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Jeff Pulera
November 2, 2011 at 9:41 pm in reply to: Premiere system purchasing advice, Mac Vs. PC.

Neil,

Just curious – your signature line lists CS4, so are you actually using CS5, and if not, how do you know if Nvidia makes a big difference or not?

When I switch Mercury Playback to software only mode, I see a big difference in performance.

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
November 2, 2011 at 6:55 pm in reply to: How much footage to DVD?

Hi Joe,

Different apps use different notation. Adobe would be 4.5, while Sorenson will show 4500, same thing. Sorry for any confusion. Don’t encode at 450 😉

Jeff
Jeff Pulera
November 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm in reply to: video greyed out on Matrox presets – MX02

Hi Paul,

I see the issue – you chose “Matrox MP4” as the format. For Blu-ray encoding using Matrox MAX, use the “Matrox 264 (Blu-ray)” preset.

Matrox MP4 is for web encodes.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
November 2, 2011 at 2:58 pm in reply to: How much footage to DVD?

Quality is very subjective, as you have seen from the varied replies. I have to side with Eric and say two hours is fine. Been doing it for 10 years and ZERO complaints about quality. In fact, I’ve done many productions that were 2.5 hours or more on a single 4.7GB disc! Have never moved to DL because of cost/compatibility concerns, and making a two-disc set doubles labor and costs for me.

I won’t argue that quality degrades as the program gets longer – that’s a given – but the public is now very used to watching cr*p on YouTube all day and I don’t think the average person notices the compression artifacts that us picky video editors look for! Not saying my discs look “bad”, because I do have standards, but good enough for the clients (wedding, event, corporate) apparently.

I recently videotaped my kid’s school play at over 2.5 hours, and without my knowing, another parent had taped it another night and was making copies for people. Come to find out he authored to THREE DVDS!!! Really? I can see two, but seriously…and whose production quality was higher? Yes, the single DVD.

To find the data rate for longer encodes, I use 560/minutes=rate, and just round down a bit for safety/menu space. For instance, 120 minutes = 4.66, encode at 4.5 and you’re good to go. This will start another debate, but I seldom use VBR, and stick with CBR in most cases.

Jeff Pulera
Jeff Pulera
November 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm in reply to: video greyed out on Matrox presets – MX02

Hi Paul,

Let’s back up a moment. Are you on Mac or PC? What is the purpose of the Export?

If on the PC and you want to export a full-quality .avi (for editing/archiving), then choose MICROSOFT AVI as the format, then you will be allowed to choose the various Matrox presets.

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
November 2, 2011 at 2:05 pm in reply to: Video Files

Hi Rodrigo,

When moving data from card to computer, copy over the ENTIRE FOLDER STRUCTURE. Do not try to only copy the video files. Once that entire folder is moved to your local hard drive, then use Media Browser in Premiere to import the files, rather than “Import”

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
October 31, 2011 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Importing Non-Standard Resolution AVI’s

I use Camtasia to create tutorials, and it gives the option of recording as .camrec files, or .avi files. I choose .avi and import the result directly into Premiere. Uncompressed files are very large, better to use the Techsmith codec .avi clip natively.

I’ve had no trouble working with the .avi clips in Premiere CS5.5.

As for creating a custom size, you can do that when choosing a Sequence – just modify the properties then SAVE out the custom preset. I typically use 1024×768 at 15fps.

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
October 31, 2011 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Compatible graphics card

Hi Julian,

The only two Nvidia cards supported on Mac Pro are the 285 (discontinued) and the Quadro 4000, not a lot of choices I know.

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
October 31, 2011 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Last question tonight

Hi Jeff,

Transcoding means taking a file (audio or video) and encoding it into another format. For instance, if you import an .avi file into Encore, it will need to be transcoded to MPEG-2 for the DVD, since DVDs do not use .avi video.

Using the default settings in Encore, audio is automatically transcoded to Dolby AC-3 format.

If you edit in Premiere and then use Adobe Media Encoder to export to the “MPEG-2 for DVD” format, you will get two files, an .m2v video clip and a .wav audio clip (called “PCM” in AME setings).

Import these as Assets into Encore and the video should show “Do not transcode”, because it is already the correct MPEG-2 format ready for DVD, while the .wav audio will say “Untranscoded”, since the default audio setting in Encore is Dolby AC-3. Therefore, when building the disc, the uncompressed .wav audio will be converted (transcoded) to AC-3, and the video will be used “as is”.

Jeff Pulera
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Jeff Pulera
October 26, 2011 at 7:38 pm in reply to: What is the secret to achieving full screen video?

Hi Bill,

Glad I could assist. May I ask – how did you compress the 9GB image file?

If you would add up the total length of all video segments, and do the 560/minutes=datarate, everything should’ve have fit without recompression, which further degrades quality. That said, I wouldn’t go much over 2 hours on a 4.7GB DVD.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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