[Jeff Pulera]

Just realized I’m in the Photoshop forum, where I normally don’t visit! This post would be better in the Premiere forum for sure, if that’s what you’re using

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Stuart,

Sorry I didn’t see the post originally, and they get pushed down pretty quickly when several new posts are coming on daily.

Some video formats, such as DV widescreen and HDV, are “anamorphic” widescreen formats, meaning they use non-square pixels. Most media players assume square pixels and therefore do not display anamorphic video correctly, so it looks stretched or squished.

For instance, DV is 720×480 for both 4:3 and 16:9 recordings, but 4:3 uses a 0.9 Pixel Aspect Ratio and 16:9 is using a 1.2 PAR. If encoding the 16:9 video for the web, then you will want to encode using 1.0 PAR and dimensions of 854×480, which is a 16:9 ratio with square pixels and will look correct in any player.

Please let us know the dimensions of the source video and what you wish to encode to and I’ll try to assist.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi John,

Are you saying that when looking at New Sequence options, there are no folders for “Matrox SD” or “Matrox HD”?

When you install stuff, are you the Administrator? We’ve seen issues when there are multiple user accounts set up on the system.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi John,

Verify that you are using the Matrox 5.5.1.44 driver with CS5.5.1

Next, hold down the SHIFT key while launching Premiere – this will reset some internal workings of Adobe and usually does the trick. If that doesn’t work, try holding down CTRL + SHIFT + ALT while launching.

In Premiere, right-click in Program Monitor window and make sure Playback Resolution is set to FULL. In Preferences, set PLAYER to MATROX.

Hope this helps

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Frank,

Just above the Timeline sequence, there is a gray bar, called the “Work Area” bar – adjust the Ins and Outs of the Work Area, then in AME, choose to Export WORK AREA, rather than “Entire Sequence” or “Custom”.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

When importing audio files into Premiere, they get conformed to a high-quality native format, and those newly rendered files are what actually plays back on the timeline. These may have become corrupted and/or the linkage is broken.

In your Premiere project folder, try renaming the “Adobe Premiere Pro Preview” folder, then when you Open your project and it can’t find the preview renders, it should conform new files.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Anthony,

You won’t be able to go backwards, sorry. This IS supported between CS5.5 and CS5, but not the older versions.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I should mention that regardless of what codec you choose to edit with, you still have to CONVERT the H.264 clips into that format, which on a slower computer can take some time as well.

While Premiere on a PC can EDIT ProRes clips, you can’t encode to ProRes. I’ve used the Atomos Ninja recorder to go straight from HD camera to ProRes, then edited those files in Premiere and that works well.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

You might consider the Cineform codec, but with a 5-yr-old PC, any HD editing will be a struggle regardless of codec.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

The Amazon link to your device no longer works, but you get what you pay for. USB is not generally considered a video capture interface, so the video must be very highly compressed to allow transfer that way.

A Grass Valley (Canopus) ADVC converter, or similar, that takes analog to 1394 would be much preferable for both quality and ease of use, using the DV standard. Can’t help with the Huffy codec, but being “lossless”, I’m going to guess much larger file sizes than DV.

Jeff Pulera