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proper settings to export to then create dvd in Encore CS4
Hello. Here is my deal. I need to make some dvds roughly 1.5 – 2hrs of footage on the time line for each disc.(there will be about 15 dvds created, so I want to do this right the first time!)
What I need to know is the best possible way to export this footage from Premiere Pro CS4. Video settings, audio settings, etc. to achieve the best quality. This isnt any HD footage or anything, just a bunch of old family clips throughout the years. I am not creating Blue Ray or anything, but I want it to be the best settings from an exporting stand point, I just dont know where to start! Framerates, PCM or Dolby audio, etc.
If someone can give me a “noob” breakdown I would GREATLY appreciate that! I am then taking the exported MPEG 2 into Encore CS4 to create the actual dvd if that helps any!
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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The best advice I can give you is to let Encore automatically transcode for you.
See Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, or SWF file in the PPro Help for details.
You will also find links to many free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.
Cheers
Eddie -
Just my personal preference, but I’ve always preferred to render my MPEG-2 files out of Premiere, so that after creating my DVD menus and such, there’s not such a long wait for all the encoding. I can see the finished DVD in minutes rather than hours.
I got a formula from the Adobe site that works well, which is 560/minutes to determine the encoding bitrate. I just use CBR to encode and end up with an .m2v video clip and a .wav audio file. Import these to Encore, make sure audio is set to Dolby, and Encore only has to transcode the audio and not the video.
Using above formula, a 90 minute video would be encoded at 6.0, and 120 minutes at 4.5. Note that I round-down a little to allow for menu overhead, etc.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
For SD, when you know you are going to put your stuff onto DVD, I usually like to render the sequence as MPEG2-DVD, then increase all the quality sliders to be very high. NOTE: Encore will complain if you try and burn to a DVD using a bit rate any higher than 8 (more or less). VBR 2 pass will give you the best result, but take longer.
With CS4 batch encoding, I’d say use VBR 2 pass set the min, target, max at 6, 7, 8 respectively. Do not multiplex. I typically use PCM for audio, and I like to export my stuff as progressive.
Hope any of that helps you out.
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