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58 Chapter 5: Menus Menus contain navigation buttons that give viewers access to the contents. Menu buttons can play a movie or individual chapter, jump to other menus, set active audio and subtitle tracks, or play back special features. Menus can range from a single button on a plain background to a flashy screen with moving images and buttons that change as you select them. Menu basics About menus The main menu in an Adobe Encore CS3 project is usually the first screen the viewer sees. Depending upon the complexity of the contents, your project may contain a single menu or multiple menus. Many projects require that buttons on the main menu link to additional menus, called submenus. For example, a main menu may have a button that lets you play the entire movie, another button that links to a submenu that lets viewers choose which chapter they want to view, and a third button that links to a submenu with audio and subtitle options. Main menus and submenus give viewers access to contents. Your project need not open immediately to the main menu. It can display other types of menus (or video, for that matter) before leading to the main menu. For example, the startup screen can be a single-button menu that welcomes the viewer or a multi-button menu that allows the viewer to choose the appropriate language. Parts of a menu A menu consists of a background, buttons, and button subpictures. Button subpictures change the appearance of buttons when the viewer selects or activates the button with the remote control or mouse. (See "Button subpicture states" on page 59.)

Section	Page
Contents	3
Chapter 1: Getting started	5
Installation	5
Requirements	5
Install the software	5
Activate the software	5
Register	5
Read Me	6
Adobe Help	6
Adobe Help resources	6
Using Help in the product	7
Resources	9
Adobe Video Workshop	9
Encore CS3 videos	10
Extras	11
Bridge Home	12
Adobe Design Center	13
Adobe Developer Center	14
Customer support	14
Downloads	14
Adobe Labs	15
User communities	15
New features	15
What’s new	15
Chapter 2: Workflow and workspace	16
Workflow	16
Workflow overview	16
Workspace basics	21
About workspaces	21
Dock, group, or float panels	22
Resize panel groups	24
Open and close panels and windows	25
Working with multiple monitors	25
Use context, panel, and viewer menus	26
Use a context or panel menu	26
Use a viewer menu	26
Tools panel overview	26
Set preferences for your workspace	27
Managing workspaces	28
Choose a workspace	28
Save a custom workspace	28
Restore a workspace	28
Delete a workspace	28
Chapter 3: Planning the project	29
Planning the content	29
About planning	29
Planning with the Flowchart	30
Balancing file size and quality	30
File size and quality	30
Determining disc size	31
Set the disc size for DVD projects	31
Check the space remaining on your disc	32
Asset types and amounts	32
Data rates	32
Bit budgeting	33
About bit budgeting	33
Calculate a bit budget	33
Average asset size	34
Sample budget #1	34
Sample budget #2	35
Sample budget #3	35
Chapter 4: Creating projects and importing assets	37
Working with projects	37
About projects	37
Create and open projects	38
Move or rename projects	38
Aspect ratios	39
Pixel and screen aspect ratios	39
About still-image pixels	40
Specify an asset’s pixel aspect ratio	40
Specify the screen aspect ratio	41
Widescreen content on fullscreen TVs	41
Importing	42
Supported file formats for import	42
Advantages of transcoding before or after import	44
Import assets and menus	44
Importing from Adobe Premiere Pro	46
Importing from Adobe After Effects	46
Add items or sets to the Library	47
Adobe Dynamic Link	48
About Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	48
Saving and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	48
Managing performance and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	49
Color and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	49
Link to a new composition with Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	49
Link to an existing composition with Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	49
Delete a dynamically linked composition or clip (Production Premium only)	50
Edit a dynamically linked composition in After Effects (Production Premium only)	50
Offline compositions and Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)	51
Working in the Project panel	51
About the Project panel	51
Customize the Project panel	53
Organize items in the Project panel	53
Preview assets in the Project panel	54
Locate a missing asset	55
Replace an asset	55
View or edit XMP metadata	55
Transcoding in Encore	55
About transcoding	55
Transcode settings	56
Transcode assets from the Project panel	56
About project transcode presets	57
