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Newbie needs help ‘please’
Although I have been a member for almost a year I always try to do things myself but on this occaison I am having difficulties.
I posted this yesterday at around 6pm in the Premiere pro forum but no one there answered, I was hoping that maybe someone here may know.First of all thank you guys for any help you may offer I appreciate it sincerely.
I am a photographer that is now beginning to work with film/video using Adobe Premiere Pro, it’s still very new to me please understand that I am doing my best but some things still seem hard. One thing in particular is making the text for subtitles so viewers with hearing difficulties can see it on the screen is giving me a headache as after I have rendered the selection and converted it as an avi file and then view it, the file seems very poor in quality (not really sharp even the picture seems wishy washy in comparison to the footage shot in adobe premiere pro???)
Am I doing something wrong? Should I be saving it in another format?
The documentary is may first to date I have shot over 10 hours of video for a film that will be around 30 minutes in length, I have been selecting the best pieces for the final edit and most of them rendering into AVI into a folder called ‘selected cuts’, I am ready to do the final edit on them but am really unhappy with the apparent lack of quality on the text and also the video.I shot it all shot with a Canon XH-A1,
DV-NTSC,
48Khz,
Widescreen,
29.97fpsAny help much appreciated
Hugh (hmdigiart)
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I’ve had better results doing titles in After Effects, and saving as Uncompressed AVI, Straight (Unmatted) Color with an Alpha Channel.
To make Premiere titles look better I like to add Video Effect/Blur set to zero or at it’s lowest settings. This forces Premiere to render the text as an effect.Since you’re using DV footage, unless you’re doing more advanced post-processing, you should only need to export the project once to your target final format – MPEG-2 for DVD or to a desktop delivery format.
It sounds like you’ve done a sort of preliminary sorting by exporting desired cut clips. This is probably an unnecessary exercise.
With Premiere you could have went straight to a rough cut, than used the Trim Project feature under Project on the main menu, to trim your DV clips. Note, this doesn’t work with MPEG clips.
This trims your clips to the desired length and resaves them unrendered as new clips. It is a nice tool.But, if you do need to export clips they should be exported as Uncompressed AVI or Compressor: None.
Just some ideas
Vince
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