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  • Encoding over two hours in Premiere Pro/Encore 1.01

    Posted by Graham Quince on January 16, 2006 at 9:21 am

    Hi guys

    Looking for advice for the best encoding settings.

    I have a two hour project in PAL. It’s captured via a Pinnacle Studio card, so I’ve assembled it in Premiere Pro. I’m now looking at encoding to single layer DVD using Premiere’s Adobe Media Encoder (which seems identical to Encore’s – hence why I’m asking here).

    In the past, I’ve mainly used the maximum settings to produce 60 minute DVDs which clock in at 2.5 Gb.

    The footage is mainly daylight, mainly heads and two shots although there is a lot of shots including a river – so rippling water. The video does have large-ish black bars top and bottom, so presumably I get to save a bit of encoding there. It’s also VHS quality, which will have added noise of course.

    Is it simply a case of dropping down the minimum and maximum bit rates?

    Graham

    https://www.qcit.co.uk – web design
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    Mark Weaver replied 20 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Mark Weaver

    January 16, 2006 at 8:28 pm

    Graham,
    The last project I did that was over 2 hours, was home
    videos from a VHS tape. To get this on the single layer
    DVD, I encoded it in PPro with the target bit rate of 4MB/sec,
    the quality set to 3.5, Max bit rate 7.0 and Min bit rate
    set to 2.0.

    Worked fine for my case and in fact I used this setting
    for other video(DV) and there was very little noticable
    defects in the output.

    Hope this helps.

    Mark

  • Graham Quince

    January 18, 2006 at 8:54 am

    Thanks very much Mark

    This worked brilliantly.

    Graham

    https://www.qcit.co.uk – web design
    ——–
    https://www.shiveringcactus.bravehost.com – Free FX for amateur films

  • Mark Weaver

    January 18, 2006 at 7:54 pm

    Glad I could help… 🙂

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