Premiere elements 11 dvd production

Premiere Elements 11 When I burn a video to a dvd, the picture comes out small. I have used Premiere elements 4 and never had this problem.

squaredance
I did some homework on your camera and its video. If you are working with video and not stills from that camera, you are dealing with video 640 x 480 with ?probably MPEG-4 ASP video compression/container?
As a first pass on this I would
1. Open a new project and set the project preset for
NTSC
FLIP
Flip Mino and Ultra 30p
To do that, open a new project. Go to File Menu/New/Project and set the project preset as mentioned.
Before exiting the final dialog there, make sure to have a check mark next to "Force Seletect Project Setting on This Project".
Then, when you are back in the Premiere Elements 11 Expert workspace, import your video with Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag the video into the Timeline Video 1 Track.
2. Does your video fill the monitor in the Edit area? Do you have no colored line over the content on the Timeline?
3. When you go to burn to disc
Publish+Share
Disc
DVD
disc with preset = NTSC_Dolby DVD
4. What does that look like when played back on the DVD player attached to your TV?
If you have used Premiere Elements 4 before, two areas of confusion might be
a. selecting the correct project preset
b. setting the correct project preset
Please review and then let us know if that worked for you.
SG had already asked the important questions to get at this type of suggestion. But your reply needed to be supplemented to get at the details that would help us to help you.
The above should work for you. SG might have yet another solution for you.
ATR

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I would address the OS problems first. When things start going wonky in the OS, there can be a ripple effect, where portions of programs stop functioning, at least as they should. Before you go after those "ripples," try to solve what might be causing them.
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Get the OS issues straightened out first, then take a look at the provided links, in case PE still has problems with the DVD.
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Premiere Elements 11: DVD Burn horrible quality.

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It involves video shot with some high resolution images inserted in the bottom corners.
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DaVeachi
Problems with the same symptoms can (often do) have different causes. The answers are in the details.
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A just in case note at the onset....DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc has a frame size of 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL) whether
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What are the properties of the source media on that Timeline - video and audio compression, frame size, frame rate, interlaced
or progressive, file extension, pixel aspect ratio?
What is the project's project preset that you or the project is setting? See Edit Menu/Project Settings/General Editing Mode, Timebase,
Frame Size. The program does not always give the "right" setting and defaults to 1080i which may not be a good match for your source.
Then you set the project preset yourself and then import the source.
If interlaced video source, field order may enter into the equation since DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc is characterized by interlaced video, lower field first.
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yeldar76
I read your latest post and saw your comment that you now suspect the burner to be at the core of your issue. If so, have you tried the routine of burn to Folder (4.7 GB) instead of the burn to disc? That should take the burner out of the equation and help to pin point the issue. You would then take only the VIDEO_TS from the burn to folder and use a free program such as ImgBurn to take the VIDEO_TS to a DVD-R disc in the correct disc file system.
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Jessie
Great news with your troubleshooting. Great job.
Let us now look at what you wrote
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from the point of view of
a. how you created the menu template
and
b. where you placed it
Creation of the menus...
a. What did you put in the theme folder...just the main menu .psd file and scene menu.psd file or more? What were the exact names that you gave the main menu .psd file and scene menu .psd file? What program did you use to create your menus? We will get to the Layer Set structure in the Layers Palette of the .psd file(s) next if necessary.
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Local Disk C
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Adobe Premiere Elements 12
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and, in the Common Folder, create a new folder named My Specials. In the My Specials Folder create a new folder named My XXX Theme. Inside the XXX Theme Folder goes the XXX .psd files and other theme assets.
In Windows, the menu theme (Slideshow/Pan and Zoom) that comes with the program is found in the above location. The menus that require Content download are in the Windows Program Data path that leads to the Online Folder. I do not want you to use that latter path counterpart in your Mac.
But let me ask this basic questions...
a. After you have placed the menu that you created in the computer, when you open Premiere Elements 12, do you see that menu in Movie Menu Display of menu choices
b. If so, can you click on its choice, hit Continue, and have the theme appear in the Movie Menu customization area of the opened project
c. If so, can you Preview the customized or uncustomized menu there and does it look good.
d. When all is done, how many main menu pages and how many scene selection pages do you have?
Let us start here, review the above, and then decide what next.
Thank you.
ATR
Add On...Additional focus may be computer resources, placement of Timeline markers, and spacing between Timeline markers, as well as fine details of Layer Sets in the Layers Palette of the .psd file, whatever else you may be placing in the Theme Folder of the menu that you made yourself.

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ATR

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To shortly summerize my problem:
When I try to burn a DVD premere elements is not really working like it should imho:
At 98% it first gave an error that there were no plugin DLL's. Disk was ejected but useless.
Second and third go it gave an error at 98% indicating that the writespeed was incorrect. Error message was wider then the container showing the message.
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Other ISO Image opportunities (for DVD and AVCHD) in Premiere Elements 13 have not yet been brought into the matter.
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Sminty
If you mean subtitles that the viewer can turn on or off at playback of the Premiere Elements disc product, the answer is No.
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Any questions or need clarification, please ask.
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ATR

All but 1 theme per group disappeared after Premiere Elements 4.0 crashed on start of burn to DVD

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What would have removed or hid the themes? I would have also expected all or none of the themes, rather than leaving just one per group. I was using a template in the "General" group, but the one that remained after the crash is not the one I had assigned to my project.
Does a reinstall restore the templates? If so, can I reinstall PE 4.0 from my CD without erasing, distroying, or losing the current projects I have created?
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Hunt,
Before diving into the details of the items in the article, I did a few of the basic things:
stopped my anti-virus product (doh!)
stopped the temperature monitor software (doh!)
did a quick disk cleanup
turned off all trivial stuff in msconfig
I rebooted the system and started Premiere Elements. I had not attempted to reload the templates at that point, so I proceeded to "Burn to DVD". I selected the minimal quality and started the burn. That worked! Next I exited PE and restarted it and then was able to successfully "Burn to DVD" using the max setting for quality. As expected, it took a while to finish, but it also completed successfully! The resulting DVD looks and sounds great, so the rendering and burn phases seem to be working fine on my hardware.
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I thought that PE3 was working great until I got ready to write my production to DVD.
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Mike
Many considerations in your present situation, but for now I will leave you with a link to the free 30 day Premiere Elements 8.0 tryout from Adobe.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=premiere_elements&loc=en_us
Top of the list for getting started on the right foot with version 8.0
a. Download and install the Premiere Elements 8.0.1 Update (Patch)
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c. Turn of the AutoAnalyzer Feature (See Elements Organizer workspace Edit Menu/Preferences/AutoAnalyzer Options)
There are users out there successfully using Premiere Elements 8.0.1.
I do not work for Adobe nor have any affliation with them. I will take another look at your Premiere Elements 3.0.2 issue and see if I can come up with any worthwhile suggestions.
ATR
Add On....If you can burn to folder successfully, take just the VIDEO_TS Folder from the saved folder and burn that to a DVD disc using a program such as Nero (Burn Video Files category, not Make Data Disc) or the free program IMGBurn (strange program but effective for the purpose) using the Write files/folders to disc category. In either case, the VIDEO_TS will be burn to the DVD disc with the right file system for DVD-VIDEO on a DVD disc.

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Everything goes fine apart from the fact that, when I add the button (within the wizard) it becomes part of the background.
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Even though this function is in PS Elements 4, I suggest that you look in the Premiere Elements forum where you might find an existing thread on this topic. If not, ask your question there because the primary audience for this function is people who have both products.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bb574e6
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