Week Twelve

Week 12 was only a half week as on the Wednesday i was over in spain for a few days.  But what i did this week was burn my DVD to disc using Encore.

Once i opened Encore along from the project tab on the top left i went to burn.  I first did a test to see if the links and timelines had end actions, and linked to the correct menu / timeline.  Once this was conducted i proceeded to burn the disc.

The picture above shows what the screen would look like when you click on the burn tab, it comes up with check project which is what i did first of all.  Making sure there were no orphan timelines or dead end links.  Then under the write speed i changed this down to the lowest speed, i did this so that everything burnt clearly and correctly (including the rollover links).

Here you can see how much space you have left on your DVD, you can change the name that appears on the DVD when you place it into a computer, laptop or mac.  At this point you can pick what layer you want to record on if you have a dual layer DVD disc inserted.

I didn't want to make my disc a specific region, but if i wanted to have it so it could only be played in region 2 (Japan, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East) i could have done so at this point in the burn process.

At the bottom of the burn process you can choose to add an encryption to the disc to stop it from being illegally copied.  If you choose yes you need to choose the marcovision which is defaulted to off but can highlight either type I / II or III.

Once i had completed this process i then proceeded to burning the disc, as the total space used was less then 200mb it didn't take much time to successfully transcode and burn to the disc.  All i need to do know for my project is complete the evaluation.

My evaluation was completed on Tuesday November 30th, i wrote about the equipment i used and why we used it.  How i would have improved my work if i could start the project again, and with the feedback i was given i discussed how i would have responded to the feedback given more time.  Once thing that i did manage to change according to the feedback was the transitions, i managed to do the transitions after watching many tutorials on youtube.  Each link has got a traisition (exept the easter egg button on the main menu) which see's various elements of the text to fade out and move of the screen.  Which i thought was a great addition to what you would normally see on a DVD front end menu.