Adobe Announces DVD Authoring Package for Fall Smooth Integration with Photoshop and Premiere Eric Grevstad
Mon 3/31/03 -- DVD authoring specialists like Sonic Solutions and Ulead Systems are due for some heavyweight competition: Graphics giant Adobe Systems has announced that Adobe Encore DVD, a professional DVD creation package for Windows XP, will ship in the third quarter of this year for $549.
Encore will combine a comprehensive set of design tools and a powerful menu editor that works without flattening or re-rendering the Adobe Photoshop images that make up most professional DVDs' menu backgrounds. The menu designer will also provide access to Photoshop tools to edit, style, and align text, as well as full control over playback behavior and navigation.
The program will automatically create chapters from recognized marker points in Adobe Premiere video-editing projects, and promises to import Adobe After Effects AVI files for motion menu loops. A familiar Adobe project-timeline interface will let users combine video, audio, and subtitles with up to 8 audio and 32 subtitle tracks.
Adobe Encore DVD will support all recordable DVD formats including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and DVD-RAM, as well as automatically converting video source files to MPEG-2 and audio source files to Dolby Digital with optimized file compression.
