For about 7 years now everytime i open youtube it goes to this video. I have cleared my cookies and use a different browser than I did when I first watched this vid. Stan is like a brother to me now. I'd die for him.
Thank you so much! Never burned a DVD before, thought it would be simple, failed several times and was ready to quit. You made it so easy for me, thank you.
I just spent 2 days trying to figure out how to get from Premiere Pro 2015.3 to a DVD. You showed me in 8 minutes! Thank you so much! Way back in the day, when i had Premier Elements, all you had to do wash choose burn, and you had a DVD. Ah, the good ol' days.
You Rock! I was in a bind trying to make a DVD and was about to pay for a new program. Came across a comment on a forum about this vid and now I am burning DVDs with programs I have. Saved me $$! Thanks!!!
Very helpful video. My biggest difficulty was downloading Adobe Encore to make this all happen. Had no problems following the instructions. Everything laid out in a very understanding way.
Thanks, Stan. You are a life saver. People still want DVD's especially those non-tech or old school folks (churches, people in agriculture, etc.). I had to create on for a memorial service too. SO helpful.
I keep hearing that from others. There must be something to it because this video is watched 500% more than my other 50 Premiere Pro tutorials. Thanks for watching!
I live in the midwest and work with a small church and provide video services for horse owners, they can't (or don't) stream so it's essential for me to be able to give them a DVD. For the churches, the older parishioners want that CD or DVD...I was frantic until I found your workshop. Thanks again!
thank you!!! making a home video for niece's birthday and literally spent most of the day trying to make a simple DVD on my mac, this worked perfectly. None of the free apps worked.
Hi Stan! Words can't describe how grateful I am for you to take the time to make this awesome video, is about 3:27 am and you were the only voice that made sense, I want to thank you Sir for sharing your knowledge with us.
Every year around Christmas I have to make a dvd and I forget and I usually screw up a couple of dvd's before I get it right. You have the simplest instructions I have seen.
Hi There , what I enjoy most about this utube dvd lesson is you are very clear in speaking I can understand everything you say, and you don't spend a lot of time talking about non-sense..Thanks!!
This tutorial was exactly what I was looking for a couple years ago. And since then I referred back to this from time to time when making DVD's. I work professionally, and sometimes I need some quick reminders and such, and this video has done so much more than that for me. Thank you!
Wow! Thanks Stan! I found myself needing to make a DVD for a presentation and needed a no nonsense step method. I couldn't have finished without your post!!!
This was really helpful, thank you very much. I recently shot a quinceanera event and needed to make dvd copies for the family I followed your instructions and everything came out great!!!
I keep returning to this video the odd time a client wants their video on a dvd lol, thanks for making this! Maybe I'll just remember all the steps by now... probably not, I'll be watching again down the road! cheers!
Thank you very much! Very clear and simple explanation! I have switched from Mac to PC, and was frustrated at first by Adobe Premiere, Encoder and Encore after Final Cut and Compressor. Now I see that everything works well and logically.
Thanks a million! You saved my bacon. My kid needed a DVD for school today and I usually do TH-cam videos and could not get it. You made me a hero this morning. Thanks a ton.......
Stan, Very well done video and great information. My Encore would not open in PPro thru Dynamic Link, so I had to go your Work Flowand it did the trick. I'm 66 and not a computer wiz like most folks, so I took a lot of notes and will keep this video on hand. Thanks again Stan Arthur.
Great tutorial. Helped me a bunch. I'm doing film events for weddings and other special events and I'm having a lot of problems figuring out Adobe Premiere so this has helped a bunch. Now I just got to keep putting it on practice a lot. Thank you!
Editing is brand new, everything video is brand new to me. I had to watch a few times to get it, finally did. Thank you. I need to subscribe cause I know ziltch.
Thank you for the tutorial. This is exactly what I was looking for. Now I have all my home movies on playable disks. Fantastic! Thanks again. Your time is well appreciated!
