Premiere - Exporting My Final DVD Trailer

Once I was happy with my trailer I had made in Premiere I was able to export the media in order to play this from a media player such as VLC or Windows Video Player. To export my DVD trailer I used the File, Export and Media options. This brought up a large dialog box which had a variety of options to change and adjust based on how you want the media to export. Both of these stages so far can be seen below.

From my assignment brief the exporting aspect of this project had mandatory settings which I had to use in order to pass. This stage was vital in achieving this as I was able to adjust the format and the preset to meet this criteria. The following paragraph was taken from the module guide which shows the mandatory features my DVD trailer must cover.

'This must be edited in Premiere, and you may import previously created elements from Photoshop or Illustrator. You will be expected to demonstrate, at minimum, import images and video, setting up a Premiere project with the right frame size and frame rate (and widescreen), trimming clips, adding transitions to clips, and adding titles over clips. You will submit this video as a Quicktime movie file encoded with the DV codec.'

From this you can see that my project must be the right frame size, frame rate, be widescreen, be a Quicktime movie and use the DV codec. The frame size and frame rate options were set when I created the sequence at the very beginning of the project. I will run over this again in my evaluation. The widescreen setting was also set at this point and again will be run over in the evaluation. The Quicktime and Codec aspects were set at this exporting stage. The first option down the right hand side of the screen gives the option to change the format that the DVD trailer is exported in. For this I was able to chose Quicktime and hence hit this aspect of my criteria. This can be seen below.

The next editable option was Presets. This allowed me to hit the DV Codec aspect however there were a wide variety of options which I could use. The sequence I previously created used DV PAL and hence I used the same format here as when I created my sequence. The reasoning's for choosing this Codec can be seen in an earlier blog post.

All of the other settings here were left at default. I then selected Export were the following dialog box appeared. Once this was finished I was able to watch my DVD trailer without the use of Premiere.