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Adobe Encore DVD | Building a Play All Menu in Adobe Encore DVD
One of the most frequently asked questions about Adobe Encore DVD is how to create a menu that allows you to play multiple videos either in a series or individually. It's a simple process, and this tutorial will explain how to set it up.
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Timothy Kurkoski |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 1: Getting Sequences into Encore
Encore is Adobe's very powerful DVD and Blu-ray production software and ships with Premiere Pro and is capable of producing Hollywood standard DVDs. In this series of tutorials, Andrew Devis demonstrates how to get started with Encore so that you can produce high quality DVDs that reflect your work. In this first tutorial Andrew shows how to get your sequences into Encore ready to link up for DVD/Blu-Ray/Web DVD creation
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 3: Buttons & Wiring up our Project
In his third tutorial on getting started with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates how to select different types of buttons, how to add them to your menu and then how to wire up the buttons to create your project. Andrew demonstrates this using the flowchart window, which is a simple and intuitive way of editing your project, giving powerful and clear visual feedback.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 6: Creating Motion Menus
In this tutorial on getting started with Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis demonstrates the important option of bringing in a video for your menu and bringing in a suitable audio soundtrack for your menu. Although a fairly simple process, there are a couple of things that you need to know so that you don't end up pulling your hair out because you didn't realise a button needed to be pushed!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 2: Creating Menus
In this second tutorial on Adobe Encore, Andrew Devis shows how to create both a standard menu from templates that ship with Encore as well as how to create a menu background based on your own image from a sequence in Premiere Pro.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD
In this article, CreativeCOW leader Alex Alexzander reviews DVD Authoring with Adobe Encore DVD written by Wes Howell, and published by Focal Press, 345 pages, March 2004, ISBN: 0240805631, and finds it "...pretty close to perfection, in my opinion. If it had been printed in color, it would be over the top."
Review
Alex Alexzander |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 5: Creating a Web DVD
So, you've made your DVD or Blu-ray but have also noticed that there is a 'Flash' option from the drop-down. In this fifth tutorial in the 'getting started with Adobe Encore' series, Andrew Devis shows how to set this up so that you can create a menu driven web-based DVD based on your original project. Not only is this great as a way of producing on-line samples for your customers, menu based Flash content can also be a great way to create simple and quick knowledge based games for you website.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 7: Creating Slide-shows Part 1
This is one for photography enthusiast and anyone who wants to add stills to their DVD/Blu-ray and Web DVD productions - a MUST for wedding videotographers!
Learn how to use Adobe Encore to produce a DVD of all your wonderful pictures while taking advantage of the powerful features that quickly and simply add transitions, pan & zoom etc., to give that professional edge to your work and in so doing setting it apart from the rest.
In this first part of 'Creating Slide-Shows with Adobe Encore', Andrew Devis demonstrates how to bring your pictures into Encore, how to add them to a slide-show and how to quickly and easily animate and crop your images for excellent results with very little work!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 9: Creating Slide-shows Part 3
Putting it all together! In this final installment in the Getting Going with Encore -- Creating Slide-Shows' series, Andrew Devis shows how to create a second slide-show and 'wire-up' your final project ready for Disc or Web DVD production.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Designing Menus with Encore DVD
Recently Alex Alexzander decided to explore Adobe's new video collection. As many often do, he found himself looking for that all-important supplement to the product manual before long. In this article, Alex reviews his choice: Designing Menus with Encore DVD by John Skidgel. Read on to find out why Alex gives this book 5 COWs.
Review
Alex Alexzander |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore Basics 8: Creating Slide-shows Part 2
This is one for photography enthusiasts and anyone who wants to add stills to their DVD/Blu-ray and Web DVD productions - a MUST for wedding videotographers!
Learn how to use Adobe Encore to produce a DVD of all your wonderful pictures while taking advantage of the powerful features that quickly and simply add transitions, pan & zoom etc., to give that professional edge to your work and in so doing setting it apart from the rest.
In this next installment in the 'Getting Going with Encore' series, Andrew Devis continues to show how to create powerful slide-shows by adding audio under your slides, making the slide-show fit the length of the audio file you have, as well as showing how to make custom settings for individual slides.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Andrew Devis |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Adobe Encore 2.0 reviewed
In this article, CreativeCOW.net leader, Greg Mulvey takes a look at the new Adobe Encore 2.0 and concludes that overall this is a great upgrade. ''...if you are using the rest of the Adobe Production Studio then Encore DVD 2.0 is going to be your best choice for most DVD projects.''
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Greg Mulvey |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Total Training Presents: Adobe Encore DVD Essentials
In this article, CreativeCOW leader Alex Alexzander reviews "Total Training Presents: Adobe Encore DVD Essentials hosted by Daniel Brown. Alex concludes his review by saying that this training "...are among the better lessons I have seen on the market today. The instructor has a very good style and sense of humor that makes these lessons very enjoyable."
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Alex Alexzander |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Mike Gondek takes a look at Adobe Encore
One of the biggest attractions at NAB 2003 in Las Vegas was Adobe Encore, which took top honors in many awards races. Many attendees were pleased to learn Adobe's maiden voyage into the DVD authoring market was a well thought out meeting ground for Adobe's many tools, with Encore DVD the logical hub for DVD authoring. How well does the shipping product meet user expectations? Read on to find out Mike Gondek's reaction to Adobe's new offering...
Review
Mike Gondek |
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Adobe Encore DVD | Encore: Frameserving From Adobe Premiere Pro
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Jeff Bellune guides you on a trip from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Encore using the Debugmode Frameserver plug-in. Adobe Encore CS4 added a new feature that allowed a live Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 sequence to be added to an Encore DVD or Blu-ray project. But what about Encore version CS3 or earlier? The Debugmode Frameserver lets you send a Premiere sequence to older versions of Encore without having to first render an intermediate file from Premiere.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Jeff Bellune |
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