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HMC-150 AVCHD footage into Premiere CS4 and exporting to the European Standards
I would appreciate help from anyone on this question!
I need to produce footage for Europe and need to have the final footage in the following format specifications:
MPEG-2 (or MPEG-4 AVC or part 10, i.e H.264 in Final Cut Pro), PAL, 6000 kbps CBR, 25 fps, interlaced, 1-st field is lower, HD (1920x1080i) or SD (720x576i).However, I have an HMC-150 North American edition whcih shoots in 30 or 60 frames. I shot a sample footage using 1080/60i and then brought it in with the Premier setting of AVCHD 1080/i30(60i). When I exported the video using the above specifications for HD, the video had issues during subject movement (I guess the reason being the difference in frame rate?)
Any suggestions how I should go about producing the footage to these specifications?
1. Should I shoot using a different setting? (30p/30i?)
2. Should I bring it into Premiere using different settings?
3. Do I need to play with Media Encoder settings in addition to the specified requirements above whcih I cannot change?
4. Or do I need to apply an effect within the Premier to ensure it will play smoothly in the required setting ?
– Do I need anotehr version of Premiere Pro?
4. Do I possibly need another software to convert from 30/60 frame rate to 25 frame rate if it is even possible?
6. And finally is the only way to make it work is to get a 25/50 frames Eurpoean Camera? I hope not 🙂Thank you so much!
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4 Replies
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Are you very sure they asked for lower field first ? Normally in broadcast or HD it’s upper field field first. The movement issues could be the wrong field order in your endproduct.
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First of all thanks for answering Jan. Yes, I am sure .. If you have any ideas let me know and by the way I forgot to mention I am using Premiere CS4 Thank you again!
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One more note. I tried using Upper field firtst with very similar results. What did help somewhat is starting up with the 25(50i) setting in Premiere then moving the original clip shot in 60i to the time sequence, then rendering it. Still doesn’t look great but, somewhat bbearable.
What I was wondering if I shoot the footage in 1080/24P or 1080/30P, would this give me better results if I then convrt to 25 frames? I’ll try to experiment and post my conclusion here, unless someone has alraedy done this. Thank you! -
Can you describe the movement issues ? Is it jerky, going back and forth, or bit blurry? Normally going from 30/or60 frames to 25 Will result in a (slightly) slowmotion.
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