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Adobe Encore DVD Training Course

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Encore DVD Training Schedule

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Encore DVD Training Course Synopsis

Adobe Encore DVD takes DVD authoring to a new level of creativity and efficiency, with its unparalleled integration with Adobe Premiere®, Photoshop®, and After Effects®. This class gives students the knowledge and experience to create sophisticated, multi-language DVDs with interactive menus, multiple audio tracks, and subtitle tracks. After completing this course, students will have the ability to create professional-level DVD productions.

Encore DVD Training Course Length and Time

This class is 2 days long. Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

What You Will Learn in This Encore DVD Training Course

Working with Native Adobe Photoshop menus
Importing PSD files as menus
Working with Styles
Integrated transcoding
Motion menu creation
Adobe Premiere Pro integration
Adobe After Effects integration
Using the flowchart
Photoshop text tools
Burning to DVD

Who Should Attend this Encore DVD Training Course

Professional videographers, DVD authors, and independent producers who wish to use the power of Adobe Encore DVD to create multi-language, masterful DVDs would benefit from this course. Handson exercises, along with tips & tricks, give the student the necessary skills to work efficiently in Adobe Encore DVD.

Encore DVD Enrollment

Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (770) 414-5661.

Locations for this Encore DVD Training Course

We have training centers in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also offer classes at a network of rental facilities. We offer private onsite training and instructor-led, live online training. If coming to a rental facility, please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Prerequisites for this Encore DVD Training Course

Knowledge of your operating system and basic computer navigation is required for all classes. We highly recommend that students have experience in a non-linear editing program, such as Adobe Premiere.

Goals for this Encore DVD Training Course

Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Lesson 1 - Touring and trying out Encore DVD 2.0

What DVDs can do for you
Outlining the DVD authoring workflow
Planning DVD projects
An overview of Encore DVD 2.0
Rearranging the workspace
Touring the workspace

Lesson 2 - Importing assets and creating DVD

elements
Importing assets
Organizing the Project panel
Putting videos and audio in timelines
Working with chapter points and poster
frames
Creating slideshows

Lesson 3 - Advanced Timeline topics

Trimming video and audio
Adding additional clips
Including extra audio tracks
Putting subtitles or closed captions in your project

Lesson 4 - Building and editing menus

Making menus using Encore DVD templates
Changing buttons and graphics
Editing text
Working with styles
Automatically creating menus using a Chapter Index

Lesson 5 - Advanced menu editing techniques

Building custom menus and layer styles in
Photoshop
Enhancing menus with After Effects
Explaining the arcane: sub-picture highlights
Changing the behavior of button highlights
Working with replacement layers
Adding assets to the Library

Lesson 6 - Specifying navigation‹linking menus, buttons and assets

Linking assets and menus
Button routing
Using the flowchart
Setting end actions
Overriding actions and remote button selections

Lesson 7 - Advanced Authoring Tools

Adding video transitions to and from menus
Creating “Easter Eggs”– hidden buttons and assets
Customizing your DVD and saving space with playlists
Setting permitted user options

Lesson 8 - Previewing, transcoding and burning your DVD

Previewing, transcoding and burning your DVD
Previewing your project
Using Check Project to reveal “orphans” and broken links
Updating project settings regional coding and copy protection Including data files in a project
Adjusting transcode settings bit budgeting
Transcoding the project Burning a DVD