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Burn a 12GB mp4 to DVD and Blu-Ray
Hi, we have just finished one of client’s video in Premiere Pro, exported it to h264 mp4.
The file is 12GB.I have got the Blank Verbatim 25GB Blu-Ray and 4.7GB DVDs with me.
Need to burn now.
What process do you guys normally follow for burning ?
I was thinking to do it on Encore. Straight import the 12GB file to encore, set the starting point by dragging and then burn to Blu-Ray.
But how do we do it for DVD ? 12GB file may need at least 2-3 DVDs. Will encore ask me to insert the new DVDs while burning ?
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4 Replies
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You don’t say what your master file format is ? I am guessing HD but which codec? If you want to take the guess work out of making your DVD, you need to prepare your master SD file, converting from HD to SD. Then you can work out the compression ratio you need in order to fit your video on how many DVD disc you wish…
David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
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Standard red laser DVD is standard definition and uses Mpeg2. To know whether you’d need more than one disc, you would first have to export your program as standard definition Mpeg2 (there is an Mpeg2 DVD preset in the exporter.
Theoretically you could author once using the source media (not the mp4 you exported) and switch it from DVD to BluRay, but there are certain authoring features that aren’t common between the two formats, so it might be simpler to just create two Encore projects if you are uncertain.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Lets first solve the DVD thing :
What I did in the past was, I always rendered my file to h264 mp4 FullHD.
Then I imported that to my Encore and did the DVD burning and I know, DVD only supports SD, so my videos resolutions were totally off, and the videos were all SD, when I tested the DVD.So, did I do that right or did I miss something ?
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Best is to export your HD timeline to mpeg2-dvd from Premiere and import the two files (m2v+wav) into Encore. A 1.5 hour timeline will fit nicely on a DVD.
No retranscoding needed. Make menu and burn.
If you export to mp4 first and load that into Encore your file gets re-encoded something you do not want.The same goes for BluRay: export to H.264 BluRay import that into Encore, build menu and burn. No re-transcoding.
Beware Premiere 7.1 has a bug in the H.264 BD preset. Encore does not see the files as BD compliant.———————————————–
Adobe Certified Expert Premiere Pro CC
Adobe Community Professional
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