Steve,
Thanks again for your posts. My initial workflow isn’t working. I am moving to export from X to Compressor. I created a batch template to burn to PAL DVD. Below are the video settings. Do you know if these seem accurate?
Name: PAL DVD
Description: MPEG-2 elementary stream for DVD Authoring
File Extension: m2v
Estimated size: 1.47 GB
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Width: 720
Height: 576
Pixel aspect ratio: PAL CCIR 601
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 25
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Fast (Line Averaging)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Automatic:
Selected Progressive
Average bit rate automatic,
selected: 7.826087 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum bit rate: 9 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 12, Structure: IBBP
Thx!