[MacDV] QUES: burning movie to DVD

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 04:38  PM, Tiik at aol.com wrote:

> Hi DV's,
> I have a very novice question here, but bare with me
> b/c it is my first time copying a movie to DVD disk.
>
> I have a movie I made in Adobe Premiere.
> I intend to burn it to DVD.
> I am perfectly willing to go ahead and burn this Adobe Premiere movie 
> file to
> a
> DVD disk but I am concerned that I will then just have an
> unreadable Adobe Premiere file on a DVD disk.
> I am familiar with burning to CD, and if I were to burn this movie
> to CD it will be an Adobe Premiere file that someone can open in 
> QuickTime on
> their computer.
> My question is this...once I burn this Premiere movie file to a DVD,
> will a DVD player know to open the Premiere file and play it?
> I mean, what if it was a Final Cut Pro file? Would a DVD player
> know how to open that and play it?
> Do you see what I am struggling with here?
>
> So, any takers? How to I get an Adobe Premiere file,
> or any movie file for that matter, to be readable on
> a DVD disk to play on a TV monitor?
>
> Tiik
>
>
>

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