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Burn captured AVI to DVD
Greetings all,
What compression forum do you recommend for exporting out of Premiere Pro, such that you can burn the data files to a DVD? Someone on the other end will be importing these for edit. I do not know what system they will be using.
Thanks,
Julie
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Julie,
Anything used for editing, would probably need to be uncompressed, or DV, if not effects or color correction were made on the timeline.
You will only be able to fit about 4 minutes of standard def uncompressed on a single layer DVD, or about 20 minutes of DV. I would recommend using an external drive. If the person is working on a PC, use MS AVI, and in the tab below, Compression none, or MS DV. If the user is on a Mac, use Quicktime animation, 100%.
Vince
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As the saying goes, DV in equals DV out ( to paraphrase ). No point in using uncompressed since it won’t get any better – just bigger. Editing is their issue it seems. If they are on Windows, MS DV is great. 18 minutes on a DVD. A Mac may have fits though. Send them a 2 second sample if possible.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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Thank you for the feedback – it was invaluable. We discovered pretty much the same thing, but it’s good to hear from the experts.
Happy Holidays,
Julie
Julie Allen
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George,
DV in=DV out only works on simple cuts. Color corrected, or resized footage, title areas, motion graphics, images, etc. will suffer from recompression. What you will see is basicaly a softening of the image. Not something you will catch on a small monitor, but definitely on a plasma, LCD.
Vince
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The paraphrased common expression is “Garbage in = Garbage out”. Not that DV is garbage, but no amount of saving the file in uncompressed format is going to make the quality any better. It will be the editor’s system that will determine what intermediate format if any will be used, not the shooter’s. And if he edits in a DV based system like native P Pro, then of course the edits may suffer from recompression. Or maybe not. By leaving the captured footage in its native DV format, the shooter harms the footage the least. He said someone else is doing the editing. Raw DV will take the least space on a DVD since that is how he wants to get the file to the next guy. Assuming he is indeed shooting DV. Now, if he is using a Vari Cam, then that is another matter entirely.
George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com
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