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1. #ADOBE ENCORE CS6 TEXT BUTTONS HOW TO#
2. #ADOBE ENCORE CS6 TEXT BUTTONS MOVIE#
3. #ADOBE ENCORE CS6 TEXT BUTTONS PRO#

7.0)>Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files (or Temp Files). Today I thought I’d share the process I figured out for creating looping menus in Encore for DVD and Blu-ray. On a BDJ lab computer, click the Windows START button (lower left), and click on. If, like me, you want to do it all from scratch rather than using any of the built-in templates, the process isn’t particularly intuitive, and was sufficiently different from DVD Studio Pro (the software I’m used to) to leave me scratching my head from time to time, but here’s how I did it in the end. Main Menu/all highlights fully transparent/default button text different from other buttons’ text. I’ll use Stop/Eject‘s main menu as the example.

#ADOBE ENCORE CS6 TEXT BUTTONS HOW TO#

I’m going to assume you already know the basics of Encore and can find your way around Photoshop.įirst of all you have to understand how DVDs and Blu-rays (henceforth collectively referred to simply as “discs”) work. This guide shows you how to use Adobe Encore CS6 to build customized menus, buttons, text, and graphics by using Encore’s extensive library of templates, graphic elements, and styles. They’re not like websites or Flash movies where you can do anything you want the specifications are quite narrow. The background, which is a video (typically with audio) that you can create in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or whatever.The button highlights, which show the user which button is currently selected.The user will only ever see one of these at a time. Hang on – background, button hightlights…. It was also bundled with standalone versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. but what about the buttons themselves? These have to be part of the background. Adobe Encore CS6 is the version of Adobe Encore, Adobe 's DVD authoring tool, that was included with Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium and Master Collection.

#ADOBE ENCORE CS6 TEXT BUTTONS MOVIE#

Yes, you can import your background movie as a Quicktime into Encore and then add buttons to it within Encore, but when you come to build your disc the software will render those buttons into the background movie. All the disc player can deal with is a background movie and the highlights. I prefer to build my buttons into the background movie in my editing software (Final Cut) rather than add them in Encore, and that’s the approach I’ll outline here.Īnother crucial point to understand is that each button highlight can only be one colour. So look at the Stop/Eject main menu below. The button highlights are the white rings. Stop/Eject’s main menu with all the button highlights visible They could not be red-and-white striped rings, like life preservers they can only be one solid colour. So, now you appreciate all of the above you can get started on your menu. The first step for me was shooting and editing the background movie, although for most people this will be a computer-generated graphic rather than something shot with a camera. It’s important to think about where your loop point is going to be so that the menu will loop smoothly. The following video shows my edited background movie. The buttons were created in Photoshop and added to the movie in Final Cut, before exporting as a ProRes Quicktime (with these buttons now baked in) ready to be imported into Encore.