[Jeff Bellune]

Use a DVD ripping tool to rip the video into .m2v and .ac3/.wav files

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Hi Frank,

It sounds like you have at least a good portion of the library installed. Although you can’t delete these templates from the Library panel in Encore, you can delete or otherwise affect the default Library content if you do any file management operations from Windows Explorer. It’s possible that your blank menu templates have been inadvertantly moved or deleted from Explorer.

Have you moved the Encore library folder from its default location? If so, you will need to go into Edit>Preferences>General and tell Encore where the new location is by setting the Library Content control to the new location of the Library. When you click OK, Encore should re-initialize the Library and make all the templates available to you again.

If you haven’t moved the Library folder from its default location, then I’d like you to move it temporarily so that you can force Encore to re-initialize its content. Move the whole Library folder (including subfolders and all content) to a new, temporary location (your Desktop or My Documents is fine) and then go into Edit>Preferences and point Encore to the new location. When you click OK, Encore should re-initialize the content.

Once that’s done, move it back to where it was originally and repeat the re-initialization process. Be aware that the Library folder is big and it will take a while for Windows to move it, and a longer while for Encore to re-initialize. Be patient.

Consider creating a backup copy of the whole Library folder in a completely separate location on your hard disk, or on a different hard disk, in case all this moving corrupts the Library files.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Hi Frank,

First, what version of Encore are using? Is it the trial? Or the educational version?

Second, can you list some of the files that you do see in “Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Encore DVD 2.0\Library\General”?

Lastly, you can make your own blank .psd menu. Create a 720×534 (NTSC Standard) square-pixel canvas in Photoshop 7 or earlier, or a 720×480 (NTSC Standard) 0.9 PAR canvas in PS CS or CS2 and then fill it with black. Save the file and then import it into Encore as a menu. Drag the new menu from the Project panel to the Library panel to save it in the Library. Now you have a blank menu in the Library that you can use anytime you want.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Hi Vicki,

Good work getting that sorted. And thank you for the kind words about the book.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Do you have any overrides set? Any at all for any project object? If so, you don’t need them. Change all overrides to “not set”.

Also check your timelines to see if you have purposely or inadvertantly disabled any user operations, including the previous/next buttons.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Thanks, Alan.

I’ll experiment with a second emitter. I need to be clear on something before I do, though. Are you suggesting that both emitters will be active during the zoom and only one active before and after? Or should I turn one off when the zoom starts and turn the other one on?

Also, will the “Active” property of the emitters/particles be a good place to start for turning off one and then turning on the other?

(Sorry for the barrage of questions)

Thanks,
Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

If I understand you correctly, you can use the Menu Color Set to change the color and opacity of the Selected state of the subpicture highlight. Or just change the whole color set.

For operational navigation, do you want the button selected when the menu appears? If not, you can create an invisible “dummy” button by poking out the eyeball in each of the button layers to turn off layer visibility. If the subpicture layer isn’t the only layer in the button layer set, then you can delete the subpicture layer so that no highlight appears in any state (Normal, Selected or Activated). Now the user will have to press a navigation key on the remote control to get to your visible button.

Let me know if either of these solutions work for you.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

Timothy,

If you can finish the project in 1.5, I would recommend that you do that. I imported an NDF 2.0 project into a DF 2.0 project, and the offline NDF clips showed up in the Project panel of the DF project with their original NDF timecode (and frame rate).

That would hint towards a workflow of having separate projects for your DF and NDF material, since you can’t change the project settings in 2.0. You can change the display of timecode, but that’s it. Once you have the 2 projects set up, import one into the other based on your final output needs.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

In Encore 2.0, you should be able to drag the menu from the Project panel to the Library panel.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

[Jeff Bellune]

I am unaware of any way to make DL work with Encore and the PS Standard. Sorry.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0