ADOBE Encore CS6 User Manual

ADOBE® ENCORE

February 2013

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What’s New 1...................................................................................................................................

What’s new in CS6 2............................................................................................................

What’s new in CS5............................................................................................................ 5

Workflow and workspace 7...............................................................................................................

Workspace basics 8..............................................................................................................

Workflow 14..........................................................................................................................

Managing workspaces 16.....................................................................................................

Download full library content/functional content 17..............................................................

Planning the project 18.....................................................................................................................

Project planning 19...............................................................................................................

Creating projects and importing 24...................................................................................................

Projects 25............................................................................................................................

The Resource Central panel 28............................................................................................

Aspect ratios 29....................................................................................................................

Adobe Dynamic Link 32........................................................................................................

The Project panel 36.............................................................................................................

Viewing and editing XMP metadata 39.................................................................................

Importing assets 42..............................................................................................................

Transcoding in Encore 47.....................................................................................................

Transcoding presets 49........................................................................................................

Transcript metadata in Flash output 52................................................................................

Menus 53..........................................................................................................................................

Menu basics 54.....................................................................................................................

Button subpictures 61...........................................................................................................

Creating menus 65...............................................................................................................

Multi-page menus for blu-ray discs 68..................................................................................

Using Photoshop to create menus 70...................................................................................

Edit and style menus 74.......................................................................................................

Adding text to menus 81.......................................................................................................

Button routing and numbering 87.........................................................................................

Chapter indexes into linked menus 90..................................................................................

Creating styles for menu elements 92..................................................................................

Menu color sets 94...............................................................................................................

Menu templates 97...............................................................................................................

Menu timing and looping 100................................................................................................

Using After Effects to enhance menus 102..........................................................................

Video and audio in menus 104.............................................................................................

Timelines and slide shows 108.........................................................................................................

Timeline basics 109..............................................................................................................

Create and manage timelines 113........................................................................................

Editing assets in timelines 116.............................................................................................

Chapter points 120...............................................................................................................

Slide show basics 122..........................................................................................................

Audio and subtitles 127....................................................................................................................

Audio clips 128.....................................................................................................................

Subtitle basics 130................................................................................................................

Subtitle scripts 134...............................................................................................................

Subtitle colors 139................................................................................................................

Navigation for audio and subtitle tracks 142.........................................................................

Closed captions 144.............................................................................................................

Creating and managing links 145.....................................................................................................

Playlists and chapter playlists 146........................................................................................

Navigation through links 149................................................................................................

The Flowchart panel 154......................................................................................................

Viewer interaction through the remote control 159...............................................................

Testing and building the final product 161........................................................................................

Building the finished project 162...........................................................................................

Exporting projects to Flash format 166.................................................................................

Security and additional content 173......................................................................................

Keyboard shortcuts 175....................................................................................................................

Using keyboard shortcuts 176..............................................................................................

What's New

What's new in CS6

Native 64-bit support Additional colors in button highlights Chapter PlayList support for Blu-ray and web DVDs DTS HD support for Blu-ray Upper Field First support for DVDs Enhanced color quality in pop-up menus Pixel aspect ratio correction in Preview simulator Additional slides in slideshow Option to Change the Media cache location Performance improvements Web DVD enhancements

Native 64-bit support

Encore CS6 is 64-bit native, which enables it to use the entire available RAM on your computer. You can now work more efficiently with complex projects.

Additional colors in button highlights

You can now export button highlights with 8 bit indexed colors for blu-ray discs. You can also export button highlights with full colors for web DVDs. To enable the feature, select Export Highlights in Rich Color in the Menu Properties pane.

Chapter PlayList support for Blu-ray and web DVDs

Encore CS6 includes new options that provide more flexibility when you play chapter playlists:

Sequential: Play chapter playlists sequentially. Random: Let the player randomly select a set of chapters to play. Shuffle: Let the player play all the chapters in any random order.

Encore CS6 provides only the Sequential option for chapter playlists of DVD projects. Find these options in the Chapter PlayList panel. In addition, Encore CS6 supports Random and Shuffle options for chapter playlists in web DVDs.

DTS HD support for Blu-ray

You can now import DTS HD files into Encore and build to blu-ray discs. This feature is not supported for rich media and DVD projects.

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Upper Field First support for DVDs

Enhance video quality by importing a video file in Encore CS6 with the Upper Field First setting. If you transcode the file, Encore CS6 maintains the setting in the transcoded file.

Enhanced color quality in pop-up menus

Create better quality pop-up menus for Blu-ray projects using Encore CS6. Encore CS6 uses the indexing algorithm of Photoshop Library to produce better quality images with additional colors.

Pixel aspect ratio correction in Preview simulator

Eliminate distortion and clipping of menu button highlights in the Preview simulator. Encore CS6 correctly interprets the pixel aspect ratio (PAR) of menus items in the Preview simulator. Correct PAR interpretation also helps eliminate the black bar.

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Additional slides in slideshow

You can now add more than 99 slides in a slideshow for DVD. Encore CS6 accommodates any additional slide you add beyond 99 slides in the last chapter.

Also, Encore CS6 lets you add 999 slides in a slideshow for Blu-ray. Encore CS6 accommodates any additional slide beyond 999 slides in the last chapter. However, you cannot use Manual Advance on your remote for individual slides in the last chapter.

Encore CS6 does not impose any such limitation on the number of slides you can add to a slideshow for web DVDs.

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Option to Change the Media cache location

Change the location of the media database from within Encore CS6 for greater flexibility. . A database retains links to each of the cached media files. This media cache database is shared with Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, Adobe

Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth. To change the location of the database from within Encore CS6 running on Windows, choose Edit > Preferences > Media.

Performance improvements

Encore CS6 provides several features that help improve system performance.

Faster import of images and slideshows

time to import assets.

Less time to save slideshow projects

Background processing

instead of the main thread. Encore CS6 performs indexing only for assets in MPEG 2 format. However, Encore CS6 performs DVD and Blu-ray legal checks for assets in both MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 formats.

Background processing quickly releases system resources to let you import assets in MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 formats faster.

Less time to open projects

and blu-ray discs. While opening a project that contains an imported asset, Encore CS6 quickly fetches its encoding information from the cache. The quick retrieval of encoding information helps reduce the time to open the project.

When importing files, Encore CS6 performs indexing and legal checks for DVDs and blu- ray discs in the background,

Encore CS6 stores the encoding status of each imported asset in a cache when it performs legal checks for DVDs

Encore CS6 creates proxy images for the assets only after you render the assets, which reduces the

Save slideshow projects faster with the more responsive Encore CS6 graphical user interface (GUI).

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Timeline scrubbing

Web DVD enhancements

Encore CS6 maintains parity of web DVD with DVD and blu-ray discs. Features that work on blu-ray discs and DVDs also work for web DVD. To be able to play web DVDs, you must have Adobe Flash Player 11 or higher installed on your computer.

