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  Workflow settings in Premiere Pro for delivery of HD to SD on DVD for TV playback

  Posted by Tom Smith on April 23, 2012 at 6:37 pm

  OK so while I am a good editor in terms of story telling and technique, the technical side concerning formats and codecs is not something I understand clearly yet. Someone I know has come to me wanting to get an episode of something aired on a local station. They want the show in SD on a first play DVD like you would make in Encore (which I am using).

  The camera my contact is using is a Sony HVR HD-1000U. They are then taking that footage into iMovie and doing rough edits and then they export as quicktime/h.264 for me to then turn into a final cut. I am using Premiere Pro.

  So questions:

  1: Should they be exporting as something else to me instead of that codec?
  2: Should I be using a 16:9 sequence to edit? If so, A: should I export out of Premiere as 4:3 to use in Encore, or export out as 16:9 and let Encore to the converting to 4:3?
  3: Should I be using a 4:3 sequence to edit?
  4: My contact said he would like there to be no pillarboxing and would rather letterboxing.

  If there is any sort of material I can read to fully get a grasp on this aspect of the game, I would appreciate a link 🙂

  Tom Smith replied 14 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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