Timeline/Import/Export Settings for Premiere Pro

[Steve Brame]

The easiest way to create a sequence for your clips is to drag one of the clips onto the New Sequence icon, and one will be created automatically to the correct settings for your clip.

As far as exporting for TV, and I’m assuming you mean for TV broadcast, that will depend upon what is required, or desired, by the outlet receiving your finished project. Contact them for a spec sheet.

For internet use, you probably should stick with any of the YouTube or Vimeo presets for SD 24P.

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[Jay Van]

Hi Steve

Thanks for the response, hard to come by what with HD out and everything.. LOL

But what do I capture the footage as? (24, 30, etc.) What do I set my timeline as? (24, 30, etc)
Then what do I set my export as? (24, 30, etc.)

There are some additional things with those, but I will start with that.

Also I will be adding in additional footage we got using a Canon XL2 and a Canon HD HSLR camera so if anyone knows what settinsg for those also or if there is a “universal” setup for all that would be good too. And yes TV broadcast is what I would be using it for, but that would be down the road and not necessarily now. Main setup will be internet, but would I edit any differently for a broadcast or is that just in the export settings?

Thanks
J

[Steve Brame]

[Jay Van] “But what do I capture the footage as? (24, 30, etc.)”

You capture in whatever specs it was recorded in. In your case that would be SD 24P.

[Jay Van] “What do I set my timeline as?”

As I said, simply drag one of your captured clips onto the New Sequence” button, and the sequence will be created for you with the correct settings.

[Jay Van] “Then what do I set my export as?”

As I said…for internet use, you probably should stick with any of the YouTube or Vimeo presets for SD 24P. Unless you have to meet some specific specs for someone, you should maintain your recorded frame rate and frame size specs for your output specs.

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[Jay Van]

Hi Again Steve

You say just drag it on the sequence, but it asks to create the project first? What will the frames of the project be? 24 or 30? I have read several posts around that indicate that because it is a tape camera recording 24p to 29.97, that you import it as 29.97 and the project as 29.97, then I hear to capture as 24 and have the project set as 30, I also heard capture as 30 and project settings as 30. I am getting mixed info here and i just need some clarification.

Also keep in mind this is Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.

[Steve Brame]

When you first create a project, you are asked for the setting of the initial sequence. A project has no frame rate settings. Just accept the default setting for this initial sequence, because your going to delete that sequence anyway – you wont be using it. Once your project is created, and your clips captures from tape, simply drag one of your captured clips from the Project Panel onto the “New Item” icon at the bottom of that panel. That will create a new sequence with the exact settings that you need.

Here is a great video explaining more…

https://adobe.ly/zsAgCc

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[Jay Van]

Hi Again Steve

Thank you so much for your help, I will give that a try and let you know what happens. Probably won’t be for a few days. But I definitely appreciate your help with this.

Also if I am adding additional footage from other cameras for instance a Canon XL2(24p 16:9) and a Canon HD DSLR camera, if I do the same thing. I then export the whole things as 24p out? Is that correct? I just want to double check that.

[Steve Brame]

Typically you edit in a timeline that matches the highest settings of what you need the final output to be, with consideration to what your footage is recorded in. If your footage is mostly SD, as yours sounds to be, then you should edit in SD, and either convert your HD footage to SD via the camera, or easier yet, simply use the HD clips from the camera and scale them down when in the timeline.

Not to offend, but you are asking some very basic questions and I think that you would benefit greatly from watching some of the training videos both here and at Adobe TV.

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[Gabriel Sanchez]

CS3 has not the feature for creating new sequence dragging and dropping a clip in the new item button, it came with CS5. So take a look at your footage with Mediainfo (https://mediainfo.sourceforge.net), and set a sequence manually fitting this footage settings of format, codec, resolution, frame rate, etc…. If you have no preset for this, just create one in the Adjust tab of the New Sequence window.
Regards

[Jay Van]

Yes Gabriel you are correct that CS3 does not have that capability as I just found out when I went to “look”. I think Steve assumed the programs being the same, but that is ok as he was more then helpful with the other stuff. I came across another posting at another site that said I needed to setup new project in DV-24p project, then import as 29.97 footage. Then drop in footage and edit in 24p timeline. Then export as 23.976 for internet and 60i for TV broadcast. Sound right?