As it is, there isn't anything special about Blu-ray authoring on Encore other than support for higher bandwidth footage (up to 40MB/sec), H.264 or MPEG-2 codec support, and, of course, the higher resolutions and framerates. That would go a long way to combine the power of Blu-ray authoring with a WYSIWYG interface that anyone could potentially use. While I wouldn't expect most people to need to make interactive games, hopefully future versions of Encore will at least let you build animated pop-up menus for Blu-ray features without having to write BD-Java explicitly. AdvertisementĪs I mentioned earlier, Encore doesn't support BD-Java, the advanced scripting language for Blu-ray, so you can't make those sleek pop-up menus that overlay feature tracks like you see in films like Corpse Bride, and you definitely can't make your own interactive Dragon's Lair. By default, Encore outputs Flash movies as 640x480, which is definitely too conservative considering that many web designers are now designing for 1024x768 as a minimum and 800圆00 was the old baseline. Still, it would be nice to be able to at least specify an output resolution, considering that the program is already doing scaling and transcoding. This is an unfortunate limitation, but understandable considering that Encore is not meant as a web authoring program. For DVD, there are NTSC and PAL resolutions for Blu-ray, there are the various HD resolutions (720p, 1080i/p), but for Flash, you have to use a DVD or Blu-ray project as a starting point. Within these formats, there are the usual stock sizes. If you're building and planning for Blu-Ray output, though, you should obviously work in an HD Blu-ray project as the starting point if you use a DVD project, the movie will output to 480p Blu-ray only. When you combine this with Adobe Dynamic Link, the potential workflow benefits of Encore CS3 become pretty clear. This is a great time saver since I can send my mother a DVD version of my HD Blu-ray disc with one source project and nothing changes other than one setting in the Build menu. There is literally no extra work to get a DVD out of a Blu-ray project.
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