[Aanarav Sareen]

Project specs? Clip specs?

[Aanarav Sareen]

Premiere doesn’t do this real well. Canopus Procoder or another dedicated compression app might be the right choice.

[Aanarav Sareen]

[matemago] “by the way, thanks Aanarav for tryin this at home. !”

Not a problem! Keep us posted on how you make out.

[Aanarav Sareen]

Speaking of Dennis, I was reading past NAB reports and https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/kutchera_dennis/nab2001/index.html Look towards the end. 2006 is here!

[Aanarav Sareen]

I really wanted to try this out, so I spent the better part of the night testing this:

I took a random 30 minute clip and using Premiere Pro’s encoder, exported it as MPEG2. This 30 minute clip is the equivalent of your promo. It took me around 100 minutes to do this.

I then created an Encore project with the opening menus and with the encoded MPEG2 file.

Then, I setup a camera and by using ScLive (https://www.scenalyzer.com) I started capturing 2 minute segments.

Imported a single 2 minute segment into Encore DVD and it took 12 minutes to encode and burn. HOWEVER, I was using 16x DVDs. This is almost double the time of what you are looking for. Therefore, if you can find a way of capturing the file as an MPEG2 clip, such that you don’t have to wait for it to encode, you can reduce the time by almost 4 minutes. I don’t have the ability to capture MPEG2 source files, but I **think** Sorenson Squeeze does have that feature.

I like Eric’s idea though. Burn the disc only if the customer is interested. Capture the footage as AVI, show it to them and if they like it, burn it to a disc. Once you know that they are interested in clip, I am sure they wouldn’t mind waiting a few minutes.

[Aanarav Sareen]

Hmm…I am going to try this out with something of the same duration. 5 minutes shouldn’t be a problem at all. Let me give it a shot this weekend and I will report back.

[Aanarav Sareen]

Try this: https://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MINI-WIRELESS&cpc=SCH&srm=0

It doesn’t have firewire output, but it should be good enough for testing purposes, due to its price. But, if you want to spend more $$, call up B&H and they will gladly reccomend a few itmes.

[Aanarav Sareen]

We often do live broadcasts using a wireless transmitter and a wireless reciever. Could you not set up a wireless transmitter on the camera and a wireless firewire transmitter on an authoring station, with clips constantly being captured?

Here is one possible way:

1) Make sure you have a reliable capturing application. Take a look at ScLive if on PC
2) Make sure that the promo is rendered and compressed to go on the DVD
3) Create a DVD template project, which holds the promo and some space for titles, which could be instantly changed.
4) As soon as the jump happens, capture the jump via an app.
5) Bring the file into the DVD authoring app
6) Burn the DVD

Shouldn’t take more than 5-7 mins on a fast system.

[Aanarav Sareen]

I prefer Premiere Pro over Avid, primarily because I don’t like Avid’s modal way of editing. However, if you are happy with Avid, why are you considering switching over?

[Aanarav Sareen]

Apply the clip or the crop filter and gradually reveal the text.