• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Exporting to DVD

  Posted by Oliver Smith on April 1, 2014 at 9:19 am

  So my footage was shot with a frame rate of 29.97. When I come to export to DVD-mpeg2 in PAL it won’t let me change the frame rate so this is going to give me a funny shadow effect. How do I get around this?
  As I will be burning the final DVD in Encore and its needs to play in region 2.
  Don’t have a blu-ray DVD burner either.
  All help good!

  Pat Horridge replied 12 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  April 1, 2014 at 3:56 pm

  Hi Oliver,

  If you choose PAL as your export settings under TV standard, the frame rate will automatically change to 25.

  In Encore, you can set it to play in all regions, or just region 2 in the build area.

  You also mention BLURAY and DVD, not sure which one you are working on.

  If you are working on a BLURAY, you will be better off with encoding to H.264. I usually do an uncompressed export (or ProRes) from Premiere, and let Encore encode to H.264. I find that if you encode to H.264 BLURAY from Premiere, Encore will still force another encoding.

  Vince Becquiot

  Indigo Live | Kaptis Media

  San Francisco Bay Area
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  Oliver Smith

  April 1, 2014 at 9:39 pm

  Thanks Vince

  To burn blu-ray I need a blu-ray burner but I don’t have one. I had thought about exporting at NTSC and then hoping it plays in Region 2. No idea if this would work. When I exported as Pal I get a small motion blur type effect? Which I presume is down to the frame rate being 25 rather then the 29.97.
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  Vince Becquiot

  April 1, 2014 at 11:09 pm

  Hi Oliver,

  Yes, the motion blur is from your frame conversion, there are other way to convert to PAL, but either way, you will be losing frames.

  Vince

  Vince Becquiot

  Indigo Live | Kaptis Media

  San Francisco Bay Area
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  Pat Horridge

  April 2, 2014 at 10:17 am

  Your shadow looking frames are blending due to the framerate conversion.
  You’d do better to convert to 25fps first and be happy with that result then burn a DVD.

  Don’t forget regions are only relevant to copy protection. SO you will make it region free. And actually something like 85% of European DVD players will play NTSC DVDs.

  So you could just burn a region free NTSC.

  The best framerate conversion is via Alchemist but it’s not cheap.

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