Main menu like this.
| | 05:56 | Let's just do a little check here.
| | 05:57 | I'm going to right-click
here and say Preview from Here.
| | 06:05 | Click the end action.
| | 06:07 | It goes back to the main
menu and highlights that button.
| | 06:11 | So at least there things
are working as expected.
| | 06:14 | So that's how you can use the Flowchart
to set some links and end actions as well.
| | 06:19 |
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5. Exporting Your ProjectPreviewing and testing your project| 00:00 | We've got all of our buttons linked to things.
We've got the first play set, we've got our
| | 00:04 | end actions and our end action override's
all ready to go, so now let's burn our
| | 00:08 | DVD, or let's make our Blu-ray
or make our Flash DVD.
| | 00:12 | Well, maybe not quite so fast, folks. You
probably want to really check your project just to
| | 00:17 | make sure you didn't forget something,
and there are a couple of ways to do that.
| | 00:20 | You can simply preview it, which works pretty
well, or you can use an automated feature as well.
| | 00:24 | We are going to do both here because I
have purposely completely messed this project
| | 00:29 | so that we are going to need to
fix things to make it work properly.
| | 00:32 | So let's start by just previewing it by
going up to this little button there and clicking
| | 00:35 | on that and rocking and rolling.
| | 00:38 | No, because there's no first play destination,
so we need to set the first play, which we
| | 00:42 | could do right now, but I'd rather
just check a few things out first.
| | 00:46 | So, even though first play is not working, you
can still preview within a menu, so I'm going
| | 00:50 | to right-click on this menu and say Preview from
Here. Now we can watch this menu, there you go.
| | 00:56 | Let me click on the Shorter Feature button
here, and nothing. No link there, it's not working.
| | 01:02 | How about the Scene
selection menu, again nothing.
| | 01:06 | Those links are busted. We
need to fix those, we know that.
| | 01:08 | Let me get out of here.
| | 01:10 | Let's check out another menu here, go over
to the Scene selection menu, I'm going to
| | 01:15 | right-click on here and say
Preview from Here, here we go.
| | 01:18 | Now I know these guys are going to work,
they're fine, but I'm going to click on the Main Menu
| | 01:23 | button here, and it doesn't take us back
to the main menu, that's a problem.
| | 01:27 | I'm going to the last menu here, the Extra
features menu, and right-click on you, Preview from Here.
| | 01:36 | Click on the Promo video, and there it's
working right. Okay, let's click the end action so
| | 01:42 | we should come back to that menu, right?
No, end action is not working.
| | 01:46 | So all of these things are busted, and I went
right to the broken things. I knew where they
| | 01:51 | were, but if you were to test your project,
you wouldn't necessarily know where the things
| | 01:54 | that are busted are, and you might
miss something if you preview it this way.
| | 01:58 | So let me close it out here and show you an
automated way to check out your project to
| | 02:02 | make sure things are working properly.
| | 02:04 | Go to the Build tab here, and in the Build tab, there's
this lovely little button here called Check Project.
| | 02:10 | And this basically lists all the things that can
go wrong that this thing is going to check for.
| | 02:15 | Orphans in particular are things that are
not connected. It might be a timeline that's
| | 02:19 | just sitting there in space with nothing
linked to it, or it might be let's say a menu which
| | 02:24 | you can't get to as well.
| | 02:26 | So it's going to look for Orphans, it's going
to look for things like First Play, it's going
| | 02:30 | to look for End Actions, also looks for
Overrides, but in fact it really can't check for overrides
| | 02:34 | that well because it doesn't know that you
want to set something as an end action override,
| | 02:38 | so that's kind of useless there, but the
rest of the these guys are pretty practical.
| | 02:42 | So I'm going to click on Start now, and we are
going to see where things are going to go wrong.
| | 02:46 | And this is what it found, it said there's no First
Play Set, and it says that this is an Orphan Timeline.
| | 02:52 | Well, this is our first play video, that's
why it's an Orphan Timeline. It's not connected
| | 02:55 | to anything, so we need to make
that first play here in a second.
