ITExpertsBlog.com

Adobe Encore CS4 DVD Workflow – CBT Training Videos

Introduction

• Getting Familiar with Encore
• Using this chapter 
• Using content included with Encore 
• Adding a menu to a project 
• Importing assets 
• Understanding timelines 
• Creating links and navigation 

Introduction to exporting

• Introductory Technical Concepts
• Understanding disc formats 
• About television standards
• What is transcoding?
• Exporting video for Encore
• About compression 
• Bits vs. bytes 
• The importance of bit budgeting 
• About pixel aspect ratios
• About overscan and safe areas

Project Basics

• Knowing your audience
• Creating a new project
• A quick look at the interface 
• Rules for importing
• Importing assets as Encore objects
• Previewing assets in the Project panel
• Organizing the Project panel 
• Using the Properties panel 
• Getting familiar with the Library panel 
• Using the Resource Central panel

Menu Basics

• Understanding menus
• Creating a menu
• Editing menus 
• The Menu Viewer vs. the Menu panel
• Creating motion menus 
• About submenus 

Button Basics

• The anatomy of a button 
• Using the black and white arrows with buttons
• Viewing and adjusting button routing 
• Using buttons with video preview 
• What is a subpicture? 
• About subpicture states
• Changing subpicture colors 
• Creating subpictures from text

Timeline Basics

• What is a timeline?
• Using the Monitor
• Creating chapter markers 
• Setting poster frames
• Creating chapter points automatically
• Editing video in the timeline
• The Timeline Viewer vs. the Timeline panel 
• Exporting a frame as a file 

Creating Links and Navigation

• Creating navigation with the Properties panel 
• Linking chapter markers to submenu buttons
• Setting a “first play” object 
• About end actions
• Creating navigation with the Flowchart
• Using some new Flowchart tricks 
• Auto-selecting button names from links
• Creating user permissions for a disc 
• Creating user permissions for a menu 
• Creating user permissions for a timeline

Text and Object Basics

• Creating and using guides
• Creating and adjusting text
• Adding drop shadows to text and other objects 
• Adding styles to text and other objects 
• Automatically arranging objects
• Transforming objects

Using Audio and Subtitles

• Using audio in Encore 
• Understanding 5.1 surround sound
• Adding audio while a menu plays
• Allowing users to change the disc language 
• Creating subtitle tracks
• Using imported subtitles 
• Exporting subtitles as a text file
• Creating subtitles with multiple colors

Creating Slideshows

• Introducing slideshows
• Adjusting slideshow properties
• Adding transitions to slides
• Adding motion to slides
• Syncing slideshows to audio
• Slideshows and bit budgeting

Using Playlists

• What is a playlist?
• Using chapter playlists 
• Advanced Authoring Concepts
• The power of end-action overrides 
• Using replacement layers 
• Looping menus 
• Replacing a menu 
• Creating a chapter index 
• Using photos and video as subpictures  

Advanced Creative Tricks

• Creating “Easter eggs” 
• Making games 
• Using menu transitions 
• Using subpictures as art 
• Creating a video menu 

Using Encore as a Presentation Tool

• Why use Encore as a presentation tool?
• Using subtitles with slideshows 
• Creating slideshows with manual advance 
• Adding data content to discs

Creating Menus from Scratch in Photoshop

• About this chapter 
• Introduction to the Photoshop layer codes
• The button set codes
• The subpicture highlight codes
• The replacement layer code
• The video button code 
• The submenu navigation codes
• Using pre-built menus as templates

Creating Flash Movies with Encore

• About Flash and Encore
• Creating buttons that link to websites
• Exporting a SWF file
• Changing the SWF output size
• Using HTML templates as backgrounds
• Importing other HTML templates 
• Using FLV vs. F4V video 
• Checking a Flash project for errors 
• Creating a SWF file with streaming video

Integrating with Other Adobe Applications

• Using Adobe Bridge to browse for assets
• Importing sequences from Premiere Pro via Dynamic Link
• Updating markers from Dynamic Link video
• Using Speech Search in Premiere to help create subtitles
• Creating motion menus in After Effects
• Making buttons and subpictures in After Effects

About Blu-ray Discs and HD Video

• What are Blu-ray discs? 
• Setting up Blu-ray projects
• About the Blu-ray codecs
• Creating Blu-ray popup menus
• Previewing pop-up menus over a timeline 

Download

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431081/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part01.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431195/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part02.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431330/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part03.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431473/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part04.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431603/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part05.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431734/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part06.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205431883/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part07.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205432016/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part08.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205432151/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part09.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205432289/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part10.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/205432387/Total.Training.Adobe.Encore.CS4.Essentials.DVD-iNKiSO.part11.rar