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Producing a DVD and Blue-Ray Disc
I’m starting to get requests by my customers to sell blu-ray discs at events that I shoot. I’m more than willing but I’m not sure how the work flow in Premiere Pro will work out. For example, I just shot The Nutcracker in hi-def in HDV and imported it into premiere pro cs5. Do I need to edit it in HDV as well as in standard def and output it to Encore in BluRay and DVD? That seems double the work.
I just tried to change the output of Encore from Blu-ray disc to DVD but Encore is complaining the project is too big to fit on the DVD disc.
Mark
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At the very least I’d say you’ll have to create two projects in Adobe Encore – one for SD one for HD. You can probably build one project in Premiere in HD and output two MPEG-2 streams from there – one for the HD version, one for the SD version.
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Hi Mark,
The correct workflow is to capture and edit as HD, then create a Blu-ray project in Encore and make your Blu-ray disc. Next, do a “Save As…” to create a NEW version of the project, so as not to overwrite the Blu-ray version. Now, go to File > Project Settings > Basic and change the “Authoring Mode” from Blu-ray to DVD.
I think maybe what you were doing was simply changing the BUILD to DVD, but you would need to change the actual PROJECT settings to DVD as well.
This will keep your existing menus and all! Having changed to DVD mode, just BUILD again and it will Transcode the HD material to DVD and burn.
If you go to File > Edit Quality Presets, you will find the DVD encode settings, but make sure to change Format at top to “MPEG-2 DVD”.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
Shoot HD
Capture HD
Edit HD
Export to AME
Select Bluray settings.
Queue.Export to AME
Select DVD settings.
Queue.Quit APP.
Go to AME and start compressing.Then import your assets into Encore. As said before, have to proj. versions in Encore.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Thanks. That seemed to work with the exception that I had to delete the transcoded file in the SD project as I Encore rejected the DVD disc as being too small. Once I deleted the transcoded project it rebuilt the project and was happy.
The bluray project came out crappy. Playing it on my bluray player didn’t compare with the quality I see in Premiere. Plus there was some blinking white spots. I got rid of those but turning up the noise reduction on my Insignia LCD monitor.
Mark
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