What are the best settings when out putting to dvd?

[g0ldenb0y55]

I would like to know the best setting for a high quality DVD in premier. I am a new user and would like some help from the pro's. Any feed back is appreciated.


Thanks,
g0ledenb0y55

[kecorcoran]

Please provide a little more detail. Are you trying to burn a 24p DVD?

If so, here's some advice I gave previously.

File->Export->Adobe Media Encoder
MPEG2-DVD
23.976 progressive
2 pass vbr
Rate (your choice, but probably between 4 - 7 max)
GOP settings 3/12

[g0ldenb0y55]

Yes, I want to burn a 24p DVD and also a standard mode 60i DVD.

Thanks for your reply,

g0ldenb0y55

[g0ldenb0y55]

Sorry for being ignorent. What does GOP mean?

[Daygola814]

Group of Pictures if I'm not mistaken. What does that setting do and why change it from 15 (default) to 12?
-Paul DV

[kecorcoran]

Yes, a GOP is a group of pictures that are decoded together. You'll find three types of pictures in a GOP -- I, B, and P pictures.

"I" Pictures are the first picture in the GOP. They have all the data you need to decode and display the picture.

"P" pictures are "predicted." There's not really an entire picture there. Some of the data refer to pictures that have already been decoded. (The data might be left out, in which case data from the previous picture are repeated. Or there may be a "motion vector" to repeat data that were in the previous picture but which moved.)

"B" pcitres are "bidirectional." They can refer to data in other pictures both forwards and backwards.

Usually you have an "I" picture, two "B" pictures, and a "P" picture, so the structure of the GOP would look like:

IBBPBBPBBPBB

Why not include all "I" pictures and forget the more complicated B and P Pictures? Your data rate would be a lot higher, then.


why change it from 15 (default) to 12?
-Paul DV
In DVD, by convention, the GOP is 0.5 seconds long. 15-frame GOPs would be appropriate for a half second of 29.97 fps video. But a half second of 24p video would be 12 frames.

It's
IBBPBBPBBPBB
instead of:
IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB

[g0ldenb0y55]

Thanks for all the great information kecorcoran. I will put to good use.