Jeff Pulera
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When you have two seperate mics going into the camera, if you record each on its own discreet channel (wireless on left, shotgun on right for instance), it’s often a good idea during editing to mix these to both channels (stereo). Otherwise, if the viewer is watching on a TV with mono sound, they may only hear one channel and not the other.
Next issue – from what I’m reading, you may be new at DVD authoring. The DVD MUST be “authored” in a program such as Encore. You mentioned trying several export formats for your DVD. You can’t simply burn files to a DVD disc, even if it is “MPEG-2 for DVD”. Doing so, the video MIGHT play on a computer or PS3, because it recognizes the video files, but such is not the case in an actual DVD player.
If you open your DVD in Windows, do you see a “VIDEO_TS” folder, containing .vob files? This is what the DVD file structure looks like. If you have .mpg files or .wmv files or anything else in there…it’s not a DVD video.
Maybe I’m off track here, but I had to ask.
Jeff Pulera
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Just drop your clips into the timeline, it will then get as long as needed
Jeff Pulera
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Right-click the video clip on timeline and select “Unlink”, then select just the audio clip below and COPY, then PASTE to a lower track and line up with original so it is in sync.
In the Premiere AUDIO FILTERS, find FILL LEFT and FILL RIGHT, and apply one to each of the audio clips, resulting in one audio clip having stereo audio of just the left channel, and the other having the right, then you can adjust volume and/or filters individually.
Jeff Pulera
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You learn something every day, didn’t know about the HDV converter!
I’ve put a request in to Telestream asking if the ADVC-50 works with Wirecast3 (using their HDV upgrade option). Will let you know what I find.I see the ADVC-50 retails for about $1k, not sure how that fits the budget, in addition to Wirecast3 plus HDV option.
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Hi Michael,
No such thing as HDMI to 1394 converter. Looking at your camera specs, it mentions a composite out, which suggests that the camera offers an SD output (downconverted).
If you can get a standard-def output via RCA cable (plus RCA stereo audio) while recording HD, then you can use a converter such as the Grass Valley ADVC-300, which converts analog signals to Firewire and vice-versa. I just checked with Telestream and they do support this workflow.
Connect camera output to ADVC-300, and Firewire from the converter to MacBook, and WireCast3 will stream your video to the web.
Jeff Pulera
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I’m assuming you need to stream live. I don’t know of any streaming hardware that accepts HDMI. Products like the Wirecast 3 software from Telestream accept Firewire or USB camera inputs, or there are (more expensive) hardware-based units, but they are looking for an SD analog input.
If I figure anything out for your situtation, I’ll let you know
Jeff Pulera
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This sounds very much like the Overscan area is cut off. This is normal. The editing software, and computer playback of DVD, may show the entire frame, but television sets always cut some of the edges off, this is completely normal. If TVs showed every pixel, then many might show beyond the edge of the image, so there is some overlap of the bezel around the screen to keep this from happening.
In the titler of your NLE, you may have noticed a box running around the outer area of the preview image, this shows the “Safe Area”, meaning titles should not go beyond the lines or they may get cut off upon broadcast.
Video 101 dictates that when shooting, never put the subject too close to the edge of the screen, you must keep all areas of interest properly framed. If the video was shot too “tight”, there is not much you can do about it in post production.
If you provide more information about the video, such as was it shot as 4:3 or 16:9, SD or HD, etc., there may be other issues to look at in the production process, but I don’t know anything of your workflow at this point.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Frank,
What kind of deck do you have? I have a Panasonic DV2000, and there is an “Edit Mode” switch on the front with settings for Recorder or Passive, and Passive works best for me.
Also, record a minute or so of black on your new tape, then roll back into recorded portion, Print to Tape needs timecode to latch onto.
Jeff Pulera
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Your export settings seem ok, but I would ask what the original Premiere project setting is (should be PAL DV).
Also, rather than using Scale within the Adobe Motion effect, simply use “Scale to Frame Size” on the clips. This is accessed by right-clicking a clip and choosing that option. Easier, if you haven’t yet edited, is to enable Scale to Frame in Preferences, then clips are scaled automatically upon import (does not affect clips already imported though).
I did notice that you may be mixing 4:3 and 16:9, in that case, you may need to use Scale if you wish to expand the HD clip to fill the 4:3 screen and remove letterboxing.
I don’t know why your export file is so big, but it may take a long while either way converting HD to SD.
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Hi Daniel,
First off, are your hard drives formatted as NTFS? FAT32 drives don’t handle files > 2GB.
Also, why capturing with WinDV? I’m not familiar with that software, maybe someone else supplied the files to you, but capturing in Premiere would yield the best results natively.
Jeff Pulera
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