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AVI or Mpeg?
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Are you exporting to DV AVI? The same quality that is on the MiniDV tape? Or did you pick some other, lesser quality, codec when you exported?
There may be things about your video that look better in MPEG than in DV AVI. Some text really shows the difference in codecs. I usually export to MPEG2-DVD and not to AVI. It saves one generation of transcoding.
Steven
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Hi Martin,
A couple of things to consider here. There are many different types of AVI, none of which can be directly burned to a DVD. DVD format is Mpg2, so any AVI’s you export will have to be recompressed (By your DVD authoring software) to Mpg2 in order to be burned on a DVD.
There is a setting in Premiere to export to “Uncompressed” or “lossless” AVI, with no loss in quality. If you are noticing a loss in quality with your AVI, then you are probably using a medium to high compression codec.
But the bottom line is that you are likely just better off exporting to mpg2, since the files are then ready to be burned without any further compression, and time waiting for it.
One final thing to consider is the limited space on a DVD. When you export directly through Media Encoder at a specfic quality setting, the final video may end up over the 4.7 Gb limit (Single layer) and your DVD authoring soft will have to recompress again to keep it under that limit, thus another further loss in quality and another 2 hours + waiting.
So the first solution is to calculate the final file size with the quality setting given (Whole other thread but plenty of articles on that around).
Or, export to “uncompressed” AVI and let you DVD authoring software calculate the best setting for you. This is the best solution if you have several videos, and some king of motion menu in your DVD (Encore DVD does this pretty well)
Hope that answers your question.
Cheers,
Vince
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