Preset options for video	58
Preset options for audio	59
View a preset’s parameters	59
Create a custom preset	60
Export and import presets	60
Delete custom presets	60
Specify a pre- or post-encoding task	61
Chapter 5: Menus	62
Menu basics	62
About menus	62
Button subpicture states	63
Menu Viewer overview	64
Library panel overview	65
Creating menus	66
Methods for creating menus	66
Create menus using predesigned assets	67
Add objects to a menu	68
Use guides to position menu items	69
Name menus and buttons	71
Specify the default button for a menu	72
Set Library panel default menus and buttons	72
Editing menus	73
Select objects	73
Layers panel overview	73
Move objects in a menu	75
Move menu objects or layer sets	75
Move an object within a stack	75
Align menu objects	75
Distribute menu objects	76
Change the stacking order of menu objects	77
Cut, copy, or duplicate a menu object	77
Move or copy a menu object into another layer set	78
Replace a menu with another menu	78
Convert an object to a button	78
Convert a button or replacement layer to an object	78
Styling and transforming menu objects	79
About predefined styles	79
Apply a style to a button or layer set	80
Add a drop shadow	80
Rotate menu objects	81
Resize (scale) menu objects	81
Flip menu objects	81
Adding text to menus	82
About text in menus	82
Character panel overview	83
Add text to a menu	87
Resize the text bounding box	87
Select text	88
Format text	89
Chapter 6: Menus: Beyond the basics	90
Video and audio in menus	90
About motion menus	90
Add a video background to a menu	90
Add audio to a menu	91
Create video thumbnail buttons	91
Set or change poster frames	93
Animate video thumbnail buttons	94
About menu display time and looping	94
Set menu display time and looping	96
Menu templates	96
About menu templates	96
Create menu templates	96
Using menu templates on multiple computers	97
Add custom menus to the Library panel	97
Save a menu as a PSD file	97
About replacement layers	97
Create replacement layers	98
Chapter indexes	99
About chapter indexes	99
Create a chapter index menu	99
Create a chapter index	100
Using Photoshop to create menus	101
About creating menus in Photoshop	101
Layer name prefixes for menus	102
Edit a menu in Photoshop	103
Using After Effects to enhance menus	104
About creating menus in After Effects	104
Overview of animating a menu	104
Create an After Effects composition from a menu	105
Button subpictures	106
About button subpictures	106
Create automatic button subpictures	107
Paste an image as a subpicture	108
Update subpicture text automatically	108
Create subpictures in Photoshop	108
View subpictures	111
Menu color sets	111
About color sets for menus	111
Define a menu color set	112
Automatic color set	113
Base a new color set on the Automatic color set	113
Assign color sets and highlight groups	114
Share color sets between projects	114
Button routing	115
Renumber buttons	115
Specify an offset for the button numbers	115
Change the routing preferences	115
Change the routing order	116
Set a button to activate automatically	116
Creating styles for menu elements	117
About creating styles	117
Create a new style in Photoshop	118
Add a new style to the Styles panel	118
Create a new set in the Styles panel	118
Delete or rename a style set	118
Chapter 7: Timelines and slide shows	119
Timeline basics	119
About timelines	119
Timeline Viewer overview	120
Monitor panel overview	121
Create a timeline	122
Add videos or still images to timelines	123
Preview timelines	123
Move around in timelines	124
Zoom in and out of timelines	125
Editing assets in timelines	126
View the properties of a clip	126
Trim video and audio clips in timelines	126
Delete video or audio clips from timelines	127
Move clips in timelines	128
Edit clips in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects	128
Change the display time of still images	129
Scale and crop still images	129
Save frames as still images	130
Slide show basics	130
About slide shows	130
Create slide shows	131
Preview a slide show	132
Render a slide show	132
Editing slide shows	132
Changing individual slide settings	132
Add audio to slide shows	132
Set slide transitions	133
Apply a pan and zoom effect to slides	134
Scale slides	134
Change the slide duration	134
Let viewers manually advance slides	134
Create subtitles for slides	135
Chapter points	136
About chapter points	136
Add chapter points	136
Delete chapter points	137
Move chapter points	137
Name and describe chapter points	137
Display chapter names in the time ruler	137
Chapter 8: Audio and subtitles	138
Audio clips	138
About multiple audio tracks	138
Add audio to a timeline	139
Remove audio or subtitle tracks	139
Set audio and subtitle preferences	139
Subtitle basics for DVD	140
About subtitles in DVD projects	140