| | 02:58 | It says this little button has no link,
that's a Main Menu button somewhere, some menu has
| | 03:03 | got a Main Menu button in it, and there is
no link from that button to someplace else.
| | 03:08 | We don't know where that guy is, it's
just a button, but we'll find out later.
| | 03:12 | And you've got this main movie. There's no
end action set for it, we didn't check that,
| | 03:16 | but there you go, and main movie will just
stop when it gets to the end and not bring
| | 03:20 | you back to menu, bad thing.
| | 03:22 | Promo video, we saw that
that didn't have an end action.
| | 03:24 | It seems selection menu has no link, so therefore, it's an
Orphan Menu, and there is that button that didn't work.
| | 03:30 | Again, the Shorter Feature thing also did
not have a link, and there is its button, and
| | 03:33 | the Slide show has no End Action, which we
didn't notice because we didn't check it.
| | 03:36 | So now we need to fix these guys, and it's
kind of cool, you can fix them from within
| | 03:40 | this Check Project dialog box, which is a
little unusual to have a floating panel like this
| | 03:45 | where you can still work behind it.
| | 03:46 | So I'm going to select this disc here, and it
will show up over here in the Properties panel.
| | 03:50 | If I click on it, it
shows up here, which is great.
| | 03:53 | And I want to link its First Play to this
introductory video, this guy right there.
| | 03:58 | So that video would be over here on the Project
panel, so I can open up that as well, which is great.
| | 04:02 | We've got this guy hovering here,
but we can work behind it.
| | 04:04 | I'll open up the Timelines there,
and there is our Farm to Table intro.
| | 04:08 | So I'm just going to take this little pick
whip here, drag it over there to the Farm
| | 04:12 | to Table intro and let her go, great.
| | 04:15 | Now that should take care of the First Play,
and this Orphan Timeline, let's restart this.
| | 04:20 | Boom, they're gone now, so we
took care of those little issues.
| | 04:23 | Now this Main Menu button, there's no link to it.
| | 04:25 | Now I didn't know which menu this Main Menu
button is in, so I'm going to click on it,
| | 04:29 | and there is the button. It doesn't say which menu it
is, but let's run down and see if we can figure it out.
| | 04:35 | If I double-click on it, click again,
it's going to be this menu down there.
| | 04:40 | That's that button, that's the
one that's not linked properly.
| | 04:42 | We need to link it back up. We
want to go back to the Main Menu.
| | 04:45 | So I am going to open up the menu over here,
click on this guy again, and now we are going
| | 04:50 | to set the link to the main
menu right there, here you go.
| | 04:55 | Now I want to check this and see if this
goes away, so click Start, boom it's gone, so we
| | 04:59 | took care of that too.
| | 05:01 | The main movie does not have an end action,
so I click on this, and it'll open up the
| | 05:05 | main movie over here, go
right there, there it is.
| | 05:08 | Doesn't have an end action, we want the
main movie to come back to the main menu.
| | 05:13 | We want it to come back to a
particular button inside there.
| | 05:15 | So we just can't drag the pick whip that way,
we are going to have to open this menu here
| | 05:19 | like this, go to the Main menu, we're
coming back for the end action for this guy, and
| | 05:23 | we want to come back to the Shorter Feature. That's
the button after the Main menu button, so click on that.
| | 05:28 | Let's click this guy and see what
happens now, good, and the action is fixed.
| | 05:31 | Promo video the same thing. I want the
Promo video come back to that other menu.
| | 05:36 | That's the menu with the extra features, so I
need to go over here and click its End Action
| | 05:40 | over there. We're coming back to the Extra
features one. That Promo video comes back
| | 05:44 | to the Premiere Pro sequence afterwards.
I'm going to highlight that button so that it
| | 05:47 | care takes of that End Action.
| | 05:49 | This little Scene selection menu is orphaned.
