User Guide

LESSON 7

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Creating Motion Menus

Burning the DVD

Burn the project to disc using any of the methods described in previous lessons. The

method used in Lesson 1 follows.

1 In the Project window, click the Disc tab.

2 Change the disc name to Lesson_07.

3 From the pop-up menu beneath the disc name, choose the data size of the disc you’ll

be burning.

4 Click Build Project.

5 In the Make DVD Disc dialog box, choose Current Project from the Create Using pop-

up menu, and choose your DVD recorder from the Recorder pop-up menu.

6 Insert a blank disc into the recorder, and click Next.

7 Review the information in the Make DVD Disc Summary dialog box. When you are

ready to proceed, click Build.

Review questions

1 How can you trim a video clip in Adobe Encore DVD?

2 What is a motion menu?

3 How does Adobe Encore DVD recognize thumbnail layers?

4 What must you do before previewing a motion menu?

5 How can you conﬁgure a button to play a video while the viewer decides which button

to choose?

6 Why do you need to transcode an AVI ﬁle?

Review answers

1 Move the cursor over the end of the clip in the Timeline window, until the cursor

becomes a bracket. Then drag the cursor to the new end point for the video.

2 A motion menu is a menu that contains a moving background, animated buttons,

audio, or any combination of the three. Essentially, a motion menu is any menu that is

not static.

3 Adobe Encore DVD recognizes layers whose names contain (%) as thumbnails.

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