Christopher Szabo
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So does this mean I have to wait for it? Cause I waited for about mmmmmm 2 hours and it STILL wasn’t done.
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Hey vince. i lowered that average bitrate lik you said and it fixed my problem. now, i am still having issues though with exporting to tape and putting these videos on my iPod. i used a program called Pinnacle Mobile Media Convertor. It successfully converts all videos into mp4(iPod format) but when i try to convert the Adobe Premiere AVI exported files, they come out crappy on my iPod, as well as on playback on my computer. what can i do to solve THESE two porblems?
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Well, there could a couple reasons for this. By D drive, do you still mean the external drive? You can right click on the drive and select properties. Under the general tab, you should see File system: NTFS. If it says Fat32, then you won’t be able to use it as a scratch disk, because that system only allows files up to 4GB, the only way to fix that is to reformat it to NTSF.
Premiere might also be averaging the required space incorrectly, does it still let you burn? You can also try to lower the average setting a little and see if that takes care of it.
Vince
No by D drive, it is on my computer. I have a C drive and a D drive. My H drive is the external drive. i had problems with not be able to put anything bigger than 4 GB on their before( the external drive) so i found out how to re-fromat it and it is now NTFS. premiere still et’s me burn. let me try lowering the average setting…
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Yes, the project can be on the external drive. Also, don’t forget that there are 2 passes. For the 149 minutes project, I’m guessing you are probably looking at a minimum of 4/5 hours on a P4, depending on configuration.
Vince
Ok so good news!!! I burned the 20 minute project successfully. I am exstatic right now! So as I am going to try thr 149 min project again, I changed the recording settings, and made sure the DVD scratch disks were on a drive bigger than 5GB( my external drive) and when I go to click export to dvd, under the “burn DVD” window next to “status”, it says ” insufficient disk space for burning” so i changed the DVD scratch disks to drive D, and this status is still present. it’s not like a popup error message, it’s just in the DVD burn window under status. why is this? And thanks again for helping. I am so glad I can finally burn these DVDs!
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ahh i c so for the 149 mintue project, should have it save to my D drive instead of the external drive, right? is it okay if the project itself is on the external drive? And the burning has speeded up a bit. It’s almost done and it’s only been an hour. That’s not too bad. I will inform you of the playback quality soon.
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Okay I went to that website and changed the settings for the 2 Hour project, and it wouldn’t burn because the DVD isn’t large enough to hold it. It’s 4.7 GB DVD and it should be able to compress the file down to a size that will fit, shouldn’t it? So since I couldn’t burn this project, I loaded another porject which is having the same issues and it is 20.5 minutes. I changed the settings for this porject in order to burn it, and i have been watching it for the first 5 minutes, and it is “encoding” at a rate of .1% per minute. Is this normal, because at this rate, it is going to take a very long time haha. And what should I do about that other DVD? Once this 20 minute project is done burning, I will inform you of the playback results.
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Well, Nero might not be of much help here. First it doesn’t really play well with mpeg2 files, and it may want to recompress them. The second issue is that 2 hours is a lot for a single DVD; quality won’t be at its best.
I would try burning with Premiere directly then, Premiere does have DVD templates as well (better than Nero).
The settings you should use (assuming it’s exactly 2 hours) are:
VBR 2 Pass
Min: 1.35
Average: 3.45
Max: 8Audio PCM
Let me know of the exact length if you want better settings; also the render will take quite a while.
Vince
it’s actually 1 hour 48 minutes and 37 seconds. will i have to change the settings each time i try to burn a DVD? how do I know what to change it to? -
Good, so now, tell me about the project. Are you planning on putting it on a DVD ?
If so, the new settings will depend on the length of the video. If it’s under an hour, you can use the same settings.
Do you have a third party DVD authoring software such as Adobe Encore? Are you planning on using menus?
Vince
Yes I am planning on putting the project on a DVD. The movie is going to be about 2 hours. Yes I have a DVD authroing Software. I use Nero. I plan on using menus.
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hey vince i did everything as instructed and when this file was played in WMP, the quality was just fine.
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What I meant by analog capture was: Was it captured through Firewire, or through a video card input like RCA or SVideo?
Firewire is good, but analog capture software usually uses a third party Codec, and that can be an issue.
The external drive can also be a problem, especially when exporting to tape, since the data rate likely isn’t high enough, and is putting extra weight on the CPU. So, that’s for the export to tape.
But that wouldn’t explain issues for DVD burning (well the analog input would)
So, one last thing, can you put the original video that was captured through Gspot and tell me what the codec is?
Also, if you play the original video by itself on Windows Media player, how is the playback ?
Vince
I captured the video from the camcorder using an iLink cable and I captured the video in Premiere. Does this mean it is Firewire? And when you tell me to “put the original video that was captured through Gspot and tell me what the codec is”, by original, you mean the video I caputered from the tape in Premiere to creat my project, right? If this is true, when put into Gspot, it says the codec is “dvsd”. And this same original video when played back in WMP plays just fine. By the way, thank you for all your help on this thus far. I haven’t been able to ddins anyone to solve this for 3 months now so I really appreciate this.