Full control over web DVD presets

You can add custom presets or remove a preset. Click the Advanced button in the Edit Quality Presets panel to customize the presets. The custom presets are displayed in the Build panel.

Multi-page menu support

Multi-page pop-up menu support

the timelines using a remote.

Button autoactivate

This feature is also available for web DVDs.

End action overrides

action overrides on web DVDs, in addition to blu-ray discs and DVD.

Menu remembers last highlighted button

Scrub a timeline in Encore CS6 without worrying about stuttering in the Preview pane.

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Adjust the bit rate when exporting video to a web DVD using the wide range of Encore CS6 video presets.

Multi-page menus are now available for web DVDs in addition to blu-ray discs.

Create pop-up menus using Encore CS6 and attach them to timelines on a web DVD. Viewers can access

With Encore CS6, you can configure a blu-ray disc or DVD menu button to activate automatically when you navigate to it.

Dynamically control navigation through a project in Encore CS6 using End action overrides. Encore CS6 supports End

In Encore CS6, a web DVD menu remembers the last menu button that a user highlights.

Menu loopback support

Now add loopbacks to a web DVD motion menu in addition to blu-ray discs and DVDs. Menu loopbacks enable the

menu to quickly loop from a specific point. The feature is especially useful when a long interval separates the start and end points in a menu.

Button transition

After you click a menu button on a web DVD, play a transition for the button before the timeline starts.

Subtitle language setup menu

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Use this feature to indicate the currently active subtitle track for a web DVD when a menu is displayed.

What’s new in CS5

Auto-fix subtitle frame gaps for blu-ray discs (Encore CS5.1) Option to change the media cache location (Encore CS5.1) Multi-page menus for Blu-ray discs Flash DVD enhancements Export DDP image to hard disk Synchronize timelines with the asset’s frame rate and dimensions Open and edit projects across platforms Set 24p frame rate for Blu-ray projects Out- of-process transcoding Red 4K import AVCHD passthrough

Auto-fix subtitle frame gaps for blu-ray discs (Encore CS5.1)

Automatically resize one or both the flanking subtitle clips such that the gap separating them is five frames. The automatic adjustment eliminates chances of errors due to insufficient gaps between subtitle clips, which prevent a blu-ray disc from burning.

Use Auto Fix Subtitle Frame Gaps for all timelines on blu-ray discs, except for timelines with frame dimensions 720x480. For more information, see

Automatically fix subtitle frame gaps for Blu-ray discs .

Option to change the media cache location (Encore CS5.1)

When importing media files (in certain formats), change the media cache location from within Adobe® Encore® CS5.1 to improve the performance of previews. The flexibility provided by the feature lets you configure the media cache location in a separate machine to offset memory overheads on the production machine.

A media cache database retains links to the cached media files. The database shares the links with Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth to let each application use the same media files. Sharing the same cache files ensures database consistency across applications. For more information, see Set Media preferences

Multi-page menus for Blu-ray discs

A multi-page menu is a single PSD file containing multiple pages that are linked to each other. A page is a layer group in the PSD file containing buttons. The buttons link to parts of the menu, or to a chapter point in the timeline. Multi-page menus can be created in Encore, or imported from Photoshop. For more information, see Multi-page menus for blu-ray discs.

Flash DVD enhancements

Search text subtitles in Flash DVD. The new Flash DVD player has customizable playback controls that help you readily navigate and search content in the movie. Performance enhancements ensure smoother playback at low bandwidths, and reduced glitch at chapter markers during streaming. For more information, see Play Flash DVD output files.

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Export DDP image to hard disk

Directly export DDP images to your computer’s hard disk, and deliver it to the replication facility using FTP. Delivery through electronic media is faster, and does not involve the extra hardware associated with DLT. For more information, see Build a DVD or Blue-ray disc .

Synchronize timelines with the asset’s frame rate and dimensions

Encore also allows you to use the same asset in multiple timelines that can have different frame rates or dimensions. In such cases, Encore transcodes these assets for each timeline with the frame rate and dimensions of the timeline in which it is placed.

For assets with different frame rates and dimensions, Encore creates timelines that are synchronized with the asset’s properties. The synchronization helps provide real- time playback, and better accuracy in subtitle positioning.

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Open and edit projects across platforms

Open an Encore project created in Mac on a Windows machine, and the other way round. Also, you can open and edit projects created in Encore CS4 and earlier versions. For more information, see Open and edit projects across platforms.

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Set 24p frame rate for Blu-ray projects

Encore automatically chooses the relevant 24 fps transcoding preset when you use the Transcode Now option to transcode the asset. For Blu-ray assets that are not legal, the default values for transcoding are used.

Out-of-process transcoding

Out-of-process transcoding enables you to transcode assets in the Adobe Media Encoder application in the Transcode Now workflow. When you enable out-of-process transcoding, the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) is launched as a separate process. For more information, see Out-of -process transcoding.

Red 4K import

Movie frames shot using Red cameras can be imported into Encore from Premiere Pro at their full resolution (4K) using Dynamic Link. Encore provides an improved quality of playback for these high resolution files.

AVCHD passthrough

Encore does not transcode Blu ray legal (as per BD spec) AVCHD files (MTS,M2TS) when building a blu ray. For more information, see AVCHD

passthrough.

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Workflow and workspace

Workspace basics

About workspaces Dock, group, or float panels Resize panel groups Open, close, and scroll to panels Working with multiple monitors Use context, panel, and viewer menus Tools panel overview Set preferences for workspace

About workspaces

Adobe video and audio applications provide a consistent, customizable workspace. Although each application has its own set of panels (such as Project, Metadata, and Timeline), you move and group panels in the same way across products.

The main window of a program is the application window. Panels are organized in this window in an arrangement called a workspace. The default workspace contains groups of panels as well as panels that stand alone.

You customize a workspace by arranging panels in the layout that best suits your working style. As you rearrange panels, the other panels resize automatically to fit the window. You can create and save several custom workspaces for different tasks—for example, one for editing and one for previewing.

You can use floating windows to create a workspace more like workspaces in previous versions of Adobe applications, or to place panels on multiple monitors.

In these two tutorials Andrew Devis from Creative Cow shows how to use different workspaces, and how to customize your workspace .

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Example workspace A. Application window B. Grouped panels C. Individual panel

Dock, group, or float panels

You can dock panels together, move them into or out of groups, and undock them so they float above the application window. As you drag a panel, drop zones—areas onto which you can move the panel—become highlighted. The drop zone you choose determines where the panel is inserted, and whether it docks or groups with other panels.

Docking zones

Docking zones exist along the edges of a panel, group, or window. Docking a panel places it adjacent to the existing group, resizing all groups to accommodate the new panel.

