[Jeff Pulera]

Gary is 100% correct. What is the total length of the video program you wish to put on DVD? Let us know and we can suggest specific encoding settings for best results.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

Please make sure to follow this workflow with Premiere – copy entire SD card content to a folder on your hard drive, exclude nothing. Just copy the card in whole. Then in Premiere, import using “Media Browser” rather than “File > Import” method.

Hope this helps

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[Jeff Pulera]

As Ann says, the ONLY format to export to is “MPEG-2 DVD”. Note that DVD is standard-definition, so it is never going to look as nice as the HD original footage, since HD has 5x as many pixels in the image!

Select the “NTSC 23.976p Wide” preset, and the only thing you may need to adjust then is bit rate, dependent on the length of your video.

To determine bit rate, use a calculator such as https://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php

Or ballpark it using 560/minutes = rate

For shorter video, do not exceed 8.0 setting.

VBR-2 encoding will yield best results. Also, check the box at the bottom for “Max Render Quality” and that will help with the downscale quality.

The export creates two files, .m2v video and .wav audio. In Encore, use Import As > Timeline and select both of the files at once. Encore will transcode the audio to Dolby AC-3 automatically when you build the DVD.

Good luck

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[Jeff Pulera]

From the sound of it, were you unable to play ANY MPEG-2 files before the Rovi TotalCode plug-in? If so, you had a bad Premiere install. Premiere can certainly import, play, edit, and export MPEG-2 clips without buying a plug-in.

CS6 most definitely supports .vob import and I’m 99% sure that CC and 2014 still support this, though I can’t test at this moment.

Of course, you want to copy the .vob to your hard drive prior to import, don’t try to import from the disc into Premiere.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Ah, sorry, I see now you did mention that workflow. Have never had out of sync audio importing .vob files, that’s weird.

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[Jeff Pulera]

What Steve said…why jumping through so many hoops? Copy .vob to hard drive, Import to Premiere, Export to WMV (why though?).

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[Jeff Pulera]

In the Premiere Sequence, what type of audio track is it? If it is a stereo track, and you have audio on say just the left track, then use the audio effect “Fill Left” and it will take that left channel and place it to both L and R channels equally. Use Fill Right for the opposite.

I’m sure there is a way to accomplish this using the audio mixer, but to me that seems more complicated than the Fill effect.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Scott,

As I’ve never used an AAF workflow, I’ll leave that to the experts. But I would like to comment that the “Conforming” render that you see happening is only rendering the audio – Premiere NEVER renders video previews all by itself – you have to manually tell it to “Render Work Area”.

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[Jeff Pulera]

The yellow bar in Premiere is not a bad thing at all, please see this link: https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html

As for the “herky jerky” playback, it that with or without Warp Stabilizer? That definitely needs to render for playback. What kind of drive is the ProRes HQ coming from – is it fast enough? Have you tried lowering playback resolution in the Program Monitor to say 1/2?

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[Jeff Pulera]

Is the source video 4k or 1080p? If you can please post a screen shot of the export panel settings, that may be very helpful in troubleshooting.

Have you applied any effects to the video in Premiere? Some effects take a very long time to render, such as Warp Stabilizer or a third-party video DeNoiser app.

Thank you

Jeff Pulera
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