Compressing Footage for DVD Using Premiere/Encore?

[barker85]

Hi there,

I need to create a DVD with menus and extras and am not sure of the best method for fitting all of the material onto one disc.

I need to keep the primary content (87m) uncompressed, but need to compress the bonus videos heavily (they are almost 600m in total) so that everything will fit on a single dual-layer disc.

It’s possible that this amount of compression may lead to inadequate video quality, so I would like to do a test to see how the bonus footage looks at say 10%, 20%, 50% etc. Does anyone know the best way to do this? I know that when exporting to DVD/Blu-ray in Premiere the default quality setting is 75% (should it be 100%?), though I am guessing that altering this parameter will not accomplish this, as when I scroll up/down the file size remains the same.

The bonus footage is of various originating formats/wrappers (R3D, QT, MP4 etc).

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

If I can provide additional information that would help please let me know.

Many thanks!

[Richard M Knight]

For a single layer disc 87mins on its own would give you 5450 kbs data rate which is just about ok. With Dolby audio the rate would then be 6550 kbs. You will have no chance of adding 600 mins more.

You might find this data rate calculator useful

DVD-HQ : Bitrate & GOP calculator

[John T Smith]

You MUST export from Premiere Pro using the MPEG2-DVD preset to create files that are legal according to the DVD specification

You then import the 2 files (audio and video) in Encore for authoring

Go to forums.adobe.com/community/encore/content for help with Encore

Notes and Tutorials - Posted Oct 21 2018 - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1448923 also has some Encore help links