87 Producing a Menu-less DVD in Premiere Pro

#87 Producing a Menu-less DVD in Premiere Pro

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The disc Premiere Pro creates with this process is an "auto-play" disc that will start playing as soon as placed in a DVD drive. No menu will appear.

Oftentimes during production you need a quick-and-dirty DVD to send to a client or to view on your own DVD/TV combination to verify color correction or other adjustments. Here's how to quickly produce a menu-less DVD in Premiere Pro:

1.	Click the target sequence on the Timeline.
2.	Insert a blank DVD disc into the target drive.
3.	Choose File > Export > Export to DVD. Premiere Pro will open the Burn DVD dialog box (Figure 87). Figure 87. Here's where you select your DVD burning options. Hard Drive Space Requirements To produce any DVD with Premiere Pro (or Encore DVD for that matter), you'll need sufficient hard drive space to store all compressed files and menus before they are written to disc. In Premiere Pro, this means 4.7GB, and in Encore DVD, which can produce dual-layer discs, this means up to 8.5GB of free space if you plan to use the full capacity of your target disc.
4.	In the DVD Settings area, choose your Burn to: options by clicking the radio button for target output device and format. Choose Disc to burn a DVD. Choose Folder to encode and save all files in the specified folder where you can preview them with a software DVD Player on your computer. Choose ISO Image to create and save an ISO image that you can use to burn additional DVDs with most disc-burning programs.
5.	If desired, enter a name in the Disc Name text box.
6.	If your computer has multiple DVD recorders, click the Burner Location drop-down menu to select the target. Note Premiere Pro scans the default DVD recorder before opening the Burn DVD dialog box, and will display the message "Media not present" in the Status box if a suitable blank DVD disc is not in the target drive. If you add media after opening the dialog box, or change drives in Step 6, click the Rescan button to have Premiere Pro rescan the drive for suitable media.
7.	If desired, enter the number of desired copies in the Copies field.
8.	In the Export Range dialog box, choose to produce either the Entire Sequence or the Work Area Bar.
9.	Select the Loop Playback checkbox to have the video loop after finishing. Otherwise, the DVD will simply stop after the video finishes playing.
10.	Click the Settings button to change the encoding settings. This opens the Adobe Media Encoder discussed in #81.
11.	Click the Burn button to start the encoding and burning process.