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  1. Hi guys,

    First off, I'm really glad I found this forum From looking around seems there's a bunch of people with a lot of know-how on video topic

    Hope you can help me out here.

    I got my AVCHD video (from a Sony Cam) edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Now that the "fun" time is over, I need to export this sucker.

    The idea is to get the Highest Quality possible from it for burning on a REGULAR DVD but in BluRay format. The video is about 30 min long and it perfectly fits on my Double Layer disks of 8Gigs or so.

    The questions:
    - 1) What are the best settings I can use for exporting this
    - 2) I got a Mac and PC so what is the best way to put it on a DVD in BluRay format.


    Now that you know the questions, here's what I did (which didn't really work quite well):
    - I exported using Premiere's 1440x1080 setting using H.264-BluRay option.
    - This export gave me a great video in a .m4v file BUT - NO SOUND. The sound was exported as a separate WAV file???
    - I have no idea on how to mix these two together without loosing quality on Re-encoding the whole process?
    - To burn onto a DVD I usually use the Toast 9 - since it does a nice job and has an option of not re-encoding.

    = 2 problems with this - one is that I don't know how to get the WAV file back into movie (or to export m4v with audio in it)
    = AND - The DVD recorded with these settings when played on my PS3 does not really flow... It seems like it's too high of quality or something so PS3 kind of jumps through it a bit.

    Hope any of you have some good ideas
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    i actually have the same problem, peconi. i've been trying to figure out the best setting although i'm using premiere CS3. tried to export it as an .avi, but didn't playback on windows media player, only in quicktime. also tried different settings using media encoder, but can't quite get the right combinations.

    maybe someone can help with the best settings that can be used to get a video output with HD quality and also something that will not take forever to render.

    thanks in advance!
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  3. Hi,

    Here's the deal. No one really answered our questions here so with the "extra" time on hand I played around with the settings myself trying to come out with the best solution.

    When I export and choose H.264 BluRay option - a 35 minute video (shot in AVCHD), took about 3 to 3.5 hours to render. Quality as expected - and easily burnable onto a disc, either BluRay or regular DVD just in HD format (i.e. BluRay for us poor ones)

    When I export and choose Mpeg2 BluRay - it takes about an hour or so - no more than hour and a half to export the video.

    This tells me that H.264, while gives a bit smaller files and a bit better quality (which is not all that noticeable), takes way too long for me to wait for, so from now on I stick with Mpeg2 for export out of PPro CS4.

    While some DVD authoring programs like / require video and audio to be in two separate files (the default export setting of CS4), if you want them both in one file like me - make sure under Multiplexer settings in the export screen to turn the Multiplexing to TS instead of None. This produces 1 file.

    If you use Adobe's Encore to author your dvd, you're better off with 2 separate files (or so I was instructed).

    For simple jobs, where I just care about the video and not building menus and what not, I use Roxio Toast 9 on my Mac machine to record the multiplexed video and audio stream onto a DVD. Smart Option to check is NO under RE-ENCODE settings. This way, your video just gets stored on a DVD instead of being re-encoded once again (into a lower quality).

    If you are burning just a DVD, you can just export from Premiere Pro as a DVD - and then again, when burning it, no re-encode will be necessary.

    Hope this helps you out. It's all I've learned in the past week while finding solutions to all my problems
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    thanks a lot for sharing what you've discovered peconi. i really appreciate it. my machine's not that super fast right now so this is really really helpful.

    if you don't mind me asking, what's the specs of your pc, just to have an idea regarding the speed when exporting? or did you use your mac to export?
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  5. It's an overclocked Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 4GHz, on Nvidia's 790i mobo, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, Vista 64bit, and 300GB VelociRaptor hard drive for system, 1TB WD for data and Nvidia 9800 GX2.

    Might add it's also liquid cooled and it runs faster than anything out there so your times may vary...

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    super cool setup you've got there, way too cool! no wonder it just took you 3-3.5 hours to export a 35min vid shot on AVCHD using the H.264 BluRay option.

    mine's taking forever by the way. ha!
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    Are you saying Premiere CS4 supports BluRay HD to normal DVD media?

    That's a new one for me. You sure you didn't dream this?
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  9. Mmm, I don't think I said that. When I export in BluRay HD format, my Toast 9 on Mac can burn that onto a regular DVD without re-encoding or onto a BluRay Disk.

    In reality I don't think Premiere exports anything to Media directly, but rather into diff formats which you later on use however you please.

    Makes sense?
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    Originally Posted by peconi
    Mmm, I don't think I said that. When I export in BluRay HD format, my Toast 9 on Mac can burn that onto a regular DVD without re-encoding or onto a BluRay Disk.

    In reality I don't think Premiere exports anything to Media directly, but rather into diff formats which you later on use however you please.

    Makes sense?
    Since Premiere Pro 2, there has been direct DVD encoding/burning from the program. V2 was intended mainly for quick timeline copies with little authoring. CS3 added limited DVD authoring templates. Encore remains Adobe's serious authoring program.

    Here's what Adobe says about CS4 Blu-Ray. Nothing there about Premiere Pro burning, but you can encode Premiere output to Blu-Ray standards.
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  11. I never even knew it had the built in DVD burning option. I just encode it to BluRay standard and then record via other solutions to either DVD or BluRay.
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    Originally Posted by peconi
    I never even knew it had the built in DVD burning option. I just encode it to BluRay standard and then record via other solutions to either DVD or BluRay.
    DVD is supported but I see no spec that says BluRay can be burned from Pr CS4.

    I see that I forgot to insert the Adobe Blu-Ray link in the above post.
    http://www.adobe.com/solutions/professionalvideo/bluray/
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  13. Never said there was one I just export it to into a H.264 or Mpeg2 BluRay format which can. As I mentioned - I use other tools to burn DVD's - never knew CS4 can even burn onto one directly - without going to Encore.
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