[John Rich]

Mike,
Thanks so much for your help. I do have Photoshop CS2 and I did screw up and load all the type presets.

Actually down at the bottom of the presets flyout menu, all the groups of presets are available, and I reached art history from there also. Naturally, I would never have thought to use it that way though.
Thanks again,
John Rich

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[John Rich]

Jeff,
Thanks for your help. This may sound “picky”, but is it necessary to put all your chapters into a playlist for the play all button, or can you just use the timeline with the chapter markers on it for the “play all.”

John Rich

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[John Rich]

I just wanted to thank you guys for that great discussion.
John Rich

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[John Rich]

Jeff,

Did you mean that in Encore 2.0, one could set the order of the VTS’s by some control in the program. I searched through your book and couldn’t find that and I couldn’t find the control on the program.
Thanks,
John Rich

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[John Rich]

Jeff,

Am I wrong in thinking that just adding a chapter point to the end of each time line would cause the “next” button to go to that, and then continue with the assigned “end action” of the timeline?

Thanks,
John Rich

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[John Rich]

DavidD,
Thanks for pointing Camona out. It looks like Adobe has it now. (https://www.canoma.com/), but this site points out there a few copies in Spain left.
Hopefully, adobe will bring it back out in some form or another. What a great tool.
John

[John Rich]

I don’t know what you have done before, but in my hands the only way to do scans is:
1. Scan at what ever resolution you want (which is measured in pixels per inch) and then crop it in the scanning software.

2. Open the picture in Photoshop and resize it to whatever the Pal size limit for TV is (I’m using NTSC so it is 720X480 Pixels for me).
Then set the resolution to 72 Pix per inch since tv’s don’t display any higher. You can crop etc inside Photoshop, but the final picture size has to be a certain size for Pal or NTSC.

3. As I mentioned in my previous post then you can create your title safe lines using the action palate or you can then create a new blank photo with the guides intact and drag the picture you just resized into the blank picture and you have the guides and your perfectly sized picture.
If I’m not making sense, let me know.
John

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[John Rich]

I’m working on a windows machine, but:

When you do file – new, you get at least on Windows, a window that has a custom preset at the top with an arrow that pulls down when you click it and all the presets are there, including down toward the bottom, the ones called (with guides). These are the ones you want.

Another cooler approach also available in Windows and perhaps in yours is to go to the Actions palate (look under views or windows if it isn’t available) and click the second group and go down to the bottom and you will see Video guides. Make sure your picture is selected and then click on the video guides and click the little “play ” button at the bottom of the actions palate and it will create the guides in a layer in your picture which you can turn off and on with the eyeballs.
Hope that helpsl
John

[John Rich]

Sorry,
Just figured out to click on the layer label and change the color that way.

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[John Rich]

Tim,
Thanks a lot for taking the time for a great explanation. I just got CS2 and am using it mostly for DVD menu work, so I have a lot to learn.
Thanks again,
John

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