Adobe Premiere 6.0 & MyDVD 2.3 with Pioneer DVR-A03

[moosette]

Hi everyone!

Okay I have Adobe Premiere on my PC and I have a project that I wish to save to a DVD-R.

I have the Pioneer DVR-A03 which came with the MyDVD 2.3 software.

I have exported the timeline as an mpeg2, but when opened up it has saved as two separate files - video (avi) and sound (wav), and when added to the dvd programme, the audio won't stay in sync with the video.

How can I rectify this please? Is there a way to export the timeline as one? or can I adjust it in MyDVD?

Also when viewing the video in MyDVD the picture seems quite pixelated and slightly distorted, especially when the action is fast. Is this just the playback? will it be rectified when played back on the final DVD-R?

Many thanks,
Katie

[EricB]

Katie,

I have a firewire DVD burner on loan and have made a total of 2 DVDs, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

I made the first DVD using TMPGenc with the standard DVD template. I then assembled the DVD using ULEAD DVD Movie Factory which I have always used for VCD and SVCD. Note that the mpg files coming out of TMPGenc looked very good.

The resulting DVD is super. Very clear, no crawling stuff in the background, looks like the original DV tape source!

I then used the DVDIt software included with the drive because I thought this might be easier to do for amateurs (the owner of the drive!). That software does the encoding (transcoding) and assembles the final product.

The results of using the DVDIt looked like a poor VCD not a DVD. Unclear, pixellated, etc. Now maybe there are settings which I didn't discover, but at $7 per DVD-R (this drive will not burn -RW) I became convinced that using TMPGenc is far superior.

[resnullius]

frame serve from premiere to tmpgenc. Don't use the latest version of tmpgenc as it seems to make files that aren't as compatible with sonic's softs. check the convert section to find out how to frameserve.