15 Replies Latest reply: Jun 7, 2012 9:00 AM by John T Smith RSS

    Authoring a DVD with HD footage

    dedekind7 Community Member

      Hi all,

       

      I have the following situation. My footage is in HD (from a DSLR camera), edited the project in Premiere Pro, and now I want to create a DVD with it, adding a simple menu. I used Dynamic Link to send it to Encore, created the menu, etc. I should add that Premiere Pro is CS5.5 and Encore is CS5.1

       

      When Encore first started, I choose the DVD Authoring Mode in the presets, since I want to author a DVD and not a Blu-Ray. I understand that the videos will be downsampled to SD for DVD, but that's not my problem. My problem is the Fields definition. If I encode my project with Encore, I cannot choose to have Upper Field First, which is what I need, and hence the final output looks all interlaced.

       

      Is there a way around this? I'm guessing there's not such a direct way because I read that this is incorporated as a new feature on Encore CS6, but I'm not upgrading just yet, so I wanted to know if there is at least an indirect way around this using Dynamic Link. I wonder also if it's better to avoid Dynamic Link, encode the project in Premiere Pro, where I have much more control over the settings, and then use the resulting video as a timeline in a new Encore project. In my particular situation this is not so terrible because the Premiere Pro project is certainly final and won't have any changes, and also it's short, but anyway, I'm wondering if there's a less time-consuming way.

       

      Thanks!