[Frank Manno]

Hi Chris – Not sure if I understand..

From what I can see, the method you describe will alter my in/out points when the transition is centered on the cut and that’s not what I wanted, unless I’m not understanding you? Sorry if I’m not. 🙂

Basically what i want, is to put a crossfade transition right between two cuts and for Premiere not to change the IN point on clip B and the out point on clip A.

I understand that if I align the transition left on clip A, then Premiere won’t alter the OUT point, but this isn’t what i wanted to do. I want the transition centered on the cut..

-Frankie

[Chris Buttacoli] “No need to use the slip tool. When applying, you can either center the transition or justify the transition left or right – if justified left, clip A will end at the out point. You can select this in the effect control tab, but it is easier to just drag the transition over the edit point, and instead of dropping it over the center of the cut, drop it to the left or right of the cut. You can also slide the transition with the selection tool left or right after the fact.”

[Frank Manno]

Sounds like that would work – Was hoping I could do it all on the same track.. Oh well.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Ok I get it.

So basically having said all this below, do you think there is any benefit in shooting in full HD rather than HDV if the final product is for Blu-Ray delivery?

(HDV’s data rate is still higher than Blu-Ray)

Any benefits in shooting full HD over HDV if all you want to do is output to BluRay?

-Frankie

[Don Greening] “Your friend is assuming that because the EX can record at 35 Mbits per second you’ll lose something if Blu-ray is restricted to playing back @ 25 Mbits per second. Do I have this right? So what would your friend think if you were to tell him that some cameras record at a data rate of 50 Mbits per second. Would your friend assume that half of the resolution would be lost with a Blu-ray version of the footage? What about cameras like Panasonic that shoots DVCPRO HD with a data rate that exceeds 100 Mbits per second. Is 75% of that now vapor-ware once it’s encoded to Blu-ray? The short answer is no because your friend is attempting to compare two different technologies.

Standard definition formats such as MiniDV (25 Mbits per second) and DVCPRO 50 (50 Mbits per second) have been encoded to DVD for years using MPEG2 bit rates as low as 3.5 – 8 Mbits per second with no appreciable loss in picture quality as long as a good encoder is being used and the operator knows how to use it.

The same rules apply for Blu-ray encoding.”

[Frank Manno]

Ok here’s a question:

I’ve never burnt a Blu Ray before but a friend of mine who shoots on an EX-1 and is doing some investigating is telling me that full HD plays back at 35 megabits per second and a blue ray will only encode to 25 megabits per second.

Is this true? Because if it is, what is the purpose of full HD if it can’t be played back at full resolution by anyhing other than from a hard drive?

Please excuse if I got my facts wrong..

-Frankie (Original Poster)

>For us Blu-ray will be the easiest way to get our HD content out to >the most clients. If a customer is asking about HD now and wants >their project finished in HD you can bet that they’re thinking Blu->ray because that’s the only game in town as far as today’s consumer >knows.

[Frank Manno]

Oh ok.

Well, I’m using Sony Vegas.

But what I need to do is hand over some clients SD files .AVI or a DVCAM tape with the footage shot from an EX-3.

So bascially I’m trying to work out the best way to down convert. I’m assuming now that it’s probably SDI out of the camera into a deck?

I don’t have an SDI deck and I heard that the S Video out of the camera tyo a DVCAM deck is not that great.

So to summerize, S-Video doesn’t look to good (I heard),
I don’ thave SDI.

What other options / best methods do I have left to downconvert my HD files and give someone the .AVI’s or tape in SD. ?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

For what it’s worth, I heard Edius is incredibly fast at editing all HD formats. Edits full HD on a PC Laptop with no efforts.

You may want to check it out.

I personally use Sony Vegas and have not yet edited any HD/DHV footage on it but it’s also geared up well for HD and Bluw ray encoding/burning. Apparently it’s not as quick as Edius though.

I’m picking up my EX-3 nexy week..

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply..

Someone just told me that a good way to get that 24p film look is to slomo the footage to 99% rather than 100% and that in doing so will cause it to drop a frame.

In my case in the PAL world it will drop from 25fps to 24fps and therefore creating a film look?

Does this make any sence? I can’t understand it.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Hi Douglas. Thanks for the response..

The plugs work fine in Vegas 7.0.

How do I register the .dll’s manually?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Will try that, thanks.

I just noticed that the plugins actually DO install, they just don’t appear on my list of filter FX inside of vegas.

I installed Zenote Plugins. They didn’t appear in the filters tab in vegas, so as far as it seems, they aren’t there.

I themopened up an old project where I used the plugins and sure enough, the plugin is on the event! I can even click on the event and change the plugin parameters.

I just can’t seem to see the plugin in the vegas filter FX tab.

What could be causing this.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Well not really – I installed it as I’ve always done in the default directory, c:\Program files\

It never asked me for the Vegas plugins directory. I haven’t done anything different than I used to do in Vegas 7.

What is the default directory anyway? Is it \Vegas\Video Plugins?

I just tried manually putting the plugin’s .dll file there and it still doesn’t show up in in the filters

-Frankie