Basic Encore  CS3 Tutorials?

Hello! I'm a brand new Encore CS3 owner and user. I have learned Premiere Pro, and love it, but am having fits and starts trying to get Encore to do even the most elementary menu. What i need is a tutorial (hopefully free!) that guides you through the entire process starting with launching Encore, to burning the CD, and explaining the menu process etc. The tutorials that came with the whole CS3 bundle were hopelessly way too specific in explaining doing certain things that i have no intention of doing this early in the game, and the User Guide is completely useless as well in identifying the steps along the way to follow in authoring a DVD. So is there any kind of basic tutorial out there that i can download that will get me up to authoring my 1st DVD in Encore with just the basics?? I can learn the fancy stuff later, like motion backgrounds, motion buttons, music, etc., but for now, i just want to put a menu together, for example, that i can modify somewhat from the templates provided. MANY thanks for any suggestions! Alan

There are also a lot of basic things covered in the manual as well (assuming you got a version with the printed manuals).
Try looking here, or in the PDF manuals if you did not get printed manuals.

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  • Encore CS3 error, won't build DVD?!

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    Version: ??? (3.0.2)
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    Report Version: 6
    Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
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  • Internal Software error PGC  for encore CS3 !!! solved  !!!

    Almost everybody here knows the next error:
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    -If you like to use motion buttons in a menu then use Encore 2.0
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    Marcel W
    system:
    acer aspire AMD 64 3800+
    2 GB
    250 GB hard drive for system
    750 GB hard drive for movie
    software Adobe Encore 3.0.1.008, Premiere PRO 3.2.0, Photoshop CS3 10.0, All upgraded
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    > Where the y in time stands for the length of the timeline minus 2 frames.
    This can actually vary, and so far at least, I don't think we've seen a pattern as to type of pgc error based on how many frames from the end it reports.
    > The BPGC error can also be FPGC or DPGC dependant on how many menu's there are in the project.
    Number of menus is not relevant; the iteration of the first letter is more related to subsequent occurrences of the error. In my current tests it did not always update; they may have been too similar.
    > This is what generates the problem...
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    http://www.videoandcomputer.com/test/pgc_test.htm
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