[Andy Garrett]

Thanks Lokendra, that worked.

[Andy Garrett]

Thanks again Jon.

Perhaps you could give me some advice on a similar, but opposite problem I’m having.

I have an MTV music video from the 90’s saved on Digital Betacam. I took it to a post house yesterday to get it digitized from Digital Betacam.

They use Final Cut Pro and gave me MOV files (one uncompressed) the other supposedly in an HDV container, however neither one will import into Premiere (or play in Quicktime on Windows 7).

Is there any specific filetype and settings I can tell the Final Cut editor to render it out in a format Premiere on Windows will recognize.

Thanks

[Andy Garrett]

Thanks Jon,

Do you know how I can export using QT JPEG2000? I can’t find any settings in Adobe Media Encoder which indicate this?

[Andy Garrett]

“If you need to present only trimmed files, export MOV files, jpeg2000 @ 100%, uncompressed audio”

Sorry, but I’m still nowhere with this. Export “MOV” files? How? There’s no export setting for MOV files.

Don’t see anything indicating “JPEG2000” either.

“Look into” Avid DNxHD? Not sure if this will help me export from Premiere Pro? Cineform? What about Cineform, how can this help me.

Sorry, I’m very frustrated at Adobe – most people seem to use Final Cut Pro and I guess I’m going to have to throw away the funds I spend on CS5 and switch to Final Cut if I can’t find a solution to this.

Does anyone have specific settings that will allow me to export from Premiere Pro CS5 to edit in Final Cut.

This is a situation that has come up over and over because almost everyone I deal with edits in Final Cut Pro.

[Andy Garrett]

That doesn’t solve my problem because I need to trim the clips first editing out junk I don’t want others to see. An XML File would not accomplish that as I would still be sending him my original video files.

Is there a way to export video from Premiere Pro CS5 (on Windows 7) to any format that can be read (or transcoded to Pro Res) on a Mac?

Given the $$ I spent for Premiere Pro you would think this could be done.

[Andy Garrett]

I just installed 2.0 and when I go to a Sequence that has a number of sub-sequences in it Premiere Pro 2.0 comes to a halt – it continues to use processing power and 1.5 Gigs of Ram but freezes and eventually crashes. I’ve tried re-installing it but the same thing.

I have the latest top of the line Sony Vaio desktop “RC210” P4 3GHZ Dual Processor with 2 gigs of ram and raid 0 Hard drives.

I don’t know what’s going on.

[Andy Garrett]

As I have mentioned previously, any scaling of clips in Premiere using Transform or via scaling clips to project dimensions in Premiere Pro 1.5 causes significant softening. Event DV had an article on various editing softwares and in their test of HDV footage being resized in Premiere they found this softening as well.

I was simply trying to permanently letterbox 16×9 footage by importing it into a 4×3 project but even this causes unacceptable softening of the image.

Basically Premiere sucks at resizing or using transform to zoom in on an area.

[Andy Garrett]

I did a test which simplifies the problem. I took various 16×9 anamorphic clips shot on a Panasonic at 30FPS and a couple shot on a Sony at 60fps and imported them into a 4×3 Premiere Project and re-saved the clips (as a Microsoft DV-AVI, lower field first). I put the same clips into Vegas and re-saved them as 4×3 lower field first. In both cases the clips are now permanently letterboxed.

I then put the new letterboxed clips into Premiere on top of each other and toggled one track on and off. It’s very clear that the Premiere Letterboxed AVI’s are much softer than the ones rendered in Vegas. At least by as much as if I had applied a Photoshop Blur filter to it.

This result I think is in line with the Event DV article on NLE’s when it said that HDV footage zoomed in Premiere gave poor results while the same done in Vegas gave very good results. In both cases Premiere is re-rendering footage to a different size.

The bottom line for me is that Premiere Pro is useless to do transforms which re-size pictures or putting picture in picture etc if you are critical about the resultant quality.

[Andy Garrett]

The problem is I need to edit this footage in Vegas and then send it back to Premiere. I’ve tried to save it as a Microsoft AVI uncompressed but it loses the 16×9 flag. Is there a way to save it uncompressed in the 16×9 format?