Exporting animation to DVD

[cristoforo]

Is the only way to do this in Adobe Premiere by using the "export to dvd" setting? I tried it, put Premiere does not want to find my dvd writer. It lists nothing in the burner selection window. I tried saving as mpeg2-dvd, but when I put it into a dvd player, nothing plays. Any suggestions?

[jacksc02]

you need a dvd authoring type programme.
Check out adobe encore

[timmatron]

Premiere should be able to make DVD's. Are you by any chance using a trial version? I think the dvd feature is disabled for that.

[SteveC]

timmatron is right, premier pro 2 can burn straight to dvd, but in the
demo its disabled.

[tricky]

we've just had this same issue where premiere didn't see our dvd burner. we downloaded a driver for the burner from the manufacturer (freecom in this case) and then it saw it just fine.

[timmatron]

I've started to learn the H.264 codec from Quicktime. It's taken a while to find some good settings, but once you start getting the hang of it you can really get some very good quality compression.

Here's a couple of links

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/h264.html

[cristoforo]

Thanks guys. I'll look right away for the driver!

[panthon]

I've started to learn the H.264 codec from Quicktime. It's taken a while to find some good settings, but once you start getting the hang of it you can really get some very good quality compression.

Here's a couple of links

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/h264.html

Quicktime H.264 is not compatible with home DVD's

[timmatron]

Quicktime H.264 is not compatible with home DVD's

What do you mean? What kind of dvd's is it compatible with? On our last production dvd, i was pretty sure thats what we used for the final dvd product - which is viewable on normal dvd/tv sets. I could be wrong though since we worked with another company to make them.

From the H.264 link "H.264 achieves the best-ever compression efficiency for a broad range of applications, such as broadcast, DVD, video conferencing, video-on-demand, streaming and multimedia messaging."

[RErender]

Your Quicktime was recompressed to mpeg2 for the dvd, best to send either a uncompressed avi/quicktime or better to do your own mpeg compression.

[timmatron]

You know what, I take back the good things I said about h.264. As was mentioned ealier it has a major problem in washing out the colors so I'm going to look into something else now.

[Da_elf]

i always export as uncompressed then use tmpgenc to convert to mpeg2 since its quite fast and gives nice quality and whats more...its free

[Dynedain]

You know what, I take back the good things I said about h.264. As was mentioned ealier it has a major problem in washing out the colors so I'm going to look into something else now.

I'd like to see an example of this. We've had great success with it, with the best tradeoff of filesize/quality/compatibility. You may want to go through all your QT settings, sometimes I've seen a video filter turned on that does a brightness adjustment that washes everything out.

[timmatron]

Ok, here is an example. The clips on the left are uncompressed, and on the right are the H.264 compression. Now, it's not horrible, but still when you work hard to get it just the way you want it and then it gets changed on you at the end it is a little frustrating. And it's not just me. I've found other threads about this problem too, but no solution to it.

[Dynedain]

Thanks for the example... I'll have to look more into this.