Dave Friend
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I’ve have had excellent results (NTSC not PAL) with the JVC camera and deck you mention. Having shot, edited on PPro and delivered many HDV projects to happy clients I think things are working very well indeed.
Not to say that PPro is fully baked. It still has several areas that need attention. It is pretty stable until your project gets past a certain point and then it starts to crash – apparently due to memory allocation problems. There are a number of basic editng functions that could be much more elegantly implemented. Coming from Avid there will undoubtedly be things that will make you crazy. But most everything you really need is there and it does work.
Dave Friend
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[topher944] “how many end user players have the ability to read dual layer?”
All DVD players will be able to use a DVD-9 replicated disc. Note the word replicated. That implies (as does the term glass master) that the disc are created by a “stamper” as opposed to a burned (a.k.a. recorded, a.k.a. duplicated) disc. Replicated discs will be fine in almost all players – both set-tops and computers. (I say almost all because you never know what kind of crap the end-user has.) Dual-Layer recorded (burned) disc are much less reliable and should be avoided.[topher944] “13 hour program on digi beta and put it on four glass masters”
That means they will be putting about 3:15:00 on each disc. If these are DVD-9 discs then the average bitrate would have to be about 5.3Mbit/s which produces a fair to good image. (The video bitrate of 5.3Mbits/s assumes audio is encoded to dolby 2/0 @ 192kbit/s – which is typical and recommened – and that there is only one audio stream.Spreading the 13 hours over 5 DVD-9 discs would mean an average bitrate of 6.7Mb/s which is very good to excellent quality. Manufacturing costs are, naturally, higher making 5 disc instead of four.
Have them encode a few minutes of your show at the 5.3Mb/s rate and give it to you on a disc. You can then evalutate the quality yourself. If they want your business they should be willing to do this demo for you.
Hope this is helpful.
Dave
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[GinsuAce] ” I just wish that that the 2.0 titles were more portable”
The easiest way I have found to “share” titles is:
1. Use Save As… to make a copy of the project with the titles I want to reuse.
2. Delete everything (media, timelines, gfx, etc.) except the titles from this copy.
3. Import the copy project into the “other” project where they are needed.For me this is as easy, if not easier, than the media management required to wrangle a bunch of individual files.
Hope this is useful.
Dave
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It’s been awhile since I worked with the 1800 but there should be a TCG setting to select either preset or regen mode. The key word is should. If it’s not a switch then it should be in the menus. I don’t know if that is the source of your problems but it is worth looking into.
Dave
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Deck’s TCG set to Internal/Regen?
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PPro has both stereo and mono audio tracks. Sounds like you are trying to put a stereo source on a mono track – or visa versa. Deleting unused tracks combined with creating new ones of the appropriate type may allow you to get the tracks arranged in the order you prefer. Hard to be more specific without having more details from you.
Dave
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[Bob Cole] “I guess I didn’t want to think about it for awhile.”
Completely understandable.
[Bob Cole] “But would Premiere Pro have been any better?”
Almost certainly not.Procoder or Media Cleaner might have been a good tool. (A little late for that comment now – sorry)
Dave
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Howdy Bob,
You might find that different DVD players give you different results with regards to the first pic/sound after the chapter point. The chapter point is exactly where you placed it though. Things like decoder speed, buffer sizes and other electro-mechanical and electronic factors determine exactly what gets out the spigot first. I don’t think duplicated vs replicated will make one bit of difference.
A useful tool for you in this instance might be TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 2.0 as it can take an mepg file and add I frames exactly where you want them. It will only re-encode the GOPs around the new I frames so most of the mpeg file is left untouched. It’s very fast too. Hope you still have a Windows machine around though cause it’s a PC program.
How’d your file transcode marathon work out?
Dave
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It means that tape must play for 20 seconds before signal appears. It can probably be blacked.
Dave
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David,
Maybe it is actually an unknown (as opposed to undocumented) feature. Could it be you found something that even Adobe didn’t know about?
Dave