Highest Quality using two Programs

[alcodesign]

I hope this is the right area to post my problem. I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and Photodex Proshow Gold 2.5 for the past while to make family videos and slideshows. The video would always be on a separate DVD from the slideshow and everything worked great. I would use the burning functionality of each program to do the job. Now I wish to make a single DVD containing video footage that was captured and edited with Premiere and slideshows that were made in Proshow. I can't seem to get the best quality when I burn them to a DVD using Nero. I downloaded the demo of Adobe Encore 2.0 and that doesn't appear to give me the best quality either. The slideshows are mostly ok but the video tends to get jagged and pixelated when the camera pans or moves quickly. I have the video files exported as AVIs and the slideshows as MPEGs. What settings should I check to make sure that I get the best possible quality? Again, the quality is fine if I burn a DVD directly from each program, but I'd like to make one single DVD. The video was taken with a standard Sony DV camera and I'm testing playback on a standard TV and DVD player.

Thanks,
Al

[guns1inger]

You are losing quality because you are using NeroVision, and it is needlessly re-encoding your video and reducing the quality.

You should export the video from Premiere as DVD quality mpeg using the Adobe Encoder (it's all in the manual).

Once you have the mpeg files from both programs, you can use GUIForDVDAuthor to author a DVD, with a menu if necessary.

Finally, once you have your DVD structure created, you can burn the results using ImgBurn 2.

All these programs are free, and there is no need to let Nero near any of it.