Save Project Pre Ele Page 259, 260, 265

[Jamesmf]

Hello,
I have previously used Premiere elements/Photoshop elements 9 and 10
My projects turned out fine and were saved to standard DVDs.
I have done Lynda tutorials and carefully read Muvipix P Elements 15 manual. Now I belong to Muvipix. Steve, Good job on the book.

I want to create one large project from several small projects or segments.
The blue ray project disc will be played on a 16:9 HDTV.
The videos are MPEG STD 16:9 720 by 480 files.
The still photos are JPEG 16:9 4608 x 2592 reduced resized to 2500 x 1406
I want the still photos to fill up the 16:9 TV screen – NOT 4:3 with black boarders.
There will be menu markers on each segment or small project file.

I need help with
Output Your Video For Use With Another Project
Export & Share/Devices/Computer/HD 1920x1080 M2T-H264 format - page 259

I do not understand how the above is different from
“Output your movies for playback on a TV HD 1080 1920 x 1080 MPEG files” page 260 (1920x1080 24p MPEG video optimized for playing on a HDTV or outputting to a Blue Ray disc)

Burn Your Disc files to an ISO image file – page 265
Is this ONLY FOR the final project with all of the segments in it?
Only for use with the Blue Ray disc burning program?

Is each segment of my project saved as a M2T-H264 format file- page 259
Or as a 1920x1080 24p MPEG video file – page 260
Or as a ISO image file – page 265 – for the completed large project

I am using Adobe Premiere Elements 15.
I want to create a video/still image project to play on a 16:9 large screen HDTV
from a Blue Ray disc.
My videos come from a Sony HDR CX550V solid state memory video camera.
Standard Defination mpeg-2 16:9 720 x 480
My still photos come from a Sony WX10 shirt pocket camera
16:9 4608 x 2592 – they have been resized to 2500 x 1406
My computer is a high end Dell XPS 8500 01/31/13
Intel i7-3770, 16G memory, 2TB Sata Drive, Windows 10 updated regularly

Thank you for your help.
James

[Steve Grisetti]

Welcome to Muvipix, James!

We always encourage our guests to limit their posts to one question or two. That way we can explore the topic in depth. When you ask a lot of questions, we can give you quick, short answers, but any longer discussion just gets confusing.

So that said, here are the answers to your questions. If you'd like to explore any one question deeper, please start a separate thread for each.

1) You plan to use standard definition 720x480 video to create a 1920x1080 BluRay disc. You can force this if you'd like, but just remember that you can't add pixels that aren't there, so there are liabilities to trying to up-rez from a video with 345,000 pixels to over 2,000,000 pixels. Namely, your video is going to look blurry.

I'm not sure why you're shooting your video in standard definition when you camcorder shoots in full AVCHD at 1920x1080.

2) The M2T H264 video is an AVC file using the sophisticated H264 compressor, which gives you the best quality at the optimal file size. The MPEG uses the older MPEG compressor which isn't as efficient.

3) You create an ISO of your final, finished DVD or BluRay, complete with menu system and all video segments.

4) The TV HD output is designed to produce a file that will play on a TV when the file is on a thumb drive inserted in the TV's USB port. Many but not all HDTVs have this function. This is very different from the file system that will be created on a DVD or BluRay disc.

[Chuck Engels]

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