Premiere Project settings

[dasher]

Hi All

I am having a hell of a time getting quality DVD results. Grainy, jerky, ghosting, etc.

Can anyone spell out the best project seting with my system. General, Video and Capture.

There are so many options that I am confused and I have spent hours trying various combinations without a satisfactory result.

TIA

Des

[gt40]

I have not had any problems what so ever with the default settings.
I'm not at work right now, but I will check later monday for actual settings.
I am using rtx10, premiere 6.5, asus p4te 2.4ghz 512mb rdram,sony dru-500, parhelia, dvd-it le.

Is it possible it's the player?

[dasher]

Not the player, same result different players and PC.

It may be that the issue is Prem's MPEG Encoder. The produced MPEG File is crappy and exported to AVI is good. Both taken to DVDWS are not good.

That is why I asked for the best settings in Project settings. Thinking my problem is there.

Got me beaten!

Des

[gt40]

I am using the Matrox media export -
select Ligos MPEG,
select mpeg-2 dvd ntsc under profile library
under exprt settings:
mpeg streamn - DVD -mpeg2
profile and level - Main proile@ Main level
Motion estimation -18
audio settings - 48000/16bit
file genration - (I have used video and audio in one file/ and video in m2v, audio in wav - with equal success)
video frame size 720x480/frame rate 29.97/aspect 4:3
GOP length 15 subgroup length 3
put sequence header before every GOP
maximun motion vectors - p frame 32x 32y, b frame 16x 16y
bit rates -audio compress at 384
video bit rate - variable, maximum 7031. Constant quantization scale 3 average bit rate

I have not used the adobe mpeg export, as it seemed very slow.

[dasher]

Thanks very much for the info. I have not used this which you describe. Will give it a try. At the reisk of being a pain, are you able to advise on capture settings.

Thanks

Des

[gt40]

sure, you'll have to wait again till I get to my video editing rig at work tommorow, but they are basically the default settings.

[gt40]

If you want to check specific settings, let me know.
here is a s.s. of my capture settings ( these are unchanged from the default matrox settings)

[dasher]

Thanks for all your help. I have run a test on the settings and I am still getting jagged edges in the final DVD production.

I will keep plugging away at it for a solution.

Des

[gt40]

jagged edges seems like a field order/deinterlace problem.
Dr. Mordrid, Elie (both using rt hardware), Hulk or Brian Ellis should be able to advise on this issue.