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Chapter 17: Creating DVDs
DVD creation overview
Creating DVDs
You can burn a sequence to DVD directly from Adobe Premiere Pro, or save encoded files to a folder or as an ISO
image that you can burn later with other DVD-burning software. You can create auto-play DVDs or menu-based
DVDs. Adobe Premiere Pro provides several DVD menu templates that you can use as designed, or customize them
to create a DVD. Adobe Premiere Pro creates DVDs that conform to DVD-video format. It doesn’t create data or
audio DVDs.
If you are creating a DVD using Adobe Encore DVD, you can export a sequence as an AVI or MPEG-2. You can
export a sequence containing sequence markers, which are recognized by Adobe Encore DVD as chapter points. (See
“To add sequence marker comments, chapters, and links” on page 142.)
Note:
Adobe Premiere Pro DVD markers are not recognized by Adobe Encore DVD.
Types of DVDs
In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can create auto-play DVDs with no menus, or menu-based DVDs that provide
navigation options for your viewers.
Auto-play DVD
Begins playing when the disc is inserted into a DVD player. Auto-play DVDs work best for short
movies, or movies that you want to play continuously in a loop playback mode. Auto-play DVDs contain no menus.
You can add DVD markers to auto-play DVDs that allow your viewers to skip forward or back through the movie
using the Next and Previous buttons on a DVD player’s remote control.
Menu-based DVD with scene selection submenu
Displays a submenu of scenes that you specify with markers. These
DVDs are best for long movies that play from start to finish, but that also contain scenes that the viewer might want
to access from a submenu. On the main menu, the viewer can choose to play the movie or go to a scene selection
submenu.
Menu-based DVD with movie selections
Divides a sequence into separate movies that viewers can access from the
main menu. Using DVD main menu and stop markers, you can divide a sequence into individual movies. When you
build the DVD, each movie corresponds to either the Play Movie or movie buttons on the main menu. You can also
include scene markers that provide viewers with a scene selection submenu. The scene selection menu is for the
entire sequence—you can’t divide individual movies in your sequence into separate scene menus.
DVD creation workflow
Adobe Premiere Pro can burn a single sequence to DVD, but each sequence in your project can be burned to a
separate DVD. Add all the content you want to include on DVD into a sequence. After you prepare the sequence,
perform the following basic tasks:
1. Add scene, main menu, and stop markers.
Adobe Premiere Pro creates DVD menus dynamically based on DVD markers you place in the sequence. DVD
markers are separate from sequence markers, but you apply them from the Timeline panel in a similar way. (See
“About DVD markers” on page 405.)