[Akash Negi]

thanks very much Jeff, you helped me a great deal in all this. Now I think I understand the technicalities a little better than before.. As for the video that I was talking about, I created a menu with three buttons and added two more sequences in encore and am currently rendering that.. Now I think it should all be well.

thanks for all your suggestions and tips.

cheers.
Akash.

[Akash Negi]

Oh yeah.. the joy of video editing!! 22 hours was definitely sick.. sicker than that was the fact the my computer had 4 KB of free space when the rendering was about to be finished! My system is the unibody MB-Pro with 320 GB and 4 GB and a dedicated graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT).

and maybe this is the reason that the end 10 minutes was missing.. I checked again to see the saved work area and saw that it included the last 10minutes also.. I exported the entire sequence..

In the preview window in adobe Media Encoder, I saw that the entire video (including the last 10 mins) was rendered.. but missing from the DVD. at the same time I right saw in my system that my free space is decreasing rapidly.. so to free space for the .mpg sequence being rendered, I quickly emptied the trash which held about 5-6 GB of trash. Maybe I was not quick enough and the mpg sequence was rendered until the point it had free space..

Having said that, I think that now I need to look into hardware aspect of vid editing.. Very first priority is storage– maybe a 2-4TB RAID for archiving and/or storage for active projects..

then maybe this summer I will also configure a desktop system. However, I do not quite know all the technical stuff..

AJA Kona card– I have heard a lot about this in different communities.. In my understanding it is a card that has an input for a cable from the camera (?firewire,Hdmi, HD-SDI?) and just captures the video from the camera in real time.. For now what I do with my AVCHD files is that I first plug my Sony Xr520v to the computer and then import all the movies from iMovie. and then import in Premiere.

then there is a Blackmagic Intensity Pro– basically the same thing but a different brand..

then there is the hardware that accelerates the rendering? You said that you have Matrox RT.X2.. what are these kinds of hardware called? Kona card and Intensity would be called a Video Capture card?

Is there like any tutorial at CreativeCow.net that explains the hardware equipment for video editing?

I am sorry if I threw a lot of questions at you, but I am just curious..

Thanks very much,
Akash

[Akash Negi]

**update**
I just tried it opening in VLC player and it works perfect.. still the last 10 minutes is missing, but the video quality and sound is all there.. I also imported it in Pr timeline and works good also..

Is there any audio codec that I could be missing in Quicktime??

thanks.

[Akash Negi]

So I finally have a .mpeg file.. but the problem is that I don’t hear any audio in the file, nor is there a different file for all the audio.. The video quality looks good but it is not of the full length, it is 1 hour and 14 minutes whereas the project was 1 hour and 24 minutes..

the file size is 3.67 GB

so 2 probs..

—10 minutes short
—no audio ( no separate files either)

this rendering took 22 hours and 38 minutes!!! it used the settings that I posted earlier in the thread..

Please help!!
thanks..

[Akash Negi]

ahh I see what you mean.. and yeah this is my first DVD that I am creating like an official DVD.. my prior DVDs were just simple .mpg file burned to a DVD just like an archive..

and I used 2 pass VBR because the video has a lot of motion and some 3d transitions.. but given the current settings if the final output is not good, then i am going to just ditch the VBR and go with CBR 5.51..

thanks very much..

[Akash Negi]

Yes i am in 1920 x 1080i.
Because I did not want to create a menu for my DVD, I went straight to Adobe media encoder and not Encore, but as you said about the quality issue, i will try the Encore rendering also.

Ok, so I don’t need to de-interlace.

The current rendering that has taken over 10 hours and is halfway done is the following settings..

VBR 2 pass, target-5.51, min-2.56, max-8.49
NTSC, 720×480, 29.97 drop frame, progressive, quality 5.0
audio – 48kHz, 16 bit and PCM.

what the problem looks like is that I chose Progressive in the custom settings thinking that many old TVs won’t have de-interlacing engine, but I think that DVD player should have a de-interlacing engine so the TV could be very old and still display clear video..

Well, I am a little confused for all this de-interlacing and interlacing thing.. What I want is that viewers don’t see the same kind of footage that I edited .. I had to suffer through the horizontal lines in the preview in my Macbook Pro.

THANKS very much for the detailed reply..

[Akash Negi]

Yes, I am aware of the fact that 1080i converted to Mpeg-2 for DVD will be degraded in quality, while Bluray should retain the quality.. But the problem is that most people who are going to use this DVD will not have BD player at home.. so Mpeg-2 is the only solution here.

thanks very much, I actually started to encode it in the Mpeg-2 format, I will see how it looks..

Cheers..

[Akash Negi]

Thanks a ton for that. Basically I was reluctant to spend extra money on 35mm lenses. But, at the same time, I wanted the image quality of a DoF adapter.

But now I know that to use an adapter, I will need to buy some extra 35mm lenses.

Thanks a lot.