[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tarquin,

I’ve never heard of “AVI 1420” and when entered in the search engine, nothing comes up. Please check again what type of files you need to create and be more specific if possible – what is the application of these files?

The closest thing I know of is 1440×1080 for anamorphic HD, but that is 1440 and not 1420.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Maybe you just need to rename the first 9 clips until they hit double digits? Otherwise, download the free IrFanView image software, does a lot of neat stuff including batch rename so you can name the files properly

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[Jeff Pulera]

Are you capturing from tape? Please share the video source and your workflow, settings

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[Jeff Pulera]

16-bit = 48k
12-bit = 32k

In Premiere, check Sequence Settings and verify audio is at 48000

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mikkell,

Are you using:

File > Export > Tape ?

This is the correct way to send the project to tape – it seems like you might be using the 1394 “preview output” only at this time.

Also, make sure audio settings match between camera and Premiere, both 48k, camera might be set to 32k.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Matt,

Are you sending this to someone that needs to do more editing to it, where they need a large that large? If not, and they just need to view it, then you’ll want a more efficient codec. You could export to H.264 and have a much smaller file, still with very good quality.

Let me know

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

As mentioned, Pixel Aspect comes into play, and stills assume 1.0 PAR when being displayed. HDV for instance uses a 1.333 PAR, with 1440×1080 resolution. An exported still will look like 4:3 – take it into Photoshop and change the size to 1920×1080 and it then looks correct (at 1.0 PAR).

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Matt,

Everything is grayed out because you chose “Match Sequence Settings” -you essentially put AME on auto-pilot.

What is the purpose of the export – archiving a master video file? Please let us know your end goal and we can offer suggestions then for best settings

Thanks

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[Jeff Pulera]

Eric,

I’m looking at the Adobe Media Encoder CS5 settings right now, and 1440×1080 is definitely available for both MPEG-2 and H.264 output for Blu-ray, and I’ve used those settings before.

Although both HDV and Blu-ray both use Long-GOP MPEG-2, I am surprised that Encore would find the MPEG-2 file “Blu-ray” compatible, as there are many factors that make the video Blu-ray compliant. Maybe Encore is only looking at the fact that the file is “.m2v” and not the details.

Have you tested the disc on a few different players to make sure it actually works ok? Adobe is set for “High Level, Main Profile” encoding, I don’t know if HDV uses the same parameters.

Your AIFF audio is being transcoded in Encore to Dolby Digital for Blu-ray compliance, as AIFF is not part of the spec.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

I use a formula I got from the Adobe website a while back, which figures the bitrate as 560/minutes, which in your case would be 560/80=7 and I always round down a bit to make sure there is plenty of room for menus and such.

I believe you are working with PAL, so maybe this formula would be a little different with the PAL frame rate and frame size? But should be close enough I think.

What data rate were you using?

Jeff Pulera
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