Trouble Making DVD – Easier with Encore?

[Aanarav Sareen]

What are you facing problems with? Encore and Premiere Pro are two completely different tools. Encore is a DVD Authoring application, where as Premiere Pro is a NLE.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Raymond Tarry]

Maybe I don’t have the procedure right. I’ve edited a short scene in Premiere Pro 1.5.
I used the encoder to convert it to MPEG2 and then tried to export to DVD. The DVD did not burn all the way, I got a Device ERROR message.
Should you be able to Export Movie and then Export to DVD? Craig

[Aanarav Sareen]

[ Raymond Tarry] “Should you be able to Export Movie and then Export to DVD?”

No. When you have your edited sequence, simply go to File –> Export –> Export to DVD. No need to transcode it to MPEG2. Premiere Pro will do that automatically.
However, to create a DVD from Encore, there are 2 ways to do it.
a. File > Export > Movie and save as an AVI file. When imported in Encore, it will be transcoded automatically as soon as you build your DVD.
b. File > Export > Adobe Media Encoder > MPEG2DVD. This will create DVD compliant files that you can use in Encore without transcoding during build.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[John Frey – digital west video productions]

Raymond,

You are one of many users of P.Pro 1.5 having problems burning a DVD straight from the timeline. Check out some of the previous threads on this subject. Many oy us get error message or unfinished burns. I have several different workstations; some will burn and some have problems, yet all run Win XP Pro with SP2, P. Pro 1.5.1, etc. We have been unable to solve this problem.

[Raymond Tarry]

Yep that’s the problem. Burning straight from the timeline results in an incomplete burn.
I have a workstation with dual Zeon Processors. I downloaded an encoder update from Adobe that is supposed to work better with dual processors, but if you’re trying to burn straight from the timeline, that wouldn’t matter.
I’ll probably get Encore and try to burn from that. I’ll research the past threads. If anyone has another solution, I’d like to hear it. Thanks Craig

[George Socka]

Tried it for the first time today – only a 1 minute clip. First time through PPro crashed when selecting a preset. Second time worked like a charm. For a play-on-load disk, it is less hassle then exporting m2v and authoring with DVDit or encore. But it only makes play-on-load ( first paly) DVDs. It does however create chapters quite nicely, which was a surprise. Where will I use it? For fast approval copies on DVD