Long Video Export to DVD

I have a video that is from a presentation. The length is over 3 hours long. I took slides from a powerpoint and overlaid them in various areas of the video and it looks good. My question though is what the best export method is so that I can put it on a DVD and have it still look decent. Any ideas? I did a NTSC/PRO and it made a mediocre looking video that is 42gig. Very big!

I did a NTSC/PRO and it made a mediocre looking video that is 42gig. Very big!
I assume you mean that you exported as DV/DVCPro NTSC. If so, that would require about 13.3gb per hour, which would be about right for a program over 3 hours in duration.
As for exporting for DVD, you can export a self-contained or reference QuickTime Movie from FCP and then use that file in iDVD, DVD-SP or Compressor. Or you can export "Using Compressor."
For a program that long, you should consider using dual-layer media (DVD-9) or two single layer (DVD-5) discs.
-DH

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Will PE7 burn a long video to multiple DVDs?

I've been working on a project that uses footage from 15 scientific conference presentations, each one lasting about an hour. The conference spanned two days, and I have two sets of footage plus literally thousands of PowerPoint slides to incorporate. I need to have scene markers set up, so the viewer will have a menu from which to select whether to "view all" or skip to a particular scene (speaker). All that is manageable.
While I know that PE7 has the "adjust quality to fit media" option when burning the video to disk, what I'd really like to do is have PE render the files with the highest quality, even if it means that the resulting video will span a number of disks. Otherwise, my DVDs will each contain at least three hours of lower quality video. I know my client will be unhappy with this.
I am separating the entire project into two sections - day one and day two.
My question is, with day one being about six hours of video, is there a way to set up the burn so that it will maintain a higher quality video? While PE can fit several hours of video on one DVD (?), it sacrifices quality to do so. I want the highest quality video possible. Incidentally, what is a reasonable length to fit on one DVD?
Do I need to break the project up into many sub-projects, or can I make the entire first day's video one project and have PE automatically break the burn into several DVDs, including scene markers?
A second question has to do with scene markers. Once I have the entire first days video set up, including scene makers, should I decide to break the project up into two or three sub-projects, is there a way to delete footage including the scene markers? Obviously I can take all the footage AFTER a certain point and delete it and then render that part to disk, but is there a way to delete the footage BEFORE a certain point, including deleting the scene markers? When I tried to do this, the scene markers remained exactly where they were - they were not tied to the actual video.
Thanks!
Jim

Jim,
PrE has no way to "span" multiple DVD-Videos. It also balks at really long Timelines. My advice would be to assemble your footage into Projects, each one for one disc, so you can keep the quality high.
If you already have everything in one Timeline, I'd then trim each to equal one disc, do a Save_As (Conference_Disk_01, _02, etc.) for each trimmed Project. Do the navigation for each disc, and then burn. Personally, I'd include Titles at the beginning and the end, to alert the user that they have, say Disc 1 of 6, and also "Insert Disc 2 now." That sort of thing.
PrPro has a few more capabilities, such as separate Sequences (think mini-Projects inside of a master Project), but I do the multiple disc sets the same way. Each Sequence (or groups of Sequences) is a separate disc, and is Exported for Import into Encore (my authoring program) and each disc is burned at the highest quality that will fit. Just finished a 17 disc Project, and it was handled the same way. Each Sequence was titled with the disc # and the placement on that disc, so I knew what went where. Had about 80 separate Sequences, but it was easy to know which ones went into which DVD/Encore Project. I also had the Disc X of Y on both the front of each disc, plus on the case for it. That way, the user knew where they were in the order, and could get the disc back in that order. You can do the same thing in PrE, but will be using Projects for each disc. A bit of planning will go a very long way in the production.
Good luck, and let us know if you have any more questions. BTW - for acceptable quality, I'd set a limit of 2 hours for any duration, with maybe 150 mins. as the absolute max. I've "stuffed" 3 hours on a DVD-5, but it is NOT a pretty sight. Can you go with DVD-9's?
Hunt

