Exporting to DVD

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Oliver,

If you choose PAL as your export settings under TV standard, the frame rate will automatically change to 25.

In Encore, you can set it to play in all regions, or just region 2 in the build area.

You also mention BLURAY and DVD, not sure which one you are working on.

If you are working on a BLURAY, you will be better off with encoding to H.264. I usually do an uncompressed export (or ProRes) from Premiere, and let Encore encode to H.264. I find that if you encode to H.264 BLURAY from Premiere, Encore will still force another encoding.

Vince Becquiot

Indigo Live | Kaptis Media

San Francisco Bay Area

[Oliver Smith]

Thanks Vince

To burn blu-ray I need a blu-ray burner but I don’t have one. I had thought about exporting at NTSC and then hoping it plays in Region 2. No idea if this would work. When I exported as Pal I get a small motion blur type effect? Which I presume is down to the frame rate being 25 rather then the 29.97.

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Oliver,

Yes, the motion blur is from your frame conversion, there are other way to convert to PAL, but either way, you will be losing frames.

Vince

Vince Becquiot

Indigo Live | Kaptis Media

San Francisco Bay Area

[Pat Horridge]

Your shadow looking frames are blending due to the framerate conversion.
You’d do better to convert to 25fps first and be happy with that result then burn a DVD.

Don’t forget regions are only relevant to copy protection. SO you will make it region free. And actually something like 85% of European DVD players will play NTSC DVDs.

So you could just burn a region free NTSC.

The best framerate conversion is via Alchemist but it’s not cheap.

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