Outputting to DVD - Best Format?

I am new to Premier Pro and have a Canon Vixia HF-R50. My footage was filmed at 60P (AVCHD) and I want to output to DVD (non-Blue ray). What is the best format for this?
Fantastic forum here, btw

As long as you export a compatible file from Premiere Pro (MPEG2-DVD works) you may continue to use Encore CS6 as long as you have a computer and operating system that will run the program
Since it currently appears Adobe is not going to spend the time/money to build an Encore replacement "from scratch" you will have to look elsewhere
I do NOT use these, so have NO idea if they will do what you need
Encore alternative http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/dvdastudio
-or http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/dvdarchitectpro
-or http://www.deskshare.com/dvd-authoring-burning-software.aspx
-or http://www.videostudiopro.com/en/ replace PPro and Encore
PS - it was NOT Adobe's decision - see #8 here for why http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1337952?tstart=0

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#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:
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1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.
2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.
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4. Now, select the green one, right click on it amd select the top option "first play".
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THATS ALL!!!
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coyotegyrl333 wrote:
For some reason, I've always found this to work:
render your project and make sure you have only one
video track in the timeline. Drag existing sequences into
a new one so that you accomplish this. Render.
Restart the computer.
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good luck to you.
The advice is more or less sound but you have several unnecessary steps. Your idea is to consolidate all of the FCP timelines and their associated media into a single timeline; you are nesting the project.
Forcing everything to render is good.
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But there is no reason to restart your computer.
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Hi.
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You could also export your iMovie Projects to "full quality" QuickTime files (.dv) and then edit them using QuickTime Pro.
Cons: Lots more hard drive storage is required.
Pros: Fast, easy to edit files that could be put into a single file (or multiple files if needed). No more editing in iMovie required and these source .dv files could then be deleted once your "final" file is created.
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The movie is 90 minutes.
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Hi All,
working in animation project to be broadcasted on a TV channel as HD1080 50i,
1- all the animation layers was rendered from TOONBOOM as .SWF to keep it in vector for compositing issue.
Dose SWF lose any quality? we always use TGA sequence with alpha in our past SD projects but now we found SWF is a smaller file size and allows zooming Because it keeps all vector lines.
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Thanks Rick for your reply,
Regarding the SWF i moved to flash pro forums and they are supporting me now,
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here is a good start for you...
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/kolbtim/demystifyinghdv.php
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http://blogs.adobe.com/adobecustomersuccess/2011/05/14/help-support-pages-for-creative-sui te-applications/
Also, The tutorial list in message #3 http://forums.adobe.com/message/2276578 may help

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We have a client that brought us AVCHD MTS files to be edited. We did some adjustments (audio, color, brightness) and some basic editing to them, but they now plan to send them to another company for final editing and DVD authoring. What is the best format I should send them in to keep from losing any quality, but still keeping the file sizes managable?
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Harm Millaard wrote:
is not possible. It is about minimizing quality loss. Uncompressed, Lagarith or UT are your best options, but they will all increase file size.
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Normally, you would add the contents of each Layer's folder to the ROOT of the DVD-ROM, not in a "Layer x" folder.
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http://www.gearsoftware.com
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Gday folks,
Im having some dramas with burning to a DVDRW.
growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -r -J /home/fukawi1/asdf
Works fine with a DVDR, or virgin DVDRW.
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* BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <[email protected]>, version 7.1.
* 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected.
* blanking 99.8%
This never actually reaches 100%, sometimes stops at 20-30%, often 98-99.9%, and then growisofs gives me:
:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=5h/ILLEGAL MODE FOR THIS TRACK]: Input/output error
:-( attempt to re-run with -dvd-compat -dvd-compat to engage DAO or apply full blanking procedure
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fukawi1
Last edited by fukawi1 (2009-04-04 05:36:50)

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Thanks for all the advice. And I mean everyone.
Here is my latest dilemma.
Though 15 years old, the original Vhs's play beautifully. Aside from some (expected) glitches in the beginning or end of some of the shots, the video has not degraded appreciably. This is great news, as my cousin wanted to make back ups before degradation begins.
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The Vhs tapes of my cousins daughter are as precious to him as anything he has.
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