After trawling the web for days on end looking for the rarest of a rare breed, FREE “online tutorials for Adobe Encore†and finding very few, the ones I did find would cost “X†amount of £’s or $’s to download.
So I decide to take the proverbial Bull by the horns and try and create my own, this was about 5/6 weeks ago now. And what started off with 1 small 5MB tutorial has now grown into over 60MB of the bloody things.
After posting the link to them on the Wrigleyvideo forums to generate some sort of feedback where they were well received I am now throwing open the link to anyone on the forum to visit and download them.
I have to stress to everyone that I am not nor do I profess to be any kind of Encore Expert, I am just a humble “Beginner†who has attempted to assist others likewise myself.
I now know that there are easier faster shortcuts to do some of the methods that are contained within the tutorials. However I am a firm believer in that “You have to take the long way around a few times before you discover a shortcutâ€. ;)
I had to learn FrontPage 2000 from scratch to compile a simple web page to host all the recordings (so please don’t be to hard on me…. :rolleyes: ).
I trust that you will find the Tutorials useful, and I apologize to the 56k dialup users, as some of the files are pretty large.
Also my sincere thanks go to “Bob C†for taking the time to download and review a few of the tutorials and for his most welcome constructive comments on making things better quality wise for future tutorials.
Link: http://doogs.sitesled.com/
Bandwidth is 1GB per day, if it is exceeded then try again another day.
Hi Doog
Thanks for taking the time to prepare, and to share your Encore tutorials with the forum.
When I first got Encore and looked at the manual, I found it a bit daunting. Isaw the tutorial on the Wrigley site for basic "make basic DVD" and after running that it explained a lot. I find that a lot of the sections in the maual are a bit irrevelent, but there in case you need it.
Thanks again for your time, I`m sure there are quite a few people who will find your site very helpful.
Mike
Thanks Mike...
if only a handful of users get some understanding of the workings of Adobe Encore by viewing the tutorials than all my effort has been worth while.
sometimes we all need someone to "flick that light" on upstairs that makes us say "Hmmmm, now i understand!" ;) 
Hi Doogs
Perhaps Bob could include them on the next DVD?
"Sheesh!" Mike.. i wouldn't go as far as that.... 
the tuts must be popular as my bandwidth has jumped to over 700MB per day downloaded... :confused: since i posted the link on here..
Mike,
I'd already suggested to Doogs that it might be an idea to put his tutorials on the DVD.
However, I was hoping that if he posted here, too, people would have a good look at them and let me have their views of whether I'm right in making that assumption.
We are seriously under the cosh, workwise, and as I said to Doogs, simply don't have the time to properly make such a judgement ourselves at the moment about non-commercial product.
Sad, but true.
Bob C
(who really should have been in bed a long time ago)
I have added another tutorial to my site. On how to find,fix button routing,bounding box and highlight problems...
Link: http://doogs.sitesled.com/tutorials/routing.exe 5.5MB self extracting rar
Hi Bob!
Yes the tutorials are worth putting on the cover DVD. There are still a lot of people that dont have a broadband connection-which would make downloading them heavy work. I was only thinking the other day, after a few months go by how are you going to fill your DVD. This would be a good answer for one edition at least, and they contain a lot of useful information.
Mike
i've only watched the first one so far, and i'm already impressed! now i just have to convince work to buy me a copy of Encore!
thanks for the feedback so far... i am working hard with Windows Media Encoder to get the file size down without sacrificing video quality. i have now halved the size of the file and the video is good but the audio side of things is pure crap... pehaps i should record using a Mono mic... any ideas on this?????
no need to record using a mono mic, just mix the two channels together, or even just use the lest one!
never really looked into encoder deeply enough to advise - have you tried asking Curt Wrigley what settings he uses?
mark.
Curt keeps the settings for his tutorials very close to his chest... can't say that i blame him, what with all the time/effort and suchlike that he puts into them... i am getting there slowly.. but getting there...
just watched the motion menus tutorial, and now feel quite enlightened! Audio was a bit quiet though... also, it might be better if you explained the reasons for doing certain things, like the naming conventions with the {+} and what some of the settings you're changing are doing to the end product. other than that, excelent stuff! thanks!
mark.
Open tutorial file in media player. Then go to file > properties. That will show you the frame size and rate as well as audio settings.
I am going to be re-doing some of the tutorials, and this time i will give more details as to what i am doing on screen..
Thanks for all the feedback, it takes fresh eyes to spot the things that my tired eyes missed... much appreciated folks.....
yeah, you can find out the bit rate or the audio and video streams but it's the other encoding details that you need to know. In the same way as you can find out the bitrate of the mpeg on a professionally produced DVD, without the GOP structure you're not going to be able to reproduce the same quality of image in the same bitrate.
mark.
