Is there any way to make a DVD through Premier Pro CC 2017?

[Isaac the Iceman]

I have spent days trying to make a DVD of a school program to send to my 90 year-old grandmother for Christmas, with absolutely no luck!!!  I am soooo very frustrated with Adobe right now!!!

I have learned that the only thing that will burn a DVD of Premier Pro projects is and app called Encore CS6 and that I can supposedly still download through the Creative Cloud Apps menu.

However, after spending many, many hours over the past several weeks trying to find the hidden download, it does not exist for me.  The only sections under my CC Apps menu are:

Latest Versions - which DOES have a Premier Pro Update available

Previous Versions - Which does NOT show Premier Pro

Find Additional Apps - Which also does NOT now Premier Pro

My mother just renewed this subscription for $360 about 2 months ago and is pretty mad that it can't make a simple DVD for that kind of money!!!  The only thing I can think is that perhaps since my subscription was an education subscription, that somehow previous versions are not available to me.

How can I make a DVD?  It's a simple question that used to have a simple answer!

Can anyone help me?

[Peru Bob]

If you install Premiere Pro CS6, you will get encore:

How to download and install Adobe Encore CS6

Another option is to export to mpeg 2-DVD and take that to a disc burning program like ImgBurn.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Another option is to export to mpeg 2-DVD and take that to a disc burning program like ImgBurn.

That won't author the disk.  It would only create a data disk.

[Peru Bob]

Jim_Simon wrote:

Another option is to export to mpeg 2-DVD and take that to a disc burning program like ImgBurn.

That won't author the disk. It would only create a data disk.

Woops! How embarrassing.

I skipped a step.

The mpeg-2 DVD file need to go to an authoring program like Encore and then to a disk burning program.

Thanks for the correction. Jim.

[shooternz]

I have found in the past  that a mpeg2 file exported and then  burned onto a DVD plays fine from a DVD PLayer. 

Obviously it does not have the features of menus, navigation etc.

Have not done one for so long its all a bit hazy I must admit!

[John T Smith]

Hmm... I must have the wrong brand and/or model player... I have not seen a player that works with a data DVD

[Stan Jones]

Regarding video files burned to DVD/BD without authoring...

This may work on some players to do just what Craig said: no navigation, just play the file. The specs on one of my BD players does not list any video format other than avchd that it will play (but lists jpeg (stills) mp3 audio, etc. No time to test today even though I am snowed in!

Also remember that, as Neil Wilkes is fond of pointing out, all "burned" DVD/BD disks are DVD/BD-ROM and not certified to play even when authored. So ymmv. My assumption has been that USB devices should play all the popular formats (mpg, mp4) but I have no tested it. Disks may or may not follow the same.

[Isaac the Iceman]

Thank you for the advice and link.  I appreciate your effort to help me.

Sadly, I still do not have any previous versions of Premier Pro listed in my CC Apps.

I do, however have Media Encoder CC (2017)...will that let me burn my Premier Pro video to a DVD?

[John T Smith]

How to get Encore https://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb/encore-cs6-installed-cc.html

-Previous via Cloud https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/download-install-app.html

If you do not see CS6 as an option, there MAY be something wrong with your Cloud manager install

Ask actual Encore questions in https://forums.adobe.com/community/encore/content

[Isaac the Iceman]

Thanks to all of you for your advice!

I truly appreciate all of your efforts to help me!

I still do not have any previous versions of Premier Pro listed in my CC Apps.

However I do have Media Encoder CC (2017)...will that let me burn my Premier Pro video to a DVD?

[SAFEHARBOR11]

Media Encoder will not burn a DVD - it can only create the assets (audio/video files) for use in Encore to make the DVD.

Honestly, Encore has quite a learning curve. Was trying to help a friend via remote last week to show him how to use it. He didn't want any menus, just the ability to burn a few simple DVDs of completed projects. It got frustrating...

What we finally did was to export a regular NTSC DV .avi file from Premiere (from HD source), then imported that into the free Windows DVD Maker app that was pre-installed on his Windows 7 system. Was super-easy to set up a DVD, with default animated menus, and burn. Encore is great for complex menus and such, but when one just wants to make a simple DVD, quickly, there are other options. I may have to revisit DVD Maker and figure out if I can feed it an MPEG-2 source that would not need to be transcoded. DVD Maker is not included on Windows 10 though, which is what I have.

