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Struggling to use 1080, 720 and 540 footage together.
I’ll try to be as clear as I can. This is my first time using Adobe Premiere. I have two years of experience with other simpler editors, like video pad. In those editors, I would never have a problem editing different size footage together. But now, i’m editing a video with footage from my, and two other cameras, they are 1080, 720 and 540.
Here are my concerns:1. I do not know what sequence presets I should choose, whichever I choose messes up with some of the footage.
2. Reading through other forums, I tried going for AVCHD 720 preset and then scaling to frame size the rest of the footage, but when I do this, the video from some camera starts freezing in the videoplay or playing slower
3. Even when I scale, some black edge appears on the edge of the footage and I can’t have that happening.Can someone give me a concrete solution to this? I’ve been struggling with it for 3 days now and if I can’t solve it i’ll have to go back to some other mediocre, yet more clear editor.
I don’t think the freezing is a performance problem. I have a lenovo y570 and i’ve never had any performance issues with it:
Intel core i5 2.40ghz
4 gb RAM
64 bit
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 1GBAny help would be deeply appreciated.
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Well, there are a few things to consider, like what is the framerate of all the footage? Is it mixed like 59.94 and 29.97 and 24 or are all your sources similar?
Secondly, what is your final destination for this footage, your “delivery” format will help you decide how you should edit.
If it’s YouTube then 720 or 1080 works just fine. I would just go with whatever footage you have most of between the two.
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Lets say, for sake of example, most of your footage is 720p29.97. Make a timeline for it and drop the other footage in.
Your 1080 and 540 footage will have to be resized. In your timeline, right click the affected clips and hit “Scale to frame size”. If you have black bars, as I assume the 540 footage isn’t widescreen based on what you’ve said, just select the clip in the timeline and go to the Effects panel where you can scale and position the clip as needed.
In terms of framerate, Premiere will always keep sound sync so if you have a 720p29.97 timeline and throw some 59.94 footage in there, then it will drop frames to keep sound sync.
If you want to show the footage online, then know all computer-based display formats should be Progressive. If you have a mix of interlaced and progressive footage, you’ll have to watch how Premiere behaves with your interlaced footage. Premiere does a decent job of deinterlacing, but third-party plugins or other conversion methods may leave you with a slightly better result for those clips.
Angelo Lorenzo
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I should also say, with a system that is a bit on the weaker side like yours, even though the timeline may be yellow, it only means “this may playback realtime, it may not” so you should probably render your timeline to green for best playback performance. Alternately you can change your playback quality to 1/2 or 1/4.
Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks
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