[Jeff Pulera]

In Export settings, under the VIDEO tab, looks for FIELDS, it can be set as Lower, Upper, or Progressive

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

The whole thing plays kind of jerky for me, so I can’t see the vibration, but any time you encode for the web, make sure that the fields are set to “Progressive”, as computer displays are deinterlaced.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Here is a solution. Figure out the dimensions of just the part of video you wish to keep, meaning the X dimension, minus black areas. Take your still into Photoshop or something and figure out the proper size.

Create a NEW Desktop sequence in Premiere using the correct sizing that you want to have (less black bars) and Import your clip, with “Scale to Frame” unchecked. The video should then fill the frame, with the black bars being off the sides, out of displayed area. Fixed.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Do you know positively that the black bars are embedded in the video file, or is the player adding them? And again, what is the resolution of the original file?

You can use Adobe CROP effect to trim the actual sides off the video, but you will still have black bars unless you put some other background on an underlying video track to show through in the cropped area. Maybe this is an acceptable solution for you, to add a background?

The bottom line is, if your original clip is a non-standard video size that doesn’t properly fit an existing sequence, you either have to scale your image a bit, or change the sequence settings. I don’t know what else to recommend, can’t put a square peg in a round hole sort of analogy here.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

How will you deliver the video? If only online, then you can create whatever frame size you want, not limited by DVD or Blu-ray resolution and aspect ratio constraints.

When you start Premiere and are choosing a sequence, go to the General tab and make your own settings to match the source video size, then SAVE PRESET.

If the sequence setting matches the video clip, no black bars and no scaling needed, edit at native size.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jim,

I haven’t used the Intensity, but did recently try the Decklink HD Extreme, and BlackMagic supplies a little utility where you actually set up the inputs and outputs outside of Premiere, maybe Intensity is the same and you need to run that to correctly route the output format and connection to your display?

Don’t remember the name of program, but look in Programs > BlackMagic and see what you find

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Anthony,

It will be helpful to know which preset you are using, and the dimensions of the video clip. You can right-click the video clip and choose “Scale to Frame” which should get rid of most or all of the black.

Another option is to create a custom preset to match your footage, but that depends on how you want to deliver the video, you may need to stay with a “video standard” and not a custom size.

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[Jeff Pulera]

I haven’t tried the HDMI output from GPU with CS5, so I can’t say. I have tried the secondary DVI output to a 1920×1080 PC display for fullscreen HD preview and it worked pretty well, but not totally smooth, a little jerky with multiple layers.

What the MXO2 Mini provides is INPUTS and OUTPUTS for capture and playback of analog composite, S-video and component, and HDMI video with audio, plus RCA stereo. IN and OUT can be scaled up-down-cross (HD to SD, SD to HD, 720 to 1080, 1080 to 720, etc).

Also has some Matrox effects that are realtime for Color Correction and Keying (Luma and Chroma), and Matrox Wipes.

If you will always be working with DV, HDV or AVCHD then maybe your workflow doesn’t need capture. I’d go ahead and see what kind of output you get from the graphics card from CS5, and if you need something better, then add the MXO2 Mini later.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

ATI has great cards…for gaming. The Adobe MPE exclusively uses nVidia cards, so no matter how powerful the ATI card, it will not help Adobe one bit, and it doesn’t make sense to spec a new system for CS5 and cripple it without MPE support, it DOES make a HUGE difference in performance.

I did tests with a 1920×1080 sequence, using two AVCHD clips sized as PIPs over a JPEG background with Adobe Color Correction added to each clip, with one title also. In “software only” mode, playback was a couple frames per second on the full-screen secondary display output, total choke! Turned on hardware acceleration, and playback was nearly perfect (slight choppiness). Adding Matrox MXO2 Mini provided the ultimate playback smoothness and quality via HDMI.

Can I ask what kind of price range said system is on eBay?

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Justin,

As Vince says, try the Maximum Quality button. Aside from that, a workflow I’ve used for a few years with Matrox RT.X2 is to export my HD sequence to a Matrox .avi file using the Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame codec, then put that in the Matrox SD timeline for export to DVD. It seems you have already tried that and are not happy with the results, but it has been good for me so maybe there is a setting wrong somewhere in the mix?

Choose “Microsoft AVI” as the format, then choose “Matrox NTSC 16×9” for the preset, and you can further adjust settings under Video tab. Check that the codec is “Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame”, and increase data rate perhaps (default is 25Mbps) under the “Codec settings”. When I export to Matrox codec, I am not using the Max Quality button.

Jeff Pulera
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