trouble authoring mpg files made in Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0

[compaqted]

Hello everyone,

I have been usining Premiere Elements 3.0 to edit my video projects. I have used the software to prepare DVD's but found it rather time consuming. I thought it would be better to encode to mpg2 (720X480, NTSC) and then take the mpg file and use a different authoring software : cyberlink power2go to prepare the DVD. Unfortunately, the software doesn't recognize the file.

I could reencode using Super to a smaller aspect ratio, but I see a loss in quality. Is there anyway to produce the files out of Elements to make them work in other authoring software.

What I would like to do is prepare several mpg files and then author them to a DVD. I've found doing this on Elements is tedious. The Power2Go software is simple enough, but I can't make it recognize PE 3.0 mpg files.

my system :

Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1 GB memory
160 GB HD
Radeon AIW 9600

thanks

compaqted

[edDV]

What do you mean "smaller aspect ratio"? DVD can be 4:3 or 16:9.

What are your other encoder settings?

[compaqted]

thanks for the response.

I did a little checking, it wasn't a change in aspect ratio, but the number of frames was changed from 29 to 25..

how would that make the file more readable by another software package...

confused

compaqted

[edDV]

Keep settings to limits set by the DVD standard
https://www.videohelp.com/dvd

NTSC DVD frame rate must be 29.97 for 480i or 23.976 for 480p.