Trying to understand what I’m seeing here (rendering)

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Bill,

What are you exporting this for? DV isn’t really a format used for anything these days.

On your export issues:

Create a new sequence with your current export settings first, then drag your old sequence to this new sequence.

Resize to fit, of course you’ll have bars on the sides since you are going from 16:9 to 4:3, export with these same settings.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Media

Indigo Live
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Bill Morris]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Target format is DVD. It’s for school program videos in a district that’s pretty economically depressed, so Bluray doesn’t have the acceptance it might otherwise. DVD is still the preferred format, and I’m working in 16:9, not 4:3, so conversion between the two isn’t at issue.

As to nested sequences, that seems like unnecessary hoops to jump through. What I’m trying to work out is why my render doesn’t fill the frame, when the settings suggest it should.

[Vince Becquiot]

Got it, given your settings I figured you needed 4:3. Just make sure you use 1.2 (widescreen) and not .9 as your pixel aspect ratio and you should be good to go.

Again, I would avoid DV as an intermediate codec, it will really degrade your footage. You could do an export to Mpeg2 DVD instead.

Cheers,

Vince

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Media

Indigo Live
San Francisco – Bay Area

[James Kumorek]

I imagine you checked this, but any chance you have your program window view zoomed in for this sequence so that it’s actually larger than the program window? I’ve accidentally done this before, and scaled my video so that it “fills” the screen, only to realize later (like when rendering) that while it was filling the preview window, it was scaled smaller than the actual sequence size.

How are you scaling it? Are you using the motion controls and manually adjusting the size? If so, try resetting the scale back to 100% and right-clicking on the clip(s), and picking the option that’s something like “scale to frame” (sorry — don’t have premiere in front of me at the moment). Does that give you the same result?

[Bret Williams]

For that matter, if you shot HD you should edit HD and have an HD master. Then simply downscale/encode that to mpeg2 for DVD as the last step.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Bill,

To recap and expand on what others have shared:

1) Your export setting of 0.9 is for 4:3 DV, the 1.2 widescreen setting would be correct for 16:9 footage.

2) Recommend editing the HD footage in matching HD Sequence.

3) See under the Program Monitor where it says “50%”? That may be the issue, always keep that set to “Fit”.

4) Sounds like you are exporting to DV avi and then using the avi in Encore? No sense double-rendering. Export from HD sequence to “MPEG-2 DVD” using a widescreen preset. The resulting files are Encore-ready without further video transcoding.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Bill Morris]

Thank you for everyone’s input. I’m still learning, and because I do this only as a sideline, the process is a slow one.

My video card isn’t nearly fast enough to cope well with .mts files, so I was looking to render the footage to a format that might display better and make editing less jittery and frustrating.

In experimenting with AVI, DV was the only format available to me, and I KNOW I’ve been able to output in all kinds of resolutions before, and I got stuck on that mindset.

Switching to MPEG-2 opened up the field.

Thank you again!