Adobe Systems Incorporated
today announced Adobe Encore(TM) DVD 1.5, a significant 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,
workflow 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(R) Pro,
Adobe After Effects(R), and Adobe Audition(TM) (see separate releases).
Together, these products deliver a complete digital video and audio
post-production platform for video and audio editing, motion graphics, visual
effects, 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 efficiently, 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(R) CS layer effects 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 files. Preview of DVD menus on an external NTSC or PAL
monitor simplifies 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 files in the background while continuing
DVD design work, saving significant production time. Working with multiple
windows is now more efficient, with customizable workspaces that can be saved
and recalled at any time. In addition, the new Adobe Encore Project Checker
identifies problems with the DVD project before it is written to disc, saving
quality verification 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
Effects, and Adobe Encore has also been enhanced. Markers in Adobe Premiere Pro
1.5 or After Effects 6.5 AVI and MPEG-2 files 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 Effects 6.5
for animation. Import Adobe Audition 1.5 audio files into Adobe Encore to
convert to Dolby(R) Digital audio.
Pricing and Availability
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 for Windows XP(R) will be available in the second
calendar quarter of 2004 to customers in the United States and Canada through
Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store at www.adobe.com/store. The estimated street price of
Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 will be US$ 549. Registered users of Adobe Encore DVD 1.0
can upgrade to the new version for an estimated street price of only US$ 99.
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 Effects
Professional, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Photoshop CS for an estimated street
price of US $1499. The Adobe Video Collection 2.5 Standard edition, which
contains After Effects Standard and does not contain Photoshop CS, will be
available for an estimated street price of US$ 999.
Source: Businesswire
