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ProCoder worked fine – many thanks for the suggestion. The titles are less than sharp but the picture is pretty good. I appreciate the help! Regards, C.J.
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Thanks Guys. Premiere Pro has the option to output to DVD in either PAL or NTSC irrespective of whether your in a PAL or NTSC project – so aspect ratios and adding frames is done within Premiere and you can tweak the options if you wish. But, as mentioned previously, I’ve tried outputting from both PAL and NTSC projects with the same results. I’ve also tried creating NTSC AVI and MPG2 files and burning them to an NTSC DVD with Premiere and Easy DVD Creator with pretty much the same results. It’s really perplexing, so I’ll check into ProCoder as you suggest and see if that helps. I appreciate the suggestions. Regards, C.J.
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The ‘clips for an 80 minute film’ actually totalled around three hours of total footage and it took so long (on a Pentium D dual core with hyperthreading)I was late for work having started it the evening before. Not only that, Premiere Pro 2.0 wouldn’t even let me turn off until it had finished. So now I have to edit in small doses because the audio conforming, as many of my colleagues find, does cause major delays with ‘big’ projects. I suppose it depends on the amount of footage and quality of the individual clips.
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Actually Premiere Pro does conform anything and everything that isn’t already to spec, which means pretty much anything and everything. As for creating small peak files, I suppose it depends on what you would normally classify as small, since the clips for an 80 minute film cranked up nearly 20GB of conformed audio files on my hard drive. I can understand Adobe’s reasoning for this, but its a real shame you can’t have the option to switch it off.
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Unfortunately I’ve found audio conforming is mandatory and you just have to live with it. It’s a real pain at times – especially as it can take all night and more on big projects. There’s also a glitch where some audio conformed files are silent and you have to try either unlinking-relinking or delete the offending conformed files so Premiere Pro can have another shot at it! I think it has to do with not leaving your computer alone while Premiere works its dubious audio magic!
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I’ve since found out that others have the same problem when importing large batches of files, especially if you don’t walk away and leave the computer untouched until its finished conforming. This is a feature in both 1.5 and 2.0. I’ve since deleted all the conformed audio and project files and am now editing from scratch in smaller chunks and it seems to be working with all conformed audio now having sound. Must be a glitch in the software tied to system resources. Many thanks for the advice and I’ll just stick to smaller projects with Premiere Pro in future.
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Nope, no firewire deck and no external drives. Everything is on-board the internal drives as quality QuickTime files for off-line editing. That’s the perculiar thing. It took nearly 15 hours for the audio encoding to run its cycle, causing me to miss work the following morning as Premiere wouldn’t allow me to switch off until it had finished. I’m not a great fan of forced encoding, especially as it doesn’t seem to do a good job of the conversion. If I knew why a percentage of the conformed audio is silent I might be able to find a work-around.