User Guide

LESSON 11
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Adding Audio Tracks and Subtitles
In previous lessons, you’ve worked primarily with menus, links, and behaviors. In this
lesson, you’ll focus on timelines. Using Adobe Encore DVD, you can add up to 8 audio
tracks and 32 subtitle tracks to your DVD. Most DVD players can play only one audio
track and one subtitle track at a time, but offering multiple tracks gives your audience
more options and lets you reach more people. In this lesson you will learn how to do the
following:
• Add an audio track to a timeline.
• Assign a language to an audio track.
• Designate the active audio track.
• Link buttons to audio tracks.
• Add subtitle tracks to a timeline.
• Type subtitles directly onto the Monitor window.
• Import subtitles from a text script.
• Assign a language to a subtitle track.
• Change the duration or timing of a subtitle.
• Link buttons to subtitles.
Getting started
In this lesson, you’ll add audio files and subtitle tracks to a timeline, using audio, 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 11. For help, see “Copying the
Classroom in a Book files” on page 2.
Make sure audio is enabled on your computer, and that headphones or speakers are
plugged in, so that you can hear the audio files you’ll be working with.
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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