Jittery video when going to ENCORE / Best export settings in Pr cs5 for Quicktime

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Jittery video when going to ENCORE / Best export settings in Pr cs5 for Quicktime

Posted by Bob Antonelli on February 17, 2012 at 4:24 pm

Hello.

Working with HD video (1080p 30fps)
Editing in Adobe Premiere CS5

I’m making a pilates DVD to be sold on a standard dvd.

I’ve seen and heard that the MPEG-2 gives you the best quality when dropping from HD to SD. So I exported as an MPEG-2. (it gave me separate audio and video files, but they looked good) The problem is, when I dropped them into Encore, my video becomes very jittery and looks nothing like my original MPEG-2 file.

I then exported my media as a Quicktime file under the Preset: NTSC DV Widescreen. I linked to encore and my video looks good…but not great.

Is there a custom setting process I can use in Premiere to export the best Quicktime video for release on a SD DVD?

As a side note…does anyone know WHY my video is so Jittery when exported as an MPEG-2 and dropped in encore?

Jeff Pulera replied 10 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 10 Replies
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Ann Bens
February 17, 2012 at 4:52 pm

No point in exporting/transcoding first to QT and then having Encore transcode to mpeg2 for dvd.
Export from Premiere with the mpeg2-dvd preset or use DL and set Encore to auto.

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Jeff Pulera
February 17, 2012 at 9:39 pm

Hi Bob,

DVD video is MPEG-2. Period. There is no “Best QT format for DVD” – regardless of what other format you send to Encore, it will need to transcode to MPEG-2 in the end, so just go straight from Timeline to MPEG-2.

In Adobe Media Encoder, choose “MPEG-2 DVD” format, and for a preset, “NTSC Progressive Widescreen”. At bottom of encoder window, check the “Max Render Quality” button which helps with downscale quality.

If you can share with us the length of the project, I can suggest some additional encode settings.

Also, make certain that the original Sequence Setting in Premiere properly matches your source footage, this is one place that could be harming quality.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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Bob Antonelli
February 17, 2012 at 10:07 pm

Thanks for your help.

My project is 42 min long.

Appreciate it!

Also….Do you have any idea as to why my video would become jittery when I dynamically linked it to Encore, but NOT jittery when I export a Quicktime movie and then dropped it into Encore?

Thanks again!
Jeff Pulera
February 20, 2012 at 2:56 pm

Hi Bob,

Not sure why you had jitters, could be field settings. If encoding with Adobe Media Encoder, for your 42 min. video, just use CBR 7.0 encode rate (good for any video 60 min. or less).

Jeff Pulera
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Vinod Pan
February 21, 2012 at 3:21 am

Hi Bob,

I do have a similar situation where in my footage length is running to 2 hours(2 events 90 mins and 30 mins duration) and am planning to burn it to a dual Layer DVD. Its a wedding video and I want to have all videos in one disk. Any suggestions for best encoding to MPEG-2 DVD.

Thanks
Vinod
Tero Ahlfors
February 21, 2012 at 7:41 am

[Vinod Pan] “I do have a similar situation where in my footage length is running to 2 hours(2 events 90 mins and 30 mins duration) and am planning to burn it to a dual Layer DVD. Its a wedding video and I want to have all videos in one disk. Any suggestions for best encoding to MPEG-2 DVD.”

Premiere and AME will try to guesstimate the overall size of the render. If it says something under 8,5 gigs you should be fine. If it’s going over that you’ll need to lower the bitrate.
Jeff Pulera
February 21, 2012 at 2:24 pm

On a 4.7GB DVD, a 2-hour program would fit if encoded at 4.5 bitrate. For dual-layer, the “max” is about 8, but many people like to use 7 as a max to maintain compatibility with all players.

Jeff Pulera
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Andy Horvath
June 13, 2015 at 12:21 pm

Hi all, I shot a 2 hour video on a canon xf100 at 25mbs because I was concerned about running out of memory on my CF card. Clients were complaining that closeups were blurry. What can I do for future reference to avoid that yet still compress to standard DVD? I use adobe Premiere CC and authored DVD with Encore. Also what would you recommend as exporting settings? Thanks much for your help, -Andy
Ann Bens
June 13, 2015 at 4:44 pm

2 hours will fit nicely on a DL
Use a preset and tweak the bitrate a bit up or use a bitratecalculator.
https://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php

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Jeff Pulera
June 15, 2015 at 2:51 pm

Hi Andy,

A 2-hour video, coming from a clean HD source (focused of course!) should not look “blurry” on DVD.

Use 2-Pass VBR encoding (from Premiere to MPEG-2 DVD) and also check the “Max Render Quality” box.

Instruct the viewer to NOT use yellow RCA composite cables from DVD player to HDTV, worse thing one can do! Use a DVD or Blu-ray player with UPSCALING technology and connect only with HDMI cable. Even Hollywood DVDs look bad with composite cable to HDTV.

I’m assuming the HD source footage is in sharp focus, nice clear video? If there was some focus issue when shooting, then the Unsharp filter in Premiere can work wonders to restore the footage.

Lastly, DVD is SD video at 720×480, it will never look as nice and crisp as HD video at 1920×1080 (with 6x the pixels), so clients need to understand that.

Thanks
Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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