Hi, all. I have the MainConcept MPEG Pro plug-in for Adobe premiere pro. I have captured, with a separate device, some Hi8 video footage at 12 Mbs in an MPEG-2 format. After editing and with Adobe Pro, how can I re-encode the MPEG-2 without loss of quality so that I can make a DVD using Mediachance DVDlab Pro? Any help is appreciated.
Try using "Tmpgenc" - a good tool to encode mpeg with less loss of quality. Encoding is always long time consuming. If you always make DVD, you had better to let Mainconcept Mpeg Pro output a mpeg-2 with DVD standard. And then, DVDlab Pro can directly treat as a asset.
DVD lab can only author the movies, it cannot edit them (apart transcoding the audio, if it was 44.1 kHz and you must put an audio @48 kHz , in a DVD).
I am a little confused over capture bitrates and how it is affected in the editing program. The Mainconcept plug-in for Adobe allows native editing, but then when I export for DVD does this get changed. I noticed in the menu for exporting a default bitrate of 4200 Mbps. Should I raise this? I recently learned the max. for DVD format is about 9.6 or so and I captured the MPEG-2 at 12 Mbps. Will this do much to affect the quality of the picture on a television?