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Dragging panel (A) onto docking zone (B) to dock it (C)

Grouping zones

Grouping zones exist in the middle of a panel or group, and along the tab area of panels. Dropping a panel on a grouping zone stacks it with other panels.

Dragging panel (A) onto grouping zone (B) to group it with existing panels (C)

Dock or group panels

1. If the panel you want to dock or group is not visible, choose it from the Window menu.

2. Do one of the following:

To move an individual panel, drag the gripper area in the upper-left corner of a panel’s tab onto the desired drop zone.

Drag panel gripper to move one panel

To move an entire group, drag the group gripper in the upper-right corner onto the desired drop zone.

Drag group gripper to move entire group

The application docks or groups the panel, according to the type of drop zone.

Undock a panel in a floating window

When you undock a panel in a floating window, you can add panels to the window and modify it similarly to the application window. You can use floating windows to use a secondary monitor, or to create workspaces like the workspaces in earlier versions of Adobe applications.

Select the panel you want to undock (if it’s not visible, choose it from the Window menu), and then do one of the following:

Choose Undock Panel or Undock Frame from the panel menu. Undock Frame undocks the panel group. Hold down Ctrl (Windows®) or Command (Mac OS®), and drag the panel or group from its current location. When you

release the mouse button, the panel or group appears in a new floating window. Drag the panel or group outside the application window. (If the application window is maximized, drag the panel to the

Windows taskbar.)

Resize panel groups

When you position the pointer over dividers between panel groups, resize icons appear. When you drag these icons, all groups that share the divider are resized. For example, suppose your workspace contains three panel groups stacked vertically. If you drag the divider between the bottom two groups, they are resized, but the topmost group doesn’t change.

To quickly maximize a panel beneath the pointer, press the accent key. (Do not press Shift.) Press the accent key again to return the panel to its original size.

1. Do either of the following: To resize either horizontally or vertically, position the pointer between two panel groups. The pointer becomes a double-arrow .

To resize in both directions at once, position the pointer at the intersection between three or more panel groups. The pointer becomes a four-way arrow

2. Hold down the mouse button, and drag to resize the panel groups.

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Dragging divider between panel groups to resize them horizontally A. Original group with resize icon B. Resized groups

Open, close, and scroll to panels

When you close a panel group in the application window, the other groups resize to use the newly available space. When you close a floating window, the panels within it close, too.

To open a panel, choose it from the Window menu. To close a panel or window, press Control-W (Windows) or Command-W (Mac OS), or click its Close button . To see all the panel tabs in a narrow panel group, drag the horizontal scroll bar. To bring a panel to the front of a group of panels, do one of the following:

Click the tab of the panel you want in front. Hover the cursor above the tab area, and turn the mouse scroll wheel. Scrolling brings each panel to the front, one after

another. Drag tabs horizontally to change their order.

To reveal panels hidden in a narrow panel group, drag the scroll bar above the panel group.

Drag horizontal scroll bar to see all panels in narrow group

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Working with multiple monitors

To increase the available screen space, use multiple monitors. When you work with multiple monitors, the application window appears on one monitor, and you place floating windows on the second monitor. Monitor configurations are stored in the workspace.

Use context, panel, and viewer menus

In addition to the menus at the top of your screen, Encore also provides context, panel, and viewer menus. Context menus contain commands relative to the active tool or selection. Panel menus contain commands relevant to the active panel. You use the viewer menus to choose which item to display in the viewer, or to close items.

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Use a context or panel menu

Do one of the following:

To use a context menu, position the pointer over the active window or selection and right-click (Windows) or Control-click

(Mac OS). Choose a menu item, or click outside the menu to close it. To use a panel menu, click the triangle in the upper-right corner of a panel, and then choose a menu item or click outside

the menu to close it.

Use a viewer menu

Encore provides viewers for its timelines, slide shows, menus, and chapter playlists. Viewers are panels in which you edit a type of DVD or Blu-ray element. Slideshow Viewer, for example, lets you edit slide shows. You can set the Encore preferences to specify whether items of the same type open in a single viewer or in multiple viewers. For viewers with multiple items open, use the viewer menu to select the item you want to work with.

Click the triangle in the Viewer tab, and choose the element you want to work with. You can also close the current item or all the items.

Tools panel overview

You use the Tools panel when working in the Menu Viewer and the Flowchart. It contains tools to select layers or objects in a menu, enter text, zoom in and out, and move objects in the Flowchart. It also contains shortcuts for editing a menu in Photoshop and previewing a project.

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Tools panel

A. Selection tool B. Direct Select tool C. Move tool D. Rotate tool E. Text tool F. Vertical Text tool G. Zoom tool H. Edit Menu in Photoshop I. Preview

Set preferences for workspace

You can set numerous preferences for your workspace. These include adjusting the brightness of the user interface and controlling the default television standard used for creating projects.

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Set workspace appearance preferences

Appearance preferences include software -wide settings that affect your workspace.

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Appearance (Windows) or Encore > Preferences > Appearance (Mac OS).

2. Set any of the following options:

Brightness

Separate Viewers For

edit each element type in its own viewer. Timelines, for example, are edited in the Timeline viewer. Select an option to open that element type in a new viewer; deselect an option to open all elements of that type in a single viewer. For example, to open all menus in a single Menu Viewer, deselect Menus. When a single viewer contains more than one item, use its viewer menu to access the desired element. For more information, see Use a viewer menu .

Show Tool Tips

interface elements. This setting is enabled by default.

Beep On Render Completion

the option to enable the beep.

Use the slider to set the brightness of the interface. Click Default to return the brightness to the factory default.

Specifies how new timelines, menus, slide shows, and chapter playlists are opened. In Encore, you

Specifies whether tool tips (brief labels or explanations) appear as the pointer moves over tools and other

Specifies whether Encore beeps when it finishes building a project or transcoding a file. Select

Set Media preferences

Media preferences include settings for clearing the Adobe media cache database file and specifying the location for the Encore Library file.

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Media (Windows) or Encore > Preferences > Media (Mac OS).

2. Set any of the following options:

Library Content

Files in this Library folder appear in the Library panel.

Resource Central Content

audio and video in certain formats, it processes and caches versions of these items for easy access when generating previews.

The media cache improves the performance of previews, because the system does not reprocess audio and video items for each preview. A media cache database retains links to each cached media file. This database is shared with Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth.

Each application can read from and write to the same set of cached media files. If you change the location of the database from within any application, the location is updated for the other applications simultaneously. Each application can use its own cache folder. However, the same database tracks all the applications.

Do one of the following:

To move the media cache or the media cache database, click the corresponding Browse button. To remove conformed and indexed files from the cache and their entries from the database, click Clean.

