[Jeff Pulera]

Your SOURCE sequence is 24p, so the footage can NOT be interlaced…unless you have 1080i footage and used an incorrect sequence setting. Also, you have a 24p source and are exporting to 30p. Not good. And you might want to choose another export setting (there are SO many to choose from) that has a lower data rate, such as a YouTube or Vimeo preset (with correct frame size/frame rate).

What are you exporting to? Sometimes folks try to export to a thumb drive and maybe don’t have enough space and that causes issues.

What is the SOURCE VIDEO format? That is step one, make sure it matches the sequence setting, then export with same frame size/rate.

I believe on Mac there is a 6.04 update for Premiere, and likely something for Media Encoder also, update them for best results.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Heidi,

I had the same experience many years ago the first time I attempted to make a DVD – you can’t simply burn media to a DVD disc and have the DVD player see it as a “Video DVD”. It MUST be Authored, using Adobe Encore or similar software. This compiles everything and you end up with a “VIDEO_TS” folder on the disc, with .vob files and other stuff inside. Insert any DVD into a computer drive and OPEN it and see.

And even knowing that, one cannot “copy” the VIDEO_TS folder from an existing DVD to their hard drive, and then BURN that to a DVD and expect that to work either. It will just be a “Data” disc and not an official DVD – the files must be written a specific way to the disc, some sort of pointer set that tells the disc reader “The is a VIDEO DVD”, rather than a DATA disc.

If you have Adobe CC, you will be able to download and use Encore CS6 – https://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb/encore-cs6-installed-cc.html

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Marvin,

How did you arrive at the ridiculously high encoding rate of 250mbps? Have never seen anything like that for H.264, could be an issue 😉

Also, regarding long render times, you likely will not benefit from the “Max Bit Depth” or “Max Render” settings, both of which will significantly increase render times, especially on a slower computer.

Max Bit Depth is beneficial for instance with 10-bit sources, and/or applying high-bit depth color correction, but most of us will get by without that.

Max Render helps with downscaling quality. Since source and export are both 1080p, you don’t need that. Uncheck both boxes.

For “Use Previews”, not always the best idea, depending on what the Preview Render settings are in Premiere. When you “render” portions of the timeline to “green”, this creates temp files on the hard drive. Then when you export with “Use Previews” checked, it re-renders those temp preview files into the final desired codec. The preview files may not have been the best quality, then you are creating the final export by re-ending from them.

Better to NOT use Previews (uncheck), then the final video is rendered directly from source for best quality.

Steps to success –

1) What is the purpose/destination of the exported video? Let’s dial in those bitrate settings

2) Uncheck Max Render

3) Uncheck Max Bit Depth

4) Uncheck Use Previews

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Michael,

It looks like that BURN software does simple DVD authoring, and that might be ideal for you as you probably don’t need to deal with the learning curve of Encore just to burn a screener.

That said, Premiere CC users can download, install and use Encore CS6 – https://creativeclouduser.com/how-to-install-encore-with-creative-cloud/

DVD-R or DVD+R 4.7GB media should both work fine in most any DVD player these days, assuming it is correctly authored to meet “DVD-legal” specs. As others mentioned, can’t just burn video clips as DATA, disc must be fully authored, so you end up with a VIDEO_TS folder which contains .vob files and other goodies laid out such that DVD players can handle them.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Marvin,

Can you please post a screen shot of the Export Settings window? That is often helpful in finding what may be a simple settings change to achieve success.

Also, are you on PC or Mac, what Premiere version, basic computer specs? All very helpful in troubleshooting

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[Jeff Pulera]

You can totally disregard that, doesn’t matter. What are you actually working with for footage? Just choose an appropriate SEQUENCE setting to match footage.

If you ARE capturing footage via Firewire, or device such as Black Magic or Matrox capture card, you can always change that when in the Capture panel later.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Working with DVCProHD is fine…IF that is the native format of your camera. DVCProHD is not full-raster, and in fact has less resolution than HDV. It is Anamorphic HD at 1280×1080, with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 1.5 (HDV is 1440×1080 with 1.333 PAR).

So if the original camera source is 1920×1080, converting to DVCProHD as part of the workflow is going to toss out a ton of image data, taking 1920×1080 down to just 1280×1080, greatly reducing the resolution. Can’t recommend that.

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[Jeff Pulera]

You may be confusing “resolution” and “DPI”. Printers may request that the graphic be 300dpi (Dots Per Inch). So for example, a 4×6″ print at 300dpi would have a “resolution” of 1200×1800 pixels (multiple dpi times inches desired for print).

If you wanted something printed at a 4×6″ size, but only supplied the image at 1000×1500 pixels, that would be 250dpi and may not meet the minimum quality requirements of the printer.

The other possible issue is that they will print the image at 300dpi, and it will print out smaller than 4×6″ as the source image is only at 250dpi – there’s not enough dots to get a full-size print at 300dpi.

Hope I explained this so it makes sense.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

It is certainly possible in Encore to accidentally use an asset TWICE, thereby doubling the size of that video clip on the disc. Gotta be careful with how menus and links are set up in there

Jeff

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[Jeff Pulera]

I didn’t say to get a Velociraptor…you can get the “WD Caviar Black” for less than half that cost and it will be fine for your needs. Maybe get a 2TB instead and still cost less.

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Jeff Pulera
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