Unfortunately, as of April 2019, Adobe removed it from the Adobe Creative Cloud. You can still use this technique to create the mpeg-2 DVD file type but you will need to search for a free option for authoring your desk. There are some out there.
This is great. One thing you might add is to ensure that we have the proper output settings for the build. It helps that your screen highlights everything we need. Thanks.
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Great tutorial, I take it dropping the bitrate down is all that CS6 does automatically for you when you use dynamic link from Premier. I film gradings at my TKD club that are nearly always 2 hours long, the first time I edited in CC then saved out as DVD I could not get it to fit so I re edited the whole thing in CS6 then dynamic linked it to Encore and it worked great. I just really wish Adobe would update Encore, so many people still use it.
Great and easy to watch tutorial Stan! I have also encoded to AC3 audio, when trying to cram a large video file on to a 4.7. This usually saves a lot of data space when quality isn't a huge issue. Thanks, Ken
OMG ! Thanks so much just new to premiere and wanted to burn a DVD Just a reminder to people in Europe the "TV" setting is "PAL" as far as I know .Tony O Leary
Thank you Stan. You made this process very easy to replicate. I would like to know how do you create the focus spotlights and mouse icons in your video.
Simply export to H.264. If you are working in 1080p, a bitrate of 10-15 Mbps will look good on screens up to 60 inches. After selecting H.264, you can also just pick the 1080p TH-cam preset from the huge list of presets. That bitrate is quite bit higher, though.
Thanks Stan, as an editor doing this for over 30 years and stopped burning DVD's for clients several years ago still great to know - since I forgot how to do it and now need to do it for a specific client's event. Have a question and not sure if this has been addressed but to eliminate those pesky black bars on the sides of the frame when using the standard export feature out of premiere. Do you crop or resize the video?
+Troy Hudson Black bars can be eliminated by 1) choosing an export preset that matches the source format and 2) choosing "scale to fill" in export settings.
FYI: CC Suite 2015 and on, no longer supports Encore. It's simply not there. They are discontinuing the program. You can retro install CS6 and its there but that's a pain. Now with Windows 10 there is no Windows DVD maker either. There is no simply way to make a DVD from a created video file any more without buying another program.
Encore has not been updated since CS6. But you can still download it in the Creative Cloud app by downloading CS6 in "Previous Versions". There are tutorials for this on TH-cam. Take heart. It still works but it is no longer dynamically linked to Premiere, which is why you can no longer import Premiere Pro sequences. They must be exported to MPEG-2 DVD files in Adobe Media Encoder first. The good news is that exporting in Media Encoder is about 10 times faster than transcoding a sequence in Encore used to be.
what kind of build is your PC you're working on? encoding that hour long video to MPEG2 DVD in about 15 minutes is great! Just wanted to see what it would take for me to adjust my computer build to meet that kind of time length for encoding it
Thank you Stan. It was interesting that you don't do DVDs much anymore. What media is your biggest demand now? I video weddings and usually burn to BD.
Nice job, Stan. To get rid of those black bars at the side of your video, be sure to select "Scale to Fill" instead of "Scale to Fit." Also, I usually output the AC3 audio file right from Adobe Media Encoder (PPro) instead of going through the extra step of outputting a WAV file. Cheers.
First off, thank you soo much for this video. Second, I know you suggest not using a DL dvd but what do you do if you have no choice but to use one? I ask because I have a 122 min video that is HD and my only option is a DL. Are there different steps to burning onto one? What exactly is so difficult with using a DL DVD?
Listen closely: 1) You CANNOT put HD video on a DVD. Once you have transcoded it to MPEG-2 DVD, it is 480p. It is no longer 1080p. The DVD format is SD (standard definition) only. 2) The Blu-Ray disc format was invented for HD (1080p) video. You can also use Adobe Encore to create Blu-Ray discs. 3) If you still think you need to create dual-layer DVDs, use the DVD+R DL format. Remember: IT WILL NOT BE HIGH DEFINITION!
thank you... sir how can we maximize the output of this DVD, as it was 720*480 output, but in film festival big screens it stretches with a pixels, so i just want to know whether can we export (write) the dvd in 1920*1080 format.. is it possible..pls suggest
DVDs are an SD format so by definition, from what I've read, you can't make them 1920x1080. For that, you would need to move to BlueRay Disk (or HD DVD).