Oh, poor thing, there's nothing linked to it.
| | 05:53 | The way we remedy this is to link up this
button. We know those guys are the ones that
| | 05:56 | are working together, so
I'm going to link this button.
| | 05:59 | So I am going to go over here, that button
is now selected showing up right there, going
| | 06:04 | to click the link, pick whip, try get over to the
Scene selection menu, and now that's taken care of.
| | 06:10 | If I click Start, these first three
guys should go away, there they go.
| | 06:13 | This little Shorter Feature is an orphan
timeline, poor thing, we need to link to it as well.
| | 06:18 | So I click on that button. We want to link to
the orphan timeline there, this Shorter Feature.
| | 06:22 | So I'm going to take its link over here,
over to the Shorter Feature there, take care of
| | 06:26 | that, click Start, those two guys go away.
| | 06:29 | And finally, Slide show
doesn't have an End Action.
| | 06:32 | We want to bring it back to the main menu.
| | 06:34 | So I'm going to go over here, click it to End
Action, this little flyout menu, go to the Main menu.
| | 06:38 | After the Slide show, it comes back to the Scene
selection menu, so now that's fixed. How about that?
| | 06:45 | Let's preview this guy from the beginning.
| | 06:48 | Good, click the End Action here,
it should go to the main menu, good.
| | 06:53 | Let's click on Shorter
Feature, good, end action for you.
| | 06:59 | How about Scene selection menu that didn't
work before? Yeah! Go back to Main Menu, Extra
| | 07:07 | Features, the Promo Video. Did I have an end
action before? Click on that, end action, yes.
| | 07:15 | So that, folks, is what you need to do before
you even think about burning your DVD, creating
| | 07:20 | a web DVD project or a Blu-ray.
| | 07:22 | Definitely preview your project, do it manually
that way and maybe you might find some things that way.
| | 07:27 | But then go on over to the Build panel, click
on the Check Project, and then click on Start
| | 07:32 | and make sure you've got
nothing showing up down here.
| | 07:37 |
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| Burning a DVD or a Blu-ray disc| 00:00 | We have finished our project, and now we're
ready to export it, and there are three ways
| | 00:04 | to export your project: you can burn a DVD,
you can burn a Blu-ray disk, or you can export
| | 00:09 | to a flash DVD project.
| | 00:11 | Well, the DVD process and the Blu-ray
process are so similar that we're going to put the
| | 00:15 | two of those guys together into this movie and then
focus on the flash DVD project in a separate movie.
| | 00:20 | So let's get started with that.
| | 00:22 | Before you go ahead and burn the DVD, you
should still go back and check the project.
| | 00:26 | So I'm going to click on Build, then Check
Project and click on the Start button and
| | 00:30 | make sure that nothing
shows up, and that's good.
| | 00:33 | That doesn't guarantee that your project is
going to work, because you might have a button
| | 00:37 | that's linking to the wrong thing, and that
little Check Project thing won't be able to
| | 00:41 | figure that out. But hopefully you've
checked every single button and everything works.
| | 00:45 | And then, even after you burn your disk, you do
want to put it in the drive and go check it
| | 00:49 | again, if you're going to replicate
this for more than, say, one person.
| | 00:52 | So in any event, you can still burn it, check
it, and then you might need to come back and
| | 00:56 | burn it again when you find out that
things didn't quite work the way you expected.
| | 01:00 | Let's talk about DVD and Blu-ray.
| | 01:01 | When you go to the Build panel here,
you've got this thing called the Format, and your
| | 01:05 | choice is DVD, Blu-ray, or Flash.
