[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Albuerto,

I doubt that the menu is actually “baked” into the video file in any way, more likely happening in the player software.

Check this out, might do what you want – https://takybox.com/

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Premiere is primarily for editing and is not meant for fancy effects/compositing work. Stick to AE.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mike,

An i7 (6-core) with 32GB and GTX 1080 graphics is a decent starting configuration for editing HD and 4K. Using SSD system drive, SSD scratch/Adobe cache drive, and RAID storage (internal or external).

If budget allows, upgrading to an i9 processor with more cores certainly would not hurt, and you could bump RAM up to 64GB.

About the video card – Premiere only uses the GPU to accelerate certain things, not everything, so keep that in mind. Scaling and Lumetri Effects are a couple of things the GPU does, and not a whole lot more, so spending thousands on the GPU may not be the best place to allocate budget. Shift that Quadro 6000 money into RAM and processor upgrades.

The GTX 1080 cards are very powerful and popular for Premiere, perhaps go 1080ti for a little more performance.

You might consider a custom workstation built specifically for Adobe editing versus an HP or Dell-type solution, where you will never get proper tech support for an editing rig. Puget Systems or Safe Harbor (I work there) for instance.

Thank you

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Not aware of any plug-in, I just use Adobe Motion with keyframes. Ease In/Ease Out can help create natural-looking movement between keyframes when starting and stopping “camera movement”.

If I want to cut between different shots, like wide to close, I will place a CUT in the video clip and just have different position and scale settings between the two clips, so no keyframing needed there.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Mocha software

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[Jeff Pulera]

An appropriate Black Magic capture device (or similar) will work, but you do need some sort of software that accepts the video coming in from capture card and feeds it to ENCODER software such as WireCast or Adobe Flash Media Encoder or something like that. This will convert to the actual streaming video signal and send it where it needs to go (you configure all that in streaming software).

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Jeff

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[Jeff Pulera]

WD Black is preferred for video work, with 7200rpm and 64mb cache. Probably using 5400rpm and 32mb cache on the Blue. Even then, you should go with a RAID as suggested for improved performance, but that is still no guarantee that the PC/Premiere can decode the 4K footage smoothly on the fly and you may need to use that proxy workflow.

What is the data rate of your clips? Should be listed as mbps.

At a minimum, you’d want a 2-drive desktop RAID such as G-Tech G-RAID, LaCie 2Big, or Glyph StudioRAID. Moving up to a 4-drive RAID is even better, and then allows for RAID 5 (redundant) mode to protect data, versus RAID 0 of 2-drive models which is not protected from drive failure.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Curious – what video format are you actually importing into Encore then, which it transcodes?

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Jeff

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jan,

I did not mean to discount your attention to detail regarding measurement of levels at various stages, rather it is my ADHD that makes it hard for me to follow ????

As I’ve not produced video for broadcast, have never really played with or paid attention to levels – if it looks good by eyeball, that has worked for me.

But again, if you can provide a spec-legal .m2v file into Encore, it will NOT transcode it, therefore I don’t see where it would be doing anything whatsoever to levels – they are and should thus remain whatever is in the .m2v file exported from Premiere/Media Encoder. Never recommended to let Encore transcode your files – feed it what it desires.

I used to use MXO2 – I could be thinking of older RT.X2 here as well – but I recall in the Matrox output setup, there was an option to “Add 7.5 Setup” or something like that. Meaning if I were editing footage that used 7.5 IRE as the baseline rather than 0, such as MiniDV footage, then I would check that button, otherwise when viewing the Matrox output on a video display, blacks would (falsely) look washed out, which might prompt editor to want to color correct when in fact source video blacks were fine, but the output from Matrox was “off” if that makes sense.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

You lost me part way through with all the levels business…but here’s my take on it. If you export from Premiere as MPEG-2 DVD, then Encore will not touch the video – no trancoding – so whatever was exported from Premiere will be what is playing off the DVD. Meaning no change in levels should happen.

In fact, you should be able to Import the .m2v video you exported back into Premiere and check levels there to see what you have before going to Encore.

So figure out the correct bit rate to encode your program to so that it fits the DVD (to avoid transcode to fit) and export as MPEG-2 DVD which provides .m2v video and .wav audio. By default, Encore will leave the video alone, and audio gets transcoded to Dolby Digital.

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Jeff Pulera
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