4 Replies Latest reply: Mar 10, 2011 6:52 AM by nados RSS

    Keeping project lean & mean ='s more room for higher bitrate & quality.

    nados Community Member

      Hi all,

       

      I was trying various settings in both PR and Encore to increase the quality of my blu-ray project.  Because i changed things in Premiere and Encore, i had to make sure i re-transcoded the imported Premiere sequence.

       

      At one point i tried setting the bitrate to 40 and the transcode preset to Maximum which resulted in 46gb being used up, requiring a 50gb dual-layer disc. Well, at around $17 for a DB-R and $27 for a DB-RW, i was not too happy about it.

       

      Anyway, when i clicked on the build button, Encore told me a had problems with some timelines.  To my surprise, Encore had somehow automatically added duplicate timelines for each imported Premiere sequence although i had already manually created timelines for each imported sequence.  This effectively doubled the space used for the project without me noticing it. Once i removed the extranious timelines, my 46gb project was now a 23gb project and the quality is much better.

       

      So, the moral of this story is to take a good hard look at your project to make sure your not duplicating or including anything resulting in unnecessarily wasting space and therefore inadvertently lowering your bitrate and overall quality of your project.

       

      Just a lesson learned...