RIP, Adobe Encore; and How to Install and Use Encore CS6 with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Adobe has end-of-lifed Adobe Encore, which is bad news if you need to burn DVDs or Blu-ray Discs or build Flash DVDs. This article will discuss how to install Encore if you're a CC subscriber and don't have Encore CS6 already installed on your computer; the terms and implications of Encore's end-of-life status; and how to work around the lack of Dynamic Link transfers from Premiere Pro CC to Encore CS6.
What’s New in Premiere Pro CC?
Don’t sweat, Ms. Lincoln; there is one tiny bit of good news. Specifically, with Premiere Pro CC, if you export a QuickTime file, any chapter markers that you inserted will appear as chapters when played back on iPads and other iDevices. Note that these chapter labels and poster frames already appeared in Final Cut Pro X (Mac Only) when you exported from Premiere Pro CS6 (Figure 4, below). In Final Cut Pro 7, the latest player available on Windows, only the chapter names appear, there are no poster frames.
Figure 4. In QuickTime X, you get poster frames and labels. Click on the image to see it at full size.
What’s new--or what’s supposed to be new--is that these chapter labels and poster frames should appear when the video is played back on an iPad. I have a (now ancient) iPad 1, and I got the result shown in Figure 5 (below)--no poster frames, no chapter labels--from the same file shown in Figure 4. Note neither the black frames or the chapters appeared on my iPhone 4S.
Figure 5. I didn’t get the poster frames on my ancient iPad 1. Click on the image to see it at full size.
At press time, we heard from Adobe, who related that chapters were working in iOS6, but the feature was removed by Apple in iOS 7. Adobe is working on a way to resolve the issue and enable the viewing of chapter frames in iOS7. For older devices, like my iPad 1, which tops out at 5.1, the feature also isn't working. There's no word as to whether Adobe will attempt to resolve this issue.
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