Clean Database

and video applications. The database tracks media accelerator files that improve performance and speed. For example, if Adobe Premiere Pro creates a conformed audio file, and you import media with that audio into Encore, Encore uses the file from Adobe Premiere Pro instead of creating a new conformed file. The media cache database informs Encore of the conformed file’s location.

Specifies the location of the Library folder for functional content, such as predesigned menus and buttons.

Lets you change the location of the media database from within Encore. When Encore imports

Frees up additional disc space by removing old files in the media cache database shared by Adobe audio

Write XMP IDs to Files On Import

all Adobe Production Premium applications access the same cached previews and conformed audio files, preventing

Automatically inserts a unique document ID into each imported file. These IDs ensure that

additional rendering and conforming. This is a global setting—a change in one Production Premium application affects all the

others. This setting also results in new file modification dates when IDs are initially inserted.

To save rendering time when transferring a project to another machine, move both cached and original files.

Set General preferences

General preferences include default settings for the software regardless of the project you’re working on.

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Encore > Preferences > General (Mac OS).

2. Set any of the following options:

Default Television Standard

Specifies the default TV standard (either NTSC or PAL) for new projects. Encore determines

the default setting according to the operating system’s language.

Playback Quality

Specifies the playback quality for the Preview and Monitor panels, as well as thumbnails. Select the desired setting from the menu: High to display video at full resolution; Draft to display video at one-half resolution; and Automatic to use draft quality for playback, which changes to high quality when the playback is paused or stopped.

Desktop Display Mode (Windows only)

Compatible

Displays video on the desktop in a nonaccelerated manner. This mode is appropriate for use on a

Sets one of three options for playback through a graphics display card:

graphics card that does not support Direct3D 9.0 acceleration. This option is the lowest-performance display mode.

Standard

Uses hardware capabilities on Direct3D 9.0-capable graphics cards to accelerate video playback on the

desktop.

Accelerated GPU Effects

Uses advanced hardware features present in the newest generation of Direct3D 9.0-

capable graphics cards to accelerate video playback as well as several effects on the desktop.

Reset Warning Dialogs

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Workflow

Encore lets you create many different kinds of projects for DVDs, Blu-ray discs, or interactive Adobe Flash® files. Whether the content is a feature film, a wedding, a training course, or an art collection, the basic steps for creating a project are the same.

Note: For a video tutorial about creating projects in Encore, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0239. For an overview of Encore, see

www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4226_enc.

Although the order of the tasks can vary somewhat from project to project, authoring with Encore involves the following basic tasks:

Plan the project

Regardless of the project's complexity, it is helpful to plan the content and flow of your project. Whether you sketch each of the elements, create a flowchart, or use a spreadsheet to map the path through the content, drafting a navigation scenario can help you clarify your ideas and anticipate problems before you start. For information, see About planning.

Simple sketch of intended navigation scheme

Import assets

Prepare your source material (assets) for the project, and import them into Encore. The assets include any video, still images, audio, and subtitles for your project. You can import Adobe Premiere® Pro sequences without rendering them through the Adobe Dynamic Link. For information, see

Import assets and menus.

Create project elements and add assets

An Encore project includes element types such as timelines and slide shows. You add assets to these elements to include the assets in the project. Depending upon an asset’s type, you can add it to timelines, slide shows, menus, playlists, and chapter playlists. For information, see About timelines, About slide shows, Playlists, and Chapter playlists.

Create menus

The menus give the viewer access to the content. You can create menus directly in Encore, customize predesigned menus included with the software, or create and edit menus in Adobe Photoshop®. For information, see About menus.

Specify navigation

Menus provide the main way for viewers to navigate through the content. In addition to menus, you also use other types of navigation settings, such as end actions and overrides, to guide the viewer. Encore gives you several methods for setting the navigation—you can drag between the elements and buttons in Menu Viewer, use the Properties panel, or work with navigation in Flowchart. For a typical project, you’ll set navigation with all of these methods, choosing whichever is most convenient at the time. For information, see Project navigation and links.

Make video and audio compatible (transcoding)

If you imported video and audio files that aren’t DVD or Blu-ray Disc -compatible, Encore transcodes the files before you burn the disc. You can let Encore determine the best settings for transcoding or select the options you feel are best for your project. For information, see About transcoding.

Preview the project

You should preview and check a project throughout the authoring process, especially before you burn the disc. Previewing lets you experience the project as a viewer would, using the remote control to move through it. The Check Project feature verifies technical details and informs you of any problems, such as broken links or invalid end actions. For information, see Preview a project, and Check a project.

Burn the disc

You can build and burn the DVD or Blu-ray disc directly from Encore. Or, if you plan to use a replication facility, you can write to a DLT drive, prepare a folder, or create a DVD or Blu-ray image to give to the replicator. For information, see Build a DVD or Blu -ray disc.

Export to Flash format

You can export your final projects to a Flash format for interactive viewing on the web. For information, see Exporting projects to Flash format. More Help topics

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Managing workspaces

Choose a workspace Save, reset, or delete workspaces

Choose a workspace

Each Adobe video and audio application includes several predefined workspaces that optimize the layout of panels for specific tasks. When you choose one of these workspaces, or any custom workspaces you’ve saved, the current workspace is redrawn accordingly.

Open the project you want to work on, choose Window > Workspace, and select the desired workspace.

Save, reset, or delete workspaces

Save a custom workspace

As you customize a workspace, the application tracks your changes, storing the most recent layout. To store a specific layout more permanently, save a custom workspace. Saved custom workspaces appear in the Workspace menu, where you can return to and reset them.

Arrange the frames and panels as desired, and then choose Window > Workspace > New Workspace. Type a name for the workspace, and

click OK.

Note: (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore) If a project saved with a custom workspace is opened on another system, the application looks for a workspace with a matching name. If it can’t find a match (or the monitor configuration doesn’t match), it uses the current local workspace.

Reset a workspace

Reset the current workspace to return to its original, saved layout of panels.

Choose Window > Workspace > Reset workspace name.

Delete a workspace

1. Choose Window > Workspace >Delete Workspace.

2. Choose the workspace you want to delete, and then click OK.

Note: You cannot delete the currently active workspace.

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Download full library content/functional content

Extract library content Link Encore with library content

To obtain the entire library content, click the desired locale and download the .zip file to a location on your computer.

English French German Japanese Italian Spanish Korean

To use the library content within Encore, extract the contents of the downloaded .zip file and then link Encore with the extracted content.

Extract library content

Extract the downloaded .zip file. A .7z file (for example en -US.7z) is created.

1. Depending upon your operating system, download the appropriate unzip utility: Windows: 7-zip (visit http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)

Mac OS: Mac unarchiver (visit http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html)

2. Using the unzip utility, extract the contents of the .7z file to a location on your computer. Based on your locale, a folder

containing the extracted library content is created (for example en-US).

