Complete novice, exporting, any suggestions?

[Mike Velte]

Your DVD recorder likely created a DVD which has VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder.
I dont know how you got WMV files, but I know you dont want another encode to Quicktime if your target is DVD. Things go down hill with each encode.
Copy the VOB files to your hard drive, change the file extension to .mpg and import into Premiere. Edit and export as Mpeg 2 DVD at a bitrate that will fit your movie on a 4.3 GB disc.
Import that file into Encore for authoring as a DVD.

[Cecilie Lydersen]

Thank you for your advice! The original files on the dvd were .vob-files. it’s been a while since I looked at the original files, and have probably converted them to .wmv to be able to import to Premier.

I have some difficulties doing what you suggest though.

Having copied an original file over to my pc I’m not able to rename to mpg. It just puts videoname.mpg.vob. Do I have to use a converter for this?

Next I looked through my options in Premier. When I select Export/Adobe Media Encoder I only have 4 options to export to;
Macromedia Flash Video
Quick Time
Real Media
Windows Media.

I’m really excited learning about this! A reply much appreaciated 🙂

[Hector Melendez]

Search in your browser (vob to mpg) or similar. You will find tutorials

[Cecilie Lydersen]

Hi,

Thank you for all your great tips 🙂 Been scratching my novice Premier brain after the tips you’ve been giving me. And am slowly getting there.

One of the computers at work actually have the full version of Premier Pro CS3, so I’ve been doing some testing.

I’ve now renamed the .vob-files to .mpg, imported them into Premier and finally edited the files the way I want them.

Mike Velte wrote earlier in the post: “Edit and export as Mpeg 2 DVD at a bitrate that will fit your movie on a 4.3 GB disc.”
Can you please explain “at a bitrate that will fit your movie on a 4.3 GB disc.” Obviously I need things explained down to the smallest detail…

I’ll be leaving the file to render overnight, and not having to render it several times because of choosing the wrong options would be my biggest wish right now 😉

~Cecilie

[Eddie Lotter]

[Cecilie Lydersen] “Can you please explain”

The bit rate affects your output file size. The longer your video is the lower your bit rate will need to be.

See: FAQ:How do I calculate the file size or bitrate?

Cheers
Eddie

[Cecilie Lydersen]

Hello Eddie,

I was just about to try removing my last “oh-so-happy-it-might-be-working-now”-post from this thread..

I noticed something, and I’ve been trying to Google the problem. Don’t get any smarter though.
Maybe you can help with that as well? I didn’t notice this earlier as the first file I imported and edited in Premier was a .wmv-file. (just wanted to test something). When I’d finished editing the .wmv-file I renamed an original .vob-file to .mpg and imported this one to the same project. But the sound disappeared.. 🙁 Even with the single .wmv-file in a separate project converting it to MPEG2-DVD made the sound disappear.

Googled .m2v-file and read that it’s only for video and not audio.

My main goal is to get old family-videos onto a DVD for any dvd-player to read. Refering to the once that don’t support xVid as well.

[Cecilie Lydersen]

Hi,

Just want to give an update on my research and results while waiting for respons(es). 🙂

Having read on this forum about other people who’s also had problems with audio disappearing when imported to PrCS3 I downloaded a program called GSpot to check the codecs. A lot of info, but at least it said codecs for video and audio both installed.

I’ve also downloaded a freeware program called AoA Audio Extractor. Extracted the audio from my .mpg-file. Imported this to PrCS3 and success! Don’t know if it synchs correctly as so far there hasn’t been any up-close footage of conversations.

If I’ve done everything right and haven’t maximized the size of the file by 10 elephants, my only problem left now is how to export it to a readable dvd-file for both DVD players accepting xVid and not.

A bit happier now 😉 At least for a while 🙂