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After Effects to DVD


Bob Donlon

Bob Donlon

http://blogs.adobe.com/bobddv

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Created:
21 March 2007
User Level:
Advanced
Products:
After Effects
Encore DVD

If you work with Adobe® After Effects®, sooner or later you’ll want to put your beautiful composition onto a DVD (and if you don't, what are you waiting for?). I had to do this myself recently and discovered an incredibly simple workflow using After Effects and Adobe Encore® DVD to create an auto-playing DVD, which is a DVD that doesn’t have menus and plays automatically when inserted into a set-top player or computer.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you just how easy it is to put your After Effects project on a DVD using Encore DVD.

Requirements

To complete this article, you will need the following software:

Adobe Production Studio

Prerequisite knowledge:

General knowledge of After Effects and Encore DVD

About the author

Bob Donlon, a Senior Manager on the Digital Video & Audio team at Adobe Systems, is an award-winning musician, editor, animator, and author whose credits include “Beavis and Butthead” and “Late Night with Conan O'Brien.”

Bob is the author of several books and magazine articles on video and film production, and has moderated user forums for editors and motion graphics designers. He uses his deep experience in multimedia content creation to educate Adobe users on the skills and techniques of working with Adobe's Digital Video & Audio tools.