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ISBN 0-321-20547-2 Printed in the U.S.A. 98765432 Peachpit Press/Scott Design iii Contents Getting Started About Classroom in a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installing the Adobe Encore DVD program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Copying the Classroom in a Book files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Adobe Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lesson 01 Creating a Simple DVD Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Planning your DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Importing files as assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Creating a timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Adding chapter points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Importing a layered Photoshop file as a menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Setting start and end behaviors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Setting behaviors for remote control buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Previewing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Burning the DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Lesson 02 Creating Menus in Adobe Encore DVD Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 About menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Creating a new menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Adding text to a menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Adding assets to menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Adding drop shadows to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Converting text blocks to buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Adding subpictures to buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Peachpit Press/Scott Design iv CONTENTS Linking buttons to timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Previewing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Burning the DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Lesson 03 Designing Menus in Adobe Photoshop Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Teaming Adobe Encore DVD with Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Creating a menu background in Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Creating text in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Applying layer styles in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Creating buttons in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Importing a menu into Adobe Encore DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Editing a menu in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Linking buttons to timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Repositioning overlapping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Previewing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Lesson 04 Using Adobe Encore DVD Templates Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Exploring the Library palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Modifying a menu template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Creating submenus from the same template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Replacing background elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Adding items to the Library palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Linking menus to each other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Linking buttons to timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Creating a text layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Checking links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Previewing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Building a DVD image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Burning a DVD from a DVD image file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Peachpit Press/Scott Design ADOBE ENCORE DVD v Classroom in a Book Lesson 05 Assembling a DVD Quickly Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Dragging items into the Library palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Importing items into the Library palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Creating buttons instantly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Resizing and positioning buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Editing button text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Adding a title to the menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Previewing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Adding data files to a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Burning a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Lesson 06 Overriding Default Actions Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 About overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Working with multiple menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Setting default end actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Setting links for the main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Using the pick whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Setting overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Previewing the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Making a DVD folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Lesson 07 Creating Motion Menus Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Assembling your assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Creating and naming chapter points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Specifying an end action and a link for a timeline . . . . . . . . . 162 Adding video to the background of a menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Previewing the motion menu background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Transcoding an AVI file from the Project window . . . . . . . . . . 168 Creating video thumbnail buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Peachpit Press/Scott Design vi CONTENTS Creating animated thumbnail buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Burning the DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Review questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Lesson 08 Working with Adobe Premiere Pro Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...