![]() ![]() ![]() So, now you appreciate all of the above you can get started on your menu. Stop/Eject’s main menu with all the button highlights visible They could not be red-and-white striped rings, like life preservers they can only be one solid colour. The button highlights are the white rings. So look at the Stop/Eject main menu below. I prefer to build my buttons into the background movie in my editing software (Final Cut) rather than add them in Encore, and that’s the approach I’ll outline here.Īnother crucial point to understand is that each button highlight can only be one colour. All the disc player can deal with is a background movie and the highlights. ![]() Yes, you can import your background movie as a Quicktime into Encore and then add buttons to it within Encore, but when you come to build your disc the software will render those buttons into the background movie. but what about the buttons themselves? These have to be part of the background. Hang on – background, button hightlights…. The user will only ever see one of these at a time. The button highlights, which show the user which button is currently selected.The background, which is a video (typically with audio) that you can create in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or whatever.They’re not like websites or Flash movies where you can do anything you want the specifications are quite narrow. I’m going to assume you already know the basics of Encore and can find your way around Photoshop.įirst of all you have to understand how DVDs and Blu-rays (henceforth collectively referred to simply as “discs”) work. I’ll use Stop/Eject‘s main menu as the example. If, like me, you want to do it all from scratch rather than using any of the built-in templates, the process isn’t particularly intuitive, and was sufficiently different from DVD Studio Pro (the software I’m used to) to leave me scratching my head from time to time, but here’s how I did it in the end. Note: Encore is now included as part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud.Today I thought I’d share the process I figured out for creating looping menus in Encore for DVD and Blu-ray. If you’re interested in learning about Blu-Ray and DVD authoring or just want to brush up on your skills, check out this Adobe Encore tutorial video series! Thanks for sharing, Max! Max uses a recent film project as his basis of an example Premiere Pro to Adobe Encore workflow using Dynamic Link. The following video tutorials by University of Central Florida film graduate student Max Rousseau showcase his Adobe Encore post production process. Adobe on the other hand continues to update their Encore DVD authoring app and introduced new features in the CS6 release, including a speedier 64 bit architecture, better integration with After Effects & Premiere Pro, and background batch encoding. So what’s the best softwarwe for DVD authoring?įor professional users, good options for DVD authoring seem to be dwindling in the last few years, with Sonic Scenarist (an expensive ‘Hollywood’ level DVD authoring app) and Apple’s DVD Studio Pro (my personal fav a few years back) both falling by the wayside. As such, you may still be getting client request for DVD creation and duplication. Need to create a professional DVD? These informative Adobe Encore video tutorials have got you covered!Īlthough many tech savvy folks have been making moves away from physical media in recent years, for the general public DVD is still a go-to format. ![]()
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