Conversion

[Steven L. gotz]

The way I do it is to put the HDV in a SD project and scale it down. That gives me the option to pan and scan to get the best parts of the larger frame in to the smaller frame. Then I export to DV-AVI from there.

It is possible to export to DV AVI directly from the timeline.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Baz Leffler]

A quick way is to…

1/ open a new DV project
2/ import your HDV project
3/ block select all clips in the timeline (ctlA)
4/ right click set “scale to frame size”

But remember, as Steven suggests, you also have the ability to zoom up/reframe HDV in a DV project giving added versatility but remember you are zooming up mpeg artifacting as well.

Baz

[Steven L. gotz]

Baz,

That is not true in Premiere Pro 2.0 unless you do what you said to do in step 4. I highly suggest that people use the scale parameter in the Motion effect instead. That allows you to go from 40% back up to 100% with no artifacting at all. If you use “scale to frame size” then the image is rasterized at that size and can not be up scaled back to 100% of the original because the new image is already at 100%. Never use “scale to frame size”. It is a mistake. Adobe fouled up. The quality of the smaller image is not as good as an image scaled to the same size using Motion.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com