Jeff Pulera
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What happens if you watch the footage on the camera LCD or connect camera to a monitor, how is playback? If it is bad/distorted/glitchy for some reason, then right, you would have capture issues
Jeff
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Cory,
Make sure the Premiere preset properly matches the footage, for instance HDV 1080i 29.97, I think Adobe calls is “1080 60i”. If you shot 30p or 24p or something you may need a different preset.
It’s odd that you can see the footage while FF but not play. You won’t see the footage during actual capture, but it should play perfectly in the capture window for preview purposes.
Jeff
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I’m sorry, I believe I confused myself and gave partially bad info – I’m assuming from the first post you are wanting to capture HDV and not DV.
In that case, i.Link Convt should be OFF as I said earlier, but the VCR should be set to HDV, not DV. AUTO will usually work as well, but with HDV setting we can be sure camera is properly seen by Windows as an HDV unit and not a DV device.
Let me know if this gets you going
Jeff Pulera
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Stef, the only way to capture the clean clips is to manually set the IN and OUT points, very tedious, then having Premiere capture all the clips one at a time, which wears out the camera, shuttling back and forth.
Unless you must send “clean clips” to someone else, leave them as is and just trim when you edit, as mentioned by Ann. This is how it works for the rest of us
Jeff
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Prior to hitting RECORD, do you see an image in the capture window?
Most HDV cameras, by default, do NOT output HDV using 1394 – they are set to downconvert to DV, unless you go into the camera menu and change the setting to get HDV output. You WILL have deck control when in DV mode, so it almost seems like it is working, but you can’t capture HDV.
Go into camera menu and change “VCR” setting to “DV”. Also change “i.Link Convt” to OFF. Turn camera OFF. Close Premiere. Turn camera back on, and wait for computer to “see it” – should beep or show a pop-up. Now launch Premiere and try to capture, should work.
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Hi Ben,
Bit rate and Sample rate sound the same to me. How about GOP settings? Variable Bit Rate vs. Constant Bit Rate (VBR vs. CBR)? There are many factors. “Aspect Ratio” would apply to ANY video codec, certainly not MPEG-2 specific.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Sam,
In camera VTR menu settings, look for “VCR” and change from “AUTO” or “HDV” to “DV”. Close Premiere, and shut down camera. Turn camera on again, so PC recognizes as DV device, then start Premiere.
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Hi Stef,
I understand what you wish to do, and my recommendation would be to re-capture the HDV footage from the camera via 1394, but this time enable the “Scene Detect” button in the CS5 Capture window.
This will recognize breaks in the tape recording, and will save each scene as an individual, sequentially-numbered clip. Now you have what you want, and can then rename each clip something appropriate, and put the clips in different folders, etc. to organize and archive. Best of all, you have the original quality of each! Just about anything you would export to would result in a much larger file, so you also have economy of file size using original .mpeg captures.
While HDV video is an MPEG-2 format, there are many different “flavors” of MPEG-2. You can’t directly export to the HDV codec, and by going to something else, you are recompressing the footage (quality loss).
Hope this workflow suits your needs
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Stef,
First we need to determine your goals. Do you wish to “save” portions of the captured clip as individual clips (exports) so that you can then delete the original capture file? If you are NOT deleting the original clip, then you do not need to create new clips – every time you do this, you are losing quality, and as you have found, which codec do you use?
Within Premiere, you can create “subclips”, which look like new clips from the original, but are simply defined by a pointer that references the original material. No need to create entirely new clips again.
If there are only certain parts of the HDV tape you wish to use, then I might suggest you only capture those parts. Use Log and Capture to mark, then capture, the individual scenes (clips) you want.
I don’t know which codec to recommend for the exports you want to do – you are really looking for an “intermediate codec” – I think most of the codecs available in Adobe Media Encoder are really meant for final delivery and not editing purposes. When you choose the “Match Sequence” option, all that really does is try to match the frame size, frame rate and other aspects of original video, while using the chosen codec, it does NOT export to the same codec as the source footage (HDV is Long-GOP MPEG-2 at 25Mbps, with very specific settings).
I’ve always had Matrox hardware in my edit systems, so I’ve been able to just export to the Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame codec when I wish to create a new clip for archiving or other purposes, so again I don’t know what specifically to recommend that would have good quality and reasonable file size for re-editing in your case.
Jeff Pulera
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On the YouTube output, was the video scaled (resized) at all? Fine details can shimmer especially when scaling. Right-click the video clip in Premiere timeline and in Field Option, choose “Flicker Removal” and see if that helps.
Jeff