Premiere MPEG for DVD setting

[CircusAim]

Hi,

I'm running Adobe Premiere 1.5 and I'm looking for some help. I've made basic DVD's in Encore before but I've never had to put so much on one disc until now.

I wanted some advice on the best export to MPEG setting in Premiere for good quality but smaller file sizes (i.e. not huge) I get as far as MPEG2 - DVD but then I get a little lost. I need my settings to be for PAL not NTSC. I've rendered out a few test sections so far but the files seem massive for the length that they are, can anyone give me some idea on what setting I should use?

Thanks so much if you can

[greymalkin]

need more information...

what kind of video? It there a lot of motion?
how long is the video?

If the video is several hours then you're going to most likely get poor image quality on a single layer dvd.

[CircusAim]

Currently it's several clips, but I'm planning to put them into one file with chapter markers. It will probably be around the 3 hour mark when done. And it's a documentary/performance piece of some kids learning to street dance, break dance and mc...so theres bits of fast motion in it.

[poisondeathray]

Why don't you let Encore do the calculations for you? (or does that older version not do that?)

Filesize=bitrate x running time

You are limited by DVD media's fixed capacity (about 4.37GB for DVD5) , of course things like menus & extras take up space too

To do it manually, you need a bitrate calculator, there are many online, and even one at videohelp
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

[greymalkin]

OK..For 3 hours you could put it on a single disc, but you'd really want to use a double layer disc.

Since some of it may be pretty slow moving and others may be really fast you might want to try using 2-pass Variable BitRate (VBR).
Set Max to 8Mbps, Min to 4Kbps and you want your average to be about 5.9Mbps

I used the bitrate calculator on this site to come up with the 5.9Mbps number as that is the max average bitrate you can use on a regular DVD9 dual layer disc to fit all that video on at 3 hours with a 224kbps audio bitrate.

[CircusAim]

Thanks so much ^_^