Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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Open Encore DVD 2.0, click Open Project, navigate to the Lesson 18 folder and double-click Lesson 18 Encore DVD Project.ncor.

The interface has the same featurespanels, frames, and tabsthat you've worked with in Premiere Pro as well as in After Effects and Audition.

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Click the Preview button (highlighted in the previous figure) to see how this DVD is different than the one you created in Premiere Pro.

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In the Preview panel, click Play Video.

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Click the Next Chapter button (highlighted in the previous figure) a few times, and then click the Execute End Action button to return to the main menu.

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Click Scene Index.

Make note that this video now has six scenes (the Dancers video will have three as it did in the Premiere Pro DVD). In Encore DVD you can place any number of links (that you can fit) in a single menu.

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Click the Execute End Action button in the DVD control panel to return to the main menu (I disabled the Main Menu text button in the Scene Index Menu so you can create a link from it in the next mini-lesson).

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Click Special Features.

This takes you to a submenu with links to two slideshows and a scene selection menu. Encore DVD allows you to add a submenu with links to other menus and videos something Premiere Pro cannot do.

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Click Storyboard and note that this slideshow uses a Dip to Black transition. You can place any of about a dozen transitions between any two images in a slide show, or apply a single transition between all images in the slideshow.

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Click the Execute End Action button.

That returns you to the Special Features submenu. Again, Premiere Pro cannot do this. All of its end actions (Stop Markers) take you all the way back to the main menu.

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Click Behind the Scenes and note that it uses the slideshow Pan and Zoom feature. You can select from 16 panning presets and choose to zoom in or out for any or all images in a slideshow.

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Click Execute End Action.

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Click Dance Solos, play one of the three dancers then click Execute End Action. That will take you back to the Special Features menu. You set the end action for each element in the DVD project. It can be to any other asset or menu in the project.

13.

Click the Exit Project Preview button.

1.

Click the Flowchart tab and use the scroll bars to take a look at the layout of this project.

The Flowchart helps you map out the ideal menu navigation scheme for your content. As your projects increase in size and complexity this tool can become invaluable.

2.

Click the Menus tab and double-click Scene Index.

That opens that menu in the Menu panel.

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Click the Show Guides button (highlighted in the previous figure) and drag the button thumbnails around.

Note how they snap to the guidelines. You can move the guidelines (hover your cursor over one and it'll change to show that you can drag that guideline) and add new guidelines to help arrange buttons and other menu elements.

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Click the Project tab and double-click on Storyboard.

That displays the Storyboard slideshow. Note that it has an audio file associated with it. You can string together more than one audio file if you choose. I clicked the Fit Slideshow to Audio Duration checkbox. That automatically adjusts the length of each slide.

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Click on any slide thumbnail and look in the Properties panel (upper right corner of the workspace).

You can click the Transition tab to select from more than a dozen transitions, and click the Effects tab to pan or zoom this image.

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Click the MPEG Video 18a tab in the Timeline (along the bottom of the workspace). Note that it has two types of scene markers: one to mark the beginning of a scene and another that marks the thumbnail used in that scene's menu button.

Creating links to buttons is a snap. You can drag a Timeline marker to a menu button, select a link from a drop-down list in the Properties panel or use the Pick Whip tool. Here's how to do the latter:

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Click the Menus tab and double-click Scene Index.

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Click on any of the six thumbnail buttons.

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Click the Layers tab and note that it looks just like the Layers display in Photoshop.

You can click on any layer, and it will highlight that element in the Menu panel where you can change its size, location, appearance or text.

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Open the Project panel, and then in the Scene Index menu display, click the Main Menu text button to select it and display it in the Properties panel.

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In the Properties panel, drag the Link Pick Whip () to the Main Menu link in the Project panel (the Pick Whip is highlighted in the next figure). That creates a link from the Main Menu button to the Main Menu itself.

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Click the Project tab and double-click MPEG Video 18a Chapter Playlist.

This lets you set a specific order to play selected chapters. In this way you can customize a DVD to suit a particular client or audience.