Jeff Pulera
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When you combine clips on the same timeline in Premiere, when transferred to Encore, they are considered “one clip”. You CAN have the chapter points applied as you have done, and this will allow the viewer to choose a “start point” for viewing the DVD, but it will not stop at the next chapter, it will play all the video in that timeline from that chapter point forward.
If you wish to truly have separate clips for playback, then encode the 4 clips individually and move the results to Encore manually. In other words, use Adobe Media Encoder to encode each clip to “MPEG-2 for DVD” then Import the resulting Assets into Encore and build your DVD menus to do what you want.
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NTSC DVD is always 720×480 MPEG-2 format. In Premiere, Export to Adobe Media Encoder and choose “MPEG-2 for DVD” and then pick an “NTSC Widescreen” preset, and normally using 29.97 frames. This will generate the proper files that you can use in Adobe Encore to create the DVD.
You can also export from Premiere directly into Encore, not a workflow I use so not sure on the path to go there. File > Dynamic Link > Encore maybe?
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Hi Ronaldo,
I don’t know why the Opacity settings would fail, but you can always just drop a Dissolve transition onto the end of the clip
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Here is an Adobe video to describe some benefits of Mercury Playback – https://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/gpu-acceleration-and-nvidia/
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Jeff Pulera
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The GPU-acceleration of the Mercury Engine does actually accelerate the editing experience all around, so it would be helpful to use an Nvidia card. The GTX 285 (discontinued) or Quadro 4000 will work in the Mac Pro.
Perhaps a Mac user can chime in here with a personal experience about performance gains when adding Nvidia to Mac Pro? I know I’ve seen a huge difference on the PC when working with AVCHD footage.
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Hi Pierre,
We don’t know anything about your editing hardware – Mac or PC? Laptop or desktop? Specs?
When using a Core i7 PC desktop, with proper Nvidia card to drive the Mercury Playback Engine, AVCHD should edit like silk. Older computers/laptops don’t like AVCHD so much…
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Hi Astrid,
I suppose you could go back to Prefs and set Mercury Engine to “software” and time out a test render, then enable “GPU” and render again, to see what the Quadro 4000 is adding for performance.
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Hi Tyle,
Once the video is coming in through Firewire, it already has the DV or HDV compression applied at 25Mbps.
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You can delete the empty audio tracks so that the NEW track is not pushed way down to the bottom. Right click on the left where it says “Audio 1” and choose “delete unused”
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Hi Volodymyr,
When using the Matrox hardware, you have to consider how you are monitoring the audio, as there are several options.
By default, when playing back a Matrox sequence in Premiere, the sound only comes out of the Matrox hardware, and NOT the system sound card. This audio should be in sync with the video.
In Playback Settings, there is an option under the AUDIO tab to “Use System Soundcard”, which will route the audio through the computer sound card, but sync is not guaranteed that way.
If using an HDMI display to monitor video from MXO2, but audio is NOT coming from the HDMI display, this can cause the audio to APPEAR out of sync since there is some signal processing latency that delays the video a few frames on some displays, while the audio coming direct from Matrox hardware outputs is “live” and therefore ahead of the video. My HDMI display has a speaker jack on the back and that is how I monitor my audio to insure preview sync.
Another option is to make the Matrox hardware the default device for system sound. Go to Control Panel > Sound Devices and choose the Matrox listing as default.
Also, your AVCHD clips should be imported using the Adobe Media Browser, rather than direct Import – if not already doing that, it is good practice.
Jeff Pulera
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