Premiere CS5 - need some advice on exporting!

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Hi guys

I'm sure this is an easy one but I'm not having too much success.

I'm taking full 1080p videos with my 5D MKII and am wanting to make standard resolution DVDs with them.

What I'm wanting to do is edit each individual video (as all have different needs with colour correction etc.) recode it as a standard PAL DVD quality film and then when I have a load of those, put them all into a timeline and export them as a DVD in Encore.

I'm not very familiar with Premiere and am just about getting what I need to do but I am stuck on one point - the size/quality of DVD files.

What settings would you recommend I use to turn 1080P .mov files into an SD video that I can edit later?

So far I have tried:

AVI file set to PAL - so it's coming out at 720x576 but it's going at a data rate of 28806, it's MASSIVE for a couple of minutes of footage.

I've also tried MPEG2-DVD PAL which shows a resolution of 720x480 at 7000kbps which is much better but when I create and playback the DVD it doesn't fill the screen it's a small square of video taking up 25% of the screen in the middle. :(

I'm stuck! Anyone any ideas?

Thanks.
 
Wouldn't you just leave all the source video as it is and let Encore sort out the transcoding during the final burn? It avoids the need for intermediate files cluttering up the hard disk, or am I missing something that causes this not to work?
 
Thanks for the posts guys

Cheers for the specs Valve, I can't see exactly where I can input those details exactly though, I have tried some presets including DVD PAL and I either get a massive file or it's the wrong size and comes out too small on screen. :(

Erm...I'm not sure SickAsAParrot...I was wanting to convert them to make it easier when I'm recoding a full movie, converting an hour of 1080P to DVD quality would take quite some time, it would be easier if it's already in DVD quality.

Also wouldn't I have to have every video in the same timeline and edit them in one project to be able to export them into Encore to make a DVD? Again, that would use a heck of a lot of resources and take some time which I was trying to avoid.

The main thing was I wanted edited versions of each individual video.

Maybe that's the easiest idea for now...?

I still don't understand why some settings for PAL - 720x576 means the video comes out too small on the screen, that doesn't make sense to me. :(
 
Bit of an update for anyone that's interested (or me when I forget in three weeks!).

I seem to have got round the problem, by recoding the original 1080p footage using Handbrake to 720x480 m4v I have turned an original file size of 0.98GB to 42.9MB which fits my needs perfectly and makes recoding a speedy breeze.

I can then do as SickAsAParrot suggests and put them all into one film and recode the lot in Encore.
 
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