Create subtitles manually	140
Set subtitle properties	141
Edit, reformat, or move subtitles	142
Change the display time of subtitles	143
Duplicate entire track of subtitles	144
Subtitle scripts	144
About script files	144
Import text script files	145
Import subtitle image files using scripts	147
Structure of script files	148
Subtitle colors	151
About subtitle colors	151
Define a color set for subtitles	151
Import and export timeline color sets	152
Apply color to subtitles	152
Navigation for audio and subtitle tracks	153
Keeping track of tracks	153
Set the default audio and subtitle tracks	153
Set buttons to select audio or subtitle tracks	154
Indicate the active audio or subtitle track	155
Closed captions basics	155
About closed captions	155
Add closed captions to video	155
Chapter 9: Creating and managing links	156
Understanding navigation	156
Project navigation and links	156
Link destinations	157
Setting navigation and properties	158
Specify a link	158
Set disc properties and navigation	159
Buttons and navigation	160
Set button navigation	160
Set timeline navigation	161
Make global changes to elements and links	161
Playlists and chapter playlists	163
Playlists	163
Create a playlist	163
Edit a playlist	164
Chapter playlists	164
Create a chapter playlist	165
Edit a chapter playlist	165
Working in the Flowchart	166
Flowchart overview	166
Flowchart thumbnails	167
Flowchart tools	168
Set navigation in the Flowchart	169
Add elements to the Flowchart	169
Change links and properties in the Flowchart	170
Rearrange items in the Flowchart	170
Jump from the Flowchart to other viewers	171
User operations	171
About user operations	171
Disable or edit user operations	171
Chapter 10: Testing and building the final product	173
Testing Encore projects	173
About previews	173
Set the Audio/Video Out preferences (Windows)	173
Preview a project	174
Preview motion menus	175
Set Preview preferences	176
Check a project	176
Security and additional content	177
Set copy protection for replicated DVDs	177
Set region coding for replicated DVDs	178
Add ROM content to the disc	178
Building the finished project	179
Build a DVD or Blu-ray disc	179
Blu-ray and DVD build settings	180
Specify a layer break for dual-layer DVDs	181
Replicating discs	182
Exporting projects to Flash format	182
Export your current project to Flash	182
Tips for creating Flash projects	183
Embed web links in your Flash project	183
Chapter 11: Keyboard shortcuts	185
Using keyboard shortcuts	185
Find keyboard shortcuts	185
Keys for selecting tools in the Tools panel	185
Keys for working in the Project panel	186
Keys for working in the Menu Viewer	186
Keys for working with text in menus and subtitles	187
Keys for working in the Slideshow Viewer	188
Keys for working in the Timeline Viewer	189
Keys for working in the Project Preview window	190
Keys for switching workspaces	190
Keys for resetting application defaults	191
Keys for working with Adobe Bridge	191
Index	193
A	193
B	193
C	194
D	194
E	195
F	195
G	195
H	195
I	195
K	195
L	195
M	196
N	196
O	197
P	197
R	197
S	198
T	198
U	199
V	199
W	199
X	199

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Chapter 5: Menus

Menus contain navigation buttons that give viewers access to the contents. Menu buttons can play a movie or

individual chapter, jump to other menus, set active audio and subtitle tracks, or play back special features. Menus can

range from a single button on a plain background to a flashy screen with moving images and buttons that change as

you select them.

Menu basics

About menus

The

main menu

in an Adobe Encore CS3 project is usually the first screen the viewer sees. Depending upon the

complexity of the contents, your project may contain a single menu or multiple menus. Many projects require that

buttons on the main menu link to additional menus, called

submenus

. For example, a main menu may have a button

that lets you play the entire movie, another button that links to a submenu that lets viewers choose which chapter

they want to view, and a third button that links to a submenu with audio and subtitle options.

Main menus and submenus give viewers access to contents.

Your project need not open immediately to the main menu. It can display other types of menus (or video, for that

matter) before leading to the main menu. For example, the startup screen can be a single-button menu that welcomes

the viewer or a multi-button menu that allows the viewer to choose the appropriate language.

Parts of a menu

A menu consists of a background, buttons, and

button subpictures

. Button subpictures change the appearance of

buttons when the viewer selects or activates the button with the remote control or mouse. (See “Button subpicture

states” on page 59.)