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Best Premiere Export format for DVD
I imported numerous .mpg video files 720×480 into PremierePro CS4; edited them on timeline and added 720×480 jpegs and imported 720×480 avi files from After Effects. I want to export the 2-hour movie from Premiere to the Adobe Media encoder and encode it in a format best for producing a DVD using Adobe Encore. What is best format encoding for highest-quality and highest-def for DVD production?
The Adobe encoder options are: Microsoft (avi) — Quicktime (mov) — Uncompressed Microsoft AVI (avi) — MPEG2 (mpg) — MPEG2-DVD (m2v) — Windows Media (wmv).
Thanks for your help,
MikeSager NP9262 Notebook, Intel Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2, nVidia 8800m GTX Sli, 3x-Seagate 320GB, WUXGA, Vista Premium-64 – CS4 Prod Prem
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Well, DVDs are MPEG2, and I have had good success with the MPEG2-DVD preset. However, on my most recent project (which was admittedly short-form), I never rendered out at all – I used CS4s dynamic linking for everything. IIRC, I simply added the Premiere sequence to the Encore project, and when Encore went to build the DVD, it took care of the rendering. I’m not at that computer right now, but I don’t think I had to do anything else to make it work. This was on a new Vista-64 system with 6GB of RAM – on a 32-bit OS, or with limited memory I would definitely render out of Premiere using the MPEG2-DVD preset.
Brian
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Brian is right: the only format you can use for DVD-video is MPEG-2. That’s part of the DVD-Video standard. What you can adjust is bitrate (compression settings). You can do some math and figure the maximum bitrate for a 2-hour DVD-V. 2-pass compression will usually produce better results at lower than maximum bitrates.
For resolution, you did it properly: NTSC DVD-video _must_ be 480×720.-Jeff
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mpge2 dvd says it all. Otherwise, encore just has to transcode it, causing further loss, and a huge waste of time. And it you have multiplexed audio on export from PPro, then encore just has to demux it and re-encode it again.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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Thanks for the helpful replies. Two more quick questions. I researched the board before posting and found a post citing a problem when audio input/encode when Encore uses MPEG2-DVD format, since the audio file if created separate from MPEG2 file using mpeg-dvd. Is there a best procedure for handling the audio file to encore when opting for mpeg-dvd?
Secondly, dynamic link was mentioned. But my CS4 PremPro does not show a ‘link-to-encore’ option on the Export popout — only Media. And that selection takes me to Adobe Media encoder directly. Can’t figure out dynamic link.
Thanks again,
MikeSager NP9262 Notebook, Intel Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2, nVidia 8800m GTX Sli, 3x-Seagate 320GB, WUXGA, Vista Premium-64 – CS4 Prod Prem
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Hi Mike,
For Dynamic Link – you do it from Encore. Encore had a “Adobe Dynamic Link” menu, then you select “Import Premiere Pro Sequence”.
As for the audio when you render out using MPEG2-DVD – I have found that even though MPEG2-DVD always saves the audio out separately, if you do Import As: Timeline in Encore, and select the video file, Encore will “magically” load the associated audio file too. I too found that confusing.
Brian
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[Brian Stewart] “For Dynamic Link – you do it from Encore. Encore had a “Adobe Dynamic Link” menu, then you select “Import Premiere Pro Sequence”.”
Not sure if this is a recent update but mine has Adobe Dynamic Link on the File menu just under the Capture and Batch Capture and the top option is “Send to Encore”.
That being said, I have attempted that nifty keep-everything-dynamic-back-to-the-original-source approach to writing a DVD.
Even on a heavy horsepower machine it chugged and chugged, and eventually choked before it wrote a DVD. O
n the other hand, I was able to get the same thing out in reasonable time using the Media Encoder to put everything into mpeg2-dvd and then putting the resultant files into Encore, so I’d echo what everyone else has said. You may find that if you are looking at “Chapters” to your DVD to begin with, rendering out discreet sections and putting them together in Encore can be faster. In any case, pre-render to the final format as much as possible, because doing it inside Encore is slow and un-reliable.
Larry S. Evans II
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Hi Brian,
Thanks again for your help, along with the others who replied. You were right, Brian, I was looking in wrong places for dynamic link and the audio did get attached automatically in DynLink. I tried your suggestion and it worked; the movie looks great – though I still have some tweaking to do on the timeline to polish it; I wrote to a DVD +RW so I can re-write when minor corrections are made until final version is ready. Your mentioning of your prior use of a 64-bit system gave me hope before trying this. I too have a x64 and sometimes certain applications have difficulties with 64-bit systems. But thanks, Brian, all went well! MPEG2-DVD format looks good on DVD.
Hi Larry,
I too found that select panel on the top menu bar of PPro. I think dynamic link works from either side — export from Ppro, or import from Encore, so Brian was correct. This time, I rendered in Ppro, then did a dynamic link export to Encore from the Ppro timeline (I think, which encodes only once). But mine went pretty fast with no ‘choking’ at any stage. I think the encoding using the dynamic betw Ppro and Encore to final completion of DVD write took about 30 minutes. Not sure if that is fast or slow since I don’t know what other people have done. I have a notebook I use, but it’s a gamer with x64 Vista & a desktop (not mobile) Intel Quad Core in it. I’ve had good luck so far with CS4 appls on my x64 since CS4 is supposedly multi-threaded for multi cores. I suppose that makes some difference in throughput. But I’m not a techie.Thanks to all for your help,
MikeSager NP9262 Notebook, Intel Quad Q6600, 4GB DDR2, nVidia 8800m GTX Sli, 3x-Seagate 320GB, WUXGA, Vista Premium-64 – CS4 Prod Prem
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