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Why can’t I burn to DVD?
Hi,
Desperate newbie here. I’m using Premiere Pro 2, and I’ve got a 38 minute movie, very large project file, that I want to export to a DVD. Only no matter what I do, the “Burn DVD” option is not available–just gray. I’ve got the render area covering all of the relevant timeline, but still nothing. (The movie is now too huge to export as a manageable avi file and try to work with that way, I think. We’re looking at, probably, 50 gigs–I don’t know for sure because it’s never been able to make an avi file.)
Could it be a compatibility issue with the DVD burning software?
Also, assuming anyone can solve that problem, I’m still facing the issue of the best way to compress it for DVD?
Thanks for any advice, I know these are relatively naive questions, but I’d appreciate whatever you can tell me.
Scott
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3 Replies
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[Scott Howard] “Could it be a compatibility issue with the DVD burning software?”
That is possible, but the grey Burn button indicates you have no blank media in your DVD burner.
A work-around would be to have Premiere output to folder the VIDEO_TS folder, then use your burning app to “Record VIDEO_TS”.Video Bitrate should be 7 mbps CBR, audio will be 1.2 mbps by default.
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Thanks! There is a blank DVD in there, so I’ll try the workaround.
So are you saying that all I should need to do to get this sucker onto a DVD that I can play in a DVD player, is set the bitrate at 7 mbps CBR (is that based on the 38 minute length and an 80 minute DVD?), keep the audio at 1.2 mbps, output it to Video_TS, and then burn the contents of that folder to DVD? In other words, it should fit onto a DVD that way? And I don’t have to do any other fancy stuff?
Thanks again-
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Hi Scott,
There is no “80 minute DVD”, but there ARE 80 minute CD-R discs. Are you SURE it’s a DVD-R blank?
To be clear about burning the VIDEO_TS folder to disc, the burning software must support burning of “DVD VIDEO” files. Burning as DATA will not work, it must be specially formatted as a DVD video disc during burning. NERO is one application that will do this.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor
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