>> Adobe's Encore 2.0  allows you to add subtitles and captions to your DVD project very easily.  This tutorial will show you how.

First gather up your media assets.  I have a separate movie asset and audio asset here in this directory.  Next obtain your caption and subtitle files from Automatic Sync Technologies CaptionSync Server.  Simply log onto your AST account, and select the broadcast application type and then fill out this program submission form.  I have my own text transcript right here. That's just a transcript of the show. If you don't have one you can select this button right here to have AST generate a transcript for you.  Now select your audio asset if you have a combined audio and video asset you can use that but if you have them separated as I do here just select the audio asset only.  Set the time code for the beginning of your audio to be the same as the offset time code for your video.  Zero in my case.  And click the advanced settings button.  Make sure you select the Sonic Scenarist DVD captioned format which is a format that Adobe Encore uses for captions and select the Adobe subtitle format.  Click the apply changes button and submit your program.  A few minutes later you will receive back caption files and I have them right here in this CaptionSync results directory.  There is the Adobe dot text result file which is the subtitle result file and the dot SCC file which is the caption results.  

Okay, now let's create a new project in Adobe Encore. We'll create a NTSC project for North American television.  We'll give our project a name.  Okay, the first thing to do is click the projects tab.  If you don't have the projects tap up let's add it. And let's import some assets into our project.  Import asset, there's my movie asset and my audio asset. 

The next thing to do is to create a new timeline.  And you will see our timeline has a video component, an audio component and a subtitle component.  Let's drag our movie asset onto our video component and our audio asset onto our audio component.  Let's enable our subtitle component and right-click on the subtitle area to import subtitles.  We'll import a text script and in the CaptionSync Result directory you will see the Adobe dot text file. Go ahead and open that.  

When you import it, a pop-up box will allow you to set the font type and the size and the justification and so forth.  I'm just going to leave those all as defaults for now. I'm going to adjust my timeline so you can see that. There is all our subtitles that we just imported. 

Okay, let's pull up the disc tab.  And on the disc tab, select the disc tab and select properties.  You can set the default audio channel and default subtitle channel.  If you set those to no change then the DVD player will just resume with whatever selections it previously had.  But you can use this to set the default values for subtitles to either off or on to channel 1.  I'm going to leave those as no change for now.  

The next thing we can do is set our subtitle color.  So click on your timeline to select it and under timeline say edit timeline color set. Subtitle group 1, the fill color is the color of our subtitles, so you can go ahead and adjust that to whatever color you wish.  And select ok.  Now we can also set the font, color, position and size again.  We had an opportunity to do that when we imported the subtitles but we can do that at any time by going over here on the subtitle and right clicking here to say select all in track. So all of our subtitles are now selected.  And under the properties tab up here we can see the alignment value is 100 percent.  That allows us to position where the subtitles appear.  Zero percent is at the top, 100 percent is at the bottom. We'll leave these at the bottom and under the character tab we have access to control the font, font size and the justification.  We will center ours. 

Okay that's all there is too adding subtitles but now we should add a menu to allow the user to control the subtitles that will allow them to be turned on or off.  So let's select our menu tab. Let's go to our library and select available menus.  And let's just bring, drag a menu over.  Now you can right-click on your menu and edit it in Photoshop to change the title and so forth.  We're just going to leave it as it is for now.  Let's remove the buttons that we don't want by just pushing the delete key. We'll leave ourselves with two buttons.  Now let's go back to our timeline for just a second and right-click our timeline and give it a name.  

Okay, now let's come back to our menu.  Let's select our first button. In the properties tab go under link and say specify link.  Let's open up our movie and link that button to chapter 1 of our movie.  We'll leave the audio on channel 1, no change.  But subtitles we will turn on and let's give that button a name. With subtitles.  Selected button number two.  Again under the link setting, lets specify the link.  We'll link it to the same chapter one of the movie, but this time under subtitles we will turn them off.  And let's give that button a name.  No subtitles. Okay. There is our menu.  Let's click the flow chart tab now and insert our menu into our flowchart and let's connect our DVD project to our menu so that our DVD project connects to our menu and our menu has "With subtitles" connecting to the movie with subtitles turned on, and the "no subtitles" selection connecting to the movie with subtitles turned off.  

One last thing to do: let's click on our movie and set the end action so that when the movie ends we return back to the last menu.  Okay.  That's all there is to adding the menu.  Our project should now be ready, let's just run a check project to make sure that we didn't make any errors.  And there were no errors found.  You can now preview your project to see the menu and it's behavior.  There is our menu with subtitles and no subtitles, so if we click on with subtitles, we'll launch our movie and our subtitles will appear. 

Okay. I had you preview the movie before we went to add captions because once you add captions the movie is not previewable.  Let's go ahead and add our closed captions now.  Click on your video asset.  You see here that there is a closed caption field.  Okay, so we just need to add our closed captioned file.  So under the closed caption field one let's click the browse button.  And let's. There is our SCC file, so let's select it.  And we've added our captioned file in.  Now your project is ready to go, so all you to do is select the build DVD.  And go ahead and build your project.  And that's all there is to it.  Abode's new Encore 2.0 allows you to add subtitles and captions to your disc very easily and Automatic Sync Technologies CaptionSync Server allows you to get the subtitle and captioned files very quickly and inexpensively.