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The Final project will be produce on an Interactive DVD Disc. Adobe Encore is the authorware package which Bryon has decided to use to produce the interactive DVD menu system to allow the user to navigate around the DVD content. The fundamental advantage to Encore is the user can quickly compose the design of the DVD project as the user using drag and drop editing to produce outline picture, then enhances the design with the advance tools to produce the final product.
Encore provides serious professional DVD authoring, the built in menu system which is fully integrated with Photoshop, is ideal for create profession interactive DVD menus. This is achieved by creating the menu graphical content in Photoshop, which can be fully manipulated once imported in Encore, this package has timelines much like Adobe Premiere, Encore automatically, creates timeline objects for clips that you drag onto a menu, In this timeline of a particular video sequence the user can add up to 8 audio streams and 32 subtitle streams to the same clip.
The timeline also can be use to set up the chapter points within each clip, there is a monitor feature that allows the user to play the contents of the timeline, once the user has set chapter points, the user will able to jump directly to the different points in a long video clip. Encore’s navigation controls not only provide the ability to specify links to specific buttons on a menu and chapters in a clip, this provides the ability to make global changes to settings and links across the entire project, instead of having to manually step through all the menus to make each change individually.
Encore is very user friendly application, instead of bombarded the user with script language to program the DVD behavior, Encore uses a link concept, which allow the user to setup the navigation by giving the name of asset which the user has already imported, the link concept is very quick and easy to understand for new users to Encore. In this way the user can reuse assets on a disc but also link a destination of the next asset when the clip finishes. There is a First play feature which allow the user to choose what is display first when the disc begins to play.
When the user has devise the final product, all the assets (DVD Content) have to be transcoded, if there not already in DVD compatible format, transcoding is long task for computer to conduct, the user must plan to take a break while transcoding is running. Once the transcoding is completed the user has the choice to burn the final product to disc or save to hard drive as image file ready to produce at a later date.
Page written by Bryon.
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