Jeff Pulera
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Hi Chuck,
This may go against reason, but check the preview settings in the monitor window – I think default is 1/2 resolution. It will play smoother at FULL, at least that is my experience with CS5 and AVCHD clips.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Josh,
Converting your video to an HD format won’t make it look any better. One option is an “upconverting” DVD player that has a hardware converter built-in and sends the HD signal out via HDMI. Another option is a device from Western Digital, the WDTV. It plays video clips from a connected USB drive out via HDMI, and the upconvert to 1080i looks great to me.
If you have a standard DVD player connected to the HD display, the display itself may be simply “blowing up” the image to fill the screen, and that can and will look nasty
Jeff Pulera
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Adding a .jpg to your timeline should have no impact at all…unless it is really huge, like some 10-megapixel image. Really, you want any graphics to be the same size as the project for best results, or close to it. If the image is much larger than the video, say 3000×2000 in a DV project, then yes, it could slow the system.
Matrox will work with many still formats, but I think 32-bit .tga is the favorite, and size should match video.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Andrew,
DVD uses “MPEG-2 for DVD” compression only, so no, don’t try anything else, you must adhere to the DVD spec. Also, it is more than just creating the “MPEG-2 for DVD” file, just putting that on DVD might play in a PC, but not a DVD player. The files must be authored to DVD using Adobe Encore or similar DVD program.
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Hi Bill,
Not sure what the issue is you are seeing…are you unable to capture HDV via Firewire? If so, go into the camera menu in VTR mode, and check if the HDV > DV convert is ON. Not positive on how it’s worded in the menu, but the camera can downconvert HDV to DV on the Firewire output, and this is typically ON by default.
Turn the convert setting OFF, power off camera and close Premiere, as camera needs to be initialized to the system as an HDV device and not DV. Turn on camera again and wait for PC to recognize it (beep or message pop up), then start Premiere and choose the HDV project preset. Don’t mess with the camera protocol, the default should work fine (I have the HV20 myself).
Jeff Pulera
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If trying the CS5 demo, keep in mind that many presets are disabled due to MPEG licensing rules, so you may not be able to try your format anyway.
Jeff
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Hi Hans,
You don’t mention which version of Premiere you have, it makes a difference. CS5 is very capable with H.264 formats, with camera presets built-in. CS4 may work, but I wouldn’t count on compatibility with CS3 really.
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Hi Ryan,
I think in general that keeping the audio to about -6dB is pretty much a standard setting to go by
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Gil,
Try to match the Adobe Project Preset to the footage, so if shooting XDCAM 1440×1080, then use that preset if it exists.
As for the audio, if the audio format of the clip doesn’t match the existing tracks, NEW audio tracks are created to match the audio being imported, that is most likely why audio is jumping to other tracks.
48K 16 bit stereo is normally a good default for audio tracks to match most cameras, what are yours set to? After Importing, if nothing is on tracks 1-4, you CAN just delete them.
Jeff Pulera
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