saving final project for dvd

[Vince Becquiot]

The format is going to have to be Mpeg2 DVD, unless you are having someone else author it.

If the DVD is under 1 hour and you are sending this to a professional DVD duplication company, you can either export using the media encoder in Mpeg 2 DVD set to 8 MB CBR, or send the project to Encore via dynamic link and set the quality setting to 8MB CBR there. If you are doing the duplication yourself, stick with 7.5 MB CBR.

For anything over 1 hour, use a Bit Rate calculator and enter the result in the custom settings in the media encoder export window.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Lillian Fidler]

Thanks for your information on this. I just did a test, finally, and it created a m2v file, a m2v.xmpses file, and an .mpa file. I tried to open the m2v file in windows media player and it’s just black. Although, in the icon I can see the video… not sure what I’m doing wrong, any suggestions?

thanks again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Vince Becquiot]

Unless you have the right DVD codecs installed, the file won’t play back in WMP. Try downloading VLC instead and see if you have better luck. You also won’t be able to hear audio in those media player since it’s a separate file (.mpa in your case)

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Lillian Fidler]

Thank you, that worked perfectly… it looks good and I had a concern about the text being kind of ragged looking, but on this file the text looks really good, so that’s also a relief. Thanks again for all your help.

cheers,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Now that I’ve saved this project, I’m wondering what the next step is… should I just take the files and put them on a disk for manufacturing? I would like to setup a menu so that the user can choose between two files as well. I know that there is an adobe program to do this but I can’t think of what it is. Do I need to do anything further with the files before sending to manufacturer?

Thanks!!

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Just another question further to this post. What if I am sending this video for broadcast for television. Do I save it in a different format?

Is the mpeg-2 format the highest quality? I heard someone say that it is compressed that way and may not be the highest quality. Just thought I’d double check on that.

thanks so much for your help again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada