How to get project to DVD

[Hunter]

when I try to do Uncompressed even at 30:00 minutes of video I get maximum file sized reached error, within a couple of minutes and the rendered file is 40 seconds and 1.86 gigs. Please help.
thanks

[Bill Stephan]

What are you using to encode your video? Uncompressed quicktime is not a supported format for DVD. You must convert your video to MPEG-2 in a software or hardware DVD encoder.

Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City

[Hunter]

I was going to input it into Encore but found out Encore accepts Quicktime Reference but I keep getting audio decoding failed. So my simplest question is how can I get my Avid footage onto DVD from within AVID?

[Bill Stephan]

We don’t use this workflow, but I believe the officially sanctioned method is to export a Quictime reference to Sorenson Squeeze and do your encoding in that application.

Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City

[Bigred]

Hunter,

I go from Avid to Encore as well. When you go to export, click on options when it asks you to select a file. First, select audio and click that you would like to export the file as a WAV file. Click save, and chose a file name. Click okay. This will export the audio. Next export the video. Again, go to options. This time click on video, and chose to export the file as a quicktime movie (not quicktime reference). Hit save, name the file and export it.

When importing into Encore, go to Import as asset under the File icon. Import the audio first. You can transcode the audio now or at the end of the project either way the audio does not take long. Then import the video as an asset. The video because it is quicktime has to be transcoded immediately. I recommend a two pass when transcoding. This will take a while, but once done, you do not have to worry about it again. Then just create your timelines and the audio and video tracks will sync perfectly.

Steve