Working with adobe premiere pro and after effects, Work with adobe encore and after effects – Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual

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AFTER EFFECTS CS3

User Guide

Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Adobe Premiere® Pro is designed to capture, import, and edit film and video. After Effects is designed to produce
motion graphics and visual effects for film, broadcast television, DVD, and the web. You can easily exchange projects,
compositions, tracks, and layers between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. You can import an Adobe Premiere
Pro project into After Effects, or export an After Effects project as an Adobe Premiere Pro project. You can also
import Adobe Premiere 6.0 and 6.5 projects into After Effects.

You can copy and paste layers and tracks between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have Adobe Creative
Suite® 3 Production Premium, you can use Adobe Dynamic Link to export After Effects compositions into Adobe
Premiere Pro or Adobe Encore without first rendering them, or you can start Adobe Premiere Pro from within After
Effects and capture footage for use in After Effects.

“About Dynamic Link (Production Premium only)” on page 609

“Export an After Effects project to Adobe Premiere Pro” on page 608

Work with Adobe Encore and After Effects

You can use After Effects to quickly create buttons and button layers for importing into Adobe Encore®. Adobe
Encore uses a naming standard to define a button and the role of individual layers as subpicture highlights and video
thumbnails. When you select a group of layers to create as an Adobe Encore button, After Effects precomposes the
layers and names the precomposition according to the naming standards for buttons.

Highlight layer names receive the prefix (=1), (=2), or (=3), and video thumbnail names receive the prefix (%).

After Effects includes template projects that include entire DVD menus for you to use as a basis for your own DVD
menus. To use Adobe Bridge to browse and import these template projects, choose File > Browse Project Templates.

(See “Work with template projects” on page 23.)

Create a button for Adobe Encore

In the Timeline panel, select the layers to be used in the button.

Choose Layer > Adobe Encore > Create Button.

Enter a name for the button.

Use the menus to assign up to three highlight layers and one video thumbnail layer, and then click OK.

A new composition is created with the button name. In keeping with the Adobe Encore naming standards, the prefix
(+) is added to the name of the composition to indicate that it is a button.

Important: If you rename the button, be sure to retain the (+) prefix. The prefix ensures that Adobe Encore recognizes
the file as a button.

Assign a subpicture highlight and video thumbnail to a layer

Select the layer.