Jeff Pulera
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Matt,
More info appreciated, so we can help you – Mac or PC? Premiere version? What exactly is the problem you are experiencing?
For any of the tapeless formats, find the “Media Browser” tab at lower left in Premiere and Find/Import clips there rather than regular Import. When moving files from camera card to hard drive, copy everything, keep folders intact.
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Jeff Pulera
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In AME, make sure “Use Previews” is UNchecked. Hope that helps with titles, so they are not being pre-rendered to something undesirable before export.
As for incorrect Pixel Aspect Ratio, when encoding anamorphic video for use on the web, you have to convert to square pixels since most players just assume square pixels and do not consider the PAR of the source video. For NTSC DV, export as 854×480 with 1.0 PAR (Square pixels). This will look correct as 16:9 in QuickTime, Windows Media Player, web, etc.
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Hi Joao,
DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DV50 are all 720×480 formats and you can’t modify the specs any more than you could change a DVD to 720×486, sorry.
Either choose a different codec to export to, or deal with 720×480. If you stay with DV50, you may wish to use the CROP setting in AME to remove the extra 6 lines to avoid scaling the entire image which could result in softness. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you the best combination of top/bottom cropping to use, such as 3,3 or 4,2 or whatever. You may need to experiment and see what looks best for your situation.
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Hi Perry,
Go with the Intel Core i7 and an Nvidia display card to take advantage of the GPU-acceleration of Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, and you will edit AVCHD with ease, plus get very fast exports to various formats including H.264 and DVD.
Adobe-approved GPUs are listed here – https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
If the budget is tight, you can use other cards not on the list and make them work, see this link:https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
Jeff Pulera
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You can manually drag/drop dissolves onto the upper clips. I don’t use any automated method so am not familiar with process or limitations for that. You can also use the Opacity adjustment line and keyframes and get the same result directly on the clips.
Jeff Pulera
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You never want video files on the C: drive, definitely use a dedicated internal drive, or fast external (not USB 2.0) for media assets.
For internal, look for 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s with 64mb cache, for instance WD Caviar Black or similar. Avoid any drive with “Green” in the name, these are “energy saving” = poor performance for editing.
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Hi Joel,
You can set the Default Transition Duration in Edit > Preferences > General. Don’t know that there is any easy way to change them globally after the fact, set duration before applying them
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Perry,
Your processor is 5 years old, that is definitely the problem. Consider a Core i7 upgrade
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Hi Martin,
Premiere conforms some audio to a higher-quality format for editing. It does this in the background. Do a web search for “Premiere audio conforming” for more detailed info
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Jeff Pulera
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Hi Al,
When I burn a SHORT DVD in Adobe Encore and watch the progress, at the end it says “Writing Lead-Out”. I guess a DVD has to have a minimum amount of data on it, so with a short recording, the “Finalizing” can take longer as it fills in some blank space.
What does Finalizing do? Closes up the files and menus and table of contents and all the “under the hood” things that makes the DVD compliant and compatible for general playback.
Until Finalized, you can continue adding more recordings to the disc, so it remains “Open” so to speak.
While changing tapes, your camera should continue to output live video, so you should be able to just let the DVD recording keep on rolling. Test it out in the office and familiarize yourself with the workflow before going live in the field when a mistake can ruin the day.
One would think that Firewire should offer the cleanest signal versus analog video, keeping it digital. Again, experiment at home and check the results
Jeff Pulera
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