It might be that your playback device (DVD player, TV / monitor) is up-resing the image. I've seen this done really well on some HDTVs. The only way I know of to make sure your DVD image looks its best on an HDTV is to shoot high-quality, well-lit, HD+ footage and then keep it in its native resolution until you export to DVD. I think there is a noticeable difference between an image that was shot in HD and then encoded for playback on TH-cam as opposed to an image that was shot in SD and then encoded with the same specs for playback on TH-cam. The stuff shot originally in HD just looks better.
No you cannot. DVD is confined to 720x480. You need to consult with the film festival. Each one has their own different standards. I know because I've been in 15 of them.
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For about 7 years now everytime i open youtube it goes to this video. I have cleared my cookies and use a different browser than I did when I first watched this vid. Stan is like a brother to me now. I'd die for him.
Best instruction out there to burn a DVD! Thank you! Just used it to burn a memorial video for a loved one who passed away this year. God bless.
Please don't EVER delete this video. I seldom have to do this, but every once in a while I still refer back to this video, thank you!
Thank you so much! Never burned a DVD before, thought it would be simple, failed several times and was ready to quit. You made it so easy for me, thank you.
I just spent 2 days trying to figure out how to get from Premiere Pro 2015.3 to a DVD. You showed me in 8 minutes! Thank you so much! Way back in the day, when i had Premier Elements, all you had to do wash choose burn, and you had a DVD. Ah, the good ol' days.
You Rock! I was in a bind trying to make a DVD and was about to pay for a new program. Came across a comment on a forum about this vid and now I am burning DVDs with programs I have. Saved me $$! Thanks!!!
Very helpful video. My biggest difficulty was downloading Adobe Encore to make this all happen. Had no problems following the instructions. Everything laid out in a very understanding way.
Thanks, Stan. You are a life saver. People still want DVD's especially those non-tech or old school folks (churches, people in agriculture, etc.). I had to create on for a memorial service too. SO helpful.
I keep hearing that from others. There must be something to it because this video is watched 500% more than my other 50 Premiere Pro tutorials. Thanks for watching!
I live in the midwest and work with a small church and provide video services for horse owners, they can't (or don't) stream so it's essential for me to be able to give them a DVD. For the churches, the older parishioners want that CD or DVD...I was frantic until I found your workshop. Thanks again!
thank you!!! making a home video for niece's birthday and literally spent most of the day trying to make a simple DVD on my mac, this worked perfectly. None of the free apps worked.
I don't believe I'm still burning DVDs for people in 2021. Your video helped me. Thanks!
Hi Stan! Words can't describe how grateful I am for you to take the time to make this awesome video, is about 3:27 am and you were the only voice that made sense, I want to thank you Sir for sharing your knowledge with us.
As much as I believe that nothing good ever happens at 3:27 AM, I'm very glad this video was helpful to you in your time of need.
Every year around Christmas I have to make a dvd and I forget and I usually screw up a couple of dvd's before I get it right. You have the simplest instructions I have seen.
Hi There , what I enjoy most about this utube dvd lesson is you are very clear in speaking I can understand everything you say, and you don't spend a lot of time talking about non-sense..Thanks!!
Thanks for watching!
This tutorial was exactly what I was looking for a couple years ago. And since then I referred back to this from time to time when making DVD's. I work professionally, and sometimes I need some quick reminders and such, and this video has done so much more than that for me. Thank you!
I know what you mean. I haven't made a DVD in over a year.
Wow! Thanks Stan! I found myself needing to make a DVD for a presentation and needed a no nonsense step method. I couldn't have finished without your post!!!
