[Jeff Pulera]

The minutes thing on blank DVD media is just advertising, there is no 120 minute “limit” on the disc. Lower the bitrate and put 3 hours or more on the disc if you want. The quality will suffer, but can be done.

Since your DVD material is ripped from a completed DVD, there is no way to “increase” the quality – the content is already compressed. Just BURN to disc. However, you cannot just burn the VIDEO_TS as “Data”, or the resulting disc will NOT play in a stand-along DVD player. To be “DVD-compliant”, you must burn as “DVD Video”. The tracks are laid out differently, flags set, to make it a “DVD Video compliant” disc.

I work on PC so can’t say what options your software offers. For PC, there are FREE programs such as ImgBurn or BurnAware for instance.

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PAL DVD players have hardware in them to convert NTSC discs to PAL, so the simplest course of action may be to simply author an NTSC DVD for the client. The end result is that the DVD player will do a better conversion to PAL than software (unless you go high-end conversion process).

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Sorry, no idea on Mac workflow

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Hi Esther,

If on Windows –

Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map

This brings up a TON of special characters to choose from.

Use Select and Copy buttons to grab one of your choice, then in Premiere Titler, Ctrl-V will Paste that character right into your title!

Hope this helps you or others with special character needs.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Not sure if CS5 pre-dates Apple ProRes, but if you have that option, ProRes would be a great format to work with between apps.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Frazer,

Glad you got things sorted. Are you using PC or Mac? There may be better intermediate codec choices for your workflow, once I know what you are using.

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In the Bin, right-click the clip (or Mac equivalent) and choose MODIFY > INTERPRET.

What does it say for specs? You can change the aspect ratio and such there to over-ride what Premiere thinks about the footage.

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Been a few years since I’ve worked with Vegas, so I don’t recall the exact output settings, but there ought to be some sort of preset specifically for DVD. A Transport Stream is NOT what you want, as Daniel stated.

It is important to have the separate video and audio clips for Encore – anything else will need to transcode (re-encode again). You should have an .m2v video clip, and audio can be .wav or .ac3 (Dolby stereo).

Daniel is also correct about field order. NTSC DV is normally lower field first. If starting with 1080i material, then that is Upper and you can stick with UFF for the DVD, otherwise LFF is normal.

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See if CS6 is running GPU Hardware acceleration, or software mode.

Utilizing the GTX 660 should improve overall performance quite a bit.

Go to C:\Programs\Adobe\Premiere Pro\cuda_supported_cards.txt and delete that text file, then CS6 should automatically just use your GPU.

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Hi John,

Did you render to “MPEG-2” or “MPEG-2 DVD”? Must be the latter for Encore/DVD compatibility.

If you can post a screen shot of the export settings used, that will be very helpful.

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