Jeff Pulera
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Hi Mike,
Playing a DVD on an HD display should not make it choppy. I have watched plenty of DVDs on HD displays and they can look VERY good. If you are using a standard DVD player with a composite or component output to the LCD, and the LCD is doing the upconversion, that could the issue – some sets do it well, others mangle the signal.
If you get an upconverting DVD player, it will have hardware inside to convert the DVD to HD, and then send it to the LCD via HDMI. A Sony PS3 will do this as well.
If your source video is good and the DVD is authored properly (it looks fine on an SD display), then consider the above options to improve things
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Dave,
You may be looking for “Sequences”. You can have multiple timelines (Sequences) open at once in Premiere, and can Copy/Paste groups of clips between them. For instance, you might want to break up your long video into several shorter “subjects”, so each subject can be worked on it its own Sequence independently.
Just go to File > New > Sequence to create additional Sequences, and each of these can be renamed as well to stay organized.
Note that for larger projects, it can help to not keep multiple Sequences open at once, if it is affecting performance. They can be closed, and will reside in the Bin until re-opened. Can be helpful to close extra Sequences, then Save, before exiting Premiere, otherwise it can cause Premiere to take a long time to open if many complex Sequences are open.
Jeff Pulera
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Personally, I have never used an “iso” or “image” – if I want to copy or archive a DVD I made, I simply copy the VIDEO_TS folder to my hard drive, and can always “Burn as DVD Video” later with NERO.
Pretty sure though that most DVD copy software will give you the option to copy an iso or image file from an existing disc to the hard drive.
Jeff Pulera
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Don’t have Encore in front of me, but I believe when you go to burn the disc, there are other options, something like “disc image” or “.iso” files can be written to the hard drive, then later a disc burning software can be used to burn that file to Blu-ray (Encore not needed at that point).
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Richard,
I’m still not clear on the question, because whether the video has black bars or not has nothing to do with the resolution.
What is the source video, DV? 4:3 or 16:9? HD? What size do you want for the website? At what point are you seeing black bars?
Thank you
Jeff Pulera
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I don’t think any question is a dumb question, but some aren’t worded very well 😉
What format are you exporting to, and for what purpose? DVD, web?
Jeff Pulera
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It is possible to have a speck of dust on the tape that interferes with playback, corrupting the data, which results in a playback glitch. When recapturing the footage, that speck of dust may then be gone and it plays fine.
As Mike said, use a dedicated drive for video capture so Windows is not competing for time on the drive.
Jeff Pulera
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I believe After Effects offers this effect. In Premiere, there are ways to fake it. Create a different Title page for each word, and stack them on the timeline with staggered starts. If using few words (one line of text) you could use the CROP effect with keyframes to reveal words one at a time.
If you have a page full of text, then neither of these methods would be very useful though
Jeff Pulera
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Go into current Sequence and use CTRL-A to “select all”, then create a NEW SEQUENCE with proper settings, then CTRL-V to paste contents into it from previous Sequence, that should do it.
Jeff Pulera
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The question is why do you want to deinterlace? This will make a difference as to the workflow used. If you are creating video clips for the internet, just edit as interlaced, then simply choose “deinterlace” when exporting the final video clip.
Jeff Pulera
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