Link Encore with library content

Do one of the following:

Depending upon your operating system, copy the Library, main, Styles, and Template folders from the folder containing the extracted library content to the appropriate location:

Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Encore CS6\ Mac OS: Applications/Adobe Encore CS6/

Launch Encore and link the library to the location where you extracted the library content:

Mac OS: Select Encore > Preferences > Media. Browse to the Library folder of the extracted library content, and then click Ok.

Windows: Select Edit > Preferences > Media. Browse to the Library folder of the extracted library content and then click Ok.

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Planning the project

Project planning

content will fit on the disc. This balance is achieved by manipulating the video content’s data rate—either automatically (by letting Encore set the

Planning the content Balancing file size and quality Bit budgeting

You can design, author, and build media projects in Adobe Encore for high-definition Blu-ray Disc and standard-definition DVD. Encore gives you options to burn directly to a disc or other types of output for disc replication. As an added bonus, you can export Blu-ray and DVD projects to Flash format for interactive viewing on the web.

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Planning the content

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About planning

The first task of authoring the project is planning. This planning can be as minimal as deciding to use a template to organize your family’s vacation photos and video, or as robust as using project-management software to coordinate a production team creating an interactive kiosk.

Whatever the scope of planning, you should understand what the project will contain and how you want to present it. By the end of the planning stage, you should have a good understanding of the following parameters.

The navigation scheme

A well-produced project employs a hierarchy of navigation that gives the viewer clear and easy access to the content. Think through your project. After you decide which clips you want to include, you need to determine how the viewer will access those clips. Whether you use a spreadsheet or a pencil sketch, it is worth the time to draft your navigation scheme before you start.

The intended playback environment

Is the project intended for television viewing? Will it play unattended in a kiosk ? Is it for use in an educational setting on computers? The playback environment affects your approach to navigation and the design of the menus as well as the content. If the project will be used only on a computer (on the desktop or in a web browser), you can include ROM content that a television DVD or Blu-ray player cannot access. For instance, you can include PDFs of exercises in an educational DVD to be used on the computer. If you’re planning to export your project to Flash format, you can embed web links that connect your project to other areas in your website.

Types and amount of content to be included

To make certain decisions—for instance, about disc size and video data rate—you need to know how much content you must fit on the disc and what type it is (such as standard-definition or high-definition video). Small projects that include mostly audio might fit on a single-layer DVD, whereas projects containing feature-length movies and many supplemental materials might require a dual-layer or dual-sided DVD or a Blu-ray disc.

Planning with the Flowchart

The Flowchart feature provides a visual interface that helps you to plan and manage the creation of the project. Use the Flowchart from the initial stages of the project, when you determine navigation and begin organizing assets.

Note:

If you’re new to authoring these types of projects, plan your navigation scheme on paper and start using the Flowchart after you are familiar

with the different element types and their properties.

The Flowchart displays the content of the project graphically, in a tree structure, detailing the navigation between the different elements. This visual representation can help you to see areas where the navigation is cluttered and you want to refine. Beyond providing a visual representation of the project, the Flowchart also lets you perform many authoring tasks, such as setting project navigation.

If your project contains multiple hierarchical objects, use the zoom controls on the flowchart panel to view the relevant parts of the flowchart. In addition, the tool tips show asset names when you hover the mouse over them.

For a video tutorial about using the Flowchart to plan your projects, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0240.

Balancing file size and quality

File size and quality

Authoring a DVD or Blu-ray project involves striking a balance between two competing properties: file size and video quality. As quality increases, so does file size. You want to achieve the highest possible quality for your content while keeping the file sizes small enough so that all of the

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data rate) or directly (by setting the transcoding settings or using a third-party application).

You determine the optimal data rate through the process of bit budgeting. To understand bit budgeting, you first need to understand the variables involved: disc size, types and amounts of assets (audio, video, and motion menus), and data rates and transcoding. Once familiar with the variables involved, you’ll be able to produce a bit budget to guide you in producing high-quality projects that fit within the allotted disc space.

Determining disc size

Before you can prepare a bit budget, you must determine the size of disc on which to distribute your project. Encore can create projects for 25-GB Blu-ray discs and for a variety of DVD disc sizes. The size you choose is based on the amount of video and the replication method.

Typically, a Blu-ray disc can hold 135 minutes of high-definition video using MPEG -2 plus 2 hours of standard-definition bonus material, or it can hold a total of 10 hours of standard-definition content. Encore also supports H.264 encoding for Blu-ray projects, which provides better quality at lower bit rates than MPEG-2 and therefore more video time. Desktop DVD burners use a recordable DVD-5 disc (DVD+/ -R), which has a 4.7-GB capacity and can hold approximately 2 hours of high-quality, standard- definition video.

Encore also supports DLT (digital linear tape), which requires a DLT drive connected to your computer, as well as dual-layer DVDs and dual-sided DVDs. Check your DVD recorder’s documentation to see if it can create dual-sided or dual-layer discs. If your disc recorder cannot produce these discs, Encore can still create the project files for them, but you’ll need to replicate the disc at a replication facility.

When preparing a project for dual-layer or dual-sided DVDs, keep the following information in mind:

Dual-layer disc

requires. To replicate dual-layer DVDs at a replication facility, you first must write your project to two separate DLTs, one tape for each layer of the disc, using the DVD Master output option. (See Build a DVD or Blu-ray disc and Specify a layer break for dual-layer DVDs.)

Note:

Be aware that +R discs may be incompatible with some DVD players. Before duplicating a large quantity of discs, it’s worthwhile to create a sample disc and test it on several different DVD players. Replication facilities, whose paramount purpose is duplicating discs, create discs with the widest possible compatibility.

Dual-sided disc

Master output option to write each project to its own DLT. (See Build a DVD or Blu-ray disc and Replicating discs.)

Dual-sided, dual-layer disc

of the first project (Side 1). The other two tapes represent the two layers of the second project (Side 2).

Encore supports DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL discs; check your recorder’s documentation to see what type of DVDs (+R or -R) it

For dual-sided DVDs, you must create two separate projects. If you will replicate the DVDs at an outside facility, use the DVD

In this case, you need to build two projects, each producing two tapes. The first two tapes represent the two layers

Set the disc size for DVD projects

By setting the disc size for your DVD project at the beginning of the authoring process, Encore can calculate how much space is used for each asset you add to the project and how much space remains free.

1. Choose Window > Build.

2. In the Build panel, choose DVD from the Format menu, and scroll down to the Disc Info section.

3. Choose a size from the Size menu. To enter a custom disc size, choose Custom and then type a size in the text box.

4. If you want to create a dual-sided disc, specify which side this project is for.

5. Close the Build panel and save the project.

Check the space remaining on your disc

The Build panel displays the available space and the used space for the specified disc size during the authoring process. The display conveys size information only and has no bearing on quality. Encore calculates the free space using the transcoding data rate (whether it was set automatically or manually). It then combines this estimated bit rate with the actual bit rate of any transcoded clips and, based on the disc size, calculates the space remaining on your disc.

