• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Best ways to edit and export DV in CS6

  Posted by John Pastuch on July 6, 2012 at 4:43 am

  This is sort of a blast from the past, but I need to edit quite a bit of DV footage, some anamorphic, some 24p, some just regular Dv NTSC (all separate projects).

  I have a fairly fast computer so I never experience any problems playing unrendered footage on the timeline.

  My problem comes when I need to export. I have titles and of course, they look plain awful when I export them in h.264 or any other codec, and I assume it’s because I’m editing with the DV codec.

  I tried creating a new sequence that uses no compression, copy and pasted everything to it, then exported everything uncompressed AVI. The titles look noticably better, but my anamorphic footage is now 4:3, even with the PAR set up correctly.

  At this point I’m a bit burnt out and basically just need the optimal workflow for both DV footage and sharp looking titles.

  I’ve read this: https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles.php

  And it basically says if you want GREAT titles, do NOT compress to DV. So what do I do? Again, editing on the timeline is no problem, so I can edit in basically whatever codec needed to make my export looking as sharp as possible.

  Can I have the best of both worlds here?

  John Pastuch replied 13 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Pulera

  July 9, 2012 at 4:04 pm

  In AME, make sure “Use Previews” is UNchecked. Hope that helps with titles, so they are not being pre-rendered to something undesirable before export.

  As for incorrect Pixel Aspect Ratio, when encoding anamorphic video for use on the web, you have to convert to square pixels since most players just assume square pixels and do not consider the PAR of the source video. For NTSC DV, export as 854×480 with 1.0 PAR (Square pixels). This will look correct as 16:9 in QuickTime, Windows Media Player, web, etc.

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers
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  John Pastuch

  July 18, 2012 at 5:34 am

  Ah, so I have to convert to square pixels? That was the thing I wasn’t sure about and I didn’t even try because I figured that would mess up the math behind the PAR and the 16×9 fitting into 720×480, but now that I think about it I suppose it makes sense.

  Thanks.

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