Poor quality DVD from Premiere Pro 1.5

[daveocean]

Have just finished editing my first movie in Premiere Pro 1.5, created an MPEG2 using the Adobe Media Encoder set on 'PAL DV 4x3 High Quality 7Mb CBR 1 Pass' (55 minute movie to fill a DVD) and created the DVD with Encore - the quality of the DVD was comparable to VHS cassette!!!

I then tried exporting the movie as an AVI and used Encore to transcode to the same setting - same result!!!

Can anyone please point me to the best setting to get good quality DVD's please.

[Gwenny The Vegie]

that happened with me on premiere pro... i dont think adobe media encoder is friggin awesome... try to find a reaaalllyyy nice MPEG encoder. Marc, whats the best encoder on the market?

[Marc Peters]

This article http://videosystems.com/mag/video_mp...oder_shootout/ provides a pretty comprehensive comparison of various MPEG2 encoders.

[chris-at-csiro]

Hi, I have been having similar problems with Premier pro and after reading your thread as well as other similar ones I decided to look again at all the settings.
I finally discovered a setting window that I had not seen before and made some changes that solved the problem for me - my DVD video now plays with (fairly) good quality on my TV. Here's what I did:
File/Export/Export To DVD
Choose 'Encoding' on the next dialog.
The top selection box has a large number of choices, such as "PAL DV 4x3 High quality 4Mb VBR 2 pass" etc.
Now I am using widescreen so I needed one of the 16x9 options. However, the default setup had no 'high quality" 16x9 options to choose, only "low quality" ones. But the new thing I hadn't noticed before was the "new..." at the bottom of the choice list.
On selecting this it allowed me to create a new configuration using one of the existing ones as a base. In the next popup, choose "video" on the left and it provides a window with various widgets for changing settings. One of these is a 'quality' slider. I cranked this up to near the top, saved the setup as a new configuration and it did the job! I'll now just reuse this setting when ever I burn.
Hope this works for you.

[chris-at-csiro]

Hi, I have been having similar problems with Premier pro and after reading your thread as well as other similar ones I decided to look again at all the settings.
I finally discovered a setting window that I had not seen before and made some changes that solved the problem for me - my DVD video now plays with (fairly) good quality on my TV. Here's what I did:
File/Export/Export To DVD
Choose 'Encoding' on the next dialog.
The top selection box has a large number of choices, such as "PAL DV 4x3 High quality 4Mb VBR 2 pass" etc.
Now I am using widescreen so I needed one of the 16x9 options. However, the default setup had no 'high quality" 16x9 options to choose, only "low quality" ones. But the new thing I hadn't noticed before was the "new..." at the bottom of the choice list.
On selecting this it allowed me to create a new configuration using one of the existing ones as a base. In the next popup, choose "video" on the left and it provides a window with various widgets for changing settings. One of these is a 'quality' slider. I cranked this up to near the top, saved the setup as a new configuration and it did the job! I'll now just reuse this setting when ever I burn.
Hope this works for you.