Daniel Waldron
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Glad that solved the issue. 🙂
I agree with Dave’s recommendation to export an uncompressed copy as a master (File – Export – Quicktime Movie), and then create whatever file type you need using that.
H264 is a pretty standard delivery codec now, especially for web video, and it’s a great form of compression. But should you ever need to recompress it again, the drop in quality could become quite noticeable, as opposed to compressing an essentially lossless ProRes master.
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You don’t actually have to individually reconnect every file; It should reconnect chunks at a time. Once Final Cut is given the new path for an offline file, it will look for the other files that shared it’s path in the new location. Theoretically, you might only have to reconnect 3 files – one from each drive – and Final Cut will find the rest for you. That’s best case scenario, but either way, it shouldn’t take too long, especially if you give it narrow search parameters.
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Mark is right. The freeze frame function in Final Cut should create an exact duplicate of the frame that was copied. I’m not sure why this isn’t the case in your situation.
If it is stretching as you describe, maybe something weird is going on with the pixel aspect ratio and how it is being interpreted on your timeline?
As a general troubleshooting note, whenever something weird is happening on my timeline, I always check to see if there is any h264 footage involved. I’ve found that this codec can screw up a Final Cut Pro timeline in ways you would never imagine.
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You can customize your keyboard shortcuts by going to Premiere Pro –>Keyboard Shortcuts on a Mac or Edit –>Keyboard Shortcuts on a PC. I’m not sure if there is an option to do exactly what you’re describing, but that’s the place to look.
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There should be a preview window on the left side of your export screen in Premiere. Since the pixel aspect ratio for DVDs is different than for HD, you will likely want to select the “Scale to Fill” or “Stretch to Fill” option from the drop down menu above the preview.
Premiere doesn’t do DVD authoring, but if you have a Creative Cloud subscription you can download Adobe Encore. In that case, you could probably just import the Premiere sequence directly into Encore, eliminating the step of exporting the video.
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Maybe you have the Collapse Transformations box enabled? It’s the little sun looking box on the same line where you would enable 3D, Motion Blur, etc.
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It usually makes sense to export a full-res master Quicktime and convert that to whatever you need to. That way you have the full quality video ready to put into whatever conversion software you use without having to re-open the project and export it from there.
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Of course, there’s even a tutorial! Just skip to the part on how to make the boxes. I’m pretty sure it’s the same concept that Frank already gave.
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Sorry about that. Here’s the full URL:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/junk_mattes.php -
Also, looking at your shot, you could probably just do a garbage matter around your subject too. Draw a mask with the pen tool and keyframe it if you have to. For an even more advanced (and better) way to do a garbage matte, check out this tutorial.