Chapter 11. DVD Basics

With Premiere Pro 2.0, you can encode and burn DVDs directly from the timeline. Don't have a DVD burner on your system? No problem. When exporting to DVD, you have the option to either burn directly to a disc or to create files in folders that can be burned or authored to DVD later.

This chapter shows you the essentials and your choices for exporting from Premiere Pro to a DVD-ROM or to DVD files. You will explore exporting an auto-play DVD versus menu-based DVD, as well as get an overview of the MPEG encoding options in the Adobe Media Encoder.

Exporting to DVD is only available on a single sequence basis; you cannot make a single disc using two separate sequences as separate video tracks on the DVD. You can, however, place multiple video files on one timeline and designate each file with a different DVD marker, which enables you to create multiple, separate tracks on a DVD from a single timeline.

To export to DVD, it's quite simple. You just highlight the current timeline you wish to export and select File > Export >Export to DVD. From there, it's a matter of settings and choices. Before getting into those choices, however, you first need to differentiate between the two methods of authoring: auto-play and menu based.