[Bro. Steve winter]

I am using Canon ZR900 for some of the shots, but that should not affect the background graphics or the position of videos.

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

When I start a video I am presented with only 4 presets under DV-NTSC. I used to (for years actually) pick Standard 48Hz but decided to switch to Widescreen 48Hz and that is when these problems started.

I use MiniDV on the cameras which have a firewire connection and can be controlled by Premiere Pro.

I believe there is a defect in Premiere Pro CS3

Regards,

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

I am using DV import by connecting the camera by firewire. I manually scale the different “Green screen” videos to the size and location that I want them. The problem is that my workspace inside of Premiere Pro is not giving me an accurate representation of what the video will look like.

I tried the scale to frame size and that just made the background graphic way too small to use.

Regards,

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

OK, here are a couple of images that might make it clearer what I am experiencing.

First see what I am seeing in Premiere Pro and then see what is on the actual video. I have to simply guess where to put things near the edges.

Then here is what the actual video is showing. Note the position of the feet. Notice the distance from my head to the overhang behind it how the image shifts a huge amount

I am having to fly blind for the whole outside edge of the video and just GUESS where things will appear.

Thanks to everyone pitching in!

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

I am using DV import by connecting the camera by firewire. I manually scale the different “Green screen” videos to the size and location that I want them. The problem is that my workspace inside of Premiere Pro is not giving me an accurate representation of what the video will look like.

Regards,

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

OK, I am using the widescreen preset which is supposed to make it 720×480. I have posted the video (just released last night) to my profile page here on this site. Here is the screen shot from Premiere Pro preview window.

I will try to embed the video here as well…

Notice how I had to move the feet down below where I could see them in order to have them positioned correctly in the video. Youtube picked a different frame to use for the video rather than the beginning, but if you click on the video then you can just pause it to compare what I was seeing in Premiere Pro and what was actually on the video.

Regards, and thanks to everyone.

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

Thank you for your suggestions, but all I did was change from the 640 option to the 720. I am using the same cameras etc.

If the 720 were not offered by this version then it would not be one of 4 default presets to choose when starting a video.

Regards,

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

I am running XP Pro. This all started when I changed to 720×480 and when I set up the project I picked the 720×480. Now it only lets me see the middle of the actual video and I have to guess what is at the edges.

I tried changing the preview and went back to “Fit” since nothing else fixed the problem.

The preview in the export shows exactly the same as the preview window in the program.

Regards,

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos

[Bro. Steve winter]

This is so outrageous and unprofessional of Adobe to refuse to fix their buggy software. In the latest video I had to move peoples feet down below where I could see them in order to go to the bottom edge of the video. AND this was also the case in the preview window for actually doing the export to flash. It also was NOT ACCURATE regarding what was going into the exported Flash video!

I had to export the video then look at where I had blank black at the bottom of the screen, then go back into Premiere Pro and lower the background GUESSING HOW MUCH and then taking another hour to export (a lower quality export so it would be one hour instead of THREE!). After several tries it FINALLY came out OK.

It is a shame about Adobe. It used to be a decent company..

Is there a competitive product that will do what Premiere Pro will do?

Bro. Winter

https://www.winterband.com
All original Christian music videos