Jeff Pulera
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In the Effects panel, use Motion to SCALE the video, I believe 133% is the number you are looking for, in any event, just scale up until video fills the 4:3 frame. Sometimes scaling will lop off the top of someone’s head, or you may need to pan the image left or right and you can use the X and Y adjustments as necessary to correct. Use keyframes to change this positioning over time if different scenes need different framing.
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What Erich was asking is – do you have a separate hard drive for video files? If you only have a system drive, that will hurt performance since Windows is constantly trying to use the drive and that conflicts with trying to read video from the same drive. Video should always be on a dedicated drive.
Since you are an RT.X100 user, have you considered the RT.X2 LE for your new system? Even though the computer is much faster than the old unit, the RT.X2 still saves a lot of time in many ways to help your workflow compared to CS4 alone.
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I use CS3 with Matrox RT.X2, so maybe Matrox added this feature, not sure if it works without Matrox, but in my Settings > Playback Settings, I can uncheck the “Conform Audio” checkbox. Maybe you can turn it off in CS2 as well?
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You just use “Export to Encore”, choose No Menus, and it’s pretty much automated from there, so really, you don’t have to anything IN Encore. That’s as simple as you will find.
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In Photoshop, make sure the image uses RGB color and not CMYK, which is for print. You need RGB for video.
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You have to run a 64-bit OS to use more than 4GB, what are your specs?
Jeff
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Hi Clint,
The Matrox Color Corrector was going to be my suggestion, before I saw your reply. In the future, it may be helpful to post in the Matrox forum since you are using the RT.X2 and that brings it’s own unique problems and fixes to Premiere. Glad you got it going
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Correct, Dolby is needed, but are you on the PC or Mac? What NLE and DVD authoring software are you using? You may already have the tools or you might need to invest in something more.
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Hi Quincy,
I had to re-read your post a few times, but I think I understand now. You say that you WANT the letterbox effect, then say you don’t want the black borders, which leads me to believe you may not be using the term “letterbox” correctly.
Letterbox means that a 16:9 widescreen video, played on a 4:3 display, has the black bars top and bottom. I think what you’re looking for is native widescreen 16:9, no black, correct?
In that case, when exporting to DVD, you need to specify WIDESCREEN. It will still be 720×480, but pixel aspect ratio changes from 0.9 to 1.2, this is called “Anamorphic widescreen”. DVD players WILL letterbox the output to a 4:3 display, but will fill the screen for 16:9 displays.
For web output, you need to specify SQUARE PIXELS (1.0 aspect) at whatever resolution suits your needs, keeping in mind that size should still reflect the original 16:9 dimensions, such as 640×360. This will give you a natural 16:9 display for the web.
Also, not sure why you chose an export preset of DV NTSC, since you said you wanted to export for DVD and web. A “DV” file is far too large for web viewing, choose a web format such as QuickTime, Windows Media, H.264, etc., and for DVD, export to “MPEG-2 for DVD”.
I hope this clarifies things for you
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Hi Jeremy,
Simply burning video clips to a blank DVD does not make a “DVD”, you are only creating a “data disc”. I work on the PC so not familiar with Mac methods, but use your DVD authoring software to create a “DVD Video” disc and it will format everything so that the DVD works in DVD players, just choose a standard DVD movie preset in your software.
Jeff Pulera
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