I have heard some people say that assets should be encoded before being brought into encore, others say to use dynamic link. If I am going to go the encode first route, I would do this in Premiere Pro CS5.
If I am taking a 720 X 540 (1.0) 30.0 fps 48000 hz Mpeg 4 asset and want to convert this to dvd what is the best setting in Premiere Pro?
Do I create a sequence which is 720 X 480 (0.9091) 29.97 48000 hz and then when exporting use the following settings:
Format MPEG 2 DVD
Preset Match Source attributes highest quality
Or do I change this to custom settings:
Format: MPEG2
Preset Custom
Change the quality setting to 5
TV Standard NTSC
Frame rate Do I leave it at the default of 29.97 or do I change this to 30?
Pixel Aspect Ratio- Do I leave this at standard 4:3 (0.909) or change this to square pixels (1.0)?
Profile and Main do I leave these at the defaults? Main
Does it make any difference if the ultimate output will be on a 25 GB blu ray disk?
Encore CS5
Premiere Pro CS5
Quad Core 2.4 GHZ
6 GB memory
Windows 7 64 bit
nvidia geforce 8500
700Gb free space on hard drive
Use an MPEG2-DVD preset. DVD is very strict about the specifications of video files. Using a generic MPEG preset allows things to be thrown off spec.