• How long is your project?
• Are you trying to burn to a dual-layer or single-layer DVD?

Cheers,
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Neale
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Kiwi Jammer wrote:

 

Selected AV project settings

• Exactly which project setting is that you are using?
• When you added your clips to the timeline did they show red lines above them?

Kiwi Jammer wrote:

 

My immediate question is shouldn't I be able to select the quality between "Most video" and "Best quality" options,

Not in this case - that your project is only thirty minutes means that PRE does not have to compromise on quality versus quantity.

If you were to duplicate your existing thirty minutes clips four or five times at the end of the timeline (e.g creating a project duration of around three hours) then you will be able to move the slider between Most Video and Best Quality.

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Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

When you added the video clips to your timeline none of them should have had red-lines above - that indicates that you were using the correct Project Setting. As you edit your clips a redline will show above the clip. This indicates that you have made a change that will affect the final output. It is not a required activity but you can, if you wish, press the Enter key to render a preview for those items. When that is done the line will turn green.

Note though that you do NOT have to render the timeline just because there are red lines - it only affects the previews in PRE, not the output to DVD. This is because PRE always does a complete render during the Share process.

NOW ... If some of those clips showed a red line when you first added them, they do not match the Project Setting. This is unlikely to be your problem as the clips came form the same camera. Is this correct?

Have you added clips from other sources or still images to your timeline?

Cheers,
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Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

Kimi Jammer

If you have not yet found the answer to your Immediate question that you have described previously in this thread, please consider....

For the answer to your question about the "Missing Burn Dialog Quality Info", please go to Premiere Elements Workspace Window Menu/Restore Workspace. I have been there and done that and written about that (with screenshots).

"Premiere Elements 10 Burn Dialog Quality Info Gone"

http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72039

As for not using "Fit Content to Available Space" so that you can set the Burn Dialog Bitrate higher...consider "don't". The maximum Bitrate setting is 8.00 Mbps (megabits per second). With "Fit Content to Available Space" the program is automaticaly assigned to fit content to space and will lower the Bitrate down from 8.00 when necessary to make that fit. If you uncheck the " Fit Content to Available Space" so that you can use the Quality Slider to raise the Bitrate which has been lowered by the program, you are more than likely going to get a Data Rate Error Message. It is my experience, that "Fit Content to Available Space" UNCHECKED has its merits when you get a Data Rate Error Message and need to lower the Bitrate to get rid of that error.

As a matter of curiosity, when you have your DVD in the burner tray and Premiere Elements is at the Burn Dialog with "Fit Content to Available Space" with check mark, what does the Quality Area show for Space Required and Bitrate for the project involved in this thread? And, just an aside, the Premiere Elements burn process itself does not work with a fixed Bitrate. It works off a variable Bitrate which you can see in a properties read out for the end product using a program such MediaInfo.

ATR