Poor quality video when burning a DVD

Report · Nov 30, 2013

Hi All,

I have recently purchased & installed Premiere Elements 11 on my Windows 7 64bit Dell laptop. I found the tutorials very helpful and was able to successfully create my first project - importing a 46 minute AVCHD file4GB m2.ts shot on my Panasonic HC-V100 in Record Mode HG1920: 1920x1080 25f/s Audio 48kHz. When creating the project I selected: New Project>Change Settings>PAL>AVCHD>Full HD 1080i 25 andTicked ‘Force Selected Project Setting on this Project’ (I'm in the UK hence selecting PAL)

I added titles then created a menu and scenes using a still photo 2mb jpg 3456x2304 300dpi for the menu background. So far so good - really pleased with the results on screen. Next I selected Publish>Disc > selected AVCHD Add Name>Choose 1920x1080i>Burn to Folder. I then burned the BDMV Folder to DVD using the inbuilt DVD burner in my laptop.

This successfully produced a DVD with menus and titles which will play on my Blu-ray player. The quality of the video is excellent and I am delighted with the result however here is the first of the problems I'm hoping someone can help with: The background image on the menu is slightly blurred as are the menu/scene titles.

Next I wanted to produce a DVD for people who don't have a Blu-ray player & therefore need to play it on a normal DVD player. This is the second problem (and one I have seen mentioned elsewhere on the community). I published the project in a similar manner to the one above but with the following differences:

Burn to DVD Folder: Select 4.7>Type name>Browse to location. I now burn the VIDEO_TS folder to DVD, again using the the inbuilt DVD burner in my laptop however this time the result is very poor. The menu doesn't work and the quality of the video is unacceptable. Of course I understand that the result will be considerably lower quality than with the AVCHD version however this is not watchable.

(BTW, prior to purchasing Premiere Elements 11 I had been playing the video from my camera into a Sony RDR-HXD910 hard disc recorder then burning DVDs from that device using SP mode. This produced DVDs with perfectly acceptable quality so I must admit that I was hoping for similar results from Premiere Elements.)

I have read on the community that DVDStyler is a preferred method of burning DVDs however afer downloading it I failed to find a way of using it for simply burning my existing VIDEO_TS folder.

This is as far as I have got and now would really appreciate some help to point me in the right direction to be able to burn my project onto ordinary DVDs. I have tried to put as much information on the post as possible but I am new to video editing so have probably missed or not described something!

Thanks in advance

Simon

Report · Feb 01, 2014

ATR

I deleted then started again with the 2nd project and this time I didn't have that problem. I think it might have been due to not waiting for 'conforming' to complete the first time.

Thank you for all your help with my questions

Simon

Report · Feb 01, 2014

Simon

Thanks for the follow up and the good news of your successful project completion. Great job.

As you found out completion of the initial conformation phase is an important factor. As you progress to more and more projects, please keep a watch for pile ups of the files that are automatically generated as part of project features - preview files, conformed video files, and conformed audio files.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have further questions on your Premiere Elements workslfows or need clarification on anything written.

Thanks again.

ATR

Report · Feb 01, 2014

Simon,

As pointed out, Conforming of the Audio is a very important part of the Importing of any Audio, into PrE. This Tips & Tricks article goes into more detail on the Conforming process: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3892177#3892177

Good news, and good luck,

Hunt

Report · Dec 12, 2013

ATR

Thanks for this.

re - your reply to my point 1. - noted

re - your reply to point 2. I have a main menu plus three scene menu screens all of which appear blurred when played on the Blu-ray player however they are ok when I view them in Preview disc in the project.

re- future projects they will typically be similar to this one e.g. an AVCHD file taken from my Panasonic video camera then create a project from which I can produce a DVD containing the BDMV folder for playing on a Bly-ray player and also producing a version by importing a converted MPEG2 file for creating a DVD containing a VIDEO_TS folder for playing on DVD players. Do you think that the reason I had to apply Interpret Footage is because the Panasonic software changed the aspect ratio during conversion? (although there was no option to set this - the only options were relating to picture quality and the number of audio chanels)

Either way I have a solution for this now so maybe that doesn't matter now.

Thanks again

Simon

Report · Dec 01, 2013

Also, a Comparison picture of video screen sizes http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1120039