So we have DVD selected now.
| | 01:09 | And below that you've got four outputs for
the DVD: Disk, Folder, Image, and Image, there
| | 01:13 | is DVD Image and DDP Image.
| | 01:15 | If you go to Blu-ray, it's basically the same
minus the DDP, see? There is no DDP down here
| | 01:20 | below, just the first three,
Disk, Folder, and Image.
| | 01:23 | I'll explain that in a second. We'll go
back to the DVD here and open this guy up.
| | 01:27 | The Disc is--obviously, we're going
to burn to a Disc, optical media.
| | 01:31 | Folder creates this collection of all these
files in a folder structure that will work
| | 01:36 | if you have a software DVD player or a
software Blu-ray player. You can check your project
| | 01:41 | really to the granularity that you want to
on your hard drive rather than burning a DVD
| | 01:46 | or a Blu-ray, so you can put it
in a folder and try it out there.
| | 01:49 | The image is something that you would send
to a replicator when you're going to make
| | 01:53 | lots of copies of your DVD or Blu-ray.
| | 01:55 | So it's a little bit different than a folder,
but it's kind of similar, but it goes right
| | 01:58 | to a replicator, then they use that
then create your DVDs and Blu-ray.
| | 02:03 | With DVD, over this other option of DDP Image,
DDP Image is very much like the DVD Image,
| | 02:09 | but here you can send your data to a
replicator via FTP. You can just send it as data rather
| | 02:13 | than sending it with a DVD
image on a digital linear tape.
| | 02:16 | When you do an image like this, it has to be
on a tape as opposed to sending it as a file.
| | 02:20 | So this little guy has extra features for
making DVDs that's not available for Blu-ray,
| | 02:25 | but the process is very similar.
| | 02:26 | So we're going to select--instead of a Folder,
we're going to select Disc, and then it checks
| | 02:29 | to see if we've got a disc already loaded up,
and we do. Here is our Recorder down here.
| | 02:33 | Let me slide this to the right so you
can see it a little better, there we go.
| | 02:36 | There is our Recorder, and it says we got a
disk in there because it shows up like this.
| | 02:40 | You can change these guys,
but I go with the default here.
| | 02:42 | It says Test Before Writing. I don't need
to test this, this is fine, and I don't need
| | 02:45 | to auto-erase rewritable disc here because
this is a standard DVD-R here, so I'm going
| | 02:49 | to scroll down a little bit farther here.
This is kind of the interesting stuff here.
| | 02:53 | It says how much space are
you going to use up on this DVD?
| | 02:56 | It says we're going to use up 805 megabytes
out of 3.89 gigabytes, a fifth or so of this
| | 03:03 | entire DVD that's available to us.
| | 03:05 | So why is it 805 megabytes?
What's going on here?
| | 03:08 | Well, Encore decides pretty much
how it wants to compress your assets.
| | 03:12 | Let me show you where that's happening.
| | 03:13 | I am going to go back to File, down to
Project Settings, and in Project Settings, under Basic
| | 03:19 | there is this little button that
says Default Transcode Settings.
| | 03:22 | How is it going to transcode your media?
| | 03:24 | We've got Blu-ray and DVD here, but it doesn't
make any difference which one we select here,
| | 03:27 | because we can select both of them over here.
| | 03:29 | And it says for Blu-ray, the Maximum Video
Bitrate is 40 megabits per second.
| | 03:34 | That's pretty high, that's as high as it goes.
| | 03:36 | You can lower that if you want to so that you can
compress it more, but we're going to take that one.
| | 03:40 | Since the codec is MPEG-2--with Blu-ray you
have a choice of MPEG-2 or H.264 or your choice.
| | 03:46 | I'm going to go with MPEG-2.
| | 03:47 | If we're going to make a Blu-ray,
that's what I'd rather go with.
| | 03:49 | But we're making a DVD, so let's check that out.
| | 03:52 | The default Transcoding Rate is 8 megabits
per second, if you go back to Blu-ray, you
| | 03:55 | see that it's 40, so you see that DVD is one-
fifth of what a Blu-ray is which you would expect,
| | 03:59 | because Blu-ray is hi-def.
| | 04:01 | And here 8 megabits per second is not the
highest. You can go up to 9.4 to really make
| | 04:05 | sure that your quality is top-notch,
but 8 megabits is pretty darn good.
| | 04:09 | So we'll just keep it there at the default.
So that's the settings that are being used
| | 04:12 | to transcode your video files.
| | 04:14 | They are going to do it
at 8 megabits per second.
| | 04:17 | So I'm going to click Cancel to get out of
that. We don't need to make any changes there
| | 04:20 | and click Cancel here.
| | 04:22 | So those are the settings that are
being used to make this calculation.
| | 04:26 | As you create your project, you might want
to come over here to the Build menu once in
| | 04:29 | a while and see how things are going just to
see if you're not getting up to this end here,
| | 04:33 | where you might be pushing things a little
bit too far, and if so, then you would lower
| | 04:36 | the quality level to try to fit it on or you
can then record, not to just a standard DVD,
| | 04:41 | you can go over to a dual layer, which allows you
to have 8.5 gigabytes, a little more room there.
| | 04:47 | That's this kind of thing that
you track as you build your DVD.
| | 04:49 | Let me show you what happens
if I switch over to Blu-ray.
| | 04:52 | Go up here and switch over to Blu-ray. Now
you can see that less space is being taken
| | 04:58 | up, but in fact the amount of video would
be more. It's going to be 2.4 gigabytes if
| | 05:02 | I were to create a Blu-ray here,
because it's higher quality, it's HD video.
| | 05:05 | So it's going to make it bigger.
| | 05:07 | So it will consume more in terms of the
total amount of gigabytes or megabytes, but less
| | 05:11 | in terms of the entire available space to us.
| | 05:15 | Typically, on a DVD you can put about 2 hours
of high-quality video, and typically
| | 05:19 | on a Blu-ray you get up to about 3 hours
of high-quality HD video, but that's just
| | 05:23 | kind of a ballpark figure.
| | 05:24 | Let's go back to DVD here, here we go, scrolling
down a little bit farther. Just a couple of more things.
| | 05:30 | Region Codings, we probably don't need to
worry about this, because we're just
| | 05:34 | doing this for ourselves mainly. This
probably isn't going to be a commercial DVD, but if
| | 05:37 | you want to limit it to certain regions, you
would then click Custom here and select regions
| | 05:41 | over here that you want to limit it to.
| | 05:42 | Finally, you can have Copy Protection, and
most people don't do this in terms of how
| | 05:45 | they make DVDs here, because folks break
Copy Protection all the time, and we're probably
| | 05:50 | not making a Hollywood video here, so we
probably don't worry about this, but you could select
| | 05:53 | some Copy Protection here.
So now we're ready to build this project.
| | 05:58 | So I am going to go back here to DVD, like that.
| | 06:01 | I'm going to change the Output to a Disc,
and when I click Build, it's not going to
| | 06:06 | immediately burn this disk. It's going to
transcode it first. That takes a while depending
| | 06:10 | on how many assets you have and the length
of those video files, so I'm going to click
| | 06:13 | Build now, and it's going to start transcoding.
| | 06:16 | You get this Build Progress dialog box which
you can just cancel out if you can't really
| | 06:20 | cause anything to change here, but you can
watch the progress here, and we're going to
| | 06:24 | let it go for a while until it's done.
| | 06:27 | When the disc burning process is done, you
get this little Build Progress Completed thing
| | 06:32 | with the OK at the bottom, and also the disc
pops out of the drive, so we're just going
| | 06:36 | to click on this guy here, and now we're going
to test that disc, so I'm going to close this
| | 06:40 | down so we can see it.
| | 06:42 | We're going to put the disc in
the drive and see what happens.
| | 06:48 | There is the first play, very good, and it's
going to open up the main menu we hope.
| | 06:53 | There we go, very good, click on the main movie
here, see if that starts up, and there we go.
| | 06:59 | There is our little main movie.
| | 07:00 | If I click on this guy, we'll go back to the
main menu we just came from, and we could
| | 07:05 | then check around as well on other things here,
but I think things are working as expected,
| | 07:09 | so we'll call this one complete.
| | 07:14 |
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| Exporting a web DVD| 00:00 | In addition to being able to burn your
project to optical media, meaning making a DVD or
| | 00:05 | a Blu-ray, you can also output it to Flash,
to a Flash DVD as it's called, or a WebDVD.
| | 00:10 | We are going to do that in this movie.
| | 00:12 | Let's click on the Build tab, and let's check
our project again just to make sure everything
| | 00:16 | is okay, click on Check Project, and click on
Start, and lo and behold, we get this little
| | 00:22 | error message, it says Shorter Feature--that's the
timeline--it says Trims and/or chapters adjusted.
| | 00:26 | Now what the heck is this all about?
