[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Robert,

Before getting into the title situation, I would first ask what your intentions are with the up-convert. Is this mandatory, for instance blending in some legacy SD footage into an otherwise HD production that will be delivered as HD? Or just good intentions, of desiring to make some old footage look better?

If the latter, you might reconsider. The general consensus on these forums, as well as my personal experience, is that you can’t create something you didn’t have to begin with. Consider that the FIRST STEP of the upconvert software is to deinterlace the source, which throws away HALF of the already lacking resolution!

For instance, if your intention is to make a Blu-ray disc, you may find that making a high-quality DVD will look better in the end – let the player do the upconversion – they do a great job these days in hardware.

So about the titles – Dennis’ test may have been skewed as he started with an HD title. An SD title has about 5x less pixels, so it already “coarse” to start with.

I just ran a test – I created a Widescreen DV sequence, created a white on black title, then opened an 1080p sequence and placed that SD title in it and enlarged it and it became quite soft and with some jaggies also – the titles do NOT scale up as FCP might. It is still an SD title and it shows.

So if you do end up moving forward with the upconvert process, I would not do any titling until you are in the HD portion of the edit, so at least the titles are crisp.

Good luck

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Steve,

It would be helpful to know which format you are exporting to, and also, what is the intended purpose/usage of the exported file? So really, who is getting the clip and how would they be able to choose which channel they want to hear, on what gear?

If you create a DVD, you can have multiple audio tracks that the user can choose from. Please let us know your workflow

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Vasco,

While there is no need to “render” the timeline prior to export, please note that if the clips with DeNoiser II will take 10 hours to render in Premiere, they will still take 10 hours to render using “Export”. No getting away from that unfortunately.

The benefit of letting Export do the render is that you are cutting out the “middle man” – the final result is rendered direct from the original source clips for best quality.

If you first render the timeline clips to green, then in export choose “Use Previews”, you are using the temporary render clips and re-rendering them again, twice compressed. That can affect quality.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

In the Program Monitor window options, under FIELDS, you’ll find options for First, Second, or Both, if that helps.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi,

If you want to change the frame rate and are happy with the resulting look, that is fine, just wanted to make sure that was your intention. Sometimes, changing frame rates produce undesirable results.

I never change the default transcode settings in Encore, for DVD or Blu-ray. As I’m encoding compliant assets right out of Premiere, they remain unchanged in Encore. Some people have complained that Encore does not always show the correct file size estimate, could be what you have encountered

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Nanda,

A couple of things catch my attention:

1) Why did you encode a 1080i 29.97 source as 1080p 23.98 for Blu-ray – was that intentional?

2) 40Mbps is the theoretical upper limit for Blu-ray, could be that the audio put it over the limit and therefore Encore is transcoding to the lower default rate.

Please note that H.264 for Blu-ray can look excellent at 25 or 30Mbps or less, there is no real need to “max out” the data rate to get great quality.

As with DVD, just “looking for trouble” when encoding at very high rates. Some players that might be ok with high data rates on store-bought movies will not work well with home-burned media at high rates. Play it safe and use a lower bitrate, no one will ever see the difference.

Thank you

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Add a good ND filter maybe?

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tom,

Would help if we knew what type of media, sequence setting used, and computer hardware being used. For instance, some GoPro clips can bog down any computer – those are better to convert first using the Studio software.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I don’t know how to fix it, but that is why I don’t use the auto settings – I create the Blu-ray or DVD assets in Media Encoder first.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jamie,

What can be helpful in Premiere is to use this method of importing –

1) Copy ALL media from camera card to hard drive, all folders intact.

2) In Premiere, use Media Browser for the actual import

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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