Jeff Pulera
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I spoke to a client recently that does video depositions for the courts, and MPEG-1 is still the required delivery format, as the software that is used to transcribe the testimony from the video uses VCD or MPEG-1 video CDs, so MPEG-1 is still used in some circles.
Jeff Pulera
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You say you are working with a DVD source made from a VHS tape – do you have access to the VHS tape? As DVDs are so highly compressed, you’d be better off recapturing the VHS tape direct to the NLE system using an analog capture card, where you could capture as uncompressed, or at least a high data rate I-frame codec with 4:2:2 color. MPEG-2 for DVD and DV codecs are losing a lot of image info.
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Hi Gerry,
A couple of important questions –
1) What Premiere Project Preset are you using?
2) What is the format of the video clips – uncompressed, AVCHD, XDCAM, what? Source of the video?
If video clips are uncompressed, don’t expect realtime playback, the hard drive(s) may not be able to keep up with data rate.
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Hi Corinne,
Make sure the color chosen is “video legal”, meaning not “oversaturated”. In other words, the bright neon colors that look great on the computer will not fare well on DVD or the TV screen.
If you see where each of the Red, Green and Blue color sliders go from 0 to 255, you want to avoid going above 235 typically. Also, don’t use any one color in pure form, like 235,0,0 for Red. You can add the other two colors in equal amounts to muddy up the red a bit, like 235,50,50 for instance.
NTSC just can’t handle really bright colors the way a computer screen can. Even for white, use 235,235,235 rather than 255,255,255. It will still LOOK white on TV, but cause less issues.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Stephen,
I use Premiere Pro, not Elements, so your setup may have different options than I get with PPro and Encore DVD. Here’s a few different options for you –
1) Copy/Paste the same clip on the timeline over and over for an hour, then export to DVD.
2) Put ONE clip on the DVD and set the DVD to LOOP (Adobe Encore offers this option)
3) Most, if not all DVD players offer a REPEAT function – put the clip on DVD once and repeat with player, though this would have a slight pause between each play
Option 1 is probably the simplest method, for smooth uninterrupted playback (you can use this along with Option 3 repeat for endless playback)
We do have an Elements 7 training CD available, nothing for 8 yet
Jeff Pulera
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The default audio tracks match the project settings, for instance 48k 16-bit stereo. If you drag in a mono audio clip, Premiere creates a new MONO audio track, you can’t put the MONO clip in the existing stereo track.
Either convert the file to stereo (if that is the case), or you can right-click the left part of audio track and delete unused audio tracks, so when you bring in the new clip it can be Audio 2 instead of 5.
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Hi David,
If you bought CS4 AFTER the April 12 introduction date of CS5, you may be covered. Contact Adobe directly, not your dealer
Jeff
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Hi Barbara,
You may be misunderstanding the technology. With CS4, the appropriate Quadro FX card WITH the optional Elemental Accelerator software would speed up EXPORT to MPEG-2 and H.264. This does not mean the rendering of the timeline (effects filters) would necessarily be any faster, just the actual encoding to MPEG-2 or H.264. I don’t believe your GeForce 250 qualifies at all in this area, nor would the FX580.
The Mercury Playback Engine, which is completely new to CS5, is something different than the “Elemental Accelerator” used with CS4. The Mercury Engine uses the GTX285 or Quadro FX 3800/4800/5800/CX cards to provide realtime editing on the timeline, no red bars for effects filters. This is different than Export, though export should also be faster.
If you don’t feel your system is running as fast as it once did, I would look at your hard drives. Are they nearing capacity? Have they been defragmented? Hard drive fragmentation can KILL performance. This seems likely as you said you can’t even play a single video stream smoothly at this time.
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Hi Georgina,
Some additional information is needed before anyone can help you.
What project preset did you use?
What are the parameters of the source footage (format, frame rate, compression)?
What are the export settings?
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Hi,
I never did learn how to use the Audio Mixer in Premiere, and as always, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task. I just use an audio filter, “Fill Left” or “Fill Right”, to do this
Jeff Pulera
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