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Almost finished. Need help on final export timeline issue.
I’m all finished with 2 different video projects in Premiere and ready to export them both and bring them into a DVD authoring program called “DVD Lab Studio” by Mediachance. I will be burning a master of each to have DVD replications made down the road.
My question is in Premiere under “Export Timeline” should I choose to Export my timeline as a “Movie” or “Adobe MPEG Encoder”? If I choose to use the Adobe MPEG Encoder I’m concerned about the bitrate for the MPEG Stream DVD option. It gives the option of using a DVD NTSC 4×3 Medium Bitrate or going to a Higher Bitrate. My 1st video is just about 1 hour and 30 minutes and my 2nd is just over 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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I was so frustrated trying to make DVDs from PPRO 1.5 I went and got CanopusProcoder2, comes with wizards that select bitrates based on size and output format, plus has a batcher so you can easily try lots of dif settings to see which one is best. I am not sitting in front of PPRO now, but I remember there was an export to DVD, which allows you to select DVD folder, and it creates the VOBS for you, not sure what settings it uses. I did this before procoderdays and then used Encore for fair results. But ProCoder is quality export software. The rub with that is that it may be dying…there is no support for PPRO2 as of yet, and rumors there never will be. Good luck,
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Steven,
DVD Lab does not accept AVI files and hence you will have to export them via Adobe Media Encoder.Regarding the bitrates, I will reccomend taking a look at this: https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
It will give you the exact answers you are looking for.
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Thanks for the link. I’m wondering how to find out what my audio bitrate is for my Premiere project since it looks to add to my “Calculated Bitrate” when choosing any of the “Audio Bitrate” options?
That link gives you a “Calculated Bitrate” and a “DVD Max Bitrate”. Is the calculated bitrate a minimum of what to export it at and the max bitrate is a maximum of what to not go beyond as an export? Both ending up at different file sizes.. Wouldn’t the “DVD Max Bitrate” be the way to go?
If you type in a video bitrate found at that link into your “Adobe MPEG Encoder” from Premiere there is a option under “Video bitrate” called “Video encoder quality”. Should that be changed as well?
Thanks so much..
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The calculated bit-rate is the one that you should use, since that is the optimal setting for your specific project.
Video encoder quality really makes no considerable difference. If you want to export the file a LOT faster, then select a quality of “3”. If not, you can leave it at the default “5”
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Is there a default number for the audio bitrate I should choose on that page?
Thanks for all the help and answered questions..
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[Steven Free] “Is there a default number for the audio bitrate I should choose on that page?”
I don’t think there is a default setting. Perhaps someone from the DVD Authoring forum can help you out?
[Steven Free] “Thanks for all the help and answered questions..”
Glad to help!
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Do yourself a favor. Get Encore and use it to burn your discs.
Forget about bitrates and back & forth rendering. Export your TLine as a avi file.
Encore 1.5 is very easy to learn and automatically take care about mpeg encoding. But beware of certain tutorials… it seems like is Encore is impossible to learn… in real life is 1,2,3.
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