[Danny Winn]

Couldn’t you just duplicate it 3 more times and place them in the timeline in sequence? That would only work if the start and stop points were the same spot each time of course.

[Danny Winn]

I just finished a 30 second spot with the same shot settings as yours, (30Fps, 1440×1080). Using Adobe Media Encoder, I exported the project as an Mpeg2 with the “HDTV 1080” setting.

It not only looks beautiful but it’s full HD and the file size is just around 65mb. Windows Media Player plays it with no lag or sync problems.

Hope this helps.

[Danny Winn]

Alright Dave and Kevin! Thanks!

I do have Adobe Media encoder, so what I did was output the project as an AVI with the “DV Widescreen Square Pixels” Setting. That gave me a beautiful avi file at 912mb’s. Then I opened that file in Adobe Media Encoder and was able to encode it as a regular AVI Widescreen leaving me with a 90mb file that is also beautiful and under the 100mb file limit.

I’m finally starting to figure out how all this HD stuff works as far as the settings and outputting goes. SD was soo easy in comparison.

Thanks again guys, you always come through!

[Danny Winn]

Ah ha! Vince,

It was not set to “Draft Quality” but “Automatic Quality” which looked just like “Draft”, once I switched it to “Highest Quality” it looked great.

You’re da man! I don’t recal my older PPro having these settings but maybe I set it years ago and forgot.

Anyway, that did the job, thanks so much man!

Danny.

[Danny Winn]

Ok Mark, I found some stuff out.

The jittery (Shutter speed) look is being caused only when I check the “stretch” box and uncheck the “maintain 4.3” box, the audio is also slightly out of sync. See, I want to maintain the original 1440×1080 widescreen look. The Quicktime looks and plays beutifully if I don’t check the stretch box butten but then it looks more 4.3 and is squeezed (I’m sure you know the pixel dimention variables that cause this).

I have also tried placing the footage into a 1920×1080 comp to combat this problem but to no avail. I also tried selecting the “HDTV 1080 24” in the Custom dropdown menu when clicking stretch.

The clips end up being 30MB’s and is only 3 seconds long.

After at least 25 different attemps and settings, I just can’t seem to find an output setting that maintains the full 1440×1080/1920×1080 widescreen look that doesn’t have that jittery off audio look.

Maybe you can spot my problem, I should have told you about the full widescreen look before, haha, Thanks for staying with me.

Danny

[Danny Winn]

Alright Mark,

That did work but it is a little to jerky (Kind of shutter speed look) for a television commercial. Any suggestions for what the most popular output should be for an HD TV commercial? Avi looks beautiful but they wont play unless you create a playable DVD due to the high bit rate, Mp2 has problems as well.

What do the pros output to for commercial HD?

Thanks again;)

[Danny Winn]

Hey hey, Thanks Mark!

I thought I had tried something like that but then after clicking the “ok” button it still read “based on lossless”.

But I will do all that tonight when I get home. I can’t thank you enough,

Thanks Mark

[Danny Winn]

Thanks Eddie,

Even though I was setting up a new project and selecting HDV 108024p for my capture setting, the problem I know now was that it was defaulting back to “DV” in the “Capture Settings” Tab when I attempted to capture, I never looked there because the error message makes it sound like your camera is the problem. I knew I was selecting HDV 108024P in the initial project setups (I did about 12 different project setups before I caught it).

The error message should say “Check HDV/DV Capture settings”. Haha

Seems to work now but I will always check that when capturing now.

Thanks for your response.

[Danny Winn]

Hey thanks dave,

So what about Outputting as a big Avi file and then writing that onto a playable Dvd? That should play well on a computer without all the bitrate problems right? Is this what you would do if your HD spot had to go on TV?

And, what is your favorite compression PC outputter ? (if that is a word, hehe)

Thanks Dave,
you’re always informitive even though you send me to the Adobe site half the time,(Which usually only get me more confused) Hehe.

[Danny Winn]

Ah ha!

Thanks Tim,

I new there had to be an explanation.