1hr45min PPro sequence to DVD...how?
by Lev
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May 10, 2006 at 6:26:11 am
Hi people,
There are a lot of posts of how to push stuff into encore and onto DVD and a lot of them mention AVI output so Encore can encode, add menus and burn. Sounds all nice and good, but how do you deal with a sequence of feature-length size? We have some MiniDV footage that has been cut together and assembled into this final product in PPro. Storing the MiniDV data on hard drive is no issue as it is is the DVcodec so not much space is required. However, outputting the whole 105min program to uncompressed AVI + sound is going to be over 140GB by my calculations (if not more). That is a lot of space when there is already gigs and gigs of data kicking around.
What is the best way of me getting this over to encore? Exporting as DVcodec will just decrease the quality even further. Can encore read the PPro timeline/project? And adding to that this is the smaller version of the program...there may be a 130min version as well. :(
Re: 1hr45min PPro sequence to DVD...how? by mike velte on May 10, 2006 at 11:10:04 am
Pro cant export an AC3 audio file without an expensive plug-in, but Encore can convert the .wav file that Pro creates with the Mpeg encode to AC3. This avoids an intermediate export of DV or uncompressed video for Encore to encode.
Re: 1hr45min PPro sequence to DVD...how? by Harm Millaard on May 10, 2006 at 11:23:33 am
That's correct. I do use the Minnetonka plug-in, so for me it is a moot point, but not everybody has that. Just keep in mind, when using the bitrate calculator, to take an AC-3 audio stream into consideration, not a PCM file, if you are going to transcode the audio stream in Encore. It will leave you some more space for the videostream.