First Video Export to DVD Question

Hi - I have my first ever video export from Premiere to a DVD and I'm a little nervous about it. My footage will be shot with the Panasonic ACHD (I think that's the model as I don't have the camera with me here) and the camera is set for 1280 x 720 at 24 FPS.
I was looking through the export settings in Premiere CS4 and found the MPEG-DVD and MPEG Blue Ray settings. When I select MPEG-DVD, I notice that two vertical bars are in each end of the output; when I select MPEG Blue Ray, there's a setting in there that makes those bars go away and the picture fits the dimensions perfectly, so it looks like I can use those settings.
My question is - after I export this file, how do I actually get it on the DVD disk? Should I export it like above and then use Adobe Encore to burn the disk? Or is there some other method?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Your original file is HiDef, a DVD is Standard Def at 720x480 so you will see a difference from original to DVD
You may not use BluRay files on a DVD... see above
You use PPro for editing, Encore for authoring... reading below
The individual CS5 pages also have links to the CS4 user guide pages
CS5 User Guides - online and PDF (right click PDF link to save PDF to your hard drive)
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/08/help-documents-for-creative-suite-5-pdf -and-html.html
Here Tutorials
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/913334
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/845731?tstart=0
-and http://forums.adobe.com/message/3234794
A "crash course" http://forums.adobe.com/thread/761834?tstart=0
A Video Primer for Premiere http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498251?tstart=0
Premiere Tutorials http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424009
CS5 Premiere Pro Tutorials http://forums.adobe.com/message/2738611
And http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/06/video_tutorials_didacticiels_t.html
And http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/06/how_to_search_for_premiere_pro.html
CS5 Tutorials http://bellunevideo.com/tutlist.php
PPro Wiki http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro_Wiki
Tutorial http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Premiere/1
Tutorial http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?f=21
Tutorial HD to SD w/CS4 http://bellunevideo.com/tutorials/CS4_HD2SD/CS4_HD2SD.html
Premiere Pro Wiki http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Exporting to DVD http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS3E252E59-6BE5-4668-A12E-4ED0348C3FDBa.h tml
And http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSCDE15B03-1236-483f-BBD4-263E77B445B9.ht ml
Color correction http://forums.adobe.com/thread/892861?tstart=0
Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798?tstart=0
-Too Large = Crash http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879967?tstart=0
After Effects Tutorials http://www.videocopilot.net/
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Encore Tutorial http://www.precomposed.com/blog/2009/05/encore-tutorial/
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Issues quality of video exporting for DVD

I am putting a bunch of commercials on a DVD...
I burned two test DVDs with two different settings.
My setup is NTSC DV 48 (that is how the footage is captured too, FIREWIRE NTSC Default).
I also have graphics mixed in there, and thats where the problems begin... the all too common complaint here of +my graphics look jagged+.
So on one sequence I changed the field order to none, exported a qt reference to compressor and there saved a mpeg2 with best quality 90 min. then I burned a dvd with dvd studio pro.
I did the same thing with a different clip, except I set the field order to even and followed the same procedure above.
Version 1 (with field order set to none) looks better than the 2nd version EXCEPT for one minor detail. I have a 3d graphic which looks PERFECT in FCP (created in Cinema 4d by someone else exported with the animation codec w/alpha with interlacing set to even) when interlacing is set to EVEN the graphics looks GOOD and looks JAGGED when set to NONE (quite the opposite from the rest of my graphics).
And on the DVD (being viewed in a DVD player connected to a TV) the part of the video with the 3d graphic looks better in the version where the original video setting was set to even field order.
I also made a test where I set the sequence settings to ProResHQ NTSC... the graphics do look a little better but the same issue happens with the 3d animation.
I also re-exported the 3d animation with compressor, w/FO set to none with ProRes4444, and it still looks jaggy in FCP. I think the issue is here but I do not know how to fix...
So what do I need to do so everything looks good, not one or the other... This dvd is going to be looped in a store (about 50 stores actually) and one tends to notice imperfections when viewed over and over again.
Thanks!
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Fixed it...
Found the answer here... http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12877936&#12877936
+Compressor is better for de-interlacing. Ignore the de-interlace filter in the filters tab. This is a legacy filter from before Compressor had Frame Controls.+
+On the Frame Controls page, it's irrelevant what Resize Filter is set to, since you're not using that. Ditto for Anti-alias and Details. They're for resizing.+
+Set Output Fields to Progressive, and De-interlace to Better, with Adaptive Details checked.+
+Best takes a lot longer to process, and the difference is usually visually negligible. If you're in doubt and you have the time, try both and see if you can tell the difference.+
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I want to export all the screen text in a long video to a text doc

