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I have 17 gig of dv footage which is about 3 hours of footage, i’m making a dvd but am having problems exporting the footage and keeping it to a decent standard as well as making the file size much smaller. I dont mind putting the footage on two dvd’s as long as I can keep the picture quality up. Can anyone tell me the best compression settings to use?
Please.
Thanyou
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Video compression is about compromise. You can have high quality OR small files…not both.
The best quality setting (using premiere) would be 7.8 mbps (video) , but that would require 3 discs and take your total bitrate to 9 mbps which is higher than most folks would take duplicated discs.
Using Encore or Premiere Elements with Dolby audio could take your video bitrate up to 6 mbps which is 1.2 mbps higher than Premiere for 2 discs. -
17 GB of MS-DV AVI type2 footage is around 80 minutes, not 3 hours. What codec is used if it is 3 hours?
If you have Encore, export to movie, import the movie into Encore and have Encore do the transcoding. Otherwise use a bitrate calculator to find optimal settings for the transcoding to MPEG2-DVD.
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[popnerd2002] “I have 17 gig of dv footage which is about 3 hours of footage”
Are you sure it’s DV footage? What codec?
Aanarav Sareen
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yeah sorry made a mistake it comes to about 38 gb of dv which is about 3 hours
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For 3 hours I would either use two DVD’s or use DL. Still the easiest way is have Encore do the transcoding. You also have AC3 sound, so it will leave more space for the video, improving the quality.
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Within PPro divide your timeline footage in 2 sequences as you want best for continuity.
Export “movie” to be burned at Encore creating a folder as “part 1” for the first sequence. Depending on your system this will take 45 yo 50 min.
Do the same for sequence 2.
Import this into Encore, make your menu and burn it. Left Encore do the best settings in automatic. -
What shud i export it as? DV?
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What would be the best video format to export the footage out of premiere as? would microsoft avi? but wouldn’t the file sizes be huge still?
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[popnerd2002] “What shud i export it as? DV?”
The purpose of the export would dictate the export settings. For local playback Windows Media Video 9 would give one of the best quality/size ratio at 2 mbps same size as original, but deinterlace in the encoder.
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