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1920×1080 from Premiere into Encore
Just finished editing my 1920×1080 video in Premiere Pro. Something tells me that I shouldn’t export it at that size and H264 format. So, my gut says to export using the Premiere preset for MPEG2-DVD, but that seems to default to 720×480…and that is not the same 1.78 aspect ratio as my original HD video…720×480 is 1.5…so black bars will be added to my video and I have to just live with it?
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I just exported 2 hours of 1920 x 1080 using MP2 Blu-ray and HD 1080i 29.97
my input files were all MP4. It work well, burned to a Blu-ray and plays great.
Hope this helps.
John
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Hi, John. Thanks for quick reply 🙂 I forgot to add that I am not burning to Blu-ray, burning to DVD. My understanding is that currently the only format that a DVD player can understand is MPEG2 at STANDARD definition. DVD will not take HD files in 1280×720 or 1920×1080, but Blu-ray will. It makes sense you had success, since you burned HD video format onto a Blu-ray..not a DVD.
So, if this still holds true, I am faced with shrinking down from 1080 to 720×480 and hence my question.
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Hi Alfredo,
I make standard DVDs for the same customer that I make the Blu-rays. The bars on the side are quite small and I’ve never seen them as a problem, even on a 60″ flat screen. You could create a DV export, bring it back into Premiere and resize it by a few percentage point. Example size 104%. You will lose some from the top and bottom, but you will fill a widescreen. I would try it with a ten minute segment and see which you like better.
Good Luck,
John
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Cool. Sounds like everything will turn out fine. Gooooo Grundyyyy!
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Hi Alfredo,
You’re correct that by definition, the DVD spec is 720×480, always SD video. For HD, one must go to Blu-ray.
HD video is 16:9 and you can make a 16:9 DVD as well, but the math does not come out exactly right when converting HD to SD, so with the MPEG-2 DVD file at 16:9, you will have very thin pillar box bars left and right. The easy solution in Media Encoder (when making MPEG-2 DVD file) is to choose “Scale to Fill” and that eliminates the black without stretching the image.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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thanks Jeff! Everything turned out great 🙂 the 720×480 version of my HD 1920×1080 video turned out looking very nice. I burned my first DVD movie and played it on a projector and the quality held up nicely. The tiny black bars on the side of the video due to a slight difference in aspect ratio were negligible.
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