[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

Make sure that you are using a BlackMagic sequence – a native Adobe sequence won’t utilize third-party hardware

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[Jeff Pulera]

The only Nvidia cards with Premiere Mercury Playback support on the Mac are the Quadro FX 4800 and Quadro 4000.

List here – https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jason,

Others have responded to the HD question.

At “maximum quality”, a DVD will hold 60 minutes of video – it is not possible to fill the disc with only 10 minutes of content, as a data rate that high would be out of spec and not work with players.

You can use Adobe Media Encoder out of Premiere to manually encode to “MPEG-2 for DVD”. Set quality slider to “5” and encode with CBR encoding at setting of “8”.

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[Jeff Pulera]

You haven’t said what format the videos are. Most new tapeless formats use complicated file structures, and those file folders must all be kept intact when moving data from camera card to hard drive.

If you just “dig down” and find the video file, it may not operate properly on its own without other supporting files. It is also good in this case to use the Browser in Premiere for importing these kinds of files.

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[Jeff Pulera]

If you want to capture native HDV via 1394, then use an Adobe HDV sequence and do that. After capture, you ought to be able to then edit those clips in a BlackMagic sequence so that you can get the output preview.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Each 5-minute video does not have to begin as a unique sequence – a longer source clip can be used, and then just make the Work Area Bar in Premiere 5-minutes long, and then use Export “Work Area” and just keep moving the bar and adding more segments to the Queue.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Ben,

While the “chopping up” part is not automated, you could add each segment to the Queue in Adobe Media Encoder and then they’d all render out as a batch, rather than encoding one at a time and having to baby-sit the job

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Iain,

No, Adobe supports single GPU only

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Alex,

Without seeing an example of the stretching, hard to say where things went wrong. Since the source and delivery SHOULD be the same format, without any 4:3 to 16:9 or scaling conversions, I don’t know what might have happened.

I do avoid “Match Source Attributes” because that takes away control from the user. You should be choosing “MPEG-2 for Blu-ray” or “H.264 for Blu-ray” for output format, and selecting the appropriate preset then that best matches the footage type.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Eric,

So please share your workflow. What is the source format? Converting from HD needs special attention. What are the encode settings?

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