Andy Prada
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“Neoscene” – about $130 – enables Cineform codec capture and is probably one of the best edit friendly codecs on the market. It boasts a number of conversion options and the ability to transcode in true 4:2:2 colour space (HDV is 4:2:0) which produces more vibrant colour in your application and enables better keying.
https://www.cineform.com/neoscene/
The downside is it’s not free.
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It is a pleasure and thank you! It’s always good when someone with a problem actually ‘closes’ a post when they have a satisfactory result. So many people simply take the advice and don’t feed back.
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You’re not by any chance making the desktop video with the same camera as your driving files are you? Ann’s advice regarding the codec needed is good.
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Am I correct in that your file is 1280 x 720 (1.0) aspect ratio? What FPS is it running? – looks jerky as hell to me.
Stuff very often works in Media Player. The question is: Is it editable? Clearly not for CS4. I repeat my original post – try opening in Media Encoder and see if it will convert to a DV avi file format (That’s the preset you have chosen to edit with.)
As a by the way..you might wish to upgrade to CS4 4.2 software – there are a number of improvements.
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If you open the file in Media Encoder (forget Premiere) will it preview?
If so try converting it to the format in which you want to edit in Premiere. Then import to Premiere.
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Hi Lawrence. This is outside of my current thinkbox but…..
I used to run a Targa 1000 Pro board with Speed Razor way back. I certainly still have the Targa board in an antistatic bag in the loft of my house. (I soon after upgraded to a Digisuite LE)
This URL is a good intro for those who have never heard of Truevision Targa kit:
https://ixbtlabs.com/articles/targa3000/index.html
My advice would be to uninstall the Targa board completely and remove the board from your PC. Re-boot. Check that there are no remnants of the Targa software left in the system in the registry. Remove if so. If not shut down the PC and reinstall the card.
Reboot and use the CD to re-install the software. And/or get the latest drivers (1.5 for 6.5?)
Very often the problem is that the software has to know where to put its plug-in information. It needs to find a Premiere 6.5 folder in which to install certain components.
Try this first. If it doesn’t work we’ll try to look for a plan B.
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Tim shows his huge technical knowledge on this and I’m only adding what I know myself and experience week to week. I have my own Premiere Pro setup but also work frequently for clients who have FC Studio and Avids of various kinds. All NLE’s struggle a bit on HD without optimum hardware setup. Crikey! why shouldn’t they when you consider the demands asked of them. I’ve sat in many Avid suites where the edit has ground to a halt for a spot of rendering.
Premiere, in my view, is the most easy and intuitive editor on the market despite it not having much favour with “professionals”. (I have so say, with our combined years experience and portfolio of work and clients I’m not sure how much more professional Tim and I could be – along with many others who frequently post on this site)
Sure, it has ideosyncracies and bugs – show me software that doesn’t.
But for example Premiere’s ability to tightly control motion both temporally and geographically on the timeline is far superior to FCP. You could say that DL alone is worth the money and CS5’s MPE really is a completely different kettle of fish compared to the latest FCP capability.
As you might gather from some previous posts, I’m not adverse to having a pop at Adobe or any other software provider – perhaps sometimes a little harshly – but I’m prepared to admit that this new release is very sorted internally. That is a very important plus point. It just needs everyone else to catch up.
To adapt a well known phrase used in the movie industry: Q: What’s the best version of software you’ve ever worked on. A: The next one!
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John is quite right, CS4/5 now use 1050×576 for imported graphics.
But I think Avid still uses 1024×576 if I’m not mistaken. Problem is – 1050 might be technically more accurate but it’s not absolutely 16:9. Unless you have lots of circles in your picture you won’t notice too much but I appreciate that, from a purists point of view Adobe have got it right.
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I suggest you set up a brand new sequence – Standard PAL DV or Widescreen PAL DV depending on what you want to output.
When you import your psd it will be oversized. You need to reduce the scale in the Motion tab of the Effects Control until you get what you want. (It’s better to resize to the correct ratio in Photoshop if you have it but not essential.)
If your psd is square pixels – size/crop it to 1024×576 before importing if you want widescreen. If you want standard aspect ratio use 720×576.
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Are you working in PAL? 1366 x 768 is certainly quite an odd spec!
A Proper PAL image can only ever be 720×576. What makes it 4:3 or 16:9 is the pixel aspect ratio – square or rectangular. In the latter a 720×576 image is expanded in playback to create a wide screen image – effectively 1024×576. Encore will respond accordingly to your interpretation of a file and add (or not) a wide screen flag so the picture looks right when it plays back on either a 4:3 or a 16:9 TV.