Alan Lloyd
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Premiere likes Intel and Nvidia.
You can probably do better by building rather than buying, if you shop carefully.
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Until quite recently, Wirecast used to only offer variable frame rate as well.
My hair is somewhat grayer due to having to try to edit a webcast archive done that way.
Thankfully, there were PPT slides to put over it to cover the pull-ups needed to (temporarily) regain audio sync.
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“Title > New title > Based on current title” will give you a copy of your title as it exists.
I’d look at starting with the full title and removing one word at a time for the earlier ones, then arranging them in order and to the timing you are looking for.
(This presumes no movement, just addition of each word in order. For movement, solutions exist, but will take more work.)
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First, yes, get a camcorder. Take the additional cash you would have had to shell out for an outboard audio recorder and other add-ons you’d need to make a DSLR usable for production and look at Sony, Canon, or Panasonic models with XLR audio inputs.
Most if not all the online sellers let you sort by price. Go low-to-high and see what works for you.
And look at a decent tripod as well. Maybe add a monopod if you’ll be moving quickly. Once you practice some with it you can be ready to go in seconds.
And remember, a camera isn’t everything. Lighting, audio, and storytelling make up a large part of a good film.
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[Manuel Berari] “P.P.S. I would also like to understand why DSLR cameras, although costing less, seem to record higher quality videos compared to 10k seemingly professional cameras”
They do not.
DSLRs record far more heavily compressed video, require external audio recording for anything needing quality sound, and are prone to overheating as they chew through batteries.
Even a $2000 camera like the Sony X70 will record a higher quality signal than the equivalently priced DSLR. (50 megabit 4.2.2 color easily beats 28-35 megabit 4.2.0 for any cc’ing, greenscreen work, and more.) Frame and light well and I promise you you’d like the image quality.
By the time you’re up to a $10K price tag (think Sony FS-7 or thereabouts) no DSLR can come close unless the FS-7 is driven by someone who can’t make proper use of it.
(One cranky old guy’s opinion – and I’m old enough to remember dual-system sound with 16mm and have no real nostalgia for those days.)
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Shooting with autofocus is rarely a good idea for that reason.
Is it something you can reshoot?
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I’d go with a DV PAL preset for either regular or widescreen, depending on what it is you shot.
There are YouTube and Android presets for just about anything in the export settings. They are not tied to any particular camera.
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OK, no one else is offering anything in the way of comment.
So…
What are you exporting? (Filetype, aspect ratio, resolution, bitrate, file size – for starters?)
Can you export a DVD “image” file and test it to verify that your settings work? Maybe go grab CS6 Premiere to get Encore and try that part of it yourself?
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Worry less about the camera and more about preparation and lighting.
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Yes on the concatenation. Artifacts build up with recompression.
As for the aspect, 720 x 480 DV widescreen does not have square pixels. It’s 1.2(something) per Adobe. To get a good SD wide as an MP4 the 852 x 480 w/square pixels is (a) what you want, and (b) as mentioned above, a lower resolution than your iPad screen.
That is where the apparent softness originates.