Encoding from Premiere to Encore high quality

[Vince Becquiot]

If you want to play it on a standard DVD player, you are stuck with the standards, that is 720×576. I also woudn’t push any higher than 8 MBps CBR, as many players will start to skip on home burned DVDs.

You can however create a data DVD that will obviously only be read on a computer, and there you have a ton of choices. Windows Media, Quicktime, flash, etc., and HD of course.

There are also new HDMI players that will play Windows Media HD, but there aren’t many outhere.

Coming from HD, you should be getting a pretty good picture quality anyway.

Vince

[David May]

Alright then, thanks for the quick reply.
Could I ask a few quick ones about the dvd export then? As i said, Im deinterlacing on export for obvious reasons and this film is being marked for my HSC, so cant risk it screwing up on whatever player theyre using (can assume it will be fairly new).
What is the best MPEG 2 DVD preset to use, and what should i do for my
Field order? (None? Upper? or lower?)
Bitrate Encoding=2 Passes?
Min Bitrate=?
Target Bitrate=?
Max Bitrate=?
Just seems such a pitty to only use 200mb of that potential 4gb 🙁

Strange thing is, the film is on a 16:9 aspect ratio, but when I use it on the dvd player in my english class, it reverts to an almost 4:3 picture(cutoffs disappear, zoomed in). The dvd player is set on 16:9, but when I change the player to 4:3, my film goes to a 16:9 appearance. This is a strange one, but I dont want to have to attach a note asking the markers to fiddle until they see the widescreen cutoffs. Any ideas?

Thanks Vince, much appreciated

[Vince Becquiot]

>> What is the best MPEG 2 DVD preset to use, and what should i do >>for my
>>Field order? (None? Upper? or lower?)

I wouldn’t use a preset, but rather pick the settings. The ones you care the most about are the bit rate settings. I would change that to CBR 8MB/s (this is my maximum recommended rate).

Since you are not worried about trying to fit stuff on there, you don’t need VBR, or 2 pass.

You could export to progressive, I don’t see a problem with it myself. In fact, if you shot progressive, it’s better to keep it that way.

>>Strange thing is, the film is on a 16:9 aspect ratio, but when I >>use it on the dvd player in my english class, it reverts to an >>almost 4:3 picture(cutoffs disappear, zoomed in). The dvd player >>is set on 16:9, but when I change the player to 4:3, my film goes >>to a 16:9 appearance. This is a strange one, but I dont want to >>have to attach a note asking the markers to fiddle until they see >>the widescreen cutoffs. Any ideas?

If the “aspect ratio” is set to widescreen in Encore, and your project was also widescreen, with no bars on top and bottom in the preview, then it’s probably an issue with the LCD/Plasma screen.

The DVD should be set to 16:9 only if it’s going to a 16:9 screen.

If it’s a 4:3 TV set, then you will see bars on top and bottom.

If it’s a wide screen (LCD, Plasma), the screen may have different viewing options. Usually, Normal, Stetch, and Zoom. It should be set to normal, although some people set it to stretch so that all video fit the screen no matter what.

Hope that helps.

Vince

[David May]

It truly has, and I for one really appreciate it. Im going to be doing the final export in about 2 weeks, as I still have some masking to finish in AE, so Im sure ill have some more questions between now and then.

Thanks again Vince, your a champ