Eye Scream Factory is currently offering a cool Free Download of the Month. Add the hope and renewal of spring to your DVD production with Yellow Orchid, this month's free DVD menu and packaging design template set. The template set includes main and chapter DVD menus in HD, NTSC, PAL, and DV - along with matching disc labels, case inserts, and background images.

The free download includes:

• Main and Chapter DVD menu templates
• HD (1920 and 1280), NTSC, PAL, and DV DVD menu templates
• Matching 300 dpi DVD disc label and case insert templates
• Matching HD, NTSC, PAL, and DV background images

All of the DVD Menu Templates are layered Adobe Photoshop files, so they should work great in Adobe After Effects in addition to Adobe Encore.

Labels: After Effects, Encore, Eyescream Factory, Free, Templates

Sign up today for some free video seminars from Adobe! Here is a sampling of the classes:

• Creating Animations with After Effects and output to Flash
• After Effects 101 part 2: Creating motion backgrounds and elements
• Capture the best footage possible from your video camera and save editing time with OnLocation and Premiere Pro
• Working with Photoshop Extended to use with Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Create DVD motion menus that wow your audience using Adobe After Effects CS

There are a few more on the list as well. Classes start September 27 and go through late November.

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Encore, Flash, OnLocation, Photoshop, Premiere Pro

provides important bug fixes for encoding and decoding H.264-encoded content and creating Blu-ray discs. Adobe strongly recommends that all users install this update to improve compatibility with H.264 content.

More information on the Encore update

Labels: Adobe, Encore