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Compression for DVD
Ok, here’s the situation. I have a 2 hour and 27 minute video that I need to fit on one DVD at a good quality. Doesn’t need to be the highest quality, but the higher the better. I am running Adobe Premier Pro 1.5, thus using Adobe Media Encoder, that comes with it. Ultimately, I need to bring the file into Encore to put it on DVD.
I am normally an FCP and Compressor user, so I am not too familiar with Adobe’s compression. Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions??? Anything would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Josh
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Personally, I would try this:
export timeline to “dv avi” (file/export/movie), and make sure you select “work area bar only” as part to export.
Import this .avi file into encore as an “asset”, and use “automatic” transcode setting. Encore will encode final compression as mpeg-2, but it should tell you if it will fit or not.
If it doesn’t quite fit (4.7 GB, assuming single side), then you have some options:
(1) try a lower setting, such as dv 4 mb one pass type thing, for your transcode setting.
(2) use a double-sided DVD (9.4 GB?), which can play on more players than you might think, assuming you have a DVD drive which can handle this.there are probably other options I am not aware of.
egb
“deja vu all over again” — Yogi Berra
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Hi there,
Actually, DV export is a bad choice in any situation. It will recompress your footage to DV (That doesn’t do very well with any added graphics or effects), and you definitely want the best quality to start with if you want to fit all that on a single layer DVD.
The best way here would be to export uncompressed, either QuickTime animation, or AVI, and letting Encore, or any DVD authoring software you are using pick the optimal bit rate. But that means a file size around 200+ GB
Hard drives are cheap nowadays, but you don’t have the space, you are left calculating the optimal bit rate, including any motion menus you may have on the DVD.
Here is a link to a bit rate calculator to help you out: https://www.customflix.com/Special/AuthoringNightmares/03/BitBudget.jsp
You can then use the Media Encoder export in Premiere and choose a custom rate to fit it all on that DVD.
Good luck,
Vince
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This is becoming a huge issue for me. This is my first assignment with my new employer and I am feeling like a total idiot. In DVD Architect it was just a matter of moving a slider in the optimize menu. Is there anything akin to it in Premiere? That sound you hear is my career dying.
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> This is becoming a huge issue for me. This is my first assignment with my new employer and I am feeling like a total idiot. In DVD Architect it was just a matter of moving a slider in the optimize menu. Is there anything akin to it in Premiere? That sound you hear is my career dying.
Well, Premiere media encoder is just that, an encoder. It doesn’t, and has no way to know what other content, such as motion menus, aditional videos, etc. you are putting on that DVD, so an auto bit rate feature based on space would pretty much be useless.
Please see my post above, is your issue space, or bit rate calculation ?
If you export uncompressed, then DVD Architect will take care of the rest.
Cheers,
Vince
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