I want to export all the screen text in a long video to a text document. Is there a way to do that without copying and pasting each item?

Fortunately, I still have the project ready at hand, so I can cut and paste each text window from there, but I do admire the creativity of your approach. I thought about making the desired document as a collection of still images without the video track removed, but I decided that would be too cumbersome for this purpose.
It still seems to me that there ought to be a way to access the text resident in FCP and turn it into a text file, but maybe this will have to written into the program as a feature. Probably, it would not be a high priority among all the other tasks on the wish list.
Thanks for your help. If I learn something interesting, I will post it for the benefit of others who might want do what I want to do now. Off I go now to cut and paste!

Video extracted using DVD x DV won't export

I'm using DVD x DV (v. 1.34) to extract video from a DVD for use in an iMovie project (I have iMovie '08, 7.1.1). To extract I used the iMovie 6 Final Cut setting. The video looks good in iMovie and I edited it etc. but then when I exported the project the video portion was black. Is there any way to fix this?

turns out i used expert settings/animation and changing it to expert settings Apple intermediate codec seems to be working now--do i get credit for solving my own problem?

Poor video Quality when exporting to DVD

I cant seem to get a clear video. I am downloading from DV from a canon and the quality is sentational.
When on the time line averything is brilliant. When rendereing everything is still ok.
When exporting to DVD it goes pear shaped. I have tried dozens of different variations with the same results.
I am in AUstralia and am using PAL.
I get motion blur and what appears to be very poor quality result after exporting.
Help... I dont have much hair left.
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@Harm,
"Pear-shaped" (or sometimes "fruit-shaped") is a euphemism meaning that the effort has gone awry; it was a mess.
@John,
Export to DVD is a PPro 2.0 function; in CS3 it is now Export to Encore. Is that what you meant?
First thing is to check the field orders of your source material and of your export settings. Don't invert them, and don't deinterlace interlaced footage.
Perhaps a short list of the settings you have tried (and why you chose those settings) would help us help you.
-Jeff

Vusing fcpx 10.0.9 and i'm trying to export it to dvd. Its been 4 days already and its only at 57%. Why is it taking this long to export it?

using fcpx 10.0.9 and i'm trying to export it to dvd. Its been 4 days already and its only at 57%. Why is it taking this long to export it?

using fcpx 10.0.9 and i'm trying to export it to dvd. Its been 4 days already and its only at 57%. Why is it taking this long to export it?

Export clips of a longer video

I imagine this is a very simple task with a simple solution but I cannot seem to find it ...
All I wish to do is take a large video (50 minutes long) and export small clips of this large video into separate files. I have split the clips how I would like to see them in the project library, but when I got to export It wants to export all the clips as one video file, and I can't find any other options.
How can I just export a segment of the video?
Thanks

There are two ways to do this, depending on where you start.
1. Make separate projects. Drag the short clips you want from in event into a new project.
2. If your clips are already in a 50 minute project, go to the Project Library view. Right click on the Project name and select "Duplicate". Repeat as many times as you need. You can give these duplicates new names if you want. Then delete the portions you don't need, so that only the clips you want remain.

