[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tobias,

I’ve been using Taiyo Yuden (now JVC) for several years and never any coasters, they are very good quality! The “Watershield” option does add cost, but looks very nice compared to the “flat white” surface and keeps the ink from smudging when touched with sweaty/wet fingers.

As Eric stated, .mp4 is not a good choice for a source, unless that is all you have to work with. What is your editing workflow?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Bryan,

I think you have your numbers flipped, as NTSC and DVD are both 720×480. And that is what you should edit at. There is no advantage to converting to HD, will soften and pixelate your footage. Also, ALL HD formats are widescreen, which is why your numbers are not coming out correctly when you try to upscale.

Just make a high quality DVD, and Blu-ray players and *most* new DVD players have hardware upscaling built-in that will do a nice job of converting your DVD to HD via HDMI out to your display.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Danny,

I think Chris’ point is that “Albionpccare” is NOT Adobe, but is a third-party who is paying for web ads to lure in people looking for Adobe support. Do a search for “albionpccare” once and you will see.

So it was funny that he called them and they asked “How do you spell that” because they probably don’t know much of anything about Adobe support!

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Janne,

If you simply want to drop 1080 clips into a 720p sequence, Scale to Frame works well automatically. However, if you wish to “zoom in” to the image, then you should uncheck “Scale to Frame” so that you can utilize all the original resolution, and manually change the scale to suit your needs using Adobe Motion effect.

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[Jeff Pulera]

With CS5, there was a bug that if the ProRes clip had 4-channel audio, it would not import. I believe the initial release of CS5.5 still had the bug, but was fixed with the first patch, so please make sure your Premiere is updated and see if that helps

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Dave,

Well that makes a difference, you didn’t previously mention that you had render-heavy effects applied. Then you may want to export an intermediate file, creating a “master” clip and be able to then (quickly) encode other formats from that.

I see you are going from 30p to 25p, so I don’t know what bearing that will have on playback smoothness. Don’t know if you’re on Mac or PC either. On PC, install the Lagarith or Avid DNxHD codec to master to, these look lossless.

You don’t want to encode to H.264 for YouTube, which is highly compressed, and then convert that back to DVD for TV viewing, too much loss not going on with conversions.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Doug,

Little button at top right of Sequence opens a drop down, deselect “Audio Time Units” if selected

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Dave,

DVD is a specification – the video MUST be encoded as MPEG-2 with certain specific parameters. So even though you already rendered the H.264 clip, when you drop that into Encore to make a DVD, Encore must Re-Render (Transcode) the clip again to proper MPEG-2 codec, so you’re not saving yourself any time. You just can’t cheat it.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Yes, those effects can be a killer. I use the Red Giant DeNoiser II and LOVE the results, has saved some projects for me, but takes like 15 hours to render a 25-30 minute HD clip.

If you had already rendered the effects (green timeline), in the AME settings window there is a checkbox to “Use Previews” down at the bottom. Can’t say how good the quality will be, depends on your preview render settings, but this should use the already-rendered clips and cut down render time

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Could be related to the converted clips from EX3, best practice is to just directly copy entire folder over from memory card to hard drive, without Sony software or any conversions. Then in Premiere, use Media Browser to do the importing. We had a customer with XDCAM EX and CS5 a few years ago, and the import process change fixed his workflow issues. This was done on recommendation from Adobe support.

Jeff Pulera
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