+T Bryant You're welcome! I hope you watched the follow-up video, too.
Will do and thanks again!!
This was really helpful, thank you very much. I recently shot a quinceanera event and needed to make dvd copies for the family I followed your instructions and everything came out great!!!
This saved my life just now and I am now eternally grateful
LOL... Pay it forward, my man.
This was extremely informative and very helpful for an easy to make dvd. Thank you!
I keep returning to this video the odd time a client wants their video on a dvd lol, thanks for making this! Maybe I'll just remember all the steps by now... probably not, I'll be watching again down the road! cheers!
I've returned to burn another DVD! wow it's been 5 years! I should really upgrade from Adobe CS6 already
Thank you for a clear and comprehensive tutorial. Saved me a mountain of time
Thank you very much! Very clear and simple explanation! I have switched from Mac to PC, and was frustrated at first by Adobe Premiere, Encoder and Encore after Final Cut and Compressor. Now I see that everything works well and logically.
+dbarchuk thanks for watching!
Thanks a million! You saved my bacon. My kid needed a DVD for school today and I usually do TH-cam videos and could not get it. You made me a hero this morning. Thanks a ton.......
That is the kind of comment that can really make someone's day. I appreciate you taking the time to tell me your story.
Great Video! Fast and straight to the point. Great visual and audio quality with excellent delivery and commentary. I'm now a fan and a subscriber.
Stan, Very well done video and great information. My Encore would not open in PPro thru Dynamic Link, so I had to go your Work Flowand it did the trick. I'm 66 and not a computer wiz like most folks, so I took a lot of notes and will keep this video on hand. Thanks again Stan Arthur.
I feel your pain. I'll be 60 next year and would rather make movies than become an "IT" guy. Thanks for watching!
Absolute lifesaver, needed to know this is a hurry and your soothing tones led me all the way to victory!
Great tutorial. Helped me a bunch. I'm doing film events for weddings and other special events and I'm having a lot of problems figuring out Adobe Premiere so this has helped a bunch. Now I just got to keep putting it on practice a lot. Thank you!
Humberto Rangel Thanks for watching. Be sure to watch the update video I linked at the end for a couple more time-saving tips.
Editing is brand new, everything video is brand new to me. I had to watch a few times to get it, finally did. Thank you. I need to subscribe cause I know ziltch.
Cheers, Stan, I don't normally make dvd's but this is helpful for one particular project.
Dude, this was a life saver!! Every other video just shows how to build a menu. :D
Tiana Matson Ironic then that I found this video while looking for how to build a menu :)
Thank you so much for this video! I still don't know what I'm doing, but I was able to follow your steps and it worked perfectly.
Thank you for the tutorial. This is exactly what I was looking for. Now I have all my home movies on playable disks. Fantastic! Thanks again. Your time is well appreciated!
Best video I've seen for making DVDs. Thank you!
That was very helpful especially to the beginners like me, who are using Adobe Premiere for the first time.
Thank you.
John Gichohi.
I forgot Encore was even still available. Thanks for the refresher!
Unfortunately, as of April 2019, Adobe removed it from the Adobe Creative Cloud. You can still use this technique to create the mpeg-2 DVD file type but you will need to search for a free option for authoring your desk. There are some out there.
Straightforward and no frills - thanks!
i REALLY LOVE THESE VIDEOS, that every format they show on videos I dont find it in my premier CS6. great
Thank you! Super helpful - just what I needed.
THANK YOU!!! if anyone is having issues burning dvd's from premiere CC2014 8.0, just follow these instructions!!!!
Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial!
This is great. One thing you might add is to ensure that we have the proper output settings for the build. It helps that your screen highlights everything we need. Thanks.
Thank you so much!!! You just saved my first freelance gig!!!
sazopro Wonderful! Watch the 2nd part, too.
Simple and to the point worked great for the small project I was working on : ) Thanks!!
