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Export setting for Premiere for highest quality DVD
There must be a bit of information I’m not understanding. I’m working on a large DVD project with about 20 small (~10min) video segments totalling perhaps 3-4hrs of footage. I’m planning on putting this on DVD-9 format disc. Obviously I’m looking to get the highest quality video on my DVD. What I’m confused about is what video format should I export my videos in (using Premiere) if I’m using Encore for DVD authoring. I understand DVDs ultimately use MPEG2 compression, and the quality will be dependent on the ultimate bitrate that the video is encoded in. But should I export each video segment in Quicktime, AVI, uncompressed AVI, microsoft DV AVI? Do each of the video files need to be compressed so that the sum of the file size are within the space of the DVD prior to building in Encore. Or does Encore handle all of the compression at build time and I can direct it to 20 files that are a few gigs a piece?
Any tips would be much appreciated.
MRK
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I find the easiest thing to do is export from Premiere as AVIs and then bring the AVIs and other assets (menu, music, etc) into Encore and let it calculate the highest bitrate that will fit on the disc. In theory I guess that you take a slight quality hit in the extra step from AVI to MPEG instead of directly to MPEG, but I can’t see the difference in the final product and find it much easier that trying to calcuate the total size and appropriate MPEG settings to use so that I maximize quality while still being able to fit it all on a disc.
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