Adobe Encore and Previewing your Project
One of the great many features of Adobe encore is your ability to preview your DVD before you publish. I use this throughout the whole process of building my DVD so that I can see how I am doing and to check for errors. Previewing provides a way to evaluate the performance of your project from an audience perspective, and the Check Project feature identifies broken links, orphaned menus, bitrate problems, and a host of other disc-related issues. Once you are satisfied with your project's performance, you build it into a file that's ready to be burned to DVD. You can preview the project on your computer monitor or an attached DV (IEEE 1394) device. Previewing your project as you create it, and prior to building it, is a necessary part of the authoring process. Previewing lets you step through the navigation and view the quality of transcoded assets. For example, a link destination may not make sense after you've viewed it in context with other links, or you may discover that there are problems with the quality of video or audio you have transcoded. There are a few preview controls you need to be aware of and you need to understand what they do and how they work. Here are the preview controls and what you need to know about them.:
Use the following controls to preview and test your project:
Render Current Motion Menu Previews the current motion menu with motion instead of with a static frame. By default, Adobe Encore DVD shows motion menus as static until they're rendered. If you change settings for an already rendered motion menu, the preview of that menu defaults to static until you re-render the menu. The Transcode Status icon displays the current state of the menu.
Display area zoom Specifies the magnification of the preview.
Audio Track The menu displays the available audio tracks and their language code, highlighting the currently selected track.
Toggle Subtitle Display Toggles the subtitle on and off. The menu displays the available subtitle tracks and their language code, highlighting the currently selected one.
Status area Displays the name of the timeline or menu in the first line. The second line displays the current chapter point for a timeline or the highlighted button in the current menu. The third line displays the timecode for the currently previewing timeline or displays the duration of the menu or still. If you set no duration for a menu or still, this line reads "Still." A green Transcode Status icon indicates that the asset is transcoded; a red Transcode Status icon indicates that the asset is untranscoded.
Remote Control Title button Previews actions set for the remote control title button.
Remote Control Menu button Previews actions set for the remote control menu button.
Previous Chapter and Next Chapter buttons Moves to the previous or next chapter. These buttons only appear when you preview movie timelines. Menus do not have chapter points, so these buttons are not available when previewing menus.
Execute End Action Lets you execute the end action without having to play the entire timeline.
Go To Entered Chapter Lets you navigate quickly to a specific chapter, rather than using the previous/next chapter buttons.
Exit Here Closes the preview and returns to the displayed timeline or menu.
Exit And Return Closes the preview and returns to the projec
