Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Using DVD menu templates: Lesson 18-4

Premiere Pro DVD menu templates offer enough variety to suit your purposes.

Each template includes a main menu and a scene selection submenu. As I mentioned earlier, you're going to do a work-around that enables you to have scene selection menus for each video. To accomplish that, you will work with a menu template that has a scene selection menu with only three buttonsjust enough for the three scenes in the each of the first and second videos. If you select a template with more than three buttons in the scene selection menu, then scenes from the second video will show up with scenes from the first video in the first scene selection menu. You can continue where you left off or open Lesson 18 Finished and use it to complete this mini-lesson.

Make note of a few things:

• Scene selection menu buttons sometimes have frames in which a thumbnail image or video of the selected scene will display.

• Button labels can be on either side, above or below the thumbnail. For this exercise you'll select a template that has all of its labels on the same side so it'll look good with the custom images you'll use for menu backgrounds.

• The number of scene selection buttons in the templates varies from three to six. If you have fewer scenes than buttons, your project's scene selection menu will display only that number of buttons. If you have more scenes than buttons, a Next button will appear on the scene selection menu linking to another scene selection menu to handle those additional scenes. This can go on, with several linked scene selection menus to handle a large number of scenes.

• All the main menus have four buttons with the same text from menu to menu. The number of buttons that actually shows up in the menu for a particular project depends on the number of videos and whether there is a scene selection menu. If there are more than four things to link to, a Next button will show up in the main menu linking to a sub-main menu that has those additional links.

• You can change the text (including button labels) and alter font, size and color. You can change the size and aspect ratio of the buttons.

Editing templates in Photoshop

Each DVD template is a Photoshop file. You can find them in the main Premiere Pro 2.0 file folder. Each template has eight files: 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios for both main and scene selection menus with versions for NTSC and PAL. You can edit them in Photoshop, but you should do so carefully. They use special layer-naming conventions with characters in parentheses like (+>) to designate certain functions. Not disturbing the existing layers and always working with a copy are important safety measures.

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Once selected, the Menu Background parameters show up in the Effect Controls panel.

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Each text string has a blue highlight box. These should not overlap. As shown in the next figure, if they do overlap, red lines appear. You need to fix this for your DVD to play properly.

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Double-clicking button link text opens the DVD Marker dialog box. As you'll see in the next step, double-clicking unlinked text opens a simple Change Text box.

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To delete text from a menu template, double-click to open the Change Text or DVD Marker dialog box. In the Change Text box, delete the text and click OK. In the DVD Marker dialog box, click Delete. That will also remove the Marker from the Timeline.

Burning your DVD

You burn your DVD using the same menu you used in Lesson 16. To access that menu click Burn DVD in the Source Monitor. As you did previously, you can click Settings to access the Adobe Media Encoder where you can select the DVD transcoding of your preference.

Even though this project uses MPEG videos, Premiere Pro will re-transcode them. That can lead to some quality loss. So, in general, wait until you are ready to burn a DVD before converting your files to MPEG. I used MPEG here to save space on the book's DVD while retaining most of the original quality of the video.