Couple of questions

[Vince Becquiot]

Ron,

We’ll need to know where the footage comes from, its PAR, resolution, as well as your project settings.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Ron Dangus]

It’s HD1080i material I recorded with a Sony HDR HC7,captured in PPCS4 and then imported as DV-pal in PPCS3.

Par is 576-704.

These are the settings: https://i44.tinypic.com/1ha6n4.jpg

[Vince Becquiot]

[Ron Dangus] “I’m trying to get clips from PPCS3 intro After Effects CS4, but when I copy paste a clip, it pastes the entire sourcefile instead of just the clip of a few seconds. Anybody know a way around this? “

Are you pasting the clip from your Premiere timeline to the After Effects composition?

In AE, select the composition panel and hit “Home” first to make sure you are at the starting frame in your timeline then use “ctrl+alt+v” to paste the in point at the beginning of that layer.

[Ron Dangus] “Other problem I have: when i export the movie, the quality is a lot less, my 16:9 working material and edited film gets letterboxed in a 4:3 frame. I read that has something to do with compressors, but I can’t find anything in preferences. “

The best way to work in After Effects is square pixels. Set each comp settings to 1920×1080 (HDTV 1080 preset) and export lossless. That should give you the correct resolution and PAR back into Premiere.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Ron Dangus]

Thanks for your response Vince,

Ow, I wasn’t clear enough, I meant exporting in Premiere Pro CS3. I checked the adobe media encoder, and found a bunch of options there. What is the best quality to export? I found 1080p as wmv, as mov, as mpg, … (didn’t find the avi, though).

Mov is completely uncompressed, so I guess that would be the best one, or is isn’t the difference with avi that big? (How do I export a 1080p avi anyways?).

[Vince Becquiot]

Ron,

What are you export for, playback?

Quicktime Animation is as close as it gets to uncompressed. If this is for playback, try H.264 instead. 1920×1080 square.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Alex Udell]

Vince…

“In AE, select the composition panel and hit “Home” first to make sure you are at the starting frame in your timeline then use “ctrl+alt+v” to paste the in point at the beginning of that layer.”

this is a GEM.

the timing offset of straight CTRL V has been driving me bananas….

:^)

Alex

[Ron Dangus]

I’ll get back at the exporting later, cause that’s still giving me problems, but I’ve got a problem with AE too. Thanks to the help of Vince and Alex the importing from PPCS3 footage into AECS4 has worked, but vice versa doesn’t. Any clues?