[Lillian Fidler]

one other thing… under multiplexer settings it asks whether you want constant or variable bitrate and buffering – the default is variable… is that the correct setting?

thanks again!

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Hi Vince:

That is quite complicated to be sure. I’m going to follow your advice and save with vbr. I did process a short clip and it looks really good after saving with vbr 2pass out of adobe premiere. It just saves one mpg file. So, when I import that into AME it should not do any processing to it, is that correct? (transcoding)

I’m getting there :.)

cheers,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Hi Again Vince for your input:

I just saved a couple of minutes of my project as vbr and the quality looks really quite good.

On an eariler post you mentioned the following:

The format is going to have to be Mpeg2 DVD, unless you are having someone else author it.

If the DVD is under 1 hour and you are sending this to a professional DVD duplication company, you can either export using the media encoder in Mpeg 2 DVD set to 8 MB CBR

and someone else mentioned to me that CBR might produce a better quality. I wonder if you could let me know what you see the differences being and if I should indeed stick with the vbr 2 pass?

thanks so much for your help!

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

o.k., I don’t think I want to fool around with the avi thing! I just started a test with a one minute piece and it’s doing it’s thing now. I did notice something that I wasn’t sure of in the settings and that was several options of 29.97, 23.96 (I think) … what would you recommend for those settings. I don’t have it in front of me now, but you probably will know what I’m referring to.

thanks!

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thanks Vince!

So, would I export to an mpeg-2 first out of premiere using encoder, then open encore and import the files? Or would I export to encore first?

Also, I need to do a quick export of this file so if I export as a compressed avi, will this be able to be viewed very easily on a computer or a regular dvd player? When the person opens it say on their computer, would media player recognize and and play it? This is not for the final, just for a viewing and I’d like the best quality.

Thanks again.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Just another question further to this post. What if I am sending this video for broadcast for television. Do I save it in a different format?

Is the mpeg-2 format the highest quality? I heard someone say that it is compressed that way and may not be the highest quality. Just thought I’d double check on that.

thanks so much for your help again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Now that I’ve saved this project, I’m wondering what the next step is… should I just take the files and put them on a disk for manufacturing? I would like to setup a menu so that the user can choose between two files as well. I know that there is an adobe program to do this but I can’t think of what it is. Do I need to do anything further with the files before sending to manufacturer?

Thanks!!

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thank you, that worked perfectly… it looks good and I had a concern about the text being kind of ragged looking, but on this file the text looks really good, so that’s also a relief. Thanks again for all your help.

cheers,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thanks for your information on this. I just did a test, finally, and it created a m2v file, a m2v.xmpses file, and an .mpa file. I tried to open the m2v file in windows media player and it’s just black. Although, in the icon I can see the video… not sure what I’m doing wrong, any suggestions?

thanks again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thank you both for your input. I think it might help if I add a bit of clarification. I am editing in HD widescreen actually. My final will be output to dvd. I guess my question is do I need to add anything extra for it to have the letterbox effect or will it do that automatically since it is widescreen. I have alot of experience in graphic design and am just now moving into video editing and am just getting used to the terminology, file types, etc. I’m a little unclear still, so pardon my ignorance :.) thanks again for your help and any other comments that you have based on my setup.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada