(now with an example at the bottom)
Encore CS3, Premiere Pro’s trusty DVD authoring sidekick has a few new tricks up its sleeve to help give you a competitive edge. I’ll talk more about high definition Blu-ray disc authoring in another post. This post is for those of you in the traditional video workflow who want to be able to create interactive web video experiences, BUT you don’t want to have to learn a new tool.
Encore CS3 can now export a version of your existing DVD project for use on the web.
Here’s how -
1. Author your DVD or Blu-ray project as you normally would using Encore’s intuitive interface and integration with Photoshop and After Effects.
2. In the Build panel choose “Flash”
3. Select your quality preset
4. Click “Build” - you’re done!
Encore encodes all your videos to .flvs, creates a .swf that provides all the DVD-like interactivity, and creates an .xml file that ties the .flvs to the .swf. Encore also embeds the .swf in a template .html page.
The result is a DVD-like experience on the web complete with features like main menu and chapter menu navigation, motion menus, slideshows, extra features, and the ability to skip to chapters. When compared with the typical web video experience where the only control you have is play and pause Encore’s Flash export is a significantly better experience. It allows you to create the design and chapter navigation viewers are used to on DVDs.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Thanks for reading,
Nate
A little bit about me. I’m the product manager for Adobe Encore and Visual Communicator. Additionally, I am also working on developing community related features for our DMO products.
Here is an example of a project one of our customers sent me created with the Flash export feature in Encore.
http://www.theatreofillusion.com/online-dvd/
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I like your concise pimping of CS3’s powerful tool set.
As a Video post professional and Flash developer the work flow of the adobe CS3 suite married with the quality of the ON2 VP6-S codec sure has reduced my project time lines and made my clients eyes pop out in glee when they see their SD or 720p video streaming on the net at full resolution.
But one huge issue that I come across time and again with progressive and streaming video on the net, is the excessive bandwidth overage charges most hosting companies like to impose on their clients the most excessive to date was $25 per Gigabyte, when a Gigabyte costs well under a $1.00!!!!
So a warning to all, by all means go post your video’s on your own site using the above process well documented by Nate.
Just read the fine print on you hosting service agreement with regards to excess bandwidth it may be more worth your while using a FLV streaming service company rather than paying those crazy
and down right dastardly bandwidth overage fees.
Posted by on 03/17 at 03:39 AM
The conversion to Flash is very very slow, and you can’t customize the look. It’s possible but very limited.
Joe
Posted by on 03/17 at 11:51 AM