[Jeff Greenberg]

[Bryan Roberts] “Is there an easy way to CUT and paste”

Try Opt-X. I think that does an extract and copy to clipboard (readly for pasting)

[Bryan Roberts] “Is there a way to nudge clips down a timeline without going to slip / slide trim mode”

Switch to the Red Arrow and your trim keys should move the clips.

[Bryan Roberts] “) Super basic one – how can I change my starting TC of a sequence I already have open.”
In a bin adjust it’s start time. There’s another way that I’m too tired to remember. 😀

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[Frank Manno] “But what’s a quick way to zoom out again? “

Shift Z.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Matt, please forgive if these are obvious questions.

Is MPEG2 not available for export in Adobe Premiere Pro? How about in Adobe Media Encoder?
Is this by any chance a trial version of Adobe Premiere Pro? (The MPEG2 license might require the the non-trial version.)

Rather than work around – it makes more sense to get Adobe Media Encoder working. Yes, I know you’re comfortable in FCP, but this is your first time on Premiere (so be patient!)

I don’t know how detailed/strong you are with Keylight (A fantastic keyer, but a render in AE.) Is Ultra available in 5.5? (I can’t recall if it’s available there or it came into the suite in version 6)

Last, since this is about compression (and DVDs…)

I don’t think you want to add letterboxing – this means encoding the black bars – a waste of data.

You have 4×3 SD or anamorphic 16×9 SD. Both have 720×480 pixels.

A DVD has the ability to ‘flag’ 16×9 content and appropriately add letterboxing for SD TVS (which are mostly at 4×3)…but will play wide screen on wide screen (HD) Tvs. 16×9 content on an HD tv gets appropriately stretched out correctly.

You’ll have to flag this manually in compressor.

Build the DVD using Encore or DVDSP as a disk image which you can then test in DVD player as a ‘real’ DVD before you actually burn a disk.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I’m guessing here from looking at your timeline – I couldn’t tell if the filler/top track was rendered.

If it’s not, Avid has to render it as it exports your file. If you rendered it first, your export should be faster. Also, same as source is mostly beneficial in export speed when all the video matches the render type…

The fastest export would be to do a QuickTime ref, and use Squeeze to compress into multiple formats.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I feel like Adobe Premiere Pro is interpreting the file incorrectly on import. I haven’t used 5.5 in over a year, in 6, there’s a preference to force how the audio is handled with file imports; it’s defaults to Using the file – but you should be able to override it (It’d appear to Premiere as a stereo file, 2 audio tracks, but it needs to be forced to handle as a pair of Mono tracks.)

If you want to post 5-10 seconds (on say dropbox) I’m happy to open it and look at it inside of CS 6.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I don’t think it can limit the view to just the “good” shots (the way FCP did in a separate Find Box), but I’m 100% sure you can sort the Good column and the results will be at the top.

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You’re not going to like my answer.

Yes, you should deal with frame rates on ingest or in your NLE. FCP7 is lousy at Frame rate adjustment (24>30, 30>24 etc.) It was done for speed, not for quality.

So, if you’re sure you want to use FCP7, I’d tell you to do high frame rate conversions; either via a Teranex (hardware, black magic about 3k) or use Compressor’s frame rate conversion (or Episode or Squeeze), where you’ll save money from the teranex via spending loads of time in the compression; I’d experiment with it’s Retiming control, starting at “Better (Motion Compensated)’

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Sarah,

Sadly, this is impossible.

The bit rate defines the file size.

Let’s convert 2000 kbps to how many MegaBYTEs per second (and then multiply that by 60 seconds) to get it’s result. Then let’s figure out what the number would be to hit your target.

2000 kbps (kilo bits per second) is 2 Mbps (Megabits per second.)

Divide this by 8 to get MegaBYTES per second (MBps)
2/8 = .25 MBps

So, each second takes up .25 MegaBytes – or 4 seconds = 1 MegaByte.
60 seconds takes up 15MB.

If we decrease the original data rate in 1/2, we’ll get what you want.
So, if you drop the data rate to 1000kbps, you’ll get files around 6-8 MegaBytes per minute.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Upsampling to DPX won’t make a marked advantage in your workflow, but will vastly increase file sizes and time/cost.

Basically, that’s what’s wrong, you’d be upsampling. Imagine taking an SD file and blowing it up to HD. You still only have the original data. You wouldn’t be getting any benefit/colorspace advantages to going from 10 bit ProRes to 16 bit DPX; especially since Resolve is 32 bit float internally.

You need to retransfer the film as DPX files instead of ProRes.

DPX – is a series of stills. All a QuickTime file is (in this case) is a container. You can actually open QT, point at a folder of sequential stills and have it ‘playback’ as a video file.

DPX can hold more steps between black and white than ProRes can, if the source supports it and that’s dependent on the transfer. Since you didn’t do your original transfer this way, there isn’t measurable benefit in doing so after the fact. Garbage in/Garbage out (GIGO)

Feel free to follow up if you have specific questions!

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Couple of thoughts.

1) You might want to try Cinec – https://www.cinemartin.com/cinec/ ; free prores encoding on a PC
2) I’m guessing that Compressor thinks it has fields, you should be overriding the ‘automatic’ control for this.
3) QuickTime is showing you what the file says; progressive, not what happened to the data.

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