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Editing Together Different HD Formats
I’m about to edit an HD video made up of stock HD footage. Since the footage came from different sources, however, the clips are all different HD formats. The project will be output in 720p 23.976 fps. I have footage ranging from 1080p to 1080i to 720p, and in different fps (though most are already 23.976). Luckily, they are all 16:9 with 1.0 pixel aspect ratio, and almost all Quicktime with Photo JPEG codec.
I know NLEs scale pretty poorly. So my question is, how should I go about this? Should I just drop all the footage in Premiere Pro with the sequence set to the settings I want? Or do I need to process each clip in After Effects to get them all in the same format?
I appreciate any feedback…thanks for your help!
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I had an answer, argued with myself, lost the argument, consulted my inner child, and still had trouble deciding what to tell you.
Scaling from 1080 to 720 is not usually that bad. You might find that you like certain parts of the 1080 footage frames better than others and you might want to adjust to center the best part of the larger frame into the smaller frame size.
As long as you make that decision in After Effects before exporting it to be used in Premiere Pro, I believe that you will be happier converting everything to match in After Effects. I don’t believe that the generational loss will be as big a problem as trying to deal with different footage might be.
Only you can check it and find out for yourself. Play with a couple of different clips. One with lots of motion. One with very little. If it looks good, do it that way.
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OK…so I will use After Effects to scale my 1080 clips down to 720. I’ll experiment to see what looks best.
What is the best way to bring down the framerate? Most of my clips are in 23.976, but I have a few in 30fps and 25fps. Under the playback settings (under project settings) in Premiere Pro there is a choice for “24p Conversion Method.” Should I just bring the clips into PP and have it scale the framerate for me (option “Repeat Frame ABBCD” or “Interlaced Frame 2:3:3:2,” I suspect Repeat Frame…), or should I use something like Magic Bullet in After Effects?
Also, what is the best way to convert interlaced frames to progressive? Similar approach to lowering the framerate?
Thanks so much in advance!!
Kyle
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I don’t know for sure, but if I were you, I would start by making the frame size, frame rate, and deinterlacing issues happen during export from After Effects. Do it all there. If that looks good to you, then great. If not, then you might need to do the work inside AE instead of just during the export.
Steven
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If you’re curious to know how to match frame rates in After Effects, Andrew Kramer just posted a nifty tutorial on how to use one of his designed effects to convert one frame rate to another and back again.
It’s not “wow” impressive like he said, but it’s geeky and effective!
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I said “Wow!” when I saw it. But then, I m a geek.
I missed that tutorial. I watch all his podcasts, but I must have missed some tutorials.
Steven
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Whoops. I meant I watch all of “the” podcasts, not “his” podcasts. I don’t want to have people looking all over for something that does not exist.
Steven
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Thanks so much for all your help…my converted clips look great now!
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