One efficiency we relied on, though, was writing the DVD production to a disc image instead of to a real disc. So it took a while to actually accomplish what we planned. And even then, we forgot to do on one screen what we'd done on another. Of course, we didn't realize we had all these settings to finagle until we'd burned a DVD or two. That made it a lot easier to know what each scene was about. All our scenes, remember, were cyan monochromes with titles - and we wanted to keep it that way. And we had to switch from the theme's default animated poster image (which plays the scene in the small preview) to a still. We used the same typeface in the menus as in the movie.Įven then we had to do a little fancy footwork on the layout to fit five or so scenes with a title on a screen. So we finally did have a QuickTime export from iMovie with sufficient quality to import into iDVD with chapter markers on the scenes. Until we found a better DVD player that did manage to upsize the DVD from 480 to 720 without noticeable artifacts. Reviewing the final video on our computer, everything looked fine so it was frustrating to see the production poorly upsized. So our 480 video had to be upsized from 480 to 720 horizontal lines. We had been previewing the final encoding on a 720 HDTV. It took a little while before we realized what the problem was. Our source was 720x480, so that was fine with us, but if you've shot HD video at 1920x1080, you can encode that size and just put it on another disc as a higher resolution version. To create a DVD playable in any DVD player, you encode a 720x480 MPEG-2 movie. We also have to applaud the blog's idea of providing a higher-quality HD digital copy on disc, apart from the DVD. The best clues for managing that process we found in an article titled Achieve Best Results from iMovie to iDVD on the ProGravix blog. Number 7 is set on the First Dance scene. You encode your movie from Premiere as a MOV QuickTime movie, import that into iMovie, create your chapters in iMovie (after enabling Advanced Tools in iMovie's preferences because by default it's off) and then just.Ĭhapter Marker. So the problem became how to get chapter markers at our scene boundaries that iDVD would recognize. When was the last time you bought a commercial DVD that had chapter markers at timed intervals instead of scene boundaries? Ugh. You get to say how often, but it's just an interval. Only they're generated not at scene boundaries but at regular intervals. We hit a hitch switching back to iDVD because it doesn't recognize Premiere Pro CC's chapter marks.īut it will automatically generate its own. How, after all, are we going to get our product out? Just stream it? What about the Director's Cut? What about all the Extras? What about chapter markers? Which, as a major studio, makes us a little nervous. In the era of YouTube video, both Adobe and Apple consider their DVD authoring applications mature. So we stuck with iDVD.īut Encore and iDVD seem to be suffering the same fate. And we had a lovely one for this project (as we show you below). One thing we appreciate about iDVD is the choice of themes. We didn't need that.īesides, we didn't want a bare bones theme for our DVD menu system. We did give Encore a whirl (it's included in our Creative Cloud subscription) but it only took two sessions before it crashed. Give it a name and check the Chapter Marker option. The markers (more than a dozen) we dutifully put into our Premiere Pro CC production were only recognized by Adobe Encore CS6 (there is no CC version of Encore), the Adobe DVD menuing software. Because you only find this out after you've encoded the movie in one format or another (that supports Premiere Pro CC's chapter markers). The other problem is that chapter markers are not, ahem, universally recognized. So any mistake you make isn't immediately apparent and represents serious delays. Slapping clips together, pruning them, syncing audio, tossing in some titles, all that can happen just about as quickly as you can conceive it.īut encoding takes hours. One problem is that encoding can take a very long time. This, naturally, turned out to be the hardest part of the project. ![]() But a DVD with an MPEG-2 movie, a menu system and chapters would play on a computer or a DVD player and add some simple navigation to revisit favorite scenes. It would have been simpler to simply encode for the Web or an iPhone or some other format that only required an MP4, AVI or WMV file.
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