Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity › Forums › Adobe Premiere Pro › Convert HDV to SD in project

  • Adobe Premiere Pro

    Convert HDV to SD in project

    Posted by Sara Blom on January 26, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    Dear all,

    The last months I have been editing on a documentary in Adobe Premiere Pro in HDV.

    Now the documentary is accepted by a television station but they can’t do anything with HDV yet,

    so they’ve asked me to hand over a SD tape.

    I got very stuck here because so far I haven’t even been able to export anything to tape yet (HDV or SD). Either the camera doesnt record or when playing it back no image or sound appears. Could you please tell me what might be going wrong during capturing?
    And how I can change the HDV to SD in the project so I can export it as SD to a mini dv tape? (on a SD camera).

    Thanks very much…
    Sara

    Stuart Symington replied 16 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies

  • Vince Becquiot

    January 26, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    Export as DV widescreen. Create a new DV widescreen sequence and import the video back in. That should be it.

    Vince Becquiot

    Kaptis Studios
    San Francisco – Bay Area

  • Sara Blom

    January 26, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    Hi Vince,

    Thanks very much for your response, but the thing is
    that I tried that. I made a new project with SD settings and
    I imported a timeline but then the timeline is surrounded by black around it. I mean when I play the time line it appears in a black
    square and ‘scale to frame size’ doesnt help.

    Do you have an other suggestion or do you know what might
    cause the black square?

    thanks…
    Sara

  • Stuart Symington

    February 28, 2010 at 11:59 am

    Hi Sara,

    I just filmed a wedding in HDV on my Canon XhA1. My project is in SD widescreen but I edited it in HDV. After reading your post I tried exporting HDV footage for SD 16.9 several times until I found the best settings so try this. File-Export-Movie (export movie)then in the section for settings before saving for export choose VIDEO then PIXEL ASPECT RATIO!! I used D1/DV PAL widescreen 16.9(1.422) then ok. I then opened a new project in Adobe DV widescreen 16.9 etc etc and imported the footage and it fit perfectly without letterboxing on top or botttom which I did not want in the first place. I am using CS3 but if you are using CS4 maybe you should try the media encoder which I generally use for exporting to the web. Hope this is of some help.

    Regards Stuart

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy