[Jeff Pulera]

Just helped someone on another forum that was having issues with OBS files in Premiere. By default, the OBS recordings were using VARIABLE Frame Rate, which Premiere doesn’t like. Use the free HandBrake app to convert the recording to CONSTANT Frame Rate, then edit the new file in Premiere.

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Text that might look great as HD is going to look bad as SD. Far, far less resolution unfortunately. Could you maybe post a screen grab of an offending frame? I bet the text is just too small to look good as SD, not to mention the heavy compression for DVD as Dave mentioned.

While you said the max data rate for the DVD was 7, with 2-hours of footage, the AVG is going to be just 4.5 which is not helping the quality at all.

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Hi David,

The Sequence Settings should match the footage being edited. Right-click a clip in the Project Bin, and select New Sequence from Clip. This will create a new sequence that matches the footage, and that should help your situation.

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Hi Chris,

Not familiar with Leawo software and not a Mac user, but some additional general info will be helpful in resolving the issue. What frame rate is the ProRes file? The Blu-ray spec only supports a few options, such as 1080i or 1080p 23.976. Others like 1080p30 and 1080p60 are not supported.

Regardless of what frame rate your source clip is, the authoring software is going to have to transcode that to a Blu-ray-legal H.264 or MPEG-2 file. If you know what formats the Leawo software will accept, maybe create a Blu-ray ready file first before it gets to Leawo?

For instance, with Adobe Encore, if you create the proper assets with Media Encoder, Encore does NOT need to transcode them when creating the disc, so no changes taking place in the video file. Encore prefers separate video and audio, meaning .m4v and .wav files. No idea what Leawo accepts.

Next, how are you viewing the completed disc to know it is jerky? I would not recommend using a software player on the computer as that can have its own issues. Try the disc in an actual set-top Blu-ray player connected to an HD display, not a computer monitor.

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Select a Preset to match the footage, for instance DNxHD HQ 1080p 29.97 are whatever matches. Don’t be intimidated by the 100+ presets. One of those at top of list should be fine, the rest are for higher bit-depth, or 4K, etc.

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Kimberley,

Do you not have the default DNxHDformat option available to you? This should be in Premiere without installing additional codecs.

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[Jeff Pulera]

You don’t need to install any AVID codecs with Premiere CC 2017, the DNxHD codecs (.mxf) are built-in already

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Hi Victoria,

I commonly create dance recital DVDs with 40+ chapters on them. I don’t know if there is an actual limit , like 99 maybe?

If creating menu buttons for each chapter, there are limits to how many buttons per page and it differs between 4:3 and 16:9 menus, being 24 and 18 respectively. I just use multiple menu pages to accommodate the chapter buttons as needed.

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Please post a screen shot of encode settings, this is often very telling

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[Jeff Pulera]

I would guess that the graphic overlay had very large dimensions, such as 8000×8000 pixels or something. Go to Photoshop and scale the graphic to match video sequence, such as 1920×1080 pixels, then Premiere does not need to scale that image when applied to the video.

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