Jeff Pulera
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Hi CJ,
Premiere Pro CS5.5 will edit ProRes natively – is that what you are asking? When you said export, maybe you meant transcode?
Just work with the ProRes clips as is, no conversion necessary
Jeff Pulera
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The most important question that needs clarification is…was the footage for sure shot in 16:9 widescreen or not? That makes a big difference.
Like yourself, I don’t have a lot of Mac/FCP experience so that adds additional variables if you did the capture using FCP. Are you running Premiere on a Mac or PC? If PC, what do you have, .mov files to work with? A PC would capture .avi files.
Jeff
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Hi Ricardo,
I have no experience with the DVX100, but when using the older Sony VX-2000 camcorder in 16:9 mode, it did add black bars to the LCD display since it was a 4:3 display, but the recorded video on tape was still 16:9 widescreen.
If your camera was set to record 16:9, then that is what it should output then. Did you capture via 1394 to Premiere, and did you use a DV Widescreen preset when capturing?
Make sure that the Premiere sequence is DV widescreen, and if so, try to right-click a clip in the bin and find “Interpret Footage” and change the pixel aspect to 1.2 and see what happens. Note that DV footage (NTSC) is always 720×480 whether 4:3 or 16:9, only the pixel aspect changes.
Regarding interlacing, I would leave it alone for editing and making a DVD. If you then export to any format for the web, at that point you can tick the “Deinterlace” box in export settings, and set fields to “Progressive”.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Ruben,
Make sure your video files are NOT on the C: drive – you should have a dedicated second hard drive for video, and your video clips and scratch drives (in Adobe prefs) can all be set to the video drive.
Go to “My Computer” and right-click your video drive, and select PROPERTIES. Under the GENERAL tab, it should show the file system, and you want it to be NTFS. If not, that’s another story.
While there, UNCHECK the box at the bottom that says “Allow indexing”, as this will slow performance.
What is the preview render format? If uncompressed, that could be generating a huge file!
Jeff Pulera
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Why not render out your video to a video codec, rather than an image sequence of stills? Or render the segment of timeline, then it should play fine.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Brad,
Matrox used to have dozens of GPU effects available with their hardware, but since CS5 took over the GPU for the Mercury Engine, Matrox dropped all GPU effects. Too bad.
Jeff
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Hi Fred,
It will be helpful if you can share some specs. What is the source video – 720×480? What format are you exporting to – DVD, H.264, .wmv?
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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I’m a Matrox user and used to have a Matrox RT “Soft Focus” effect that is no longer supported with CS5, so I found a workaround that looks quite similar.
Put a COPY of your clip directly above itself, and apply Gaussian Blur to that top clip. By then varying the amount of blur, along with Opacity of the clip, it does a pretty nice job!
Jeff Pulera
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Another thing – it seems you are keying the original footage in iMovie, while the footage used with CS3 has been transcoded, so that could further be affecting the key quality.
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Hi Lori,
Import still into Photoshop and use Image > Image Size to resize to 1920×1080, with “constrain” box UNchecked. This will give you an image that looks correct at 1920×1080 using 1.0 square pixel aspect ratio.
I have to do this all the time with HDV grabs, which are 1440×1080 (1.333) and it works great.
For grabs from interlaced video, you might need to use Filter > Deinterlace if there is motion artifacting. If so, do this before the resize.
Jeff Pulera
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