Adobe 22030000 User Guide - Page 37

33 Chapter 4: Creating projects and importing assets After planning the navigation of your project and preparing the content, you're ready to begin. First, you'll create an Adobe Encore CS3 project and then import the assets. Working with projects About projects Encore files are called projects. A project stores links to all the content you intend to include, as well as the menus and timelines (which combine video or stills, audio, and subtitles). Encore creates a folder for your project in the same location as the project file. You can create projects for playing on standard-definition DVDs and for playing on high-definition Blu-ray discs. You can author a project for Blu-ray and then output a standard-definition version of the same project to DVD, or vice versa. The Project Settings dialog box lets you easily switch between authoring modes. Once authoring is complete, you can build your projects for final output onto a disc, in a folder, or as an image. In addition, you can export any project into a Flash format for interactive viewing on the web. A project must conform to one of two TV standards, either NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) or PAL (Phase Alternating Line). TV standards are the specifications to which any video intended for broadcast in a certain country or region must conform. These specifications include specific frame rate and frame size requirements of the video. Your final output from Encore will comply with one of these standards. TV standard NTSC PAL Blu-ray Disc frame Blu-ray Disc frame Aspect ratio rate size 23.976p 29.97i 59.94p 720 x 480 pixels 1280 x 720 pixels 1440 x 1080 pixels 1920 x 1080 pixels 4:3 or 16:9 25i 720 x 576 pixels 4:3 or 16:9 50p 1280 x 720 pixels 1440 x 1080 pixels 1920 x 1080 pixels Regions North America, Japan Europe TV standard NTSC PAL DVD frame rate 29.97 fps 25 fps DVD frame size 720 x 480 pixels 720 x 576 pixels Aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9 4:3 or 16:9 Regions North America, Japan Europe Note: The preceding table specifies output requirements. Requirements for imported assets vary. See "Supported file formats for import" on page 38.