Thanks for this! I keep coming back to create DVDs. Thumbs up :)
Brilliantly explained, Stan. Very clear and straight to the point. Thank you
Thanks for watching! Glad I could help.
clicked on. Very detailed and to the point, thank you so much for tNice tutorials! I subscribed and I look forward to watcNice tutorialng and learning more about
Useful than any chinese tutorial..just pure simple. Thanks!
Thank you, this was very helpful
Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions.
Such a life saver! This is a really great video. Thank you
Thank you so much! great and easy to follow instructional video!
Excellent and very thorough tutorial. thanks.
THANK YOU!!! You have no idea how much tNice tutorials video helps!
Thanks a lot for this clear and concise explanation Stan
BRAVO !!! STAN ! GREAT JOB EXPLAINING... YOU ROCK !!!
Great tutorial, I take it dropping the bitrate down is all that CS6 does automatically for you when you use dynamic link from Premier. I film gradings at my TKD club that are nearly always 2 hours long, the first time I edited in CC then saved out as DVD I could not get it to fit so I re edited the whole thing in CS6 then dynamic linked it to Encore and it worked great. I just really wish Adobe would update Encore, so many people still use it.
Thanks SO MUCH! This helped tremendously for a stubborn client!
Great video buddy, the walk thru was super easy.
Great and easy to watch tutorial Stan! I have also encoded to AC3 audio, when trying to cram a large video file on to a 4.7. This usually saves a lot of data space when quality isn't a huge issue.
Thanks, Ken
Thank you so much. Now I have to get Encore. Wish me luck
Thank you just what i was looking for, i was searching the web for 2 hours and i found this thank you!!
OMG ! Thanks so much just new to premiere and wanted to burn a DVD Just a reminder to people in Europe the "TV" setting is "PAL" as far as I know .Tony O Leary
Thank you, this makes it easy for a beginner to create a playable DVD.
This was great thank you. You got straight to the point and it worked.
THAT was FANTASTIC!! THANK YOU!
Thank you for sharing! Very informative! Your video helped me out tremendously, again thank you!
+Vee Knox You are most welcome.
June 2019 - Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Thank you exactly what I was searching for! Subscribed.
thanks for posting that, couldn't workj it out before
Thank you Stan. You made this process very easy to replicate. I would like to know how do you create the focus spotlights and mouse icons in your video.
Ivette Guarin CCC
Thank you so much, it really helped! I just easily installed Encore CS6.
Thank you so much... Excellent Tutorial...
+Deiller Rodrigues You are welcome and thanks for watching.
Great video, nice and easy to follow, thanks!
very beautiful tutorial ...thanks mr. stan arthur
You're a god among men. Thank you.
Thanks for the fast tutorial, well explain Stand, two thumb up.
You've saved me so much time. THANK YOU.
Can't download Encore any more.... any other ideas?
You are born to do this. Thanks Alot.
instead of DVD ,Please what if want it in Flash drive?
Simply export to H.264. If you are working in 1080p, a bitrate of 10-15 Mbps will look good on screens up to 60 inches. After selecting H.264, you can also just pick the 1080p TH-cam preset from the huge list of presets. That bitrate is quite bit higher, though.
This was so very helpful, thanks!
Great tutorial for making a DVD of my mother inlaws 80th birtday.
Great! Glad I could help.
This was so incredibly helpful! Thank you soooo much!
Friggin' perfect!Thank you!
Thanks Stan, as an editor doing this for over 30 years and stopped burning DVD's for clients several years ago still great to know - since I forgot how to do it and now need to do it for a specific client's event.
Have a question and not sure if this has been addressed but to eliminate those pesky black bars on the sides of the frame when using the standard export feature out of premiere. Do you crop or resize the video?
+Troy Hudson Black bars can be eliminated by 1) choosing an export preset that matches the source format and 2) choosing "scale to fill" in export settings.
