Adobe Encore | Glenn Ward

Introduction to Adobe Encore and authoring a DVD

The best way I found to get a handle on Adobe Encore was to send a project to it from Premiere Pro using Adobe Dynamic link. This sets up the majority of project setting from premiere and allows you to see the Encore interface populated rather than a blank canvas.

In Premiere Pro make sure your projects sequence is selected in the timeline. Then choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Send to Encore. This will send the project to Encore and create a Encore project.

Once in Adobe Encore you will get to grips with the interface far quicker being able to see the disc, the video and some basic instructions. When you check the project you will get some basic error see here,

Title Remote Not Set
End Action Not set

Quick guide to the windows that make up Encore. For the purpose of this demonstration I have flicked all the tabs / windows to those you will mainly use in the first stages of using Adobe Encore.

Here’s some quickfire settings to get something output to video nice and quickly.

Open Encore

New Project Settings

Trans coding Options

Once you have set up your project you will need to select the video you would like to author a DVD with. Open the folder in Finder containing the video, then under the Flow Chart tab drag and drop your video to the disc image, set your end action and title remote as above and you are set to build the disc.

Adobe Encore – End Action Not Set

This another really simple error that encore throws up every time you check your build unless you manually set it. This error is merely asking what the DVD should do once it has played the video track.

Use the dropdown, End Action to select how it should act, often it will be just Stop or return to the main menu.

Also check out Title Remote Not Set

Adobe Encore – Title Remote Not Set – The answer is here!

No doubt you have come across this error many a time when you test your build in Adobe Encore especially if you have sent the project from Premiere Pro via Adobe dynamic link. This is merely the option to select what happens when the viewer presses the menu button on their remote control. If your project looks like the image displayed here then you don’t need to worry just ignore the error as it’s not really an error. I you have a menu on the disc you will need to select the drop down below and point it at your menu. You can pickwick this or select from the drop down.