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  CS5 Premiere Export Settings (consolidation)

  Posted by Eric Dietrick on April 4, 2011 at 2:42 am

  HI,
  I have looked all over the internet and have found very little intelligible posts about cs5 export settings for HD video to SD DVD. i use a canon 60d and have premiere and encore cs5. i want make a list of good export settings for what i consider the 3 main shooting settings for dlsrs. 1080 p 24p, 1280p 60p and 1280p 30p. i shoot in all of these settings and i export to a dvd which i make in encore. alot of people suggest using Adobe Dynamic link (ADL) instead of Adobe Media Encoder (AME) this does work better but if i want to use sequences in multiple projects exporting from AME would be more convenient but when i burn it, it looks terrible so somewhere i have to be making a mistake with my export settings.

  SO:

  1.)what are the best export settings for hd to dvd(pictures would be helpful)
  2.) what is the best setting for the main sequence (1080p 24p and then adding 1280p and scaling to frame, or using a 1280p 30p timeline and adding 1080 24p video and having hat scaled?
  3.)CBR vs VBR? im only doing 30 min project so size isnt an issue. i really want best looking video.

  Eric Dietrick replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Greenberg

  April 5, 2011 at 11:37 pm

  Eric,

  I’m a bit confused about some of what you asked…

  [Eric Dietrick] “the 3 main shooting settings for dlsrs. 1080 p 24p, 1280p 60p and 1280p 30p.”
  What is 1280p? There’s 1080 and 720…but what is 1280? do you mean 720?

  [Eric Dietrick] “1.)what are the best export settings for hd to dvd(pictures would be helpful)
  “
  Send directly from Premiere Pro to Adobe Media Encoder – this will ignore any renders and create the highest quality final mpeg2 product. Adobe is using the same Mpeg2 codec as the other “major” players (Telestream, Sorenson.) VBR, 2 pass, and the highest data rate your video can afford.

  [Eric Dietrick] “2.) what is the best setting for the main sequence (1080p 24p and then adding 1280p and scaling to frame, or using a 1280p 30p timeline and adding 1080 24p video and having hat scaled?”
  Hard to really say – I’d probably work at whatever the greatest bulk of my footage was.
  I could give a convincing argument both ways: Scaling 720 up to 1080 just to downconvert to 480 (dvd) seems like extra scaling.
  But 1080 down to 720 down to 480 means that the footage may get transformed twice.

  3) VBR. Yeah, a high bit rate CBR is pretty much no different though.

  Best,

  Jeff G

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  Eric Dietrick

  April 6, 2011 at 5:21 am

  sorry, i meant 720p. i write 1280p just as notes to myself for slow motion. its a bad habit.

  my understanding is that when you export video from premiere you use AME. should i just use the default settings for mpeg2 dvd?

  its weird. if i export from AME, the video looks fine in any media player. when i put that same video is encore it looks fine in the preview. if i burn it, it ends up looking bad. BUT if i import directly from permiere to encore that video looks fine. i did select “dont transcode” for the video that was exported (the ones that end up looking bad) since they are already in dvd format. ill play around with it more and see what works

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