When transcoding assets, Encore attempts to maintain the highest quality (highest data rate) for the amount of video in the project. If you continue to add video to a project, the program lowers the video data rate to squeeze in the additional content. Encore will warn you if quality dips below a certain level once you build the project or run Check Project.

Choose Window > Build to display the Build panel, and scroll down to the Disc Info section. Encore displays the amounts of used video space, free space, and space used for ROM content. Respectively, the “thermometer” graphic uses blue, white, and green colors to show the amounts.

Asset types and amounts

Of all the content types, the video portion occupies the most disc space. Depending on the data rate, 1 minute of standard-definition video for DVD projects can occupy up to 73.5 MB, at a rate of 9.8 megabits per second (Mbps). One minute of high-definition video for a Blu-ray project

can occupy from 270 to 405 MB (using rates of 36 Mbps and 54 Mbps). One minute of compressed audio, on the other hand, occupies only 11.5

MB. Still menus are negligible in terms of size. (See Average asset size.)

The amount of video in a project directly affects the optimal data rate. You need an accurate tally of the amount of video in a project to develop a bit budget and to choose a disc size. If the project contains 1 hour of video, for example, it can be transcoded at twice the data rate as a project with 2 hours of video content. Although the video content in each project occupies the same amount of disc space, the quality of the hour-long video will be superior (though not necessarily by a factor of 2).

Data rates

Data rates, usually expressed in Mbps (megabits per second, or 1,000,000 bits per second), specify the amount of data contained in an asset stream and directly affect the quality of video. The data rate is used during transcoding to compress the asset. For video assets, the Encore transcode presets use data rates ranging from 15 to 40 Mbps for Blu-ray projects and from 4 to 9 Mbps for DVD projects. You can edit the presets’ data rates, but you cannot exceed 40 Mbps for Blu-ray projects or 9.0 Mbps for DVD projects, nor can you go below the Encore minimum data rate of 2.0 Mbps. Typical data rates for video range between 4 and 6 Mbps. If bit budgeting targets a data rate less than 6 Mbps, consider using variable bit rate (VBR) encoding. For more information about VBR, see Calculate a bit budget .

Although data rates are a general indicator of quality, there are no hard-and-fast rules to equate data rate to quality. That is, a data rate of 4 Mbps may or may not produce a high-quality asset; quality depends on the image data and type of compression used as well as data rate. For example, video of a seated person shot against a solid background can probably be compressed to a lower data rate than a fast-paced car chase with constantly changing visuals, with no noticeable differences in quality.

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About bit budgeting

Bit budgeting , or estimating the amount of space your project will occupy, is an important part of planning. Bit budgeting helps you strike a balance between the quantity and quality of content and determine the optimal video data rate. If your project includes minimal amounts of content, you can encode that content at a higher data rate (which translates to higher quality) to take advantage of all available space. Conversely, if your project contains a large amount of content, you need to use a lower data rate (which translates to lower quality) to squeeze it all onto the disc.

Encore automatically tracks bit budgeting during the authoring process. For small projects with limited content, simply checking the amount of available space on the Build panel during the authoring process is usually sufficient to track your space usage. For large, complex projects, though, bit budgeting becomes much more important to the authoring process, providing a check against the actual data rates achieved.

Generally, for projects with less than 2 hours of video, you can skip bit budgeting and let Encore set the data rate automatically.

Calculate a bit budget

Bit budgeting provides a target video data rate for the project. You can either use a pencil and paper to quickly develop one, or you can create a spreadsheet to do the calculations for you.

When bit budgeting for projects to be distributed on 4.7 -GB DVDs that contain a single stream of compressed audio, you can use the simplified formula of 560 / x = bit rate in Mbps, where “x” represents minutes of video.

1. Calculate the total disc space available for the entire project.

2. Calculate the disc space available for video. You achieve this by calculating the space required for audio, slide shows, subtitles, and motion menus (other types of content are negligible in terms of bit budgeting), and subtracting that amount from the total disc space. For more information, see Average asset size.

If you include ROM content, make sure to include it in the space calculation. (See Add ROM content to the disc.)

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3. Calculate the target data rate of the video. You determine this by dividing the amount of space available for video by the amount of video in the project.

4. Determine the maximum video bit rate by subtracting the combined audio and subtitle rate from the data rate limit. (For example, if your combined audio and subtitle rate is 3.0 Mbps, subtracting that from the 9.8 Mbps DVD data rate limit gives you a video rate of 6.8 Mbps.) Your goal is to determine the highest possible target video data rate within the disc data rate limit. If your target data rate is below 6 Mbps, consider using variable bit rate (VBR) encoding. When you use VBR encoding, you specify the maximum video data rate. (The average data rate is the target, but the maximum rate provides some flexibility when encoding.)

Keep your calculations simple by working with megabits (Mbits) and not megabytes (MB) when bit budgeting. Mbps

Note:

denotes megabits per second. Also, hard-disk capacity is typically calculated as a power of 2 (1 KB = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes), while optical disc (DVD) capacity is labeled as a power of 10 (1 KB = 10^3 bytes = 1,000 bytes). Use the power-of-10 scheme for bit budgeting. The following conversion factors will aid in the calculations: 1 GB = 10^9 bytes = 1,000,000,000 bytes = 8,000,000,000 bits; 1,000,000 bits = 1 Mbit.

Average asset size

Use the following averages for bit budgeting:

Audio

If compressed using the Dolby® Digital Stereo standard, audio is generally 192,000 bits per second (0.192 Mbps). Use 0.192 Mbps or

reference the settings for the audio encoder you plan to use.

Subpictures

for calculations.

Motion menus

audio data rate. (If the video is already DVD- or Blu-ray -compliant, then it won’t be transcoded, and you should use the data rate of the video file.)

Still menus Slide shows

If the slide show contains no transitions or effects, the slides are written to the disc as MPEG stills, which require minimal space. Stills average 230 KB in size, which is typically negligible for bit budgeting. If you have a large number of images, however, you should include them in your calculation.

If the slide show includes transitions, then Encore writes both stills and transcoded MPEG video files for the transitions. For example, if a given image appears for 10 seconds, with a 2 -second transition at the beginning and the end, then the still is written to the disc (displayed for 6 seconds) as well as two 2-second MPEG video files that contain the transition frames.

If the slide show includes pan and zoom, then Encore transcodes the stills into an MPEG video file. Slide shows with pan and zoom, in essence, become video content and require the same space allotment as video files. For example, a 5-minute slide show that uses pan and zoom throughout counts as 5 minutes of video content for bit-budgeting purposes.

