Adobe Systems South Africa today announced Adobe Encore DVD 1.5, a signi.cant upgrade of its award-winning DVD authoring software. Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 makes it easy for video professionals to publish consistent high-quality results, and output to all recordable DVD formats, while delivering new levels of creative control, work.ow enhancements and outstanding integration with Adobe`s entire video product line-up.
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 is a core component of the Adobe Video Collection 2.5, which includes new versions of Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After E.ects, and Adobe Audition (see separate releases). Together, these products deliver a complete digital video and audio post-production platform for video and audio editing, motion graphics, visual e.ects, and DVD authoring at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions."
"The impressive new features in Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 allow me to complete DVD projects more e.ciently, leaving more time to work on creative design, or additional DVD titles," said Ralph LaBarge, managing partner of Alpha DVD, and creator of more than 400 DVD projects. "Tightly integrated with other Adobe products, Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 allows me to create DVD productions that truly stand out from the crowd."
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 now delivers even greater DVD design capabilities. The new Library Palette can be used to organize menus, buttons, backgrounds, text styles and vector shapes. Dozens of customizable menus and hundreds of shapes, buttons, and text styles are now built into Adobe Encore DVD. The new Styles Palette allows users to store Adobe Photoshop CS layer e.ects such as shadows, glows, and bevels to quickly change the appearance of DVD menu elements.
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 supports an expanded range of audio and video formats, including QuickTime .les. Preview of DVD menus on an external NTSC or PAL monitor simpli.es the DVD production process and previewing the entire DVD project is now supported by leading digital video cards, such as the Matrox RT.X100. Customers can now transcode .les in the background while continuing DVD design work, saving signi.cant production time. Working with multiple windows is now more e.cient, with customizable workspaces that can be saved and recalled at any time. In addition, the new Adobe Encore Project Checker identi.es problems with the DVD project before it is written to disc, saving quality veri.cation time.
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 provides industry-leading support for Photoshop CS, including new support for nested layer sets, and non-square pixels for accurate display on a television monitor. Integration between Adobe Premiere Pro, After E.ects, and Adobe Encore has also been enhanced. Markers in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 or After E.ects 6.5 AVI and MPEG-2 .les automatically create DVD chapter points in Adobe Encore DVD. Creating impressive motion menus is now easy, allowing users to send a menu from Adobe Encore directly to After E.ects 6.5 for animation. Import Adobe Audition 1.5 audio .les into Adobe Encore to convert to Dolby Digital audio.
Pricing and availability
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 for Windows XP will be available in the second calendar quarter of 2004 to customers in Southern Africa through Adobe Authorised Resellers for an estimated retail price of R5 195.00 excl. VAT. Registered users of Adobe Encore DVD 1.0 can upgrade to the new version for an estimated street price of only R975.00 excl. VAT.
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 is part of the Adobe Video Collection 2.5 Professional Edition for Windows XP, which also includes Adobe Premiere Pro, After E.ects Professional, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Photoshop CS for an estimated street price of R13 999.00 excl. VAT. The Adobe Video Collection 2.5 Standard edition, which contains After E.ects Standard and does not contain Photoshop CS, will be available for an estimated street price of R9 365.00 excl. VAT.
Share
Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals and enterprises. Adobe`s revenue in the last .scal year exceeded $1.2 billion. For more information about Adobe, visit www.adobe.com.
Editorial contacts