User Guide

LESSON 8
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Working with Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Encore DVD works smoothly with Adobe Premiere Pro to help you achieve the
best results for your video DVD projects. Use Premiere Pro to prepare the assets for your
DVD project, and then import them into Adobe Encore DVD. If you need to make
changes to the assets, you can use the Edit Original command to open and edit the
Premiere Pro project. When you’ve finished, the files update automatically in Adobe
Encore DVD. In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
• Add sequence markers in Premiere Pro.
• Export a Premiere Pro sequence as a DVD-legal MPEG-2 file.
• Export a Premiere Pro sequence as an AVI file for use in Adobe Encore DVD.
• Create thumbnail buttons from chapter points in Adobe Encore DVD.
• Embed project information in an AVI file so that you can edit the original later.
• Use the Edit Original command in Adobe Encore DVD.
Getting started
Before you assemble your DVD project, you can edit and polish your video assets in
Adobe Premiere Pro. You’ll prepare an MPEG-2 file and an AVI file in Premiere Pro. You’ll
add sequence markers to the MPEG-2 file for use as chapter point markers in Adobe
Encore DVD. And you’ll edit the original project in Premiere Pro after importing the AVI
file into Adobe Encore DVD.
In this lesson, you’ll work in Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore DVD to create a new DVD
project, using graphic and video files included on the Adobe Encore DVD Classroom in a
Book DVD. Make sure you know the location of the files you need for Lesson 8. For help,
see “Copying the Classroom in a Book files” on page 2.
To complete this lesson, you’ll also need to have Adobe Premiere Pro installed on your
computer.
Viewing the finished Adobe Encore DVD project
To see what you’ll be creating, take a look at the finished project:
1 Start Adobe Encore DVD.
2 Choose File > Open Project.
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