dOWNSIZING, HOW IS IT DONE????

There are two things you can change to reduce the amount of space required. The simplest is audio. LPCM is uncompressed audio and takes a large amountof space compared to Dolby Digital (AC3) or mpeg1-layer2 audio.

Video is a little more complex, but it all rests on the bitrate you use. Use a bitrate calculator to work out what bitrate suits your runtime. If your runtime is short (1 hour or less), use a Constant Bitrate when encoding, and just plug in the number your bitrate calculator suggested. If your runtime is longer than an hour, and you bitrate starts to get down around 7000 or lower, consider 2 pass Variable BitRate, where the number the bitrate calculator produced is used as the average. These numbers need to be applied when you encode to mpeg-2. You can read your manual to find out exactly where they go in Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro 1.5 has a quick DVD preview mode which burns a representation of the timeline without menu options. AKA a "daily".

The "Adobe Mpeg Encoder" is located under "Export Timeline". It gives wide encoding options to DVD MPeg2 but needs a separate DVD Authoring program to finish the DVD. Adobe's authoring program is Encore but others can be used.


"So here's my question, How do I downsize the file say to 2GB so i can fit 2hrs worth on the DVD, But the last thing i want to do is to lose quality either in sound or what you actually see? "

50% compression is going to have an affect on quality. What was the source file? Was it a camcorder tape?