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leinadltd
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November 8, 2018
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Creating Chapter Menus and Exporting(Premier Pro & Encore CS6) HELP

I am creating a reference video that will allow me to build a SBC (Short Block Chevy) engine. I have reviewed the online tutorials for Premier Pro and have established a video with markers. I’m just not sure if they are the markers. I am wanting to create a chapter menu (E.g. Cylinder Heads, Engine, Cleaning, etc.) and under these chapter menus I would like to create sub menus (Lifters, Camshaft, Crankshaft, Blueprint Specs, etc.) The purpose of this reference video is to allow me to either export my video file to a DVD that I can watch over and over again in my shop – or to create a USB jump drive that I can plug into my monitor in the shop and click on these menus to review procedures for the engine.

I have imported my video files and have utilized the razor function to separate each timeline component according to my menu and sub menu needs. I am having difficulties locating the correct steps to export these short segments so that it will export correctly while creating the chapter and subchapter menus. I would appreciate any online reference, online tutorials, user menu notes or personal experience that will allow me to export this video correctly, while informing me of the correct marker type to use to accomplish this task. I do have access to all applications through my monthly subscription. If I need to download prior versions of the software to accomplish this task please advise me correctly.

Thanks,

Daniel D.

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    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 8, 2018

    Workflow with PR CC and EN CS6:

    Using Encore CS6 with PremierePro CC « DAV's TechTable

    This is not as simple as it appears. There are numerous gotchas. But first steps first...

    What specific dot version of PR are you using?

    Open a marker dialog. The type checked should be "chapter."

    There are 2 methods to consider in Encore.

    Option 1: In PR, create separate videos for each chapter, then create separate timelines in Encore for each video. Use a "playlist" for the "play all." Menus in EN provide the options. Some menu buttons take you to submenus. Once you get to a selection for an actual video, you link the button to a timeline.

    Option 2: Create a single video in PR, and place Chapter Markers at the beginning of each chapter. In EN, create a CHAPTER playlist, put one chapter in it, then link the chapter button to that chapter playlist. There will be one chapter playlist for each chapter. Each chapter itself has no end action set, and you set the end action for each chapter playlist to "last menu."

    You can, of course, combine them.

    The problem for your USB is that the menus and selections are in EN, and do not work when you just plug a USB into a computer (or TV). EN does allow exporting a flash version that you can put on a USB, but you must be able to run flash.

    There is an Encore forum:

    Encore

    leinadltd
    leinadltdAuteur
    Participant
    November 9, 2018

    Ok. Sounds like the USB option is not the way that I will go. I found the versions of the programs that I am using.

    • Encore CS6 v 6.0.0.492  -OR- Media Encoder CC 2019
    • Premiere Pro CC v 12.1.2 (Build 69)

    Are the steps or processes still the same? I would prefer to just keep the entire timeline in place and the export to Encore. I also have broken each time code piece into separate video(s) that I can also export to Encore (that will take a  few minutes to do). I just want to do it correctly so that it works. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Daniel D.

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 10, 2018

    PR 12.1.2 is 2018. The version of AME should match that. Generally, when you do a cloud install, it installs the same version of AME.

    AME is NOT an alternative to Encore. AME transcodes and exports files (as does PR). Encore will transcode files if they need it, but you don't want to do that if you can avoid it. But Encore does the "authoring" - putting all the bits together with special code and files so they work in a DVD/BD player.

    There are pros and cons of the two main methods, and some of it will be preference on your part. I would do two test projects, one each way. Let's assume you have one PR sequence (timeline) with a single "chapter" and 10 "subchapters." The subchapters are marked with chapter markers, right? So for test version A (full timeline method) you'll export only 3 of the subchapters worth of two timelines. So in that Encore project you'll have 2 timelines - 2 chapters; 6 subchapters. The chapter markers should import with the timeline. Menu with 2 buttons, that go to the chapter subchapter choices. For each subchapter, you create a "chapter playlist" with one subchapter in it. A subchapter button links to the chapter playlist with that subchapter in it. To play a whole chapter, you link to that timeline. If you want to be able to play the whole thing (both chapters), you create a playlist (not a chapter playlist) with the 2 timelines in it.

    In version 2, you export each subchapter as separate files - so 6. A subchapter button links to that subchapters timeline. To play a whole chapter, you create a playlist with that chapters 3 subchapter timelines in it. To play the whole thing (both chapters), you create a playlist with the 2 chapter playlists in it. (Or a playlist with all 6 subchapter timelines.)

    Encore is unforgiving. A project may get corrupt and it takes a "do over" to fix it. So getting your workflow set in a test project is worth it.

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