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help? DVD encoding
I’ve been working on a wedding video that I’ve edited. I’ve been finished for awhile but I’m having difficulty maintaining quality during the encoding process. I’ve received responses before and I followed the post instructions:
These are the steps I do:
From Premiere Timeline:>File>export>Adobe media encoder> hit ok
New screen show up:
Format:MPGE2-DVD
Preset:NTSC DV 4X3High Quality 7MB CBR 1pass
Comment: High quality. CBR transcoding of DV content> hit ok
New Screen: (Place or HD where to save the process) File name:xxxxxx
Save as type:MPGE2-DVD[.m2v]
Export Sequence: Entire Sequence
File size: 6gig
From this point on is where it takes many hrs. pk
I did encode with high quality video; however, I have no audio. could someone help me understand what I’m doing wrong? Instead of encoding again. Could I import the encoded video file and the separate audio file into Encore and put it together?Zazi
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6 Replies
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Your audio should be separate a .WAV file in the same folder. You will then need a DVD authoring program like Encore DVD to burn your video. Also, you might want to check out some of the online bitrate calculators to get the best quality.
PS: A 6gb file size won’t fit on a SL DVD. (4.37GB)
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
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Being in the UK all my stuff is PAL. Not sure if there is a different procedure in NTSC.
To get the video & audio in the same MPEG package when the main screen comes up & you have set the video side click on multi plexing this (in the case of PAL) then gives you a packaged MPEG file with both video & Audio.
When I first used this system I had the same problem. Then I read the instructions. Funny that it is all there. My impatience !!!
Regards
Laurie Stewart
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Now that I know the answer of this question I realize what helpful or not could be a middle therm answer! Why does not give him the detailed answer to make him go over this, Aanarav, like Laurie did but more detailed??
Seems that a competence who make the most short answer is on the way… a behavior long time observed.
This is the only forum that I know who could help others to get sucess out of Premiere… despite all expensive tutorials around……………..Its not my intention to offend anyone… just get in mind of the savy’s that sometimes a more detailed help is needded.
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Hector,
Zazismith said that he had no audio and I told him where the audio would be. And considering that the extra ordinary size would not fit on a DVD, I reccomended him to another program, that would automatically do it for him. Don’t really see your point here.And instead of criticizing others, how about helping?
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certified Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video -
Zazi,
You might have figured this out already, but you need to compress the file more.
Use the preset just below the CBR preset, it is a 4×3 High Quality VBR with 5.1 surround. You need to change the Audio to PCM or better yet, mpeg to save more space (Don’t use the SurCode). Note when you change any parameter, you will make a Custom preset that you will have to name. Next select the video and you should see three sliders under Bitrate settings. VBR is variable bit rate, meaning it will put less compression where needed for quality (higer bitrate) and more compression where it can use more (lower bitrate). Turn the Max bitrate down from 9 to 7 or so. You might also turn the target down to 6 or 6.5.
Note also that the max bitrate for MPEG2 is 9mb/s or so and you really don’t want to get that high, it could cause problems with the DVD. The 2 pass VBR will go through the movie once to analyze it then the second time, it will encode it. This will take twice as long as CBR. I have not done single pass VBR, but assume it is better than CBR but the issue comes down to motion vectors and if there are parts of the video that go from pretty static to lots of movement, it may break up more with a single pass.
You might be able to re-compress it in Encore, but you would be doing a dual encoding and the artifacts will be very noticable. In addition, it is more difficult to find the encoding options in Encore.
Sorry, but it will take a long time to do. Probably too late for you, but hope this helps.
Don
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Also, you might have to change the bitrates to make it smaller if it’s still too big. You may also have to turn the quality down a little, maybe 4.5 or so. It’s always a balancing act between the file size, quality and bitrate.
Don
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