Sharing to dvd or blu-ray disc – Adobe Premiere Elements 12 User Manual
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Sharing to DVD or Blu-ray Disc
Note:
Disc burning
Disc burning guidelines and compatibility
After you have previewed your movie and are satisfied that it is complete, you are ready to burn the project to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc. Make sure
that the disc you’ve selected is compatible with both your burner and player. Also, you must have enough available hard disk space to
accommodate the compressed files as well as any scratch disk files created during export. If you don’t have enough free disk space on one drive
partition, you can specify a different partition for the scratch disk files using the Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks / Adobe Premiere Elements >
Preferences > Scratch Disks command. (You can verify the space needed in the Burn dialog box.)
If your DVD burner is not compatible with Adobe Premiere Elements, you can burn the project to a DVD folder, and then burn the folder to
DVD using the software that came with your burner.
Disc burning
Depending on the complexity and length of the project and your computer speed, encoding (compressing) video and audio for a disc can take
hours. If you plan to burn multiple discs with the same content and quality, you can save time by burning them in the same session, which
compresses the project only once.
Premiere Elements converts all audio to the 16-bit depth and 48 kHz sample rate required by DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. For the best results,
record your audio using these settings.
Burn to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc
1. Before starting Premiere Elements, connect and turn on all external DVD or Blu-ray burners.
2. In the Publish And Share panel, click Disc to open Disc view.
3. In Disc view, choose either DVD or Blu-ray from the menu.
4. Select Disc as the Burn To option.
5. Type a name for the disc. This name appears if you insert the disc into a computer after the DVD burn has been completed. (The default
name is a date stamp in 24-hour format: YYYYMMDD_hhmmss.)
6. Select a burner from the Burner Location menu.
7. Make sure that a compatible disc is inserted in the drive. If you insert a disc, click Rescan to check all connected burners for valid media.
8. In the Copies box, enter the number of discs you want to burn during this session. You are prompted to insert new discs until all have been
burned. Encoding the video and audio takes place only once.
9. For Preset Selection, select the option for the television standard used in the geographic location of your audience.
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