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Exporting Media Advice Please
Hello,
I’m finished editing a drum instructional video and ready to export for DVD authoring. I’m not quite sure what the best choice is in P.P.
CS4.The footage is HD shot with my Panasonic HPX-170. The DVD is obviously going to be wide screen/16:9 but will not be a BluRay disk.
Can someone please advise/suggested the best choice for exporting this project? I see MPEG2 and MPEG2 DVD. The obvious choice to me would seem the later but I’m not sure.
Any presets, settings, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Mark Dalzell
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2 Replies
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MPEG DVD will lock your settings withing DVD specs, so you cannot alter resolution.
For any DVD under one hour, you can use 7.5 MB/s CBR, that’ll get you the best quality without possible data rate issues in playback.
For anything over 1 hour, and I would try to keep it under 1 hour, 30 min to maintain a decent quality, you should consider using a DVD bit rate calculator like this one
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
If you are also using Encore CS4 PPro has a feature to send the timeline directly to Encore and let it do the encoding. Just go to File-Adobe Dynamic Link-Send to Encore. This will open Encore and your sequence in Encore with its own timeline (great workflow). Then you can create a menu etc. and allow Encore to transcode the sequence directly (which is MPEG2 format).
If you are needing to export for a DVD program other than Encore, and If its just a SD export, then yes MPEG2 is the best option. Depending on how much you want to fit on the disc, you can customize the quality settings. If exporting from PPro to MPEG2 you will get 2 files, one for audio and one for video. These can easily be dragged into a timeline in Encore. And maybe other programs.
Hope that helps!
Jason
jasonhonduras.com
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