[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Steve,

Can you post a screen grab of the Export settings from AME?

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Chris,

A clip must be in a Sequence before you can add effects to it. Once on the timeline, 3 ways to add an effect –

1) drag effect onto clip

2) select clip and drag effect to Effect panel

3) select clip then double-click effect, is added to Effects (PC)

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[Jeff Pulera]

Your export settings for exhibition will depend entirely on HOW you intend to show the video. For best quality, you would want to stay with the original 1920×1080 resolution of course. There are inexpensive “Media Player” devices, such as WDTV from Western Digital. It’s a small box with USB inputs and an HDMI output and a remote control. Encode your HD video as an H.264 file and copy to a small USB drive or thumb drive and connect to WDTV unit. Can be set up for loop play. The devices work great for exhibits. Very portable, no moving parts to wear.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Shaho,

Is your source widescreen 16:9 format? If so, you might need to export as 1024×576 using square pixels (1.0 pixel aspect ratio) depending on the viewing hardware/software. If working with 16:9 and the playback looks like 4:3, then try changing the size.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

Ditto on the USB 2 drive not being a great idea. Also, are you using Boot Camp to run Vegas?? Or is that on a different machine?

Sounds like you are nesting sequences? That can be problematic. Yes, it is built-in to Premiere, yet causes grief for a lot of users. I avoid it. Rather than nesting sequences, you can just as easily “select all/copy/paste” contents of each sequence into your “master” sequence, therefore NOT nesting sequences. Just combining contents into one larger sequence.

Maybe this would makes things easier for the laptop without CUDA to process?

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

In addition to Tom’s queries, can you please elaborate on the nature of the “problem” as you see it? It sounds like you are adding an effect, rendering a preview, and then changing the effect or editing the clip, which puts it back to a red bar, right? This is normal. I very rarely do any pre-renders and just leave things red, unless the clip just won’t play back. Most clips with effects still play back smoothly for me so I don’t bother with the preview renders.

What kind of computer hardware are you working with? Perhaps it is not up to par for the workflow you are using. I have a 2-year-old Core i7-2600 machine with GTX 470 graphics and 16GB and am quite happy with the edit process for long-form HD using full quality previews.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Shaho,

If you are asking if you can use .mp4 for DVD, then no, DVD must be MPEG-2 always, it is an exact specification. For other purposes like the web or portable devices, then .mp4 (H.264) is the better choice. It is a more efficient codec, meaning at low bit rates it looks better than MPEG-2.

About quality, if you start with an HD source, DVD will never look as good because it is SD (standard definition). To match the source quality would require Blu-ray disc which is HD.

Not familiar with export options from EDIUS, but from Premiere, use File > Export > Media and choose “MPEG-2 DVD” for the format and then choose a Preset such as “PAL High Quality”. Then you will need to adjust the bit rate to accommodate the length of your program. Just do a web search for “bit rate calculator” and there are many to help you find the correct number to enter. For longer programs, use VBR encoding, and when starting with an HD source, check the box for “Maximum Render Quality” as this helps with the downscaling quality.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi John,

Try the Matrox codec here https://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/version1.0/build33/

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Nery,

Let’s back up a bit and get some info. What is the source video, SD or HD? Project settings? Computer hardware? My 2-year-old Core i7-2600 will render a 2-hour MPEG-2 from SD in 10 minutes, or from HD a little faster than realtime. You say it is rendering for DAYS? Even my older computers never took more than 2-3 hours for SD to DVD.

Do you have effects on the video? Denoiser plug-ins are notoriously slow, even on the latest systems.

So let’s figure out the whole workflow and at what point things are going bad for you

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Before you re-encode, please go to BUILD section and rather than DISC, select FOLDER or IMAGE. In the panel, it should tell you the file SIZE. Please check this and let us know what it says.

Also, is audio set to transcode to Dolby? If not, then the PCM audio WILL put the project over size. Dolby is ON by default

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Jeff Pulera
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