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Anonymous
September 22, 2010
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Best export settings for HD video to DVD

  • 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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      Anonymous
      October 27, 2010

      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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      Anonymous
      September 22, 2010

      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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        Anonymous
        September 22, 2010

        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
        the_wine_snob
        Inspiring
        September 23, 2010

        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
        the_wine_snob
        Inspiring
        September 22, 2010

        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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        Anonymous
        September 22, 2010

        Thankyou, what if we use standard DVD discs, can we this HD settings to standard DVD disc, we shoot events in HD, and deliver lots of discs, not everyone has blu-ray players, and blu-rays are much more expensive, hard to pass that expense on , thanks for you help, my export settings show MPEG2-DVD or MPEG2-Blu-Ray

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