Making a dvd

[Andre Gagnon]

[OrienLorica] “What the heck am i supposed to be doing with these?”

When you have produced these files, you are half-way to produce a DVD disk. In order to complete the job, you need a program like Adobe Encore DVD.

These programs will allow you to create the menus, chapter points, the video and audio scenes and sequencess that will be “burned” to a DVD blank disk, using a DVD R/RW drive. The DVD disk thus produced should be compatible with all commercial DVD players.

Programs like Encore take as input either MS-DV AVI clips exported from Premiere and transcode them to separate M2V (MPEG-2 video) and WAV or AC3, M2P, etc (audio) files or

According to your choice, this transcoding is done in Premiere Pro, as you did, and the product is used as Input to Encore where only the audio is transcoded to AC3 M2P or other compatible audio format.

This explains the presence of the M2V and WAV clips that you have reported. The third type that you mentioned is .XPSES files. It contains chapter points that you place on the Premiere timeline in order to mark the beginning of different scenes and sequences in your DVD material. Like Chapters in a book, these chapter points will show on a menu and allow the viewer to jump and return from one chapter to another in any order he desires.

In sum, with these tools you should be able to produce DVDs having all the characteristics and features of those you buy or rent to view movies produced by the major studios.

The short answer to your question is that M2V, WAV and XPSES files are used as Input to DVD burning software that will produce A/V material to be viewed from DVD disks.

[Orienlorica]

Thank you, Andre! I currently do not have Adobe Encore, but i do have NTI dvd maker. What should i do with these files to make a fully functionng dvd? I dont need chapter points at all, i just need to make it so when it is placed in a dvd player, will just play. I have actually burned them onto a dvd in the video_ts folder, and still, did not work. What am I doing wrong?

[Mitchell Lopez]

Try using:

File > Export > Export to DVD

It will do everything for you.

[Orienlorica]

Ive tried it before but it took 12 hours to get barely halfway, and never makes it past the transcoding phase. I believe it doesnt work right, so i need to do it the other way- via the media encoder.

[Andre Gagnon]

[OrienLorica] ” but i do have NTI dvd maker. What should i do with these files to make a fully functionng dvd?”

Sorry but I don’t have a clue on how NTI DVD maker works.

I will only add that all video files burned on DVDs are MPEG-2 files as are the already transcoded M2V files that you have. These should be loaded to, accepted by and work with any burning software, included NTI dvd maker. With respect to the chapter points you don’t need, just forget the XPSES file that you have.

PS. If the M2V clips that you have are rejected by the NTI software, try changing their name from XXXXX.M2V to XXXXX.MPG. It might wqork.

[Orienlorica]

Ive heard it said that the audio should be in .aif format, and the video in the .m2v format. Is this true? How would i go about getting the audio converted to .aif?

I guess my real question here is how exactly these files should be put on the cd if i were to use a regular cd burning software. JUst take the m2v and sound file and drop em straight onto the dvd? any particular layout of directories i need to put them in?

Thanks!

[Andre Gagnon]

I had a look at your NTI dvd maker. It turns out that it requires as Input, multiplexed MPG files. That means a single file containing the video and audio signals, like the normal Premiere AVIs.

You have the choice between:

(a)- Importing from Premiere into NTI your project AVIs as they are, without transcoding in Premiere. There is an utility in NTI that will convert your AVIs into NTI compatible MPGs. Or:

(b)- in Premiere Adobe Media Encoder, in the Transcode Settings window, click on Multiplexer and enable DVD in the Multiplexing sub-window. The resulting MPG is to be loaded in the NTI program for burning to DVD.