[James Orlowski]

UPDATE: This project renders fine on our 64-bit XP workstation. Guess the extra 2 gigs of RAM AE sees in that environment is helpful.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried a few frames before, but it still fails.

I turned off the light but kept the motion blur on, and it worked.

I’ll just not use a light in this project. I can live without it.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

I hear you can achieve a good slo-mo with any 60i camcorder so long as you shoot with ample light and a shutter speed of 1/120th.

Shooting progressively won’t be as good as shooting 60i.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

This is an eye-opener. I had no idea Canon’s 24/30F recording was proprietary.

I shot DV 30F on my Canon XH-A1 and had a hard time importing it when playing it in my Sony DSR-2000A deck. Premiere kept giving me a tape error.

Was this 30F DV recording the culprit?

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

Thanks for the information. This whole lower fields, upper fields, no fields thing does make my head spin, but this is what I found out works for me:

If I leave the footage as “separate Fields: Lower” in the project, the video looks “stepped” on my SDI output monitor (I use an AJA Xena HS card for capture/output BetaCam SP footage).

If I change that same footage to “none,” it looks perfect.

I then render my output to an uncompressed AJA Quicktime file with lower fields first–especially if there is a lot of horizontal motion.

But if I want a more “film” motion look with over-exaggerated motion blurs, I render my output with full frames.

This workflow method may not be “correct,” but it appears to work well in my projects.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

Great! That worked perfectly. I never would have found that workaround on my own.

I did make a backup of that .txt file (I have two for some reason, once called ‘interpretation rules.txt’ and one called ‘interpretation rules 802.txt’), and I will restore it to factory settings now.

(But I’d still like to have AE default to Separate Fields: Off.)

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

Thanks. Found the file, and I think I found the line(s) I’d need to change, but I’m unclear what to change them to.

The “key” at the top of the text file doesn’t do a very good job explaining, and I took programming in college.

I think this is the area I’d need to make a modification:

—
# NTSC rules
720, 480, 29.97, *, * ~ 648/720, L, *, *, *, *
720, 480, *, *, * ~ 648/720, *, *, *, *, *
720, 486, *, *, * ~ 648/720, *, *, *, *, *
720, 480, *, *, “dvc ” ~ *, *, *, *, “r6nf”, *
720, 486, *, *, “v210” ~ *, *, *, *, “r6nf”, *
720, 486, *, *, “UYVY” ~ *, *, *, *, “r6nf”, *
720, 486, *, *, “2vuy” ~ *, *, *, *, “r6nf”, *
720, 480, *, *, “dv5n” ~ *, *, *, *, “r6nf”, *
—

The ‘L’ on the first line represents lower field first, but if I change it to an ‘F’ (for “Frame,” which I assume is the same as “Off”), it either doesn’t work or I get a syntax error when I launce AE3.

Specifically, I think the line I need to change is this one:

—
720, 486, *, *, “2vuy” ~ *, *, *, *, “r6nf”, *
—

If I change the first ‘~ *’ after “2vuy” to a “= F”, I get the syntax error.

This really should be an easily-changable setting in the preferences panel.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

I’m able to capture HDV material with no issues from an XHA1 on my Mac Pro 2×2 GHz Dual-Core Xeon with 5 GB RAM and Premiere Pro CS3.

My system has an NVIDA GeForce 7300 GT graphics card.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

I don’t have my machine here at work, but if I remember, I’ll open them both tonight.

My eePC has 1 GB RAM and an 80 GB hard drive, btw.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966

[James Orlowski]

Just thought of this if you don’t have AE (but it does require Photoshop or some other image editor):

In Photoshop, make a new image that’s the proper height of your video project, but way longer horizontally.

So, if you’re in the DV world, make a new image that’s 480 height by, say, 2000 width. Then in Premiere, simply scroll the image left/right and you won’t see any seams, provided you don’t move the image past it’s natural width.

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James Orlowski
RYNO Production, Inc.
http://www.rynoproduction.com
800-860-7966