Encore DVD 1.5 makes DVD authoring more streamlined. This set of high-quality, professional DVD apps will take you to a new level of professional creativity. With its flexible interface and full-featured menu design tools, you'll create DVD masterworks in no time. Import and convert source files to MPEG-2 or Dolby Digital, or output your project to other DVD formats, for maximum playback compatibility. Stronger marker support creates chapter points from markers in AVI and MPEG-2 files created in Premiere and After Effects Full integration with Photoshop CS.

Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 software takes professional DVD authoring to a new level of creativity. Import and convert source files automatically to MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital audio. Create and edit menus in Adobe Photoshop format using a flexible interface and a comprehensive set of menu design tools. Output your project to all recordable DVD formats for a wide degree of playback compatibility.

Streamlined DVD workflow

• Integrated transcoding: let Adobe Encore automatically convert your AVI and QuickTime source files to MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital audio, or manually adjust settings to optimize your DVD compression.
• QuickTime file support: take advantage of a broader choice of import options with new support for QuickTime.
• Custom workspaces: Configure window arrangements for specific tasks and then save them for future use. Use preset window arrangements to quickly reset windows for specific jobs such as timeline editing or menu creation.
• DV preview of menus: see your menus on an external video monitor, eliminating the need to create a DVD in order to check your menu designs for video compatibility.
• Wide degree of playback compatibility: produce consistent, high-quality results and output to all recordable DVD formats for a wide degree of playback compatibility.

Creative DVD authoring

• Enhanced library palette: Organize individual text layers, vector shapes, background layers, and layer sets--in addition to buttons, images, and menu templates--in the enhanced library palette. Even create your own custom library sets.
• Styles palette: Easily apply styles to your DVD project menus using the new styles palette. Use the supplied styles or create your own by simply dragging them from the menu editor.
• Menu editor enhancements: take advantage of full support for Adobe Photoshop CS guides to ensure precise layout and alignment of items in the menu editor.
• User operations control: disable or enable the viewer's remote-control operations in specific sections of a DVD--for example, to ensure display of mandatory content such as copyright notices.
• Square and non-square pixel support: Check the shape and alignment of items by identifying and viewing square and non-square pixels. Full support for Photoshop CS, including the ability to view non-square pixels, further enhances your workflow.

Unparalleled Adobe integration

• Native Photoshop menus: Import native Photoshop CS files or create menus in PSD format directly within Adobe Encore. buttons, text, and images are stored as layers and layer sets so you can edit them later in Photoshop.
• Adobe Photoshop CS integration: Edit menus in Photoshop CS and see your changes immediately in Adobe Encore. Experience full support for Photoshop CS, including nested layer sets and non-square pixels.
• Enhanced marker support: experience a stronger integrated workflow--Adobe Encore now creates chapter points from markers in AVI and MPEG-2 files created in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and After Effects 6.5 software.
• Enhanced After Effects integration: send a PSD menu directly to After Effects for animation, export your animation from After Effects to Adobe Encore as a movie file, and then add it to your menu background for a stunning motion menu.
• Edit original command: Send content originally created in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects back to those applications for further editing. Once the content is updated, the changes will automatically appear in Adobe Encore.

System requirements:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition
• Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or faster processor (Pentium 4, multiprocessor recommended)
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
• 1 GB of available hard-disk space required for installation
• 5 GB of additional hard-disk space recommended for extra content
• 10 GB or larger hard disk or disk array recommended for ongoing work
• 1280x1024 32-bit color video display adapter with 16 MB VRAM or more (dual monitors recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive
• Stereo sound card
• QuickTime 6.5 software recommended