Premier Pro and Aspect HD

[Redgum]

Do you mean HDV? If so, export timeline HDV to tape and use your camera/vcr to downconvert to SD 4:3 on a SD VCR or camera (or back to timeline).

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

[Tim Kolb]

I use Aspect and have elected to export to 4×3 SD letterboxed for the effect a couple of times. If you’ve shot and protected for 4:3, you can export out of the Aspect project…then you would have to crop once you brought the 16:9 clip back in…

I actually use ProCoder and feed it the CFHD exported master clip and output and crop in one step, it works pretty well.

Be wary of exceptionally high contrast edges in the HD footage though. I usually have to back off on the luma levels and add a tiny blur to knock out the high frequency visual edges, otherwise I’ve seen some “ringing” in the SD output.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Annabelle36]

Can you just dub this out to a vcr? I have tried this and cannot get a signal out. I go through a capopus box so I can adjust audio on the fly through a mixer.

[Steven L. gotz]

No, dubbing is not really possible. I use Aspect HD and I can just export to a SD DV-AVI, then export that to a VCR from a SD project.

[Tim Kolb]

[annabelle] “Can you just dub this out to a vcr? I have tried this and cannot get a signal out. I go through a capopus box so I can adjust audio on the fly through a mixer.”

I’m not sure I understand…Aspect won’t output via FW. However, the audio meters inside PPro and some decent reference monitors should tell you the truth…

Hopefully the audio mix will be done by the time you are downconverting to SD or DV or MPEG2/DVD or whatever…

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Redgum]

Sorry Annabelle, I must have misread your question, hence the question about HDV. I run my timeline back to the Z1 (HDV) and then dub straight from the camera to a DV VCR in SD 4:3. Like Tim says, you need to have shot with 4:3 in mind originally.

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

[Annabelle36]

Since I am talking about a half hour show it’s probably best to just start a new DV project. Import the 720p AVI file into the DV project resize it to fit 4:3 and render out an SD DV file. That file can then be sent to a DV deck via the normal procedure.

I’m just looking for a way to avoid spending all the time re-rendering after resizing the video for an entire half hour show. I’ll have to do a test and see how long that will take. I do have a dual 3.0 Xeon but it takes a long time to do this with even short clips.

[Redgum]

Hopefully Prem Pro V2 will help in this area?

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia