1024*768 DVD/Blueray Authoring help

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1024*768 DVD/Blueray Authoring help

Posted by Baran Venkatasamy on February 6, 2010 at 7:20 am

i have captured videos using camtasia studio and completed my editing in adobe premier cs4 . now i want to do DVD authoring in adobe Encore CS4.
my problem is after editing my project in premier cs4 i exported out as quick-time movie file but file size coming in some gb. for example 1 hr 23 min total video(.avi) size after export as quick-time it is coming in 12.8 gb.

export setting :
video size :1024 * 768
format: quick-time
codec used :h.264
aspect ratio : square pixel (1.0)
fields :progressive (none)
FPS : 15

now again one more problem in authoring my project .

my video output size is 1024 * 768.but adobe encore cs4 supports only NTSC, PAL presets.actually this output is for our interactive video tutorials (DVD computer playback )
even i tried with blue ray authoring but output gets blurred & there is no audio. even i can’t manually set my video dimension & audio rate of 15FPS(original audio)

is there any other way to do DVD/blue ray authoring using encore without losing video quality & size (1024 * 768 ).

any suggestion is really helpful for me

thanks

baran

Tim Kolb replied 16 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Mike Velte
February 6, 2010 at 12:04 pm

If your target is only computer playback I would edit in Camtasia and export as a Flash video 1024×768 (less 18 px for controls)…burn that to a DVD (Data DVD) with an autorun.inf file pointing to the .HTML file in the folder.
If you want a Video DVD, edit and export in Camtasia as “DVD Ready” .avi and author that in Encore.
Using Premiere to edit involves a couple of extra transcodings and resulting quality loss.
Baran Venkatasamy
February 6, 2010 at 12:09 pm

hi mike

thanks a lot .will try that and get back to you ..

thanks a lot .

baran
Jeff Pulera
February 6, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Hi Baran,

Camtasia actually has the ability to create a user interface/menu system for auto-run discs built-in. I haven’t used it in a while, but I had created a 4-hour tutorial at 1024×768 using .wmv files and the whole thing fit on a single CD (about 600mb total). Included dozens of clips, selectable from a custom menu.

Check the Camtasia instructions for how to use that.

Jeff Pulera
Baran Venkatasamy
February 8, 2010 at 5:15 am

hey jeff

thanks a lot for your valuable information .

baran
Tim Kolb
February 8, 2010 at 2:10 pm

Good advice all around in this thread.

Blu Ray discs, like standard DVDs, are formatted to correspond with -video- formats…for video playback. 1024×768 isn’t a video format, so it would require cropping or scaling…and scaling is an absolute no-no for computer interface captures as the readability will simply be trashed.

When you were converting to QuickTime, you likely were creating a file with a codec like ‘animation’ which is an extremely inefficient codec relative to Techsmith for screen captures.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

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