From Premiere pro to DVD?

[jojoha87]

Ive made a movie in Adobe Premier Pro. Its 20 min long (export from premiere uncompressed the size is 4.2 G) The film is captured with a Sony DCR-VX2100E and via firewire to premiere.
(pal)

My question is:

For the absolute best result of high quality movie, how do I transfere my project (film) to a dvd (disk)??? Include DeInterlacing, exporting and burning to dvd.

I have read about diffrent ways of doing this, but I cant find one guide for the hole prosses (or?). There are many guides for the diffrent steps (exporting from premiere pro and burning (avi) to dvd or other ways?) and I dont know which are the best and how to combine them.

Plz give me links to guides and some good advice for the steps.

(My limit of size is a DVD (I maybe should burn it uncompressed. how? )and I want to watch the movie on any ordinary dvd players.

Thanks

[edDV]

For "absolute best result " you "would export to tape". Or you would save to movie in DV format (DV-AVI). This would also be you archive.

To share with others (at medium quality) you would export to DVD at default settings.

To make the best DVD, you would "Export Timeline" to Adobe MPeg Encoder and use highest "custom" MPeg2 settings like 8000-9000Kb/s CBR and MP2 224Kb/s compressed audio. If audio was a central focus you would back off video bitrate to ~7200Mb/s and use PCM for audio.

Then you would take this file to a DVD authoring program to author the DVD.

[jojoha87]

yes I want to burn it on DVD...

Folowing your advice for Mpeg 2 in adobe encore... shall I use progressive scan or leave it interlaced (lower fields) ... is the movie being deinterlaced after burning to dvd if interlaced?? or must I deinterlace in an other program which? guide??

suggestion on any good DVD authoring program?

Thanks anyway

[edDV]

If the movie was shot on a DCR-VX2100E (DV format) it should have been edited in (PAL DV 720x576, 25 fps, 48Khz audio) settings in Premiere Pro and should be encoded to interlace MPeg2 in Premiere Pro after editing.

If you didn't use DV project settings (PAL DV 720x576), you should go back and start over. The project should remain interlaced throughout unless you have a special reason to go progressive such as output to film. In that case, hand it over to professionals. If the goal is DVD, keep PAL interlace settings.

For "Adobe MPeg Encoder" best video quality settings, keep PAL interlace (bottom field first), 25fps. For bitrate use CBR 9,500Kb/s. For audio use MPeg Layer 2, 48 KHz, 224Kb/s.

Don't use the default Adobe DVD VBR settings if you want best qualtiy. Their settings assume you want to squeeze 90-120 minutes on a DVD at much lower qualtiy.

This MPeg2 file (video and audio) will be handed to the DVD Authoring Program. If you have Adobe Encore, you should probably use that. There are many other good DVD Authoring programs. Two that are popular here are

DVD-lab PRO
ULead DVD Workshop 2