Chapter Eleven. DVD Production in Premiere Pro

One feature that distinguishes Premiere Pro from other editors is the ability to produce DVDs from the timeline, reducing the authoring time for a review copy of your video to zero. In Premiere Pro 2.0, Adobe expanded this capability to include basic menu creation and editing, allowing producers to burn simple DVDs without using Encore DVD, which is another timesaver.

This chapter starts by describing Premiere Pro's DVD authoring capabilities and its limitations, so you'll know when to author in Premiere Pro and when to use Encore. Then the chapter describes how to access and use Premiere Pro's DVD authoring capabilities.

Even when producing DVDs in Encore DVD, you should insert your DVD chapter markers in Premiere Pro, since titles or audio waveforms that you can't easily see in Encore DVD guide your efforts. The final technique discussed in this chapter details how.