[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Nate,

Change PULLDOWN to NONE, currently set to 3:2. As the Source and Destination frame rates match, there should be no pulldown/conversion applied.

Is HD2SD still necessary? I can’t speak the Progressive HD sources, but my HDV cameras are 1080i and I’ve tried it all within Adobe and have never gotten great results when making DVDs. Always having flickering due either to scaling, field issues, or combination thereof. Plus for longer videos (2+ hours) the compression is quite evident.

I use HD2SD to convert my 1080i HDV footage to 480p DVDs with beautiful results.

I should note that the Bellune method may be a bit dated, using the older MPEG-2 conversions. I use the Lagarith lossless AVI codec instead for my intermediates. This creates an .avi with the YV12 color space that HC Encoder needs (you are using HC Encoder?).

Please PM me and I can send the entire workflow that I use including HD2SD recipe.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Daniel,

How do you need to deliver the final video – DVD, web, hard drive? What are your current steps taken in the workflow? Will be helpful if you can post a screen shot of the Export Settings panel

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I don’t know how Macs operate, but there is a SLEEP option on PCs that basically shuts everything down – drives spin down, fans turn off, lights go out…computer is OFF for all intents and purposes, yet touching the mouse or power button fires everything up in a few seconds from that sleep state, quite different from a cold start – all open programs/projects are still there ready to go. Might be an option for you if Mac has similar functionality.

From personal experience with drives going bad, it has ALWAYS been during a bootup – they never quit while the computer is running, so there may be something to that logic of keeping them spinning. Makes sense if you think about it, with thermal expansion and all that happening. Kind of like truck drivers that leave the rig idling and never shut it down.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

“Dip to White” effect lasting just several frames, kind of looks like a photo flash when done right. But you don’t want to do several of these back to back, sticks out like a sore thumb then. Use in moderation.

Perhaps try reframing one of the images using Motion effect. If for instance you are editing 1080p footage in a 720p sequence, then you could afford to “zoom in” some on the second clip, hiding the obvious jump with the framing change.

Use a very short dissolve of a 3-4 frames. With a talking-head subject, sometimes you can tweak the in and out points of the two clips to where the subject position and facial expressions are similar enough that a very quick dissolve hides the jump to where it’s basically unnoticeable to someone not looking for it.

Many ways to get around jumps, but I like the B-roll suggestion the best 😉

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Not a big nesting fan – why not just export the audio as a new audio clip and then use that for the final mix? Simplifies what you’re asking Premiere to do all at once.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Submitted to who – replicator/duplicator? How was it submitted? Many places now accept a DVD-R master and just duplicate it and likely would not be performing any analysis which leads me to believe you submitted a master file of some type? More info needed for anyone to help

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[Jeff Pulera]

Just shot 6 dance recitals, 2.5 hours each, with two cameras. One camera was AVCHD, the other HDV feeding into an Atomos Ninja 2. The two clips sync up perfectly in Premiere and maintain that sync to the end. I’ve never experienced that with non-video camera audio recordings, there is always some degree of drift over time when trying to sync to video.

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[Jeff Pulera]

I agree with Walter – do the DeNoise in AE on the raw clips, export using intermediate codec, edit in Premiere.

Adding DeNoise in Premiere really bogs down the performance to a crawl since DeNoise is so processor-intensive.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Matt,

Video cameras have very precise timing since there can be no variance when playing back video – the frame rate can NOT be “off a little”. The same cannot be said for small, inexpensive audio recorders and that is most likely the issue you’ve run into.

All I can suggest is every so often, use the Razor to cut the audio clip and then shift it over as needed to maintain sync with the video clip audio.

Note that if you change the timeline display to “Show Audio Units”, you can then adjust the audio down the sample rate, rather than being limited to the video frame rate of 1/30 second for example – at that “resolution”, you may never be able to exactly match the two waveforms and that doesn’t sound quite right.

With Audio Units selected, you can zoom in down to the individual sample to precisely align the two audio clips.

I’ll do that to tweak audio sync, then set it back to normal video frames time display again to continue editing.

Hope this resolves your issue

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Having only Premiere, you might need to cheat it. Take a frame grab into Photoshop if you have it, and remove the background leaving just the chess piece. Maybe enlarge it a little. Save as a .psd or other format with alpha channel to maintain the transparent background. Put this graphic on a higher track in Premiere, above title and background video. Add motion and keyframes to chess piece graphic so it tracks with, and obscures, the original item.

Assuming a slider was used for video? If pan is smooth with consistent speed, this trick might look passable. For hand-held footage, then probably won’t fly. I notice the “chess piece” is out of focus with fuzzy edges, so that doesn’t help. That is why I said to make the still image a little larger, to completely obscure the original.

Good luck

Jeff Pulera
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