Premiere 6.5 best compression settings to use for a SVCD

[learjet035]

Should I still be using TMPEG with Premiere 6.5? I am just trying to convert my home DV to a SVCD that will play in my Panasonic DVD player at the best quailty. I dont have a DVD burner yet. I was never able to get that TMPEG program to work for me with premiere 6.0, so I hoped the 6.5 upgrade would be better with compression. Maybe a little less complex. Thanks for the help guys! Just trying to keep it simple but there are so many choices in compression I have no idea!

[Poplar]

Premiere 6.5 comes with built-in MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder, which is just as good as and much faster than TMPG. You can directly export your timeline to encoder. Forget TMPG and intermediary compression.

[learjet035]

OK great, thanks alot. Are there specific settings that you like to use with that compressor? That would, say fit 1 hour of DV on SVCD. Thanks again

[Poplar]

I suggest that you use most of the default settings, except the bitrates. If you are not really into audio, since DV audio sucks anyway, you can use an audio bitrate of 112kbps, even 96kbps. Using standard video bitrate will give you 40-50 minutes on one CDR. Squeezing 60 minutes onto one CDR means that you have reduce bitrates significantly thus reduces quality. You need to test it to see if that's acceptable to you.

[learjet035]

Ok, great thanks again. This compressor that you referred to earlier, where is it hiding? I looked under export movie, but didn't see anything about MPG 2. I'm so "Newbie"!

[learjet035]

I searched my HD and the disk, both have the encoder you are reffering to but it does not show up on Premiere under export. It's stored under common files/adobe/mpeg but I'm guessing Premiere doesnt know to look there. I tried to reinstall too, no change. Any ideas how to get it in there? Thanks

[Poplar]

Click File -->Export Timeline, at the bottom of the menu is what you are looking for.