Ideal Encoding Settings for Adobe Encore(DVD Authoring AMVs)

Nate RFB · Post by **Nate RFB** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:46 pm

I'm trying to start encoding AMVs onto DVD-Player-compatible DVDs using Adobe Encore, but I'm unsure of what settings are best suited for best quality.

I was thinking I would export the video stream from Adobe Premiere as a Microsoft AVI (Is DV AVI something I'd want instead...?), at a framerate of 24 fps, 720x480 resolution, No Compression (normally I'd use HuffYUV) and with no interlacing (a progressive AMV if you will). I was then going to hack/tweak the stream to 23.976 (along with the audio) to make it all nice and properly progressive.

If I import this as an asset into Adobe Encore, will it burn the DVD in the best way possible? Or will it force interlacing on it and make it it be 29.97 fps? I'd like to hope I can just burn it as it is and it will make my DVD nice and progressive, but I really have no experience with DVD Authoring.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:57 pm

I don't know anything about Adobe Encore, specifically...

But what you're looking for is called the 3:2 Pulldown. This "tag" in the encoded MPEG-2 file will essentially take a progressive, 23.976 fps video and "interlace it on the fly" during playback. It's farily easy to do in a program like TMPG, but I couldn't tell ya' jack about Encore. Take a look around the program, though, and see if there's anything along those lines.

Heck, even DVD-lab (which is what I've used to author DVDs) will notice that a file is 23.976 fps when you import it, and ask if you'd like it to place the pulldown tag into it.

remsleep · Post by **remsleep** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:49 pm

I do this too -- to watch bittorrent shows with my friends in the living room on their big tv. I have success keeping Encore from doing any transcoding, by giving it .mpv's from the Adobe Media Encoder (more recently, I bought the standalone MPEG encoder from MainConcept, http://mainconcept.com which is what the Premiere Pro encoder actually is. I do my own pulldown via AVS, but was having some strange issues. At this very moment, I finally have the time to try to debug them seriously. Some explaination is on my website

http://studiotwentysomething.net/posting.html

Don't let Encore do the MPEG2 encode is the main thing. Do it yourself under your control (Adobe, to be sure it is DVD compliant, or a standalone encoder, but with a compliant GOP structure (which I dont really know the full spec) which you should get if you tell the encoder you want DVD MPEG2)

I tried TMPGEnc, and completely build and previewed the project in Encore, but couldnt burn it. So I was wary of using TMPGEnc after that -- but in hindsight I must have somehow done a non-DVD-compliant encode. TMPGEnc has quantization matrices for animation which would probably give better results. All the default matricies in other encoders are likely for natural video, so I must admit, I've never gotten things to look really really good on TV.

FInally -- almost forgot to mention -- Televisions have *overscan* so they will not display all your pixels. If you encode at 720x480, you are probably losing 10-20% off the edges of an NTSC television (Yes, it sucks. Television is sooooo 20th century). So, I have to scale down, smooth and sharpen anything that goes to TV, or I lose the subtitles. (Did I mention that this sucks?)