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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 require-
ments of the video. Your final output from Encore will comply with one of these standards.
Note: The preceding table specifies output requirements. Requirements for imported assets vary. See “Supported file
formats for import” on page 38.
TV standard Blu-ray Disc frame
rate
Blu-ray Disc frame
size
Aspect ratio Regions
NTSC 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 North America, Japan
PAL 25i
50p
720 x 576 pixels
1280 x 720 pixels
1440 x 1080 pixels
1920 x 1080 pixels
4:3 or 16:9 Europe
TV standard DVD frame rate DVD frame size Aspect ratio Regions
NTSC 29.97 fps 720 x 480 pixels 4:3 or 16:9 North America, Japan
PAL 25 fps 720 x 576 pixels 4:3 or 16:9 Europe