Insignificant in terms of bit budgeting, unless you include subtitles. If you do include subtitles, use 0.010 Mbps per subpicture stream

Typically have a data rate of 8 Mbps for the transcoded standard- definition video or 40 Mbps for high definition; add this to the

Typically insignificant in terms of bit budgeting and can usually be left out of the calculation. Still menus average 230 KB in size.

The asset size for a slide show depends on whether you include transitions or the Random Pan & Zoom effect:

Sample budget #1

Bit budgeting for a simple DVD project containing 2 hours and 13 minutes of standard-definition video, without any audio, to be distributed on a

4.7-GB disc proceeds as follows:

1. Calculate the total available disc space in bits. A 4.7 GB disc contains 4,700,000,000 bytes; each byte contains 8 bits. 4,700,000,000 x 8 = 37,600,000,000 bits.

2. Calculate the disc space available for video. Combine the size of the audio, subtitles, motion menus, and 4% of the disc capacity (for overhead, just to be safe), and then subtract that sum from the total available space you calculated in step 1. Since this example has no audio, subtitles, or motion menus, you subtract only the 4% for overhead (1,504,000,000 bits) to get a value of 36,096,000,000 bits.

3. Calculate the data rate of the video. Divide the disc space available for video that you determined in step 2 by the amount of video (in seconds) the project contains. 36,096,000,000 bits / (133 minutes x 60 seconds per minute) = 4,523,308.27 bps. Divide the bps amount by 1 million bits per Mbit to convert the video data rate to Mbps. 4,523,308.27 / 1,000,000 = 4.5 Mbps.

4. Determine the maximum video data rate. Subtract the combined audio, subtitles, and motion menu data rates, zero in this instance, from the maximum DVD video data rate of 9.8 Mbps. 9.8 Mbps - 0 = 9.8 Mbps. Because this is very close to the maximum rate for DVD, you can lower it to 9.0 Mbps to be safe.

The video will fit on the disc using a data rate of 4.5 Mbps. This data rate (4.5 Mbps) is low enough (below 6 Mbps) that you should use VBR encoding. The maximum video data rate for VBR encoding is 9.0 Mbps.

Sample budget #2

Proceed as follows for bit budgeting of a 120-minute standard-definition video with three audio tracks, two subtitle tracks, two motion menus, and a 1-minute movie preview to be burned to an 8.54-GB DVD:

1. Calculate the total available disc space in bits. An 8.54-GB disc contains 8,540,000,000 bytes; each byte contains 8 bits. 8,540,000,000 x 8 = 68,320,000,000 bits = 68,320 Mbits.

2. Calculate the disc space available for video. Combine the size of the audio, subtitles, motion menus, movie preview, and 4% of the disc capacity (for overhead, just to be safe), and then subtract that sum from the total available space you calculated in step 1.

Three 120-minute audio streams, two with a data rate of 0.192 Mbps, and one with a rate of 0.448 Mbps: 2 x (120 minutes x 60 seconds per minute x 0.192 Mbps) + (120 minutes x 60 seconds per minute x 0.448 Mbps) = 5,990.4 Mbits.

Two subtitles with a data rate of 0.010 Mbps: 2 x (120 minutes x 60 seconds per minute) x 0.010 Mbps = 144 Mbits. Two 24-second motion menus with an estimated data rate of 8 Mbps: 2 x (24 seconds x 8 Mbps) = 384 Mbits.

One-minute movie preview with a data rate of 4.5 Mbps: 60 seconds x 4.5 Mbps = 270 Mbits.

4% overhead: 0.04 x 68,320,000,000 bits = 2,732,800,000 bits = 2,732.8 Mbits.

Total audio, subtitles, motion menus, preview, and overhead sizes: 5,990.4 Mbits + 144 Mbits + 384 Mbits + 270 Mbits + 2,732.8 Mbits = 9,521.2 Mbits.

Disc space available for video: 68,320 Mbits - 9,521 Mbits = 58,799 Mbits.

3. Calculate the data rate of the video. Divide the disc space available for video that you determined in step 2 by the amount of video (in seconds) the project contains: 58,799 Mbits / (120 minutes x 60 seconds per minute) = 8.16 Mbps.

4. Determine the maximum video data rate. Subtract the combined audio and subtitles data rates from the maximum DVD video data rate of 9.8 Mbps: 9.8 Mbps - (0.192 + 0.192 + 0.448 + 0.010 + 0.010) = 8.95 Mbps.

The video will fit on the disc using a data rate of 8.16 Mbps, which is below the maximum video data rate of 8.95. Furthermore, because the target video data rate of 8.16 Mbps is above 6 Mbps, you do not need to use VBR.

Sample budget #3

Here is an example of a bit budget for a Blu -ray Disc project that contains 2 hours and 7 minutes of high-definition (HD) video and audio, one 30-second HD motion menu with 30 seconds of audio, and one HD pan-and-zoom slide show containing 50 slides and 8 minutes of audio (total slide show duration is 8 minutes), to be distributed on a 25 -GB disc:

1. Total available disc space is 24.5 GB (25-GB disc capacity minus a very conservative 2% overhead of 0.5 GB).

2. Space required for the audio, motion menu, and slide show:

127-minute audio stream with a data rate of 0.192 Mbps = 127 minutes x 60 seconds x 0.192 = 1,463.04 Mbits; divided by 8 bits = 182.88 MB, rounded off to 183 MB.

30-second menu audio stream = 30 seconds x 0.192 Mbps = 5.76 Mbits; divided by 8 bits = 0.72 MB, rounded off to 1 MB.

8-minute slide show audio stream = 8 minutes x 60 seconds x 0.192 Mbps = 92.16 Mbits; divided by 8 bits = 11.52 MB, rounded off to 12 MB.

30-second motion menu at 40 Mbps = 1,200 Mbits; divided by 8 bits = 150 MB. 8-minute slide show video (all pan and zoom) at 20 Mbps = 8 minutes x 60 seconds x 20 Mbps = 9,600 Mbits; divided by

8 bits = 1,200 MB or 1.2 GB. Total disc space required = 183 MB + 1 MB + 12 MB + 150 MB + 1,200 MB = 1,546 MB or 1.546 GB.

3. Calculate amount of disc space available for video by subtracting the total disc space required in step 2 from the total available disc space in step 1:

24.5 GB available space - 1.546 GB required = 22.954 GB available for video.

4. Calculate the data rate of the video by dividing the disc space available for video (in step 3) by the amount of video (in seconds) the project contains.

183,632 Mbits available (22.954 GB x 1,000 MB/GB x 8 bits per byte) divided by 7,620 seconds of video (127 minutes x 60 seconds per minute) = 24.10 Mbps.

