Burning an Adobe Premiere project

[finkster]

I need some help.

I have created a project in Adobe Premiere 6 of some home videos. I now want to burn this to a DVD to play on my DVD player. I have used LSX MPEG encoder for Adobe and it has conveeted it to an mpeg2 (after about 6 hours). Is this correct format to just burn to a DVD or is DVD a different MPEG format.

PLease could someone give me some guidance,

Many thanks
Andy

[Paul_W]

Seems like you are going about this the hard way.

Unless you are using a DVD authoring program that requires MPEG input, I would just output your finished project as an AVI file.

File>Export Timeline>Movie

Most authoring programs can import the AVI file without a hitch.

[Curt]

Why not export it directly from Premiere? Just use:

File > Export timeline > Adobe MPEG Encoder

It exports 2 files. One is a .M2V mpeg file and the other is a .WAV sound file. They will be perfectly in sync, and ready to burn using your favorite DVD authoring software. I've used DVDit! Lite, DVDit! SE, and EncoreDVD, all with good results.

Curt

[rallynavvie]

Well it has to be transcoded to MPEG2 eventually so wether you do it right out of Premiere, in the DVD authoring app, or via another encoder like TMPGEnc you're still spending the time encoding. Personally I like to use the latter since it has the most control over settings and I can output to elementary streams (which is second-nature after using Maestro for so long). If you were using Premiere 7 you'd be able to output directly to DVD from Premiere without menus or any of that on the disc.

[EricS]

fyi - If Adobe 6 has the same export options as 6 LE, there is no "Adobe MPEG Encoder". I have the 6 LE is there is no native way to export to DVD, mpeg2, etc.

[wadebbie]

I frameserve from Premiere 6 to TMPGE. Kills 2 birds with one stone!

[rallynavvie]

Gah, I need to figure out how to do that with 7 (Pro). It would make my life a lot easier.

[wadebbie]

It really helped me. I started out with 80 short videos that I wanted to carry on my laptop for training. I had a 450 mhz CPU and I thought I would never get them all digitized . Skipping that one step cut my workload in half. Only problem is if you want to edit later, you may run into problems.

[finkster]

I frameserve from Premiere 6 to TMPGE. Kills 2 birds with one stone!

HOw do I go about doing this? Where can I get hold of TMPGE?
Many thanks

[finkster]

Why not export it directly from Premiere? Just use:

File > Export timeline > Adobe MPEG Encoder

It exports 2 files. One is a .M2V mpeg file and the other is a .WAV sound file. They will be perfectly in sync, and ready to burn using your favorite DVD authoring software. I've used DVDit! Lite, DVDit! SE, and EncoreDVD, all with good results.

Curt

Hi Curt

What version of Premiere are you using as v 6.0 does not have this option.

Cheers

[wadebbie]

Sorry for the late reply, I just got back in town.

The tools section (<-- Left) on this website will show you where to get TMPGEnc (Tsunami) and avisynth (actually I would get the video server package) and it will come with readme files in a zipped folder that contains instructions. You will probably have to purchase TMPGEnc.

After editing in Premiere select "File" export movie and the dialogue box that pops up will give you the option of using "video server". After clicking that and naming your movie, it will out put a file called IPCServer.avi in C: (unless you reset it). Then you can open up TMPGE, browse to that file and start encoding. I understand that it can also be done in CCE - but I've never use CCE.

I have Premiere 6.5. The reason I don't use the built in encoder is mainly speed and some quality issues I had with it - but that is just personal preference.

[Epanek]

I am trying to put an Adobe Premiere 6.0 project on DVD too and am not sure what settings to use to export it before I run it through TMPGEnc. I would want the best quality, should I just use divx or indeo? or is there a better video format to use? (uncompressed?) also , what size should I be exporting to be used on a TV, 640x480 or 720x480? I'm a little confused because all the raw footage from my miniDV says it's 720x480 and I would want to use whatever size the original is right?

thanks for any help guys, I just want to do this the right way

-Evan