QUES: burning movie to DVD

[sb]

There are two types of DVD's. One is a data DVD which plays in a computer
only. If you burned your Premiere QT file onto this disc, it would only play
on a computer using software like QT Player.

The other type of DVD is an MPEG2 DVD which plays movies on a set top box.

I'm assuming you mean the set top box MPEG2 type.

In that case, you'll need some other software to take the final Premiere
file and compress it to MPEG2 and then multiplex it which can then be burned
onto a DVD blank disc. This resulting burned disc will play on most any set
top DVD player.

The two most popular ways to do the MPEG2 authoring and compression are iDVD
which is $50 and part of the iLife04 Suite from Apple and requires a built
in (internal) DVD burner and has some really nice built in templates for
menu design; and Roxio's Toast 6 which will work with an external DVD burner
and do a simple DVD menu.

 hth,

 regards,

 sb



On 6/1/2004 1:38 PM, "Tiik at aol.com" <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