Problems with my render from Premiere Pro

[Ayyappadas Vijayakumar]

hi

create a new sequence with all the settings you want for your final sequence and then copy and paste all the contents from your existing sequences on to your new sequence which you created just now and make sure you turn on frame blending down at the bottom of render settings. Its makes life much better by blending the frames when the input fps does not match with the output fps…

[Gabriel Sanchez]

Your render settings seem to be ok, i see no problem there.
Have you tried sending your PPro sequence directly to Encore via Dynamic Link? You´ll need to set the transcoding options and quality within Encore, but perhaps you find some changes in the results.
Regards

[John Frey]

Have you thought of creating a BluRay version of your reel? While most people still ask for DVD’s, giving them a choice and encouraging them to view the BluRay will certainly show your HD oriented work in it’s best light. Good luck.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Tobias Andersen]

Many thanks for your replies 🙂

Ayyappadas: I’m not entirely sure why I need to make a new sequence? Couldn’t I just tick the frame blending? I will do some testing with that.

Gabriel: I will try it out – though I prefer to keep it simple and just render out a file from Premiere which I can then use in Encore – I feel more comfortable doing it this way, if I can get it to work 🙂

John: I have been thinking about it as I think it’s a shame if my work is only going to be seen in SD (it can be seen in HD online though) – I will consider that – thanks 🙂

[Chris Tompkins]

Your program is 24FPS and your creating a PAL DVD 25fps?
If so, Frame blending might help.

The occasional glitch, colored line or so in some shots in the premiere sequence can be fixed.

Alter the clip in some way to force it to unrender or have to rebuild.
Can put an emty title over it and render, these will usually fix this stupid, less the pro problem.

Then export to your Mpeg2 Preset for DVD.

Import those files into Encore.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Tobias Andersen]

Yes I’m creating 25fps from 24fps – I assumed it was best to use 25fps for the DVD?

I tried to add an empty title in a new video track for the entire sequence, but I’m still seeing this colored line 🙁

It doesn’t do this when I render out an h264 mp4 file.

Do you have any other ideas on how to fix the issue?

edit:

I just tried to render PAL 4:3 instead of widescreen and now I don’t get the lines – could that explain anything?

[Chris Tompkins]

Are you making a PAL or NTSC DVD?

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Tobias Andersen]

I’m making a PAL DVD.

[Conrad Olson]

From what I remember you can put 24p content on a PAL DVD and the DVD player will do the frame conversion (just a speed up). I think that is how most Hollywood DVDs are mastered.

As for DVD/Blu-Ray for reels, I would only make on if the company you have applied to requests one. Most places don’t expect physical copies these days. An HD video on Vimeo or Youtube looks miles better than a DVD, and they can choose to watch and SD version if they need to.

I think most places would view the reel on a computer, even if it was on a DVD, and blu-ray drive adoption isn’t that high to be worth the effort (especially if the person viewing your reel is on a Mac)

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conradolson.com

[Tobias Andersen]

I tried to crop my video a bit in the top and bottom since I was having small black bars on the left and right in the render from Premiere – this also removed the colored lines! 🙂 I am not 100% sure if my calculation on how many pixels I need to cut away is correct – but since the pixel aspect ratio in premiere for PAL widescreen is 1,458 and the resolution is 720*576, this should result in a display aspect ratio of 1,8225 (720/576*1,458) so to make my source match this I found I needed to remove 26,5 pixels in the vertical resolution – so either 13 or 14 in top and bottom – and 13 seems to work. Does this sound resonable? 🙂

I’m also thinking I should use CBR encoding and a bitrate of 7 Mbps since my clip is so short anyways – but to me there isn’t much of a difference between this and the default VBR 2 pass settings with min bitrate 2.8, target 5 and Max 7 Mbps – do you think one of these settings is better than the other in terms of playback compatibility?

Finally, I’m a little unsure about the settings for the audio – the audio isn’t really important so I was thinking to use Dolby Digital 128kbps – though I often see PCM mentioned – does this choice have an influence on the compatibility?

I hope that’s not too many questions, I appreciate everyone’s help very much 🙂

Conrad: I agree, it looks much better on Vimeo and I do generally send through a link, but actually quite a few of the companies that I intend to apply to ask for a DVD, so I better make one that looks as good as possible 🙂