It didn't show up before.
| | 00:29 | Well, it's basically
telling us something that we did.
| | 00:32 | In the previous movie, we exported this to a DVD, and
as part of the process, we transcoded all the videos.
| | 00:37 | And apparently, this particular timeline is
transcoded in such a way that the MPEG I-frame
| | 00:43 | didn't exactly line up where we
had the poster frame in this thing.
| | 00:46 | It's not a critical thing, but that's
probably what happened, which means everything really
| | 00:49 | will be just fine, because we
don't even use the poster frame anyway.
| | 00:52 | Now if I uncheck this little guy and
check it again, then that won't show up.
| | 00:56 | It's not like unchecking something is a good
thing, but that's what's going on.
| | 00:59 | It's this thing that probably isn't really going to
cause any problems when we export this to Flash.
| | 01:03 | Now I am going to close this guy down now,
because I think everything is okay, and let's
| | 01:06 | export this to Flash.
| | 01:08 | So the format is Flash, the output is flash.swf,
We have no choice here. There you go.
| | 01:15 | Going down here we are giving it a name
Farm to Table, which is a F4V versus FLV.
| | 01:19 | F4V is a newer version of Flash and probably
better choice. You can choose either one, though.
| | 01:24 | FLV is a little more
compatible with older Flash players.
| | 01:26 | I am going to stretch that just a bit,
so you can see some more things here.
| | 01:30 | Let's check the Preset here. I am going to
go for the High Quality Widescreen, 1280×720,
| | 01:35 | 30 frames per second.
| | 01:37 | Even though the videos inside here are 24
frames per second, this will be converted
| | 01:40 | to 29.97 for NTSC, no problem there.
| | 01:43 | We don't need to worry about Templates. Templates are
the sort of frame in which your Flash project can reside.
| | 01:49 | I am going to say no template, you can
create your own templates, but you'll see how this
| | 01:53 | works when we take a look at
this thing without a template.
| | 01:55 | There we go, going down a little farther, it says
your Flash Video File, what do you want to with that?
| | 02:00 | Well, I want to keep it with the Flash .swf
file. I am not going to upload this to a server.
| | 02:05 | That's kind of a higher level thing here.
| | 02:06 | So we are going to just keep it here together,
and we can have this thing run inside our browser.
| | 02:10 | So we are now ready to go.
| | 02:12 | So we can check one more thing,
that's Edit Quality Presets.
| | 02:15 | If I click on that, it opens up the Adobe
Media Encoder and lets you kind of fine tune
| | 02:19 | the quality of preset
here if you want to do that.
| | 02:21 | But we are going to just
take that preset as that is.
| | 02:23 | So now I am going to click on Build.
| | 02:26 | And we get this message
saying it's got problems.
| | 02:28 | Well, the problem is the thing that showed up
when we did that little Check Project thing,
| | 02:31 | so I don't really care about that problem.
We are going to just say Ignore and Continue.
| | 02:35 | Off we go, it saves the project, and we start
building this thing as we did with the Blu-ray and the DVD.
| | 02:40 | We have to transcode again because this is not being
transcoded to MPEG, it's being transcoded to Flash.
| | 02:44 | So, the transcode process will happen
again here as a Flash file or as Flash Video.
| | 02:50 | And when it's done, it's going to create this little
Flash project, and we'll show you that when it finishes.
| | 02:53 | So we are going to pause the video
now and come back when it's done.
| | 02:57 | This is the message we get
when everything is completed.
| | 02:59 | I am going to click OK.
