Adobe Encore CS3 Tutorials
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The term Debugging comes from computer programming where when you write code for let's say a video game that's going to play on the Playstation 3 or the Xbox 360, as you're designing the game you might accidentally program something that causes the game to crash. So you have to play the game over and over again to try to replicate that crash and that process is called Debugging. You can do something similar to Debugging in Encore and it allows you to check the project. You'll find that Option under the Window Menu, right here where it says Check Project, this dialog box appears and the first thing you'll notice is that we have two parts. In the upper part we have the things that we want the Check Project mini application to actually check. Look for missing links, make sure all the End Actions work, make sure a First Play Movie is set, make sure there are no orphans and all that kinds of stuff, also make sure there is no button overlap. Now earlier you saw what happened when I took two buttons and put them too close to each other, you got a little bit of a red border that appeared. Well that could get in the way of the navigational system for people when they're playing a DVD. That's why you want to keep those buttons away from each other. Now what I'm going to do is leaving everything at the Defaults which of course Adobe recommends which is very wise because you want to check absolutely everything. When you're ready to actually check a project you click right here and then you look at the list which gives you the name of the problem and the problem. Now if you don't have any problems, of course you won't have anything in this list, so what you could do is just go through here and fix everything. Now of course I just chose an earlier project so that nothing was transcode or nothing was actually set up the proper way so that I can actually have a bunch of problems and this goes to show you. But as you can see here it says that chapter 1 has no link, neither does chapter 2, as a matter of fact none of them do. We also have no languages set so I don't have anything there, there's no Main menu Links Set, there's two errors and a meteor shower. As you can see its an orphan in the timeline and there's no End Action for that, so you can quickly look down here and see that there's 25 items found, of course your goal in life is to have no problems so that you can safely produce your DVD. So once again you run this after you correct your problems, so what I can do is for example go to my Flow Chart, I'll make this window a little bit bigger and as you see it has no link set. So the last time we have 25 errors, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just take the pickwhip and drag a couple of these guys here to get them out of the orphan list and I'm also going to, let's see here, click on this guy and drag it to this Menu and actually I'll make it, let's see, this menu here and I'll just go ahead and just do some more, I'll just choose some different things to take out of the orphan area and what I'm going to do is resize this now, return back to the Check Project and run it yet again. Notice that? 19 found this time, because I started to fix it, I set some links, so slowly but surely you'll get the hang of what you need to look for as you build your DVD and as you whittle this down, you just run this over and over again until you find things that are in this list that concern you and then you'll be able to burn your DVD with more confidence.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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