127 minutes of video at 24.10 Mbps = 22.96 GB. (127 x 24.10 x 60 seconds = 183,642 Mbits, divided by 8 = 22,955.25 MB, divided by 1,000 = 22.96 GB).

5. Determine the maximum video data rate for this project by subtracting the combined audio data rates from the disc’s maximum video data rate of 40 Mbps.

40 Mbps - 0.576 Mbps (0.192 + 0.192 + 0.192) = 39.424 Mbps

So the video will fit on the disc using the video data rate of 24.10 Mbps, which is below the maximum video data rate of

39.424 Mbps.

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Creating projects and importing

Projects

About projects Open and edit projects across platforms Create and open projects Move or rename projects

About projects

Adobe® Encore® files are called projects. A project stores links to all the content you intend to include, as well as the menus and timelines (which combine video or stills, audio, and subtitles). Encore creates a folder for your project in the same location as the project file.

You can create projects for playing on standard-definition DVDs and for playing on high-definition Blu-ray discs. You can author a project for Blu-ray and then output a standard-definition version of the same project to DVD, or vice versa. The Project Settings dialog box lets you easily switch between authoring modes. Once authoring is complete, you can build your projects for final output onto a disc, in a folder, or as an image. In addition, you can export any project into a Flash format for interactive viewing on the web. For a video tutorial on authoring for Blu-ray discs, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4079_enc.

A project must conform to one of two TV standards, either NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) or PAL (Phase Alternating Line). TV standards are the specifications to which any video intended for broadcast in a certain country or region must conform. These specifications include specific frame rate and frame size requirements of the video. Your final output from Encore will comply with one of these standards.

TV standard Blu-ray Disc frame

rate

NTSC 23.976p

24p

29.97i

59.94p

PAL 25i

50p

Blu-ray Disc frame size

720 x 480 pixels 1280 x 720 pixels 1440 x 1080 pixels 1920 x 1080 pixels

720 x 576 pixels 1280 x 720 pixels 1440 x 1080 pixels 1920 x 1080 pixels

Aspect ratio Regions

4:3 or 16:9 North America, Japan

4:3 or 16:9 Europe

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TV standard DVD frame rate DVD frame size Aspect ratio Regions

NTSC 29.97 fps 720 x 480 pixels 4:3 or 16:9 North America, Japan

PAL 25 fps 720 x 576 pixels 4:3 or 16:9 Europe

Note: The preceding table specifies output requirements. Requirements for imported assets vary. See Supported file formats for import.

Set 24p frame rate for Blu-ray projects

When you create a Blu-ray NTSC-compliant project, you can change the default transcoding settings to a frame rate of 24. You can configure the frame rate for an entire project in the New Project dialog box when you create a project.

1. Do one of the following:

Click New Project in the startup screen. Select File > New > Project.

2. In the New Project dialog box, select the following under Project Settings:

Authoring Mode: Blu-ray Television Standard: NTSC

3. Click Default Transcode Settings.

4. In the Video Transcoding group, select 24 from the Frame Rate pop-up menu, and click OK.

In addition to specifying the default transcode settings for the entire project, you can also specify 24p frame rate for each NTSC video asset.

Do one of the following to set the frame rate as 24 for NTSC video assets:

Select an NTSC video asset in the project, and select File > Transcode Settings. Right-click the video asset in the Project panel, and select Transcode Settings from the context menu.

Open and edit projects across platforms

Open an Encore project created in Mac on a Windows machine, and the other way round. Also, you can open and edit projects created in Encore CS4 and earlier versions. When copying, ensure that you maintain the relative path between the project file and the project folder.

You might have to retranscode assets for cross-platform projects in the following cases:

Using a common server to transfer files across Windows and Mac machines. Opening projects created in CS4 and earlier versions that contain Blu-ray assets. When there are timestamp changes of the transcoded assets, such as when you transfer the assets using FTP.

Create and open projects

Before you can import your assets, you need to create or open a project. You can have only one project open at a time. For a video tutorial on creating a project in Encore, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4227_enc.

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Create a new project

When you create a project, Encore prompts you to select an authoring mode (DVD or Blu-ray) and a default TV standard. You can also assign automatic transcoding settings for the maximum audio/video bit rate and audio transcoding scheme. You can change these settings later by choosing File > Project Settings.

1. Choose File > New > Project.

2. In the Basic tab of the New Project dialog box, type a project name (Encore assigns the extension “.ncor” to the end of the filename) and specify a project location.

3. Select DVD or Blu-ray for the authoring mode, and select a television standard (NTSC or PAL).

4. For Blu-ray projects, select a frame rate, dimensions, and codec.

5. Optionally, in the Advanced tab, do the following:

Select a Maximum Audio/Video Bitrate value (these data rate values are different for DVD and Blu -ray projects) and an

Audio Transcoding Scheme.

If you have installed third-party cards for video capture and playback, select the player. You can change this setting later. See Using third -party hardware and player

6. Click OK to create the project file and folder.

Set a default TV standard preference

If you generally create projects using the same TV standard, you can set the default standard (the standard used for new projects) in the Preferences dialog box. A project can conform to only one TV standard.

To set the TV standard preference for new projects, choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Encore > Preferences > General

(Mac OS). Specify your TV standard and click OK.

Open an existing project

To open an existing project, choose File > Open Project. Navigate to the project you want to open, and click Open. To open a recently saved project, choose File > [filename] (Windows) or File > Open Recent Project > [filename] (Mac OS).

Encore lists the last five projects (four projects on Mac OS) you saved in the order in which you saved them.

Move or rename projects

Each project requires a project file (with the .ncor filename extension) that contains links to—and instructions for using—the various assets in the project. Projects also require a project folder (named to match the project and at the same folder level as the project file), which stores previews, transcoded assets, and other files used in the project. You can move a project file and its folder as long as you keep the relative positions the same. If you must rename a project, make sure that you match the new project filename with the new project folder name.

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Move a project

To move the project, drag the folder and file to a new location, or copy and paste them in the new location. Make sure that their relative

positions remain the same; that is, they should both be in the same parent folder.

Note: When you open a project file you’ve moved, a dialog box may appear if the application can’t locate specific assets. You can either relink them in the dialog box, select Offline to open the project without them, or select Skip or Skip All to temporarily set the assets offline (so that the next time you open the project, Encore prompts you again to locate the assets). When working with offline assets, use the Locate Asset command to relink them before you build or preview the project.

Rename a project

To rename the project, select the file and folder in Microsoft® Windows® Explorer or the Mac OS Finder and enter matching names (make sure

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Contents

What's New

What's new in CS6

What’s new in CS5

Workflow and workspace

Workspace basics

Workflow

Managing workspaces

Download full library content/functional content

Planning the project

Project planning

Creating projects and importing

Projects