And now let's check it out.
| | 03:02 | I am going to minimize this.
| | 03:03 | I put it on the Desktop,
so there is a folder for it.
| | 03:07 | Double-click the folder to open it up, and
inside is an index.html file. That is the file
| | 03:13 | that will open up this whole process.
So we'll double-click on it.
| | 03:18 | (video playing)
| | 03:22 | Scrolling down here a bit, click on full
screen and up comes the menu, how about that?
| | 03:30 | Working the way it supposed to.
Click on this Main Movie.
| | 03:37 | I'll go over here to this little
menu button there, it's the Last Menu.
| | 03:40 | How about this one instead?
| | 03:44 | Try the Slide show out
here and audio for a second.
| | 03:53 | What I like about the Flash project is that
you can control it here, you can pull things
| | 03:59 | along exactly where you want it to go,
unlike a DVD, you can jump right ahead here.
| | 04:03 | So I'd like that too.
| | 04:04 | And this Flash project is
running right off the hard drive.
| | 04:06 | You don't need to worry about having
any optical media, it's really cool.
| | 04:09 | I'll click on this guy again, back to the menu.
| | 04:12 | So this is really one of the cool features of
Encore that you can create these Flash projects.
| | 04:16 | You don't need optical media. You can just
put these files on your hard drive or put
| | 04:19 | them on a server or put them with your website
and people can view them right inside a browser.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | That brings us to the end of this course.
I thank you for watching these lessons.
| | 00:04 | Before we leave, let's talk about a few
resources that I suggest you check out.
| | 00:09 | Those resources are all on the Internet,
so let's go there.
| | 00:11 | The first one you would access by going to
Help here inside Encore, clicking Help on
| | 00:16 | Adobe Encore Help, or just pressing the F1
key, and that will take you to your browser.
| | 00:20 | Let me show you that.
| | 00:21 | When you go to Help you get to this page
inside the Adobe site. Clicking Help used to take
| | 00:26 | you to a file but now you go to these
websites, which are dynamic. They're being updated all
| | 00:30 | the time, and that's a good thing.
| | 00:32 | But sometimes you can't access the Internet, so
it's good that they provide a PDF file right there.
| | 00:35 | If you click that, it's going to put
up the PDF file that looks like this.
| | 00:38 | I actually kind of like working with the
PDF file because it is little more organized,
| | 00:41 | has its index here, and you can access things
a little more easily than you can over here,
| | 00:45 | so sometimes this can be a little confusing
when you're trying to track down something.
| | 00:49 | In the PDF file, it's a little more
helpful in terms of its organization.
| | 00:53 | Nevertheless, one or the other,
it's easy to search here as well.
| | 00:56 | The search tool is getting fixed all the time, it's
always getting improved, so that's a good way to go too.
| | 01:01 | Sometimes you have questions, though, that you really
can't track down inside Help or inside the PDF files.
| | 01:05 | In that case, go to the Forums
site, you can see the URL there.
| | 01:09 | You can ask your questions here, and there
are a number of Encore experts that check
| | 01:13 | the site on a regular basis.
I like to go here, too, and help folks out.
| | 01:16 | You can notice the MVPs, these are
people who help out pretty often.
| | 01:19 | So have a question that's just nagging at
you, and you can't get the answer for it, just
| | 01:23 | type a new question here and folks
may be able to help you out that way.
| | 01:27 | Finally, you might want to go to lynda.com,
of course. We like to talk about the stuff
| | 01:30 | that's available here on lynda.com.
| | 01:32 | My course on Encore is the only course on
Encore CS6, but since you have Encore you
| | 01:36 | have also Premiere Pro, so you might want
to check out some Premiere Pro courses here.
| | 01:40 | We've got Essential Training here for CS6
as well as New Features for CS6, and this
| | 01:45 | is my Video Journalism Shooting course where I
talk about some editing issues inside Premiere,
| | 01:49 | as well as how to shoot.
| | 01:51 | And this DSLR course also talks
about some video shooting tips.
| | 01:55 | So those are a number of resources that you
might want to tap as you work on your projects.
| | 01:59 | Again, thanks a lot for watching, folks.
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