Suggested Export Movie Settings for DVD playback?

[FredMastro]

I've been exporting my movies in Premiere as Microsoft AVI and I'm getting pretty bad video on my DVD player, it's like non-antialised or something. Pixelated.

What are suggestions for proper settings for exporting a movie so that it plays on a big tv. My movie is 4:3, but my tv is a 73" wide 16:9. So not sure if it's just because my TV's so big?

How can I get the video to properly display as best as it can without all the pixelating? I'm trying another export with codec set to None. I'll see how that works.

 

[LRSmith]

What version of Premiere are you using? DVD players don't play AVI files, they must be MPG-2. So what encoder are you using to convert AVIs to MPG?

Premiere has 16:9 output. If you have harddrive space for it, I'd suggest exporting as uncompressed AVI (no video codecs) and then use third party encoder such as TMPGEnc to encode to DVD format. If you don't have hard-drive space, you can try frame-serving directly into TMPGEnc. I'd need to know version of Premiere to offer more suggestions.

 

[keeask]

I don't know if I'm having the same problem, but i'm using v1.5 and exporting to dvd option, it's in an mpeg2 format, but when i watch the dvd on tv, it looks awful...some parts do anyways...it almost looks like bars across the screen...and pixels....
dunno what to do about it??
it looks ok in the preview in the program when the window is only 2 inches, but the bigger i make the screen or on tv screen it gets worse
thanks