[Danny Winn]

I beleive ont your output settings you can set the format to MPEG2 and then just type in the correct pixel dimentions (make sure the “Linked” button is not selected).

Ya might try that and see how it comes out.

Let us know.

[Danny Winn]

Place your clip into the timeline.
Right click on the clip.
Select “Speed Duration” from the menu.
Set the desired amount of percetage, try 150% as a starting point.
Make sure to render the clip afterwards or it wont play correctly.
Mess with the percentage until you have the speed you want.

Let us know how it works.

[Danny Winn]

Yeah, I would convert all your clips to DV, I’m sure that’s what the problem is.

As said earlier, there are many free converters online.

[Danny Winn]

Well, we need more info on the clip.

Is it HD or SD?
What Format is it?
How long is the clip?
Have you had success with other similar clips?

Let us know these things and we might be able to help;)

[Danny Winn]

Instead of selecting “Title” you need to create a new “Color Matte”, select any color you want. Real easy.

There are no dumb questions when learning pal;)

[Danny Winn]

If its HD you will probably never get it to play correctly as HD needs to be compressed like an MPEG2.

If it’s SD, try setting your playback to “Draft Quality” instead of highest quality.

If that doesnt work then there might be a problem with the file, cause any decent system should play SD Avi’s with no problems.

Let us know what you’re working with here.

[Danny Winn]

I believe that the drop and non drop pertains to interlaced footage, you need to set it to “Progressive” if it is not already.

If you still have the drop non drop option when in progressive, then I would try outputing one of each and see which works best.

I don’t ever remember messing with that option so I probably always use what ever the default is when you select the HDTV 720p preset.

Let me know.

[Danny Winn]

Yeah, that’s the deal with rendering, you’ll need to re-render after any change to the clip or clips, but that is the case even with SD video in PPro.

As cheap as RAM is nowdays I would really try to add more for faster and better results.

[Danny Winn]

3 things,

1, What format is your footage? MPEG2? MT2? If it’s uncommpressed footage it will never play smoothly.

2, Try doing anything that would cause you to render the footage, like add 1 click of contrast or brightness to it then render. Sometimes HD footage does play better after rendering.

3, You really should add more ram, as much as you can in fact, but you should at least have a total of 4GB for HD.

Let us know how that goes.

[Danny Winn]

Hey Robert,

glad to here it’s working somewhat, as far as emailing, I would suggest using a free file sending program like filezilla. I haven’t used it a lot but I know you can send large files with it.

Google filezilla and find it, there are others too you can search for what ever suites your needs.

NOTE: It would be difficult to keep your project HD with a nice high quality using anything but the mpeg2 IMO. But you might try the WMV format though, they come out pretty decent and they are alot smaller than MPEG2. Use the same HDTV 720p 24 with the WMV and see what happens.

Let us know man.