Jeff Pulera
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Hi Jim,
I think you could export the 6 audio tracks as indiviudal files – Just mute all but one track at a time and export. Normally I would say use “.wav” files, but I don’t think they work with Mac, but just use a Mac-compatible format then, ask the sound editor what they need.
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Hi Greg,
It sounds like you might be new to Premiere so I’ll go a little further. Each clip by default has the “Motion” effect applied already – select the clip on the timeline and go to the Effects window and open Motion controls.
Use Scale to “zoom in” to remove problems at edge of image – note that if problem is only on one edge, you don’t have to zoom in as far – zoom a little, then move the image left or right (or up or down) with the X and Y controls.
If beginning with HD footage, the quality will hold up well zooming in as much as 120% or so, but if SD, quality takes a hit right away when scaling.
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Hi Sam,
Make sure the render area is covered by the Work Area bar. Also, in Prefs you can change the setting so playback doesn’t always go to the beginning of the sequence after a render, I find that annoying, especially on a very long sequence when it jumps way back to the beginning every time.
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I imagine that your CS5 is running in “software mode” – a fairly inexpensive upgrade that would REALLY help with editing performance would be to get a proper NVIDIA card to take advantage of the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in CS5.
The least expensive “approved” card is the GTX 470, but if you search for “nvidia hack for CS5” you will find additional options if the budget is tight. Short of a new system, this should make a big difference in performance.
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Hi Manu,
Before moving ahead, I need to ask what is the final purpose or destination of the exported video? If for computer or internet viewing, you should be considering an H.264 codec rather than DV, which produces very large files by comparison.
Also, it seems that you are combining HD and SD footage in the edit – if you have no need of creating an HD final output, you may be better off editing in an SD sequence. The reason is, that when you import SD clips into an HD sequence, they are getting upscaled, then when exporting to SD, downscaled again, and this hurts quality.
Better to keep the SD clips native as SD, and bring the HD clips down to SD during editing.
As for the output sizes being ghosted, this is because you chose a DV preset – it is not meant to be changed, since DV is DV. If you choose H.264 for instance, then you can set the size to anything you want (you may have to turn off the link between X and Y dimensions to customize though). Also, do not use the “Match source” preset, this will ghost out most options.
I just did the math and for PAL widescreen export using square pixels (1.0) for computer/web viewing, it looks like the size should be set to 1024×576 to maintain the 16:9 playback.
Jeff Pulera
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You can email me at jeffp at sharbor.com and we will figure it out
Thank you
Jeff
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The H.264 encoding presets are basically for delivery and are very highly compressed. Though the result might look good, not meant for editing, using Long-GOP structure and such.
You might consider exporting to the DVCPRO HD codec or something for later editing. I’m fortunate that I’ve worked with Matrox hardware for years, so have always simply exported to a Matrox codec, so not real familiar with other options.
Jeff Pulera
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The Mercury Playback Engine in CS5 uses certain NVIDIA display cards to accelerate Premiere. The GTX 470 is approved, I don’t believe the 460 is, but if you search the web for “studio 1 nvidia hack” you will find instructions to easily tell Premiere that your card is approved and this will benefit performance.
This may have nothing to do with your issue at all, but is something you would want to do to speed up editing in any case.
Jeff Pulera
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It will help if you tell us your purpose – are the files destined for the web, for archiving, for later editing?
Jeff Pulera
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The problem you are seeing is because DV widescreen is “anamorphic” widescreen – the pixels are non-square to simulate widescreen. Note that both 4:3 and 16:9 DV have the same pixels – 720×480 for NTSC, and PAL is (I think) 720×576. 4:3 DV uses a pixel aspect of 0.9 while 16:9 uses 1.2 pixel aspect (rectangular pixels).
If you were to create a DVD from your results, it would be the correct 16:9. If you try to play the video back in Windows Media Player for instance, it may not recognize the pixel aspect, as computers usually assume sqaure pixels. For NTSC widescreen export for computer viewing, I use 864×480 (1.0 pixel aspect), sorry I don’t know the numbers for PAL.
Jeff Pulera
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