[George Simeonidis]

haha!
well, during that whole ordeal pre-your suggestion, I blew out my own brains. several times.

have a good one!

george simeonidis
https://www.gSimeo.com

[George Simeonidis]

That’s very sage advice Dave. Thanks!

I imported the high-res .mov into Adobe’s Media Encoder and setup an MPEG preset and it worked like a charm. Fast too.
I was a little reserved about using Media Encoder because my prior tests straight out of Premiere looked terrible (even at high quality MPEG settings). But for some reason circumventing Premiere and going directly into Encoder gave better results. I wonder if that’s just my experience?

Anyways, thanks again to everyone for their great help!

…unfortunately I do still wonder why AFX is behaving like it is with this .m2v business. Maybe it’ll resolve itself with the next QT update 🙂

Cheers,
george simeonidis
https://www.gSimeo.com

[George Simeonidis]

hi, thanks for the feedback Ted!

You see, that’s the weird thing. I am selecting the straight up MPEG2 option. And once I exit the output module settings dialogue box, AFX defaults the clip to export as an .m2v

I’ve also tried exporting an .mov out of a third party software (FFMPEG) and my system still pumps out an .m2v with a separate file for audio. I’m starting to suspect that it has something to do with a recent OSX/Quicktime update I perfomred….

I’m running QT version 7.6.6 and OSX version 10.5.8.

Is anyone in the community experiencing the same issue?

Thanks all!

[George Simeonidis]

Great!

Thanks Todd!

[George Simeonidis]

Thanks Todd, I appreciate the honesty. Smart comment on striving for what the home viewer should see.

[Todd] “…it is possible to find some of the very high-end ones that can be calibrated.”

I’m assuming by really high-end ones we’d be stepping way out of my budgetary bounds…this is why that Decklink HD Pro add-on appealed to me.

From your personal experience, would you at this point in time, stick with the tube CRTs?

[George Simeonidis]

Hey guys, you’ve really enlightened me but you’ve also peaked my curiosity…

Just to clarify, I was actually thinking of doing things the second way you described Steven. That is by creating a title in Premiere’s title tool and then copying and pasting from the clipboard, etc. As the end product is not for commercial release, but for footage I simply wish to add subtitles to -we’re talkin’ a 5 min. clip here. So I was wondering if there were any tips or more efficient ways of going about it this way.

But now you boys have intrigued me with Encore. Are you saying that I could do titles more efficiently in Encore than with Premiere’s title tool? Can I only import excel files or are word documents also accepted? If I were to do it this way, are there any trips/tricks you guys can help me out with?

As always, many thanks!

[George Simeonidis]

awesome help y’all! thanks so much.

cheers.

[George Simeonidis]

please excuse my ignorance, but this NTFS setting could be found where exactly?

Thanks!

[George Simeonidis]

You are absolutely right! The high quality setting made a huge difference. Thanks for the great tip!

However, I do still notice a small difference in the quality of small writing compared to the one exported out of FinalCut. Do you think theres a setting out of Premiere that I’m overlooking? I never quite embraced the recompress dialogue box and the data limit tab within it.

What do you think?

Thanks again. Cheers!

[George Simeonidis]

steven, thanks for responding to my post, but you are absolutely right, it’s all about trial and error. in essence i just wanted to know how some people create a blur between two clips to make the blur effect look like a transitional cut.

for example, i ended up using a fast blur effect and continued its motion between the cut point with key frames, then placed a small transition in between that edit point and it turned out to be fantastic!

and by overlaying video clips, i just meant placing one clip on track 1 and another on track 2 and then fooling around with their opacities.

cheers mate,

g.