So people, should we put these on the DVD if Doogs is willing?
Bob C
Yes
Bob.
please feel free to use the tuts in any way u see fit ;)
will hopefully be doing a few more soon...
another new tutorial has been uploaded.. this is a Photoshop one, on how to create your very own custom video window shapes....
the Encore side of the tut will be uploaded soon....
another one has been uploaded... this tut is to compliment the last one i did.. and it will show u how to set the Poster Frame from the timeline to the video window button....
I would say that the overall encoding quality of the tutorials has improved...
any feedback would be greatly appreciated.... :rolleyes:
You can save the tutorials to your HDD, by right clicking on the links on my web downloads page and then selecting "save target as"
thanks Neo36uk for providing some feedback on the tuts....
The web hosting site for the Encore tutorials has been down for a few days now.. sorry for any hassles this may cause to anyone who is trying to download and view the tuts... :confused:
yet another new tutorial has been uploaded to my website.. now that Sitesled has sorted out all the DNS problems...
This one is how to use seperate menus as transitions
http://doogs.sitesled.com/advanced%20tutorials/delayed%20menus%20and%20overrides.zip
File is in 2 parts.. as i was so tired when i did this tut that i missed some of it out... so i did another small tut on how to do some of the work...
I really would be grateful for any feedback on the tuts..
new tut has been uploaded to my site. It's shows the user how to use false menus complete with audio as transitions between menus..
Please read the text file that is included with the zip file before you watch the tut...
http://doogs.sitesled.com/basic%20tutorials/audio%20transistions.ZIP
another tut is in the making and will post here once I have it completed and uploaded..
another tutorial has been uploaded to my website.
In this one i show you how to create buttons using picture frames..
http://doogs.sitesled.com/basic%20tutorials/picture%20frame%20tutorial.zip
3.6MB 9 mins 50 secs Long
http://doogs.sitesled.com/basic%20tutorials/Encore%20Setup.ZIP
This tut shows the very first time user how to setup the Adobe Encore Preferences..
Hope this helps...
I have just redesigned my web site from the ground up as of today.... all the individual links to my tuts on here are now redundtant...please just link thru this http://www.sitesled.com/members/doogs/
sorry for any hassles this may cause.. ;)
Doogs,
Some great tutorials there!
They are going to make my transition from Impression Pro so much easier.
Two small points: the links to the PAl Menu Templates, and Tutorial 4 (basic motion menu) do not work.
Alan. Many thanks for the feedback. I have now checked and redone the links. All should be OK now..
Hope the tuts help you with Encore.... ;)
erm, doogs, i'm not sure if it could be a problem with my install or something, but AVG detects a trojan in your self extracting zips.
Trojan Horse BackDoor.Iroffer.3.AR
I recently ran a full scan on my system (just because i do occasionally, no problems or anything) and your exe files flashed up as containing this trojan. AVG deleted them so i re-downloaded a few just now and AVG says the same thing. It's not said it in the past and i've never noticed a problem, so maybe it's an error in AVG's definitions.
Does anyone else get this?
Doogs, what are you using to zip the files up?
mark.
WHAT!!!!
is in all the files??? or just some of them... i have used Winzip on the majority of them.. and then i used Winrar to create a self extracting .exe
I have never had any hassles from other folks.. but i will put a post over @ wrigley.com/forums to see if anyone has had the same probs as u...
I must add that my Norton anti virus does not throw up any viral warnings at all.
Thanks for bringng this to my attention...
Dave
Hi Mark
It would appear so far that the trojan detection is down to AVG and could be a false positive.
Check out the post over @ wrigleyvideo.com forums.
Mark.
I have found this over at grisoft.Latest pattern file..
Added detection of new virus I-Worm/Mytob, new variant of I-Worm/Bagle, new variant of trojan IRC/BackDoor.SdBot.False alarm BackDoor.Iroffer.3.AR fixed.
- February 27, 2005 -
phew... that's good to hear.
i thought it might have been an update issue since it hadn't shown up before.
AVG obviously doesn't consider it important update because it says it's up to date with the download i did yesterday to 266.5.0. 266.5.1 is the updated version.
mark.
a couple more tuts have been uploaded to my site....
More tuts have been added.. now up to Number 29 ..
I have just added a new tut to my ever growing list (38 now) the new tut is tut #14 in the intermediate section of my site http://www.sitesled.com/members/doogs/downloads.htm
I show the user how to import multiple timelines into a playlist in 1 fail swoop, my thanks go to "Joe Bowden" for allowing me to record his tip which was a reply to a post over @ the creative cow forums
3 new tuts been added.... hope they are useful to you...
have added some Encore 2.0 tutorials to my site as of tonite...
http://www.sitesled.com/members/doogs/
Hope they prove useful to some..