Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 272)

267 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Saving and sharing your movies
Last updated 8/12/2010
• When burning a DVD, choose quality DVD recordable media and a compatible DVD media format. Not all DVD
burners and DVD players support all types of DVDs. However, you can’t burn the DVD unless your DVD burner
supports the format of the disc. For example, a burner that supports only +R or +RW discs doesn’t burn to -R or
-RW discs. The same is true for DVD players. Many older DVD players might not recognize some rewritable discs
created on a newer DVD burner.
• Provide plenty of defragmented, free hard disk space. You must have enough available hard disk space to
accommodate the complete compressed files, as well as any scratch files created during export. The space
requirements for your project appear in the Burn dialog box.
• Avoid making unnecessary previews. Previews of your Timeline or Sceneline are useful for checking how your
finished movie looks and plays, but they take time to create and are not used in the burning process.
• Test your discs. If you make a mistake with a recordable disc, you must use another disc; whereas if you make a
mistake with a rewritable disc, you can reuse it. For this reason, consider using a DVD-RW or BD-RE (rewritable)
disc for making test discs and then switching to a DVD-R General Use disc or BD-R disc for final or extra copies.
DVD-R for General Use is write-once recordable format that provides excellent compatibility with both
stand-alone DVD players and DVD-ROM drives.
• Avoid running nonessential computer tasks during export. Turn off screen savers and power savers. Avoid
scanning for viruses, downloading updates, searching on the web, playing computer games, and so on.
Sharing for PC playback
Share a movie for playback on a personal computer
The video you edit in the Timeline or Sceneline is not available as an independent video file until you export, or share,
it to a video format. After export, you can play it back on your computer, in other media player or editing programs,
and move it to other computers.
Sharing a movie for PC playback generally creates files with data rates and file sizes that exceed the limits for successful
Internet, VCD, SVCD, DVD, or handheld device playback. The MPEG H.264 presets and MPEG MPEG2 presets are
suitable for AVCHD-quality export.
1 Click Share in the Tasks panel, and then click the Personal Computer button .
2 Choose a format from the list at the top of the PC view. Scroll through the list to see all options.
3 Specify a preset, filename, and location for saving the file.
4 (Optional) Click Advanced and specify options as desired.
Export only audio
When you export only the audio from your movie using the Share workspace, you can use the file format of your
choice.
1 Click Share in the Tasks panel, and then click Personal Computer or Mobile Phones And Players .
2 Choose a format from the list at the top of the panel. Scroll through the list to see all options.
3 Specify a preset, filename, and location for saving the file.
4 Click Advanced and deselect Export Video.
5 (Optional) Click the Audio tab and specify options as desired.