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Alot of videos – How to make them fit the DVD? What bitrate?
Hello!
I want to make a DVD with alot of episodes from my Youtube-channel. I use Premiere Pro for exporting and Adobe Encore CS6 for creating the DVD.
All the videos together are about 400 minutes long so I guess two DVD-DL 8,5GB would the best choice?
400 / 2 = 200 min on each DVD.
I’ve found that out by using this website: https://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php
It gives me the recommended Maximum, Average and Minimum-bitrate I should choose in Premiere to make it fit on the type of DVD size I’ve picked.But, what is the correct worlflow exactly?
What I do now is that I open my PP-project and export the project to a MPEG2 format with the correct bitrate values given from the DVD calculator website and then one episode is done.Should I continue doing this until all episodes are complete and then import them to Encore CS6 or what is the proper workflow for ending up with a bunch of episodes that has the correct size in the end for the correct DVD size I choosed?
Best Regards!
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That is typically our DVD workflow – encode the video to DVD specs derived from the DVD-HQ Bitrate Calculator, then import them into Encore. I’ve had much better results from this method rather than letting Encore do the encoding.
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Yeah, me too!
I’m guessing that Average is Target in Premiere?
But what about the GOP structure? I, P and B-picture is not in the PP-export window. Are M and N Frames something similar?
And the last thing I do is to tick the box that says: Use Maximum Render Quality because I read that it improves downscaling?
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Yes, Target bitrate is the same as Average bitrate.
B-pictures = 0 translates to M=1
GOP Limit = 15 translates to N=15
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Alright thanks!
When I want to preview the result from the exports, any DVD-player software that you recommend?
Right now I’m using VLC. -
Though I use VLC too, you should also test on a DVD player. I’ve had many that would play on a computer, but wouldn’t on a DVD set top player – especially an older one.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
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