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moenzi · 11-01-2004, 10:37 PM

I don't know if anybody can help me but I have a problem with adobe première.
I want to burn my movie I made to a dvd but If i use mpg encoder I get wave file and a m2v file.
I know it's normal to have a wave file and a movie file but the problem is that no burning programs (nero, and stuff) doesn't recognize the m2v file , so I am unable to burn a dvd.
can anybody help me please.
please, please I am desperet.
sorry for the spellings

Mark · 12-01-2004, 07:22 AM

Try changing the extention to .mov and see if it can be read in your media player. I've known Windows to do wierd things to avi and mov files in the past.

To be honest though, I wouldn't use Premiere for DVD authoring. My normal workflow for this is to use Lightwave for modelling/rendering (always to uncompressed TIFFS). Then, move into DFX+ for compositing the individual shots. Then into Premiere for actually building the final animation and adding the soundtrack, exporting to either DV or uncompressed AVI. Finally, for the DVD authoring, I encode the whole lot using Adobe Encore.

Cchristensen · 12-01-2004, 04:34 PM

You will need DVD software that multiplexes the audio and video together or else export it as Mark does, doing the actual DVD conversion in the DVD software. Premiere's built in MPG encoder does a pretty good job so I would stick to that if you end up working with one of the lower-end DVD authoring programs.

Mark - How is Encore? I have used most of Sonic's authoring programs from their high-end Publisher to the low-end DVD-it and they are all so bad that they border on criminal.

Mark · 12-01-2004, 04:50 PM

Encore takes a little getting used to - especially if you're trying to build your own custom menu buttons but is reasonably powerful and, once gotten used to, reasonably easy to use.

My biggest gripe with it is inserting scene index points. Unless there's something obvious I've missed, this is incredibly painful. I keep looking to see if there's some form of import function for this, but not found anything yet...

It's also a little slow when transcoding your video. I recently copied a TV episode to DVD for a friend who missed the original show, and for 40minuted of raw DV (approximately 35GB) my machine took nigh on 12 hours to produce the final DVD (Athlon XP1900+ w/512MB).

Cchristensen · 12-01-2004, 10:48 PM

12 hours for 40 minutes? YIKES! I use a Matrox RT.X100 Extreme and get real time encoding. No way I could switch to that kind of speed. Premiere encodes on my home machine (P4 2.5 1Gb Ram) at about 2:1. Have you tried outputing from Premiere set to fixed bitrate of 8Mb/sec and importing that to encore?

Mark · 13-01-2004, 12:32 AM

No I must admit that I haven't. I've kinda gotten used to just kicking it off last thing at night and waiting to see if the DVD has burned OK the next day - it's amazing what you'll put up with when you get into that kind of groove

Admitedly, most of the time I've simply output to raw DV then transcoded back into Encore using the default settings - always seems to work fine, if slow.

I guess I'll have to have a play with this to see if I can improve it. (I am software encoding btw - not using a dedicated vid card).

11-01-2004, 10:37 PM	#1
moenzi Full Access Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Belgium Posts: 109	adobe premiere I don't know if anybody can help me but I have a problem with adobe première. I want to burn my movie I made to a dvd but If i use mpg encoder I get wave file and a m2v file. I know it's normal to have a wave file and a movie file but the problem is that no burning programs (nero, and stuff) doesn't recognize the m2v file , so I am unable to burn a dvd. can anybody help me please. please, please I am desperet. sorry for the spellings

12-01-2004, 04:50 PM	#4
Mark Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sunbury, UK Posts: 2,339	Encore takes a little getting used to - especially if you're trying to build your own custom menu buttons but is reasonably powerful and, once gotten used to, reasonably easy to use. My biggest gripe with it is inserting scene index points. Unless there's something obvious I've missed, this is incredibly painful. I keep looking to see if there's some form of import function for this, but not found anything yet... It's also a little slow when transcoding your video. I recently copied a TV episode to DVD for a friend who missed the original show, and for 40minuted of raw DV (approximately 35GB) my machine took nigh on 12 hours to produce the final DVD (Athlon XP1900+ w/512MB). Last edited by Mark; 12-01-2004 at 04:52 PM.

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12-01-2004, 07:22 AM	#2
Mark Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sunbury, UK Posts: 2,339	Try changing the extention to .mov and see if it can be read in your media player. I've known Windows to do wierd things to avi and mov files in the past. To be honest though, I wouldn't use Premiere for DVD authoring. My normal workflow for this is to use Lightwave for modelling/rendering (always to uncompressed TIFFS). Then, move into DFX+ for compositing the individual shots. Then into Premiere for actually building the final animation and adding the soundtrack, exporting to either DV or uncompressed AVI. Finally, for the DVD authoring, I encode the whole lot using Adobe Encore.

12-01-2004, 04:34 PM	#3
Cchristensen Full Access Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 250	You will need DVD software that multiplexes the audio and video together or else export it as Mark does, doing the actual DVD conversion in the DVD software. Premiere's built in MPG encoder does a pretty good job so I would stick to that if you end up working with one of the lower-end DVD authoring programs. Mark - How is Encore? I have used most of Sonic's authoring programs from their high-end Publisher to the low-end DVD-it and they are all so bad that they border on criminal.

12-01-2004, 10:48 PM	#5
Cchristensen Full Access Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 250	12 hours for 40 minutes? YIKES! I use a Matrox RT.X100 Extreme and get real time encoding. No way I could switch to that kind of speed. Premiere encodes on my home machine (P4 2.5 1Gb Ram) at about 2:1. Have you tried outputing from Premiere set to fixed bitrate of 8Mb/sec and importing that to encore?

13-01-2004, 12:32 AM	#6
Mark Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sunbury, UK Posts: 2,339	No I must admit that I haven't. I've kinda gotten used to just kicking it off last thing at night and waiting to see if the DVD has burned OK the next day - it's amazing what you'll put up with when you get into that kind of groove Admitedly, most of the time I've simply output to raw DV then transcoded back into Encore using the default settings - always seems to work fine, if slow. I guess I'll have to have a play with this to see if I can improve it. (I am software encoding btw - not using a dedicated vid card).