Thank you so much! You're A M A Z I N G. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
FYI: CC Suite 2015 and on, no longer supports Encore. It's simply not there. They are discontinuing the program. You can retro install CS6 and its there but that's a pain.
Now with Windows 10 there is no Windows DVD maker either. There is no simply way to make a DVD from a created video file any more without buying another program.
Encore has not been updated since CS6. But you can still download it in the Creative Cloud app by downloading CS6 in "Previous Versions". There are tutorials for this on TH-cam. Take heart. It still works but it is no longer dynamically linked to Premiere, which is why you can no longer import Premiere Pro sequences. They must be exported to MPEG-2 DVD files in Adobe Media Encoder first. The good news is that exporting in Media Encoder is about 10 times faster than transcoding a sequence in Encore used to be.
Really great tutorial! Thank you!
THANK YOU so much for making this video!!! A new subscriber!!!
what kind of build is your PC you're working on? encoding that hour long video to MPEG2 DVD in about 15 minutes is great! Just wanted to see what it would take for me to adjust my computer build to meet that kind of time length for encoding it
+Brady Wurtz Hi Brady... I use an HP Z800 workstation with dual quadcore Xeon procs and 48 gigs ram.
Super helpful, thanks a bunch Stan!
Thanks brother ... It works. Thanks again and much Respect
pleasse dont ever take this video down. thankyou so much
Stan, as always, a pleasure!
Thank you Stan. It was interesting that you don't do DVDs much anymore. What media is your biggest demand now? I video weddings and usually burn to BD.
Tollie Corder nearly all of the content I make is for TH-cam.
Very helpful, thank you!
Thank u so very much, i am a junior video editor, i was unable to burn to disc. thank u so very much!!
Outstanding. Thanks very much.
Nice job, Stan. To get rid of those black bars at the side of your video, be sure to select "Scale to Fill" instead of "Scale to Fit."
Also, I usually output the AC3 audio file right from Adobe Media Encoder (PPro) instead of going through the extra step of outputting a WAV file.
Cheers.
Good point, Bob.
First off, thank you soo much for this video. Second, I know you suggest not using a DL dvd but what do you do if you have no choice but to use one? I ask because I have a 122 min video that is HD and my only option is a DL. Are there different steps to burning onto one? What exactly is so difficult with using a DL DVD?
Listen closely: 1) You CANNOT put HD video on a DVD. Once you have transcoded it to MPEG-2 DVD, it is 480p. It is no longer 1080p. The DVD format is SD (standard definition) only. 2) The Blu-Ray disc format was invented for HD (1080p) video. You can also use Adobe Encore to create Blu-Ray discs. 3) If you still think you need to create dual-layer DVDs, use the DVD+R DL format. Remember: IT WILL NOT BE HIGH DEFINITION!
Thank you for this. It really helped me out
Very nice, Stan, Thanks.
thank you... sir how can we maximize the output of this DVD, as it was 720*480 output, but in film festival big screens it stretches with a pixels, so i just want to know whether can we export (write) the dvd in 1920*1080 format.. is it possible..pls suggest
DVDs are an SD format so by definition, from what I've read, you can't make them 1920x1080. For that, you would need to move to BlueRay Disk (or HD DVD).
Nancy Lignoski thanks a lot sir
I have seen DVDs that are not Blue-Ray and have very sharp quality, how do i do that if it can only be 720x480?
It might be that your playback device (DVD player, TV / monitor) is up-resing the image. I've seen this done really well on some HDTVs. The only way I know of to make sure your DVD image looks its best on an HDTV is to shoot high-quality, well-lit, HD+ footage and then keep it in its native resolution until you export to DVD. I think there is a noticeable difference between an image that was shot in HD and then encoded for playback on TH-cam as opposed to an image that was shot in SD and then encoded with the same specs for playback on TH-cam. The stuff shot originally in HD just looks better.
No you cannot. DVD is confined to 720x480. You need to consult with the film festival. Each one has their own different standards. I know because I've been in 15 of them.