Poor DVD Quailty

[Neil Wilkes]

Let Encore handle it unless you know exactly how to encode an MPEG-2 file for DVD-Video.
AVI is just an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, and there are as many variations on this as grains of sand on a beach.
What I would recommend is exporting from Premiere Pro as a DV AVI – around 13Gb/hour – and letting Encore handle the MPEG-2 encoding in Automatic mode.

Your description of “Strobing” could well be – if it is what I think it is – a problem caused by a mismatched field order.
What was the source of your file? Was it captured from DV cam?
What settings did you use to export from Premiere?

[Kevin Herrin]

I captured DV transfered from from Beta and DVCPro. My export was DV.AVI, I didn’t change any of the settings. Do I need to set the field order on the source video, similar to AE? Any suggestions on the AVI settings.
Thanks
Kevin

[Neil Wilkes]

AVI settings.
You have 2 choices here.
DV AVI or uncompressed.
I would use DV AVI personally, and let Encore handle transcoding to MPEG-2 automatically.
Are you running Premiere Pro 1.5.1 or 2.0? (This is actually quite important)

[Kevin Herrin]

I’m using 2.0, I did figure out what the problem was. For some reason the settings were set to 24p. I changed it back to 29.97 and all was right. Thanks for the assistance.
Kevin

[Abel Rey]

kevin
i know its been a long time seens you post this messege but somehow i could read it. i am breaking my head with a problem that at last i found someone who had experience it too and i mean about the bad quality when moving the motion. i saw you solved the problem by adjusting the settings from 24p to 29.99p but i cant find where is it. can you help me please?