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Chances are very good that you'll trust Encore to do all the behind-the-scenes work for you. Now, I find that it does a very good job on its own without me really having to lift the hood up and get behind the scenes. All I really concern myself with is designing a good DVD that has a fun interface, cool buttons, motion menus and some good content for people to enjoy, like slideshows. But if you do want to know where the presets live, let me show you where they are. Now, what I'm going to do is right click on a movie I have inside of My Videos Folder that I created and I'm simply going to right click and choose Transcode Settings. Now, what I can do here is look at some presets and we'll talk more about Transcode Settings coming right up. But for now, the presets that we have available to us live under the Quality Preset for DVD Transcoding. Now, I did mention this somewhere else in the training, but what you can do is to choose to have the quality and you can have Progressive. So let's talk about what Progressive is. With the latest TVs we don't really have the need for the DVD when it plays back to have the upper and lower fields. What that means is the TVs that are a little older, they would pretty much render the picture in different fields; upper and lower and they would complete the picture after a while. So they would draw very quickly. We couldn't even detect it, by the way, the upper and lower halves of the picture, just to put that in the most plain terms. Progressive TVs, which are like the flat-screen, HD TVs that are out now, do everything in one pass. It just, boom. Everything's there. But for as far as your Quality Presets, you can tell Encore whether you the want quality to be extremely high or low quality when you have a whole bunch of content that you absolutely must have on this DVD and, you know, this pretty much tells it what to do as far as the compression and how to make the passes. So with one pass and with a constant bit rate you're pretty much going to get Encore to look at your footage one time and compress everything at pretty much the same exact bit rate. With a variable bit rate, it's going to change based on what's going on in the scene. So if we have a lot of action, it's going to compress it so that you can get better quality. But when there's almost nothing moving, let's say two characters talking in a diner, then it's going to look at areas that aren't changing too much and change how it's compressing it. Now, if you want to go into the Quality Presets and get under the hood even further, you click this button and it opens up this pretty large box, this dialog box and we have all kinds of settings. Now, this is for people who aren't afraid of getting in there and changing how the presets work to their own specifications. Now, I know that list just scared a couple of you. It scared me too but as you see here, I wouldn't even touch anything here unless I knew exactly what I was doing. But I just wanted to show you where that lived just in case you were wondering how I can manage my own presets and change them. And by the way, when you do edit these presets, you can save them out. So that is where the presets are and that is where you can go if you want to change them to specifications for a specific job or for a client that you have and they have exacting standards for the DVD they want you to produce.