Encore likes separate audio and video, such as .wav or .ac3 audio along with .m2v video. I didn't know what DVD Maker wanted, but assumed DV would be acceptable and would get transcoded, which it did.

Thanks

Jeff

[David_V_Clarke]

You could have done the same with Encore - export a DV clip and let it encode it for DVD.  Encore then sets all the bit rates etc for you.  Once you get the logic of how Encore works I think it is easy to understand.  I have done quite a bit of Encore training and after just a short bit of explaining it tends to "click" and then become easy.

[Ann Bens]

Exporting to dv-avi and letting Encore do the transcoding means double conversion. dv-avi is not lossless. (this is how we did it in the 'old days' ahum )

General advice here is: export directly to mpeg2-dvd to use in Encore.

[Isaac the Iceman]

Thanks for the information.  I am also currently running a Windows 10, but I do still have two older computers with Movie Maker on them; a Windows 7 and a good old Vista that I used to use to make DVD's for family.

If all else fails, I'll give that a try!

Thanks!

[Ann Bens]

How to get Encore is by installing Premiere CS6.

BTW moved to the Encore forum.

[David_V_Clarke]

Exporting a DV file is not lossless but it does not loose too much and if you are finding making a DVD hard then it makes the process a bit easier as you do not have to work out bitrates or choose any settings, just load the clip and let Encore work it out.

[R Neil Haugen]

Encore uses licensed code for the authoring work. The company they licensed that from got bought out by a company that wasn't interested in continuing to develop authoring tools ... so it's been assumed (there's been no official statement) that Adobe's options were to license code from one of the others possibilities & rebuild the program around that, or maintain the software in then-current state. It's obvious which choice they made.

Encore still works, and is available to all CC users though the download/install process is a bit of a pain. After installation you can uninstall PrPro CS6 without problem and continue to use Encore.

There are a number of us here that still use or can advise how to get it installed ... and there is an Encore forum that is still very active and a helpful place on installation and use of that program ...

Encore

Neil

[Isaac the Iceman]

I am happy to let you all know that "Previous Versions" of Premier Pro finally appeared in my Apps menu last night!

I don't know why!  I don't know how!  But it is there now so I will be spending today installing (and uninstalling) CS6 so that I can finally have access to Encore!

Thank you all for your help!!!

And wish me luck!

[neil wilkes]

I am reluctant to post this, but in the interests of getting the job done feel it is okay - if it is not then someone will doubtless delete the post.

One application you can try is Media Chance Labs DVD-Lab Pro 2.

This, whilst no longer under active development, is still available & does have a couple of active members who still support via the user forums and I can personally attest to it's suitability as an Encore replacement. I mention it as I am not at all certain how well Encore will function in a 64-bit environment such as Windows 10 - with DLP2 you do get a full trial period before buying so can easily test it out.

It also goes a lot further than |Encore ever did but it does *not* have any form of Blu-ray capability whatsoever. I run it to this day with Windows 7 64-bit and it performs flawlessly. It also comes with a built-in menu design tool, plus it also allows you to import your own menus created in Photoshop as well as "external backgrounds" (IE a menu base with no buttons) in BMP form.

There are a lot of tutorials on the site and I have made dozens of commercial titles using it.

[Ann Bens]

neil wilkes wrote:

I mention it as I am not at all certain how well Encore will function in a 64-bit environment such as Windows 10 -

Encore functions just fine on my W10 machine. Just as it did on W7 and W8.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Encore functions just fine on my W10 machine.

Same here.

[David_V_Clarke]

I have had a problem with some Blu-ray writers and Windows 10 where Encore works fine but does not burn the disc properly.  The simplest answer is to make an ISO and burn with image burn as suggested above as the problem is the burning part of Encore, not anything else. 

[excited_Genie16B8]

I have never successfully burned a Blu-ray disk from Encore.  Not once.  Ever.

From my point of view, Encore "working fine" means building an ISO and burning with ImgBurn.  It's just always been that way.

[Media Editor]

I am now creating MP4 video files.  I put them on a flash drive and insert it into a USB port on the HD TV.  It plays without any problems.  The picture quality is as good as Blu-ray. 

[excited_Genie16B8]

It's not a bad way to go.