Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Exporting to DVD from Premiere pro- image quality is nowhere near 4k

B

Benjamin May

Member
Joined
Oct 31, 2011
Messages
17
Reaction score
0
Points
0
The file size is 336kb when I copy it to the DVD folder.

How do I export the 4K resolution to a DVD? I exported it as as an MPEG - 2 video. After exporting, the .m2v file I want to copy into the DVD is over 300mb- when I copy it to the dvd it is 336kb- thoughts?

Thanks,
 
One million questions here as to what you are trying to do and how you are doing, but the first question has to be:

Are you attempting to copy 4k content to a DVD? Or are you attempting to burn a playable DVD?

If the latter, keep in mind that DVD only playback in standard definition and will never playback 4k. Same for Blu-ray at the moment as 1080p is the max you can playback on that format currently.

If you are just trying to create a 4k video file to be played back on a computer at a later time I would suggest H.264 and pay close attention to your export and project resolution in the process.
 
You are very kind, Phil. ;-)
 
thanks Phil.

It is an 8 minute video I edited that I wish to burn to a playable DVD. I believe I did all of the preliminary steps correctly (importing red files, etc).

I would like to burn the highest quality (1080p i guess) to the DVD, which I don't think I am doing correctly.

export-> media
MPEG- 2 format'
max render quality
file size is about 500mb
I then hit export.
After that I find the file, copy it into the DVD, and it is about 350kb.
 
Benjamin May said:
thanks Phil.

It is an 8 minute video I edited that I wish to burn to a playable DVD. I believe I did all of the preliminary steps correctly (importing red files, etc).

I would like to burn the highest quality (1080p i guess) to the DVD, which I don't think I am doing correctly.

export-> media
MPEG- 2 format'
max render quality
file size is about 500mb
I then hit export.
After that I find the file, copy it into the DVD, and it is about 350kb.
Click to expand...

As Phil said, DVDs are standard def (720x480). The only way to burn a 1080p DVD is to burn a blu-ray. You can create an AVCHD through Compressor, which will make a pseudo-bluray for you, and that will be 1080.

Also, you may want to freshen up on how to properly author a DVD using Encore or DVD Studio Pro. Sounds like you're just dragging the video onto the disc, and that will never work.
 
Benjamin, you will never be able to playback a DVD at 1080 as it doesn't support it. This is why blu-ray was invented actually.

The maximum resolution you can ever hope to have on a DVD is: 720x480 (or 720x576 if you are a UK kinda guy).

Here is a lot of information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

Sadly, even the best compressed DVD will never show the true quality or advantages of 4k.
 
Not to hijack the thread - but I've wondered if it's possible to burn 1080p material to a DVD (short-form, obviously) in codec/file structure required by blu-ray players...I used to do this all of the time with CD-Rs for DVD video when I was in school. Anyone know about this?
 
Thank you for chiming in so quickly.

Obviously I had no idea what I was doing- but at least I know that now!

Ben
 
Kevin Marshall said:
Not to hijack the thread - but I've wondered if it's possible to burn 1080p material to a DVD (short-form, obviously) in codec/file structure required by blu-ray players...I used to do this all of the time with CD-Rs for DVD video when I was in school. Anyone know about this?
Click to expand...

That's what I was just talking about. Google AVCHD-DVDs and Compressor. You can burn Blu-rays on a normal DVD assuming it's a short project. I think you can fit like 30 minutes...
 
Jonathan Stevenson said:
That's what I was just talking about. Google AVCHD-DVDs and Compressor. You can burn Blu-rays on a normal DVD assuming it's a short project. I think you can fit like 30 minutes...
Click to expand...

Awesome, thanks! I'll check it out - got a couple 10-15 minute things I'd like to not have to buy a blu-ray burner for...
 
Kevin Marshall said:
Not to hijack the thread - but I've wondered if it's possible to burn 1080p material to a DVD (short-form, obviously) in codec/file structure required by blu-ray players...I used to do this all of the time with CD-Rs for DVD video when I was in school. Anyone know about this?
Click to expand...

You can use the roxio toast 11 pro for this and for me it works faster and better than compressor. With better I mean I had less issue playing it back on a stand alone bd player. Im not sure you can import your own menus.
 
Kevin Marshall said:
Awesome, thanks! I'll check it out - got a couple 10-15 minute things I'd like to not have to buy a blu-ray burner for...
Click to expand...
Using Roxio I found that DVD media tends to bring the quality down almost to a third of what you think it should burn.
Basically the software sees the media and recodes it to crap.
Stick with BD discs no matter what.
I wouldnt spend $$ on R3d to HD based DVD authoring for anything, not even your kids dance recital :P
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top