Jeff Pulera
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Hi Yunal,
You didn’t say how your presentation will be displayed – is this for computer playback, DVD, internet? If DVD, you need to watch the “title safe area” – the text is very close to the left edge and will likely get cut off on TV screens. For DVD/video output, do not change the DV project preset size, if NTSC then leave at 720×480.
The fonts are pretty small for video, bigger is better.
FYI, “suply” should be “supply, ned is need, and busines is business.
I don’t speak a second language, so not being critical, just helping
Jeff Pulera
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I notice you’re using PPro 1.5 (many years old) and a new 64-bit workstation, can’t help but wonder if this plays a part?
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Evan,
AVCCAM is 4:2:0 and should key pretty well. If you go to the Panasonic site and watch their demo video, they show the videographer shooting a green screen music video, so it seems to work pretty well from what I saw.
I haven’t personally tried keying AVCCAM, but have keyed HDV (4:2:0) and it worked well, and the H.264 codec is better yet.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Jim,
Is it possible you are loading an SD clip into an HD project? That is the most likely answer.
Right-click the clip on the timeline and check Scale to Frame and it should then fill the output frame.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Greg,
Right-click the clip on timeline and UNLINK audio/video, then you can delete just the video, leaving the audio.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi David,
Not in front of Premiere right now to look, but basically there is an arrow at the top right corner of Sequence window, click that and you will get option to display audio frames or units (something like that). It will change timeline ruler to audio samples rather than video frames and then audio can be moved in very small increments (audio resolution) rather than frames (zoom in for control!).
After adjusting audio, you can change back to frames display. I often use this to sync audio between multiple cameras when waveform is half a frame off. Unlink video/audio first so you can move audio clip independently.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Baran,
Camtasia actually has the ability to create a user interface/menu system for auto-run discs built-in. I haven’t used it in a while, but I had created a 4-hour tutorial at 1024×768 using .wmv files and the whole thing fit on a single CD (about 600mb total). Included dozens of clips, selectable from a custom menu.
Check the Camtasia instructions for how to use that.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Chris,
Change the .mod extension to .mpg, this should get the video to show in Premiere. Now, if I recall, this will result in no audio…been a while since I dealt with .mod files and forget the workaround right now, sorry
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How do the .m2t files work with RT.X2, are they realtime? If so, then there should be no issue continuing to use HDVsplit.
The RT.X2 has no HDMI input, so that leaves 1394 or Component capture. If doing any kind of greenscreen work, then use the Component input since this captures to the Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame HD codec which defaults at 90Mbps and uses 4:2:2 color versus the 4:2:0 of native HDV. You will get better keying results, and possibly better color correction as well. The more robust codec could help with compositing also, but for typical editing, 1394 input will look good.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Colby,
While H.264 is known to render more slowly than other codecs, 1.5 hours sounds extreme for a 5-minute clip. I noticed that “Noise Reduction” is being used – was that default, or did you change the setting? I imagine that could add considerably to the render time.
I was rendering a YouTube clip for my kid the other day using a third-party encoder and it wanted to take about 25 minutes, so I aborted and used the Adobe encoder in CS3 and it was quicker.
I checked and also found that all the CompressHD reviews seem to be Mac-based, but on the other hand, I’ve not seen any bad press regarding CompressHD with the PC, so I’d expect similar performance and quality.
That said, please note that since it uses the Adobe Media Encoder as the front end, you MUST use Premiere CS4 4.2 with CompressHD, it will not work with CS3.
Jeff Pulera
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