"Digital Media Primer" Yue-Ling Wong,

Copyright (c)2013 by Pearson Education,

Inc. All rights reserved.

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 Chapter 7
Digital Video: Post-Production
Part 2
Export Final Video

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 In this lecture, you will learn:
• the options of exporting final video for DVD
and Web playback

• the basic steps of authoring a DVD project

• the common workspace elements in DVD

authoring programs

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Basic Steps of Digital Video Editing
Previous Powerpoint
1. Import the source materials in the video
project as assets
2. Arrange these materials on the timeline
3. Compose clips. Apply transitions, video
effects, and audio effects
4. Export final video
(This Powerpoint)
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 Export and Share Final Video
• To output final video to a format for your
audience

• Common media:
– Web
– Blu-ray and DVD
– Optical discs (CD, DVD)

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 Web
• Upload to video sites, such as YouTube
• Embed video on your own Web page

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 Upload to Video Sites
• Example: YouTube
– Upload video
– Automatically converted into Flash Video and
HTML5 video formats

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Embed Video on Your Own Web Page
• Export video into one or more of these
formats:
– HTML5 video
– Flash Video (F4V and FLV)
– MP4
– QuickTime
– Window Media (WMV)
• In Adobe Premiere Pro, choose File > Export >
Media...

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 Blu-ray and DVD
• Play back on:
– set-top Blu-ray or DVD players
– Blu-ray or DVD-ROM drive on computers

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Creating Blu-ray or DVD-video Disc
Method 1:
1. In video editing program:
Export final video as Blu-ray or DVD-compliant
file

2. In DVD authoring program:

– Author a Blu-ray or DVD project
– Can add and design menu navigation
– Import the Blu-ray or DVD-compliant video file
– Burn on a Blu-ray or DVD disc

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Export video window:
To export Blu-ray-compliant H.264 and MPEG-2

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Blu-ray and DVD Authoring

Adobe EncodeDVD CS5.1 has 2 authoring modes:

• Blu-ray authoring mode
• DVD mode
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 Creating DVD-Video
Method 2:
In video editing program:
Export final video directly to Blu-ray or DVD

• Single-movie disc
• No menu navigation

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Creating A Blu-ray or DVD-Video
Disc

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 Menu Structure
• Single-movie DVD
– No menu navigation needed
– One movie on DVD
– Movie automatically plays after the disc is inserted
in the player

• Multi-movie DVD
– Needs menu navigation

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 Menu Structure
• Menus
• Buttons
• Submenus

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 Menu
Made up of:
• Title text
• Background
– Still image
– Video clip (for animated background)
• Buttons
– Just text
– Still image, with and without text
– Video clip (for animated button)
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Menu Example

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Title text Menu Example
for the
menu

Buttons

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 Buttons
Can be linked to:
• Show another menu or submenu
• Play a video

Good design:
• Highlighted when selected.
Otherwise set-top viewer will not know which
choice is being selected.
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 Submenus
• Contain same elements as menus
• Show up by selecting a button from another
menu

• Good design:
– Include a button to return to the previous menu
– Include a button to step to the next submenu
– Include a button to return to the main menu

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 Submenu Example

The buttons on the submenu are linked to videos and showing the thumbnails of
the linked videos
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Authoring a Blu-ray or DVD Project

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 DVD Authoring Programs
• Adobe Encore
• Sony DVD Architect

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 Common Elements in Workspace
a) Asset list
b) Preview window
c) Timeline or Track
d) Library and Templates

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 Adobe Encore CS 5.1

Preview window
Asset list
Library
and
Timeline or Track
Templates

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 Sony DVD Architect Pro 5.2

Preview window
Asset list

Library
and Timeline or Track
Templates

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 Asset List
• Manages the imported source materials

• Types of source materials:

– videos
– audio
– menus
– still images

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 Preview Window
• Lets you preview your video and menus

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 Timeline or Track
• Lets you add:
– audio track
– chapter points

• Sony DVD Architect supports multiple angles:

– By adding multiple video tracks on the timeline
– During playback, the viewer can press the Angle
button on the remote to switch between tracks.

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 Sony DVD Architect Pro 5.2

Two video tracks on the timeline for creating multiple angle

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 Library and Templates
• Provide presets to use in your DVD project:
– menus
– buttons
– background images

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 General Steps of Authoring a Blu-ray or DVD
Project
1. Set project settings
2. Import content as assets
3. Put things together
– create menus
– link buttons with submenus and videos
4. Preview and test play your project
5. Build a DVD volume and make a DVD disc

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 About VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS
Folders on DVD Disc
• DVD disc (not Blu-ray) may contain these
folders:
– VIDEO_TS
– AUDIO_TS

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 Video DVD Disc
• Must contain a VIDEO_TS folder in the topmost directory
on the disc
i.e., VIDEO_TS cannot be in a subfoler
• VIDEO_TS contains all the files of the video DVD disc
• Your DVD authoring program creates the VIDEO_TS folder
and all the files inside for you
• May also contain an empty AUDIO_TS on disc

• Older set-top DVD players may not play a DVD disc without
an AUDIO_TS folder
• If your DVD authoring program does not create an empty
AUDIO_TS folder, you may want to create one

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 Audio DVD Disc
• Must contain an AUDIO_TS folder in the
topmost directory on the disc
i.e., AUDIO_TS cannot be in a subfoler

• AUDIO_TS contains all the files of the audio

DVD disc

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 Review Questions
Note to instructor:
Depending on your preference, you may want to go
over the review questions at the end of this lecture as
an instant review or at the beginning of next lecture to
refresh students' memory of this lecture.

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 Review Question
Export the final video to ___ if it is intended for
DVD playback.

A.QuickTime
B.Flash video
C.MPEG-1
D.MPEG-2 (DVD-compliant)
E. Streaming video

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 Review Question
True/False:
A DVD-video project must have a menu
structure.

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 Review Question
Name several video file types that are suitable
for Web playback.

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 Review Question
One of the good practices in designing DVD
submenus is including certain buttons. What
do these buttons do?

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 Review Question
A video DVD disc contains a folder called ___
that contains all the necessary files. The disc
may also contain an empty folder called ___
that is used for audio DVD discs.

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