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ADOBE ENCORE DVD
Classroom in a Book
Importing a menu into Adobe Encore DVD
When you create a menu in Photoshop using the proper naming conventions, all you
need to do is to import the menu into Adobe Encore DVD. Adobe Encore DVD
automatically recognizes buttons, subpictures, and the effects you’ve applied in
Photoshop.
You’ve created a Photoshop file to use as a menu in Adobe Encore DVD. To ensure that
the buttons and their subpictures appear correctly, verify that the following is true:
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There are three layer sets, with names that begin (+).
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In each layer set, there is an image layer, a text layer, and a subpicture layer.
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Each subpicture layer has a name that begins (=1).
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The subpicture layers each have an opacity of 60%.
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No layer style is applied to the subpicture layers.
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The Animal Facts layer is not included in any layer set.
If you are unsure whether your file meets these criteria, compare it with the Photoshop
file named Lesson_03_end.psd in the Lesson 03 folder. If the layers are named and
organized appropriately, you’re ready to import the menu into Adobe Encore DVD.
1
In Adobe Encore DVD, choose File > New Project. Click OK to accept NTSC as the
television standard.
2
Choose File > Import as Menu. Select the
Main.psd
file you just created, and click OK.
The Menu Editor window opens. The Main file appears exactly as you created it in
Photoshop. You can still edit the text in Adobe Encore DVD or in Photoshop. Adobe
Encore DVD retains the layer styles, including the drop shadow on the title text and the
outer glow applied to the animal images. The subpictures you created may not be visible;
to see them, click one of the Show Subpicture buttons. Adobe Encore DVD interprets
those layers with (=1) in their names as subpictures only.
Note: If you created the menu file in Photoshop CS, it may appear to be stretched horizontally.
Click the Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction button at the bottom of the Menu Editor
window to see an approximation of the menu
’
s appearance on the final DVD.
3
Choose View > Show Selected Subpicture.
The subpictures appear.
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