My first Pr (and Encore) experience - The Chronicle
Lame Tigrrrr Aug 28, 2009 11:26 PMThis not to make much of what I did but I'm very much happy for what I've gone through. So, please, just allow me to do this, ok?
First, I want to give not-too-much emphasis on the fact that August 3, 2009 was the date I joined this forum and that this is the date I started using Pr Pro with only the simple knowledge that this software is used for video editing and nothing more.
August 23, I finally finished my project, with little agonies though. Right after I started wondering how to "flatten" it (as in Photoshop layers) so I could burn it as a DVD movie until I stumbled on the "Export to Encore" thing. After reading some posts in the Encore forum, I learned that Encore is for DVD authoring and burning. While I was in Pr, I was wondering about this Encore chapter marks and easily assumed it has something to do with DVD chapters so I keep putting marks anywhere on my project that seemed worthy of getting "chaptered". With that little idea to start on, I exported my Pr project to En throught the "Export to Encore" command.
After a few hours of rest (and negotiation), I started working on my exported project in Encore (in my friend's PC because I don't have Encore yet in mine and I can't just afford it right now. I wondered why my friend was too apprehensive in letting me use his Encore. I first thought it may have something to do with piracy. Only to find out that it was about pornography addiction. He got a lot of it that I almost forgot I went there to work on my DVD project).
August 28: I put a big period on my project. A DVD video with chapters on the important parts of the entire wedding (from the dresses, to the entourage, to the mass, the wedding ceremony, the reception...), and with all the elements I wanted: the menus, fading to the background animated chapter buttons, a slideshow inside my first play menu background (pip). Anyone may wonder how I learned to make those buttons in just a week but I'd rather not state here because...never mind.
Although my finished project may have many lapses and shortcomings, and that it still has wide room for its perfection, I am very much proud of it (and of myself, too, huh!).
Why am I writing this post?
- I will be starting my next project (a wedding again) and I'm afraid I will be vexed again by this "conforming, indexing and peak file creation" thing. On my first project, Pr did in an endless loop even on the trimmed one. If anybody can, please help me on this.
- In Encore, I did a manual button routing which function well in the preview but did not in the DVD player (we tested other DVD video to see if the remote control is not functioning but it was really my DVD which has a problem). If someone may happen to read this post and would want to help me, please send your post to http://forums.adobe.com/post!reply.jspa?thread=481610.
Aside from that, I've got more problems yet so far.


