[Jeff Pulera]

5.5.2 update can be downloaded here – https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform=Win

Be sure to choose either boxed or electronic to match your product. I have better luck with the downloads than the auto update business.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Carlos,

Hollywood DVDs are starting off with a very high quality source to start with, usually film. Next, the MPEG-2 encoding solution can cost upwards of $40k, and is operated by a skilled Compressionist that will manually tweak the encode settings of each individual scene to maximize quality.

If you can tell use more about your workflow, myself and others can make suggestions to help improve your results.

What is the source video – DV, HDV, AVHCD? 1080i, 1080p, 720p?
Sequence settings?
MPEG-2 encode settings?

There are many variables and adjustments that can be made to get the best results.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Sean,

Addressing the core of the issue, how was the scene miked? It sounds like you are trying to work with on-camera sound. Typically, you would choose ONE audio source and stick with that while switching camera angles. It is going to sound strange if the audio switches with the video.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Are you running CS5.5, or CS5? I don’t believe card was yet approved for when CS5 was out. Might need to do “the hack” to make Premiere see it if using CS5 – https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

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[Jeff Pulera]

Two things I might try:

1) Use CBR 7.0, I don’t see a benefit to VBR unless doing long-form video where you need to really manage bits

2) Not sure if you’ll see this in Encore, but when exporting from Premiere using AME, check the box for “Maximum Render Quality”, this is supposed to help any time you are downscaling, improves sharpness.

Settings otherwise look fine

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jonny,

Highlight the clip in the sequence that you want to use in AE, then go to File > Dynamic Link > Create After Effects Composition.

This opens the clip in AE. Add your effect, SAVE, then when you jump back to Premiere the clip will be pink and says it is linked or some such thing. Render in Premiere.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Joe,

Video timing must be absolutely correct – if it were off even a tiny bit, the picture would be messed up! Thus, more precise (expensive) timing components are used in camcorders. With digital audio recorders, no one would ever notice if the speed were off by 1%…unless they are trying to sync it to their video, like you and I are!

I have some old iRiver MP3 recorders, which I dearly love for miking multiple sources at weddings because of their tiny size, but they have pretty serious drift issues which require me to re-sync to the video timeline at least every 10 minutes. I also have a more recent Tascam recorder, and while the sync is much tighter than the iRiver units, still needs to be tweaked as I move down the timeline.

Don’t know that there is any way around it.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Eric,

The post you referenced is 3 years old….

Funny that Matrox would be able to sell a product expressly for the creation of Blu-ray files if in fact it were not compliant. And if you read the original post, there is not an issue using the Matrox files in Encore, but rather playing them in other players.

Volodymyr,

The files are MEANT to be put on a Blu-ray, they were never meant for any other means of distribution.

You might possibly change the file extension to something else and get them to play, I don’t know.

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Why not drop them into Encore and try them there? They will actually play out through MXO2, what could be a better test?

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Steve,

DVDs are by definition SD only, being NTSC or PAL. That is 720×480 for NTSC and 720×576 for PAL. Period. There is a workaround by which short HD files can be put on a DVD disc and played in certain Blu-ray players, but this is NOT a “DVD video”, it is just HD files on DVD media and will not play in a DVD player.

So you are correct that any 720p or 1080i/p content would need to be on a Blu-ray disc then.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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