Adobe Encore DVD

Duration: 2 days
Time: 10am - 5pm. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 12-1pm
Course Materials: Vendor Authorized Courseware provided
Locations: Reston, VA / On-Site
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Cost: $1095
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Course Synopsis

Adobe Encore DVD takes DVD authoring to a new level of creativity and efficiency, with its unparalleled integration with Adobe Premiere®, Photoshop®, and After Effects®.This class gives students the knowledge and experience to create sophisticated, multi-language DVDs with interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. After completing this course, students will have the ability to create professional-level DVD productions.

Who Should Attend

Professional videographers, DVD authors, and independent producers who wish to use the power of Adobe Encore DVD to create multi-language, masterful DVDs would benefit from this course. Hands on exercises, along with tips & tricks, give the student the necessary skills to work efficiently in
Adobe Encore DVD.

Prerequisites

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend that students have experience in a non-linear editing program, such as Adobe Premiere.

What You Will Learn

Working with Native Adobe Photoshop menus
Importing PSD files as menus
Working with Styles
Integrated transcoding
Motion menu creation
Adobe Premiere Pro integration
Adobe After Effects integration
Using the flowchart
Photoshop text tools
Burning to DVD

LESSON PLANS

Touring and trying out Encore DVD 2.0
What DVDs can do for you
Outlining the DVD authoring workflow
Planning DVD projects
An overview of Encore DVD 2.0
Rearranging the workspace
Touring the workspace

Importing assets and creating DVD elements
Importing assets
Organizing the Project panel
Putting videos and audio in timelines
Working with chapter points and poster frames
Creating slideshows

Advanced Timeline topics
Trimming video and audio
Adding additional clips Including extra audio tracks
Putting subtitles or closed captions in your project

Building and editing menus
Making menus using Encore DVD templates
Changing buttons and graphics
Editing text
Working with styles
Automatically creating menus using a Chapter Index

Advanced menu editing techniques
Building custom menus and layer styles in Photoshop CS3
Enhancing menus with After Effects
Explaining the arcane: sub-picture highlights
Changing the behavior of button highlights
Working with replacement layers
Adding assets to the Library

Specifying navigation‹linking menus, buttons and assets
Linking assets and menus
Button routing
Using the flowchart
Setting end actions
Overriding actions and remote button selections

Advanced Authoring Tools
Adding video transitions to and from menus
Creating “Easter Eggs”–hidden buttons and assets
Customizing your DVD and saving space with playlists
Setting permitted user options

Previewing, transcoding and burning your DVD
Previewing your project
Using Check Project to reveal “orphans” and broken links
Updating project settings‹regional coding and copy protection
Including data files in a project
Adjusting transcode settings bit budgeting
Transcoding the project
Burning a DVD