Exporting one section within a long video clip

Hi. I would like to work with a 2 minute section from a long video clip. One way to do it would be to import just that section into iMovie from the camcorder. But is there any way to accomplish this with a clip that has already been imported? In other words, can I take a section of a clip in iMovie and save it as a separate clip (or sub clip) that could then be edited, copied, exported or whatever? I am using iMovie 3.
Thanks.

Hi Howard
Yes there is some ways.
I would cut up the clip to get the required part.
Export this as DVstream via QuickTime expert mode - start a new iMovie project and import.
OR rather beeing lazy. I would export out neede part to my Camera and a new tape.
Use this tape in a new project
Yours Bengt W

HT203477 Why do long exports "garble" at 05:57:56? Video exports fine otherwise. FCP 10.1.1 New Mac Pro

I believe I started having this issue at 10.1.0 I hoped upgrading would help.
I have routinely exported 11 hour long videos from FCP in the past.
New Mac Pro cylinder currently, but issue also happened on my MBP prior.
So, new install on new computer, same problem. I've dittched preferences. I used the repair feature in Digital Rebellion App.
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Thanks Louis, those options could have worked to get a file out, but the software is not optimized for use with the new Mac Pro fully loaded that I'm using. I've just posted that I was able to finally export from FCPX directly using the "Export File" option.
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If I load a homemade DVD onto my iMac using Disk Utility and then import either the entire disc or portions of the disc into iMovie, that works just fine. However I noticed that some clips are missing in iMovie, even though they are on the iMac in form of a .dmg file on the desktop. The same file that was used to import in to iMovie. If I look at this file using DVD player, everything is there, but some of these clips are missing in the event window. So I created a video clip in DVD player of those pieces missing in iMovie and now how can I get these into iMovie?

Hey, best way to import video from a DVD video disc for editing is to acctually have a simple video file. Use Handbrake or MPEG StreamClip to read the disc and create a video file off the video stream.
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Premier Pro CC and Media Encoder crashing on long file export.

Please forgive the length of this inquiry. But it is complicated and has a lot of variables.
I have an hour long mixed format timeline both Red 3K footage and Black Magic ProRes 1080P footage that I want to make a DVD from and it takes forever and crashes half way through. I have tried doing it every way possible and the only way I was able to get even a partial export was using the "MPEG 2 DVD" export option in Premier CC. It goes fast at first telling me it will take about 2 hours but even though it starts quickly doing about 15 fps it slows down to less than 1 fps and finally just stops and crashes my Cuda Core enabled Macbook Pro Laptop.
I really don't know who to ask about this since there are so many different variables. I never had a problem like this on my MBP with PP6 on a 4K timeline exporting to DVD or Blue Ray or to H-264 or Even Prores. But I wasn't mixing formats either. But on this project the first 20-30 minutes of footage goes through fine in a couple of hours but something seems to be bogging down the system on longer projects. My work around was to break the project up into multiple exports and combining them on the DVD timeline but I can't do this on every project. I thought maybe it was a corrupted clip somewhere in the timeline but when I broke the timeline up into several parts I had no problems.
I did notice a dramatic variance in the time it took to export footage based on the sequence settings. A one minute timeline comprised Red 3K footage and ProRes 1080P footage Here are some sample export results:
From a Red raw 3K timeline 2880x1620 with 1080P Prores footage upscaled 150%)
to .m2v Mpeg 2 720x480 format    1:48 Minutes ***
to .mov Prores 422HQ 1080P                         22 Minutes
to .mov H.264 1080P                    22 Minutes
to .m2v Mpeg 2 1080P                                                22 Minutes
From a 1080P timeline Prores footage at 100% (Red footage downscaled to 67%)
to .m2v Mpeg 2 720x480 format                         13 Minutes
to .mov Prores 422HQ 1080P                             13 Minutes
to .mov H.264 1080P                                                             14 Minutes
to .m2v Mpeg 2 1080P                                                            14 Minutes
Since I am going to DVD, I chose the fastest option Red to m2v Mpeg 2 720x480 format which only took 1:48 per minute. Why? I have no idea. Maybe someone here knows the answer. But again these numbers are for a ONE MINUTE clip when I tried to convert the whole hour timeline to the 720x480.m2v DVD File the Red timeline froze my computer after several hours even though I had set sleep mode to “Never” and turned the display off manually and I had to convert it in multiple chunks. In 20-30 minute chunks it did go fast about 1:48 per minute like the test indicated. But I would like to be able to convert the whole hour and not to have to try to stitch the clips together in my DVD authoring program.
I don’t want to have to avoid using multiple formats on the same timeline or waste time transcoding everything to the same format.
Can anyone give me any suggestions as to why the computer is crashing or bogging down in long exports and what timeline settings I should be using?
I have plenty of room on my Scratch Disk and 8 Gig of RAM and according to my Activity Monitor during the export process have about 800 Meg of System Memory during export but the CPU Usage is 98% and in my Activity Monitor I see under “Process Name” ImporterRedServer flashing up at the top of the list about every second during export.
Why .720x480 mpeg DVD setting is so much faster than all the other export codecs?
And if there are any other settings I can use to get higher speed exports in HD? 14x1 seems a little slow especially since every time it crashes I have to start over.

