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HDV Workflow
I am very familiar with the Adobe suite of products, but have only recently made the move out of SD into HDV, and I have finally settled a pretty good workflow, but I have had one minor issue that is driving me up the wall.
I import my Canon HV20 HDV tape into a Premiere CS4 HDV 1080 60i sequence. I then use dynamic link to bring that sequence into AE CS4 in an HDTV 1080p comp to do some color correction, among other things, then I render it losslessly, bring in the lossless render to Premiere and encode out to MPEG2-DVD.
The result is great on my widescreen TV, but when viewing it on a standard TV, I am losing the left and right. I can tell my player to zoom out and I see the whole picture, but it is my understanding that the DVD player should understand where the edge of the frame is and display with letterboxing, which it is doing to a point, but still cutting off the left and right.
Am I doing something wrong? Is it my DVD player? If anyone has any helpful hints or if I did not provide enough info, please, HELP!
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4 Replies
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Perhaps your DVD player does have some settings that would address this??
Sounds like the video is displaying in Pan & Scan mode. You can edit the IFO files to prevent this, with IFOEdit.
Here’s a little bit about how to use IFOEdit…
https://www.handcranked.newinelabs.com/tutorials/IFOEdit.htmJust a few ideas
Vince
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After some playing around, it did turn out to be the DVD player I was using. Pulled a DVD out of my collection, and it had the same cutoff, left and right.
Canon HV20 shot in HDV mode -> Premiere CS4 HDV 1080(60i) -> Dynamic Link to AE CS4 HDTV 1080p comp, render lossless -> Premiere CS4 export rendered file as MPEG2-DVD, quality 5, 29.97 drop-frame, progressive, widescreen, VBR 2 pass, min-6, target-7, max-8, no multiplex (get two files instead of one), PCM audio, clicked the filter box and gave a value of 1 on Gaussian blur, which softens the image.
I put it onto a DVD and it looks great on my Tube TV with a DVD player, and on my HDTV with a Blu-ray player.
I hope this helps somebody else.
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Trying to follow this workflow using my Canon XH-A1 footage shot HDV 1080 60i…
When you write that you “render it losslessly” from AE and then import that footage to Premiere for the DVD mpeg2 output, what format are you using for lossless output, Quicktime? something else?
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I render out as an avi, import to Premiere CS4, then render it out as MPEG2-DVD, using CBR 7.
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