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  • file compression

    Posted by Beatlefan on October 25, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    I have a project in Premiere Pro 1.5 I have chosen MPEG2-DVD as the format, NTSC DV High Qual 4Mb VBR 2 Pass as the preset. When I render the 2 resulting files are 4.5 Gb. I need it to fit on one DVD authored in Encore. So what settings in Adobe Media Encoder do i choose to bring it down to around 3.5 GB? I have fiddled with lots of the variables, but the files still produce the same output, files 4.5 GB or greater. How do I adjust it?????

    Tim Kurkoski replied 20 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Tim Kurkoski

    October 25, 2005 at 4:53 pm

    The bitrate you choose will depend on how long your video is. Use a bitrate table or bitrate calculator to figure out what bitrate to use. Here are a few links:

    https://www.video2stream.com/using_the_adobe_mpeg_encoder.htm
    https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
    https://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html

  • Hector Melendez

    October 25, 2005 at 7:13 pm

    I think no matter what bitrate you select on Premiere Encore will transcode again to fit in the disc if you select to do it.(automatic) Also you can add/set your own transcoding settings withing Premiere to suit the most appropiate lenght
    Despite you didn’t mention how long is the video, I w’d not choose those bitrates you said. I takes too long.

    So make things faster I export as avi and let Encore do the task of ideal transcoding sett.

  • Tim Kurkoski

    October 25, 2005 at 10:30 pm

    no matter what bitrate you select on Premiere Encore will transcode again to fit in the disc if you select to do it.(automatic)

    This is not true. If the MPEG-2 file is DVD legal, Encore will not transcode it.

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