Burning DVD, Blu-ray, or AVCHD Discs

After you’ve previewed your disc and have checked the menus and button names, you’re ready to record the project to a DVD or Blu-ray Disc. Of course, if you’re producing an AVCHD disc, you don’t have to add menus, which aren’t available in the AVCHD format. As noted at the beginning of the chapter, you must have a DVD recorder to produce a DVD or AVCHD disc, or a Blu-ray Disc writer to record a Blu-ray Disc.

When making any of these discs, Premiere Elements converts your video and audio files into a compressed format. Briefly, compression shrinks your original video and audio files to fit them on a disc. For example, a 60-minute video in DV or HDV format requires approximately 13 GB of hard disk space. However, a DVD-Video holds only 4.7 GB of space. So how do you fit a 13 GB video onto a 4.7 GB disc? Through compression!