If your goal is to make a DVD-movie disc that plays in a standard DVD player attached to your TV (like a Netflix movie), then your *only* choice is to burn it as MPEG-2. This is the only format allowed in the DVD-movie specifications. In fact, it's not as simple as copying a file to DVD if your goal is to make a movie disc. Use Premiere's built-in DVD burning capabilities, or use another application to make the DVD movie disc. If you use another application, you should be able to leave your AVI as it is, and that application will take the AVI and convert it for you, so you don't have to do anything else. If you use Premiere, then it handles burning and changing format as well. So really, all you need to do is edit the video and leave it as AVI.
Jeff Schell, Adobe Certified Expert <http://www.jeffschell.com/images/atiny.jpg> Jeff Schell <http://www.jeffschell.com/> www.jeffschell.com . Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) . Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) . On-Site, Classroom Training for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore DVD, Photoshop . Books: <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321397746> Premiere Pro 2 Hands-On-Training . <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321293983> Premiere Pro 1.5 H-O-T . DVDs / Online Tutorials: <http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modListing.asp?pid=60> Premiere Pro 2 Essential Training at Lynda.com _____ 5 minutes of video captured from my digital video camera is a 1+ gig avi file -- what is the best format to render it to before burning to DVD? I'm sure I can get great quality video to dvd, but not at this size -- what works best? . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=456415/grpspId=1708568768/msgId= 24711/stime=1176546658/nc1=4507179/nc2=4025302/nc3=3848643> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
