I tried exporting my movie in premiere to start burning copies for my showing this saturday, but the file ended up being 14.4 GB. The movie is 1 hr and 9 minutes long, does that size seem right? Will I have to put it into 4 DVDs? Is there a way to lower the size without lowering the quality too much? Thanks.

If I convert with a codec to a home theatre mode, should everything fit on 4.7 GB DVD?

try renering in dvd quallity witch is 680x something

These are the best instructions for exporting to a DVD in Premiere. It requires TMPEnc which I believe has a free trial of its MPEG encoder (required for DVD exporting) but after 30 days or so you must purchase it.

1. Export your timeline using Microsoft DV AVI codec.

2. Open TMPEnc and follow the wizard that opens automatically. By the end of its conversion you'll have a .m2v and .wav file that you can import into any DVD authoring program that's ready to burn onto DVD.

This is the best way to export onto DVD. However if you don't want to bother with any of these extra programs and are willing to suffer with Premiere's poor MPEG exporter, go to Export --> Adobe MPEG Encoder and select DVD settings.

I exported the timeline as the DV Avi, and then tried to put the file into the TMPEnc MPEG encoder but it wouldn't let me put the video into it. It said it was an unsupported file type, but I was able to put it into the audio box. What should I do?

That's odd. Your best bet is to re-export it as uncompressed and try again.

I had previously tried encoding it with a different codec, divx I think for home theatre mode. I then tried to find the original file, to put into the TMPEnc one and thought I had found it, but is this the file that has already been compressed, and is that why I can't select a video file. Will I need to re-export it as a DV avi from premiere?

Woops, just missed your last post. Thanks a lot!

Why use Microsoft DV avi? Why not Quicktime DV, or even better, uncompressed quicktimes?