Hi,
Since a long time I did not encounter the crash of Media encoder with
long file export.
But I take care of a lot of details before the export :
- clean up Media cache and Media Cache Files within PP CS6 and/or CC,
- delete all render files with Preview Files,
- rendering of sequences until the rendering is completed,
- PP CS6 and/or Pp CC opened during export to AME and/or Encore CS6,
I guessed to leave Adobe but this company remains the last with a
serious authoring software (Encore CS 6).
I tested :
- Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro X, both are very good software but
no really authoring software for these video editing softs.
Th only way is to "flood" Adobe with "bug reports" and "wish forms"
which are not very easy to use.
And also to call the Adobe support day by day until they send they
escalate the bug.
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Distorted video in finished dvd.

Hello, this is my first dvd I created.
From premiere I exported a 3min long avi video.
Aspesct Ratio: 720x576
Pixel aspect ratio 1,422.
Copressor: Indeo Video 5.10.
Interlace: Lower Field First
In Encore DVD I imported the video as an asset, menu is set to PAL 16:9. All works fine in preview view. But when I play the finished DVD the video looks like the picture in the link below, the menu works fine. But when I try to play the transcoded video in Encore Preview after I completed the burning. I got an error message "abnormal condition". And after that I am not able to import the 3min avi file, I got the error message: Error loading transcode preset.
You can see the snapshot here:
http://forum.videohelp.com/images/guides/p1506704/snapshot20060423165953.bmp
What is happening?

Martin,
Did you try exporting as DV AVI yet? (Also see:
Video in finished DVD is really distorted
in the PPro forum.)

Poor DVD Quality when exporting to DVD

I have an HD timeline with XDCam footage 1080i. I have been trying to export to DVD and everytime I export I get poor quality video. The image shows distortion and pixelation. My client is not very happy with the final product and I'm just running out of asnwers. I have tried exporting using Dynamic Link, Media Encoder and I get exactly the same result. I have tried exporting the first 15 min with same results. Jagged edges, etc.
I just upgraded to CS5 from CS4 hoping to resolve the problem and I get the same result. I only have the problem while exporting to DVD in MPEG format. Blu-Ray format works great.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi Ann
    Here are the specs of my PC.
     Dell Workstation T7500
     12Gb RAM
     Quad Core Xeon E5520 2.27 CPUs
     Vista 64Bit OS
     Terrabytes and Terrabytes of RAID storage. Too many to mention.
I can edit HD content in real time and works great the only issue I'm having at this point is just Encoding HD to SD. The encoding is normally done fairly fast, except for HD wich takes almost a whole day to encode when delivered in HD. Right now is taking longer because I'm trying to go from interlaced to progressive I guess.
Question regarding your settings.
My settings are different than yours on:
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     Field Order = Lower (Could this be the problem?)
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