High quality Premiere pro 2 settings for DvD

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I'm looking for the settings for Premiere pro 2 that I need to get a final video quality of what you would expect from iMovie HD's full quality DV (off a non HD camera) or Final Cut Pro's default full quality settings. I'm much more familiar with Final Cut Pro and will be switching to it if/when I get a mac at home (Using my school's film computers w/ final cut at the moment) but all I have for home use right now is Premiere pro 2. The final encode will be burned onto a dvd rather than compressed for internet use, most likely on iDvD. (This is for my film course)
I would like to know the resolution, aspect ratio, and A/V encoders to use to get a good quality to size ratio that is acceptable for DvD use without a loss of picture clarity. The film in question will most likely run about 30 minutes.

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Resolution and aspect ratio should always be the same as the ones you used in your project settings.

Usually, you'd want to export a lossless AVI file from Premiere Pro (therefore with a codec such as HuffYUV or Lagarith), and then encode the MPEG-2 for your DVD with a dedicated MPEG encoder (such as TMPGEnc). If your Premiere project resolution is not a valid DVD resolution, then you can resize the exported AVI with AVISynth, or TMPGEnc can do the resize itself if you don't want to use AVISynth.

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Resolution and aspect ratio should always be the same as the ones you used in your project settings.

Thanks for the codec info although what I meant with resolution/aspect ratio is at what setting should I start with for a good size to quality ratio? I know default is 720x480 for Final Cut Pro as well as Premiere pro 2.0 but that just seems small to me.

[Scintilla]

Resolution and aspect ratio should always be the same as the ones you used in your project settings.

Thanks for the codec info although what I meant with resolution/aspect ratio is at what setting should I start with for a good size to quality ratio? I know default is 720x480 for Final Cut Pro as well as Premiere pro 2.0 but that just seems small to me.

You should start with whatever resolution and aspect ratio match the source clips you are using (assuming they all have the same resolution, etc.).

If the final destination of this video is a DVD, then it doesn't matter what kind of size to quality ratio the file coming out of Premiere has. It only matters when you encode the MPEG-2 stream that will actually make it onto the DVD.

And by the way, you will probably have to use a resolution of either 720x480 (if you're in NTSC-land) or 720x576 (if you're in PAL-land) in order to get your DVD authoring software to allow you to use the file.

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Ok, thanks for that. All this Premiere pro stuff is too PC-fangled for me. I need one of those new 1.2k mac rigs now...haha