I created a movie in Premiere Pro and finished it as a DVD using Encore CS6. The movie file exported from Pr is beautiful and clear but when I import it into Encore and built a DVD the quality is gone. I am very new to all of this so please bear with my detailed descriptions.
Here are the specifics: My movie is 110 minutes in length and upon export it was estimated to be "8126 MB".
Export settings are as follows
Format: H.264
Preset: Custom
-Match Source - High Bitrate
- Video: 1920x1080 29.97 fps Progressive
- Audio: Dolby Digital
- Captions: Create Sidecar file .scc
The video file ended up being 7.47 GB when finished and played beautifully clear.
Then, when I imported both the video and audio files into Encore and even with added menus with motion the size is more than halved.
I open up the Build panel and it estimates my project size as 3.85
I tried going in to the project settings area but didn't have many options. The ones I played around with didn't affect the file size either.
Could you please help me know what I'm doing wrong?