Adobe Premier Pro to dvd

[tat2loo]

Hi.
I'm a newbie on here, and completely new to the world of making home movies.

I recently went on holiday to Borneo, and am trying to burn my video to Dvd, but have been having a nightmare.
I first captured the film onto Windows Movie Maker, but then found that my software wouldn't recognise the files. So I exported the edited version back to my camcorder tape,and then imported that into Adobe Premier Pro.
However, my adobe encore has become corrupt and is apparently now missing a file.
Any other software I've tried, doesn't recognise the clips as they're saved as Premier Pro clips.
I don't even know what format I would need to convert them to, in order to burn them to play as a dvd.

Can anyone help me out with this please?
I've spent the last few weeks trying to figure it out myself, but I'm finally admitting defeat.

[Baldrick]

Premiere pro clips? the premiere pro project files or can you list what files you have?

I hope you haven't deleted the source video files.

[tat2loo]

Premiere pro clips? the premiere pro project files or can you list what files you have?

I hope you haven't deleted the source video files.

Sorry, if I don't answer this right, I really am a complete novice here.
When i look at the properties of the files, they show as Premiere Pro Projects. I haven't deleted the source video files. When I look at the properties of the individual clips in the Adobe folder, they just show as "Video Clip".

[kimco52]

Wow!!! Where to start?
First, if your Adobe Encore is corrupt and missing files, why don't you just reinstall it? Or use the Adobe Encore Repair option? That is on the disk when it starts. You do have your Program installation disks, don't you?

Beyond that, however, you said you imported the edited version from your camcorder into Adobe Premiere. You don't do that. You need to "Capture" that inside Premiere. When it is done, you save that to your computer with a name you gave it. It will also put it in your project folder. You move that to video track 1 on the timeline. It will automatically put the audio on Audio track 1. You can edit whatever you want on the timeline. When that is done, you need to "Export" that. When you choose Export, you have several options... The first one is to save as an avi file. You can do that but if you want to go to DVD, you can choose to export to DVD, via encore, or choose Adobe Media Encoder. That will give you several options. Since you are in UK, I would assume you would choose PAL 4X3 DVD, MPEG-2. Choose which resolution and bit rate you want and it will create the file you need for burning the dvd using an external program.

The actual DVD burning program can be whichever one you want. Sometimes I use Encore for simple needs, or DVDit Pro when I need to do more advanced things.

There are many other suggestions for programs on this Forum. Different people have different likes. Some cost money, some don't.

Look along the left side of the page and you will notice a HOW TO section. Take a look at "Capture" and "Convert".

[tat2loo]

Thanks for the reply... .
I can't find the Adobe Encore disc anywhere, think it might have been chucked in error when I moved house. (along with pretty much my entire cd and dvd collection!)

sorry I've not been using the right lingo, as I say i am new to this....
I did "capture" the footage from my camcorder in premier pro, and then re-edited it there also.Managed fine with the editing, and adding some audio tracks etc, but when i try to export to dvd, it just hangs and does nothing.

Am I best to save the file as an AVI and then find other software to convert it to MPEG-2 then?

I have one part of the movie converted to MPEG-2, and then it has a seperate file which says "wav sound" Is this correct?

[kimco52]

Yes, you can export the timeline to a movie as an AVI and then use other software to convert it to DVD. Many on this forum use TEMPGenc. There are others, also. Do a search on this site....type in the search box "AVI to DVD" and it will give you some choices. Also look under "How To" and select author DVD. I see people recommending different software all the time but don't pay much attention to them because I am using what I use and am not having any problems.

If you convert to MPEG-2 using the Adobe Media Encoder, it will produce two files..... one is the video file and the other is the audio file. If you try to play just the MPeg file, you won't hear anything. If you click on the WAV file, you won't see anything. They are both needed and when authoring, they will be in sync. For instance, I use DVDitPro. On a very simple video, I import both the m2v and wav file into it and put the video file onto the media box to create first play then I put the wav file on top of it. That is all I do and then click on burn and away it goes. When done, the DVD is finished. I take it out and put it in my DVD player on my tv and it starts playing. It really is just that simple. For a simple video. That is what I have done for some time using Premiere. When Encore was included in the package (Production Suite) I just do it with Premiere to dvd....unless, as I said, I have multiple segments I am creating with a menu, then I put them all in DVDit Pro and author it there. I may be able to do that with Encore but I have not had time to pursue that yet.

[lordsmurf]

Adobe Media Encoder does program streams too, not just elementary streams. I never let it make two files.

I suggest WinDV for DV transfers, Premiere is so resource-hungry that it alone can cause dropped frames.

I don't really use Encore either. I prefer DVDWS2, TDA or DVDSP. I'll probably start re-learning Encore later this year again, on the CS3 version I have now.

[tat2loo]

Excellent... thanks for the advice...A friend of mine has offered to take the tapes away and put them on dvd for me, but i'm damned if i'm gonna give in. I will get my head round it eventually!!