[Herb Sevush]

I’ve been using the OWC for months and it’s exactly as advertised. The Sonnet is 16 lanes and twice as fast but needs a full lane slot. It’s a win win situation, either choice will make you happy.

[Herb Sevush]

First of all I should tell you that I use multicam for almost all my broadcast work, typically 5 cameras, prores codecs, and have no problems using warp stabilizer on multicam sources. So now lets try and figure out where your issue lies.

“Warp Stabilizer requires pixel aspect ratio to match sequence (fix by nesting)”. – This error message indicates that your multicam source has a different pixel aspect ratio than your sequence setting. This should be avoided if possible, so tell me about the number of cameras in your multicam source and the codecs for each. I will also need to know the settings for the sequence (timeline) you are working on (Sequence/Settings on the Ppro menu bar.)

[Herb Sevush]

“Does rendering an Mpeg-2 both automatically and drastically reduce the quality or is it the scaling down from 1080p to 480p, or both?”

Both. It’s not just the size reduction alone, NTSC (480) is interlaced, which further degrades the look.

“Is there something I can do in the advanced settings to improve the quality?”

I doubt it.

“Would using Adobe Encoder to render out the video be better than rendering out of Premiere?.”

No, it’s the same rendering engine.

[Herb Sevush]

Great interview Oliver. Thanks.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Adobe Premiere Pro will.

You can pick any transition and make it the “Default transition.” You can then define a default length that will be used whenever applied. Then select the clips you want to apply to, hit Shift-D and it’s done. Works for audio transitions as well.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

I believe adaptive noise suppression works better in the track mixer because it’s comparing the past sound to the present sound and then making adjustments. If you go clip by clip the initial moment of each clip has no previous noise print to go by and you might hear a little audio pumping at each cut.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Just started learning the practicalities of using Zoom as a virtual control room as we shoot this season’s cooking episodes in our various chef’s homes with a 3 camera, 1 crew-person setup, that has been surprisingly rewarding while being predictably frustrating and exhausting. Apparently sitting in front of a Zoom screen for 10 hours a day is just like going to work.

When this, by which I mean the shoot, which ends in mid September, is over, I will probably write down some of my thoughts and observations about this process. Till then, I’m just happy baseball has started up again.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

The pixel aspect ratio of their standard proxy setup is not square, not set at 1:1.

Don’t know why they do it that way, I had the same surprise when I first started using the proxy workflow.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

“why the “Prores low resolution proxy” preset within Premiere kicks out a 1024×540 file that still looks correct in a 1920×1080 timeline when proxy mode is engaged but the same specs done within media encoder, kick out a file with black bars on the side.”

Because the pixel aspect ratio is different. you have to dig deeper into the Video setting to change the pixel aspect ratio.

“if I try and make the correct ratio of “1024×576” I end up with a proxy that is the correct aspect ratio but it is now over twice the amount of disk space as the “1024×540″ version. What kind of sorcery is this?!”

When making your own Proxy settings lower the quality of the file (in ProRes choose Proxy, in .h264 lower the bit rate.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

So the consensus is that I wasn’t stupid before, but I am stupid now for starting this thread.

I guess that answers my question with a resounding – “very.”

OK, just checking.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf