I'm fairly new to the forums and to Premiere Pro. I've captured a short film on my DVX100B into Premiere Pro 2. I've done some color correcting and brightness/contrast on the footage, edited it together, and now I'm ready to export. Here's my question: How should I export the footage if I want very high quality with little regard to speed or file size? I want to export the footage to burn to DVD. I've tried to Adobe Media Encoder, exporting using Microsoft DV AVI, other codecs, exporting directly to a DVD folder, and all the footage winds up looking blurry and fairly dark. Any help would be appreciated.
Exporting quality footage
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khmuse
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If your DVD doesn't look fairly close to what you are seeing on your monitor, then you may have a monitor calibration problem. Try making a DVD that just contains color bars and see if it matches the look of your reference monitor when played on a decent television. If it does not, then you have to dig in and investigate the root cause.
khmuse
Tech Guru
If you wish to make a DVD, then it needs to be MPEG encoded.
Do you have any other tools besides Premiere (perhaps Encore)? With a static image (like color bars) data rate won't be much of an issue, so just go ahead and use one of the presets for encoding. Look for well a defined transition between each of the bars (there shouldn’t be much, if any blur).
I am assuming that commercial DVDs look acceptable on the DVD player / TV combination that you are using to judge your disc.
Do you have any other tools besides Premiere (perhaps Encore)? With a static image (like color bars) data rate won't be much of an issue, so just go ahead and use one of the presets for encoding. Look for well a defined transition between each of the bars (there shouldn’t be much, if any blur).
I am assuming that commercial DVDs look acceptable on the DVD player / TV combination that you are using to judge your disc.
You should be able to export mpeg2 assets from PPro using Adobe Media Encoder and author to DVD (with Encore if you want) that are nearly indistinguishable from your timeline playback. Luminance issues, as khmuse suggests, are most likely a monitor calibration problem.