[Sasha Bajac]

I was banging my head for a long time over the quality of videos coming out of Adobe Premiere/Media Encoder CS5 and found a solution.

As someone said the data rate is crucial when encoding, and not only that, to get good quality you have to switch from VBR to CBR (constant bit rate). You will notice the difference straight away.

Maximum for DVD video should be 8Mbit/s (check the DVD Video on Wikipedia).

Encode your files in Premiere/media encoder and not Encore, you get much more freedom to set everything up properly. Wheter you are making a an mpg(audio embeded) or mp2 and Wav combination you can both import them to Encore and then just finish making the menus and finishing the DVD quickly. (as someone already wrote)

But in the end I always loathe when I have to use footage from DVDs for editing.

Sasha Bajac
DOP/Producer

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