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Very confused with HD
My life with NTSC 29.97 has been and with work-flow has been easy up until the HD and HDV has weaseled its way into my life.
I have a 8min project. Green screen actor shot with sony FX1 on HDV, keyed out, brought into AE over full HD background. So resolution is 1920×1080/29.97 I also have in between scenes all done in AE in Full HD. These are brougt back into premiere, but to what preset? its not HDV, but my only other options are 24,or 23.97, either interlaced or progressive. I will be rendering out for bluray AND “old school” NTSC. im not sure what to do now that im coming back into premiere for editing. If i go with preset 23.97, i can choose “i” or “p”. So what to do? it seems silly to change from 29.97 in editing only to have to go back and reformat yet again for an NTSC file.
I used the 23.97 preset and rendered to mpeg2 720×480 widescreen, threw it on dvd and it look absolutely awful. I havnt got the bluray burner in to burn a hi res sample yet, so cant tell you what that looks like. I have read several articles but the more i read the more confused i am as to the premiere presets.
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You don’t have to use presets, go to the general tab and choose your settings there.
So if you are working in progressive 29.97 uncompressed, choose desktop mode, change the frame rate and size accordingly, and change your fields to none.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Thanks, i will give that a try right now. I figured the presets were prob the safest route for best output. Am i understanding that 29.97p is the safest output not knowing whether the final playback device is progressive or interlaced, or able to convert on the fly?
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To get the best results in H.D., you should maintain your fps (frames per second). If you have material that was shot at 30fps, then you should also edit in 30fps for best results.
I am presently editing a documentary that was shot at 23.976fps, but I’ve purchased lots of stock footage that was shot at 30fps. The syncing of frames is sometimnes unnacceptable, depending on the shot. For example, closeups of a trains tracks was jittery and jumpy, and completely unusable. But people walking and talking in a normal manner was acceptable.
For best end results, keep everything the same througout production and post-production.
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