better, faster result with Nero, so what am I missing ???

[N***@adobeforums.com]

Can anyone tell me why, burning the same 5 min MOV file, with no changes, took HOURS to transcode with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0, and FIVE MINUTES with Nero Ultra 7 ? And the quality of the Nero result was visibly better?

The Mov in question was of PAL (european) origin, with both I transcoded it to NTSC. In Premiere, i had to check 'scale to project dimensions' before i added the video to the timeline, or the result was a smaller picture with black space around it. In Nero, it just transcoded and burned the mov, asking if i wanted to change to NTSC, to which i answered yes. No reference to the size. Could this be the reason for the poorer quality video from Premiere? If so, what can I do about that?
I used the default high-quality settings in Premiere, plus the 'maximize bitrate' and 'force variable bit rate' options.

What's going on here? What am i missing?

thanks for any information,
NJ

[P***@adobeforums.com]

PPro is an editor. It's not really designed to be a transcoder or a utility to convert compressed PAL files into compressed NTSC files. If the NERO app worked well, why worry about doing the same thing in PPro?

[N***@adobeforums.com]

Because I need to edit the audio track, and there appears to be no way to do this in Nero.

[P***@adobeforums.com]

If you do that a lot, you ought to get a standalone transcoder such as ProCoder to convert the PAL MOV file to NTSC DV.AVI before editing it in PPro. Then, after editing, export an NTSC MOV file from PPro.