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Preparing short scene for DVD
Hello, I’ve tried exporting a 10min edited scene to a 4.7GB DVD-RW Disk. I did it successfully right out of Premeire Pro 1.5, but it used up 3+ GB of space.I will want to put my whole 20min. short film on such a disk down the line. I trust the Media encoder will compress the file down. Can anyone suggest the best preset to use?
Right now it’s set at
MPEG-DVD
NTSC DV 16×9 Low Quality 3MB 1 PassTHanks for any help – Craig
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I work PAL, but the essentials are similar.
I would guess that the culprit is your audio not being compressed by the default DVD preset. You should be able to get best-quality pictures for much longer movies than 20 minutes if you compress the audio.
You could try the following:
Select the MPEG2-DVD preset in Media Encoder.
Click the Audio section heading.
Choose MPEG audio format.
Activate the bundled MainConcept CODECs when asked (if you haven’t already). Activation is free.
The default 224bps for audio is good quality. You can reduce this for longer movies if necessary without losing too much.
You should then find that the audio size on DVD is much less than before, leaving lots of room for better-quality pictures than given by the settings you quote.
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Thanks David that makes a lot of sense. I’ll let you know how it goes – Craig
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