TABLE OF CONTENTS Creating timelines is critical to the DVD authoring process inside of Adobe Encore DVD 2.0. Timelines are the building blocks of your project. You can t background transcode an asset or see how much space an asset will occupy on disc until it s added to a timeline. Menu buttons can only point to assets if they are part of a timeline. Timelines can only link to assets that are part of another timeline. To paraphrase an old song: an asset is nobody until somebody adds it to a timeline.
In Encore, a timeline can contain video, audio and still image assets. A special type of timeline that can contain only still images and audio is called a slideshow. We will look at how to work with timelines first, and then we ll see how to create and work with slideshows.
For the first part of this discussion, we will use one of the workspace presets that shipped with Adobe Encore DVD 2.0: the Timeline Editing workspace. To access the Timeline Editing workspace do one of the following:
Select Window ?Workspace ?Timeline Editing.
From the Workspace drop-down menu in the Toolbar, choose Timeline Editing.
Notice the five panels that have been brought forward in their frames: Project, Monitor, Properties, the Timeline Viewer and Timelines. These panels provide useful information about the timelines you create and they provide easy access to the controls that you need when working with timelines.
In The Project: Importing Assets we saw...
