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Best export settings for HD video to DVD

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September 22, 2010
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hello, I now use premier pro cs5, from cs4 on my mac, love it, but I shoot with a cannon XL H1s HD video, my questiion is when viewing video from camera or on the screen in cs5, perfect hd picture, but when I export to DVD, i see in the media encoder if I choose mpeg2-DVD it goes output to 720x480, how do I export to dvd for the best HD seetings for DVD to get a HD playback on the DVD, now I see an OK video on the TV playback, but not the same as the original recording, can anyone help,, thanks in advance for any help.....

Correct answer romantic_Star0D45

I had issues doing MPEG2 as a substitute for MPEG2-DVD and decided to encode as H.264 and 720p at high enough bitrate to keep it within the scale of the size of DVD, etc. The results look great. My 40 minute video clip (originally HD) looked great compressed down to 720 and retained most of the quality... now for the next mystery- getting into Encore and seeing what that encoder would do to it. I made sure the transcode settings were set to good bit rate, etc. I was pleasantly surprised as it kept the quality.

I'm now about to burn the ISO to disc on my machine with the burner so we'll see, but I'm not worried based on fact my ISO played in DVD player looked so much less grainy/blurry than when I had gone the MPEG2 route in Adobe Media Encoder. Cheers!

**UPDATE**
Played back the DVD after burn. Worked great. The key for me was originally encoding my HD video w/ H.264 format in SD size and bringing that in to Encore and creating a DVD image (.iso file). I got the best loss-less results doing it this way for whatever reason.

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Look like many people have same probleme like me!!!

my question is at list how to get raw SD footage quality on DVD I'm doing from Premiere CS5 straight to Encore so on my understanding i'm not converting it only Encore converts it and i raise the bitrate to 9.4 best what encore can do for DVD but still quality is not same as on SD Raw footage, for BR i get the quality pretty close with 40 MBPS ............is somebody can help me......

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Artisan, everybody experiences the same outcome as you when compressing HD video to standard definition.

You use the correct codec (MPEG-2) in the process. What you can do to further improve the quality of the SD footage is to raise the bitrate

to 8 mbps. I output my HD files using the MPEG-BD codec and bump the bitrate to the max (40 mbps). Only then can I approximate the quality of the original footage. You can see now how much information and detail one lose when one's bitrate is merely 8 mbps (SD video) compared to the 40 mbps of the HD video. Hope this helps.

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Yes, this help alot, but when you change your setting to MPEG

-BD codec, are you then using a blu-ray disc in you final burn or standard disc,

I need to get best results since we do lots of disc for people, and most only have standar

d DVD player,

My goal is to get the best quality output for standard disc, maybe if they what full HD, I offer that but in will be on a blu-ray

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

If you have clients with only DVD players, I would down-rez the HD material to SD and burn a DVD for them. You might find Jeff Bellune's tutorial, linked in this ARTICLE, useful for this process.

For those with BD players, then do a full-rez BD for those.

One can put HD/BD material onto a DVD disc, BUT it will be a very, very short duration, and a DVD player will not be able to handle the HD material. IMHO, doing that is a waste of time and with no decent results. For some background on DVD and BD, this ARTICLE might be useful, as it links to Jim Taylor's DVD Demystified site.

Good luck,

Hunt

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Welcome to the forum.

To get full HD with more than moments of Duration, you will want to author a BD (Blu-ray Disc), at use either MPEG-2 HD, or H.264, the accepted BD formats.

Good luck,

Hunt

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ShackyC

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I've recently shot a short 7 minute Full HD video that I have edited in Pr CS5 and am looking to export it to the highest possible quality that will play on a DVD player. I will then be creating a DVD in Adobe Encore. What would you suggest the settings should be to achieve the best possible quality on the DVD (both in Pr and En).

I tried my first export using the default/automatic mpeg2-DVD settings and then authored the DVD in Encore, but the quality was terrible! The titles, still images and video looked quite blurry and appeared to 'shake' on the screen.

EDIT- I have just tried to increase the minimum/target/maximum bitrate of the Pr export settings to 9Mbps, hoping that it will give me a much higher quality of file. Estimated Time Remaining: 03:07:32 & 16% complete, so i'll report back soon'ish

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romantic_Star0D45Correct answer

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I had issues doing MPEG2 as a substitute for MPEG2-DVD and decided to encode as H.264 and 720p at high enough bitrate to keep it within the scale of the size of DVD, etc. The results look great. My 40 minute video clip (originally HD) looked great compressed down to 720 and retained most of the quality... now for the next mystery- getting into Encore and seeing what that encoder would do to it. I made sure the transcode settings were set to good bit rate, etc. I was pleasantly surprised as it kept the quality.

I'm now about to burn the ISO to disc on my machine with the burner so we'll see, but I'm not worried based on fact my ISO played in DVD player looked so much less grainy/blurry than when I had gone the MPEG2 route in Adobe Media Encoder. Cheers!

**UPDATE**
Played back the DVD after burn. Worked great. The key for me was originally encoding my HD video w/ H.264 format in SD size and bringing that in to Encore and creating a DVD image (.iso file). I got the best loss-less results doing it this way for whatever reason.

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