Jeff Pulera
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If you have a “Film look” plug in, that combined with black and white makes a nice addition to Mike’s leader suggestion
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There are no “best settings”, only those that suit your needs. Is this just for viewing on a computer? Will it be on the internet? Is file or frame size a consideration? There are many factors that come into play, so there is no one perfect way to export.
H.264 has very high quality, so you may want to experiment with that
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AVCHD native editing has been added to CS4, but is not supported for the older PPro 2.0 that predates MPEG-4 cameras.
You must convert the H.264 (AVCHD) footage to an avi file format that Premiere can recognize and work with. Do an internet search for “AVCHD to avi” and you should find some free or inexpensive software solutions to do this. Some cameras come with a utility on CD, so check that as well
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Hi Annette,
If you put the keyed green screen clip on V2 or higher, then put any other clip beneath it on V1 for instance, the V1 clip should then be seen through the transparent or keyed areas rather than the black
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In CS3, position playhead over frame you wish to Export, then go to File > Export > Frame
You can choose from different formats such as TGA, BMP, etc.
I believe this was changed in CS4 and requires use of the Adobe Media Encoder
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Hi DAZZ,
I think you are trying too hard. If this is DV footage in a DV project, just go to File > Export > Movie and be done with it. Take the resulting AVI into ProCoder and make your MPEG-2 file.
I’m not sure what you mean by “lossless”, that usually implies working with Uncompressed footage. When going to MPEG-2 (lossy compression) there would be no advantage of exporting “lossless” from Premiere, DV is already compressed anyway, keep it native then.
By looking for a different export format (other than default), you are adding another format conversion to the process, possibly resulting in additional quality loss. In the Export settings, you can uncheck “recompress”, that may help.
I do agree that ProCoder can make a better MPEG-2 file
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Well that complicates matters then. This type of work is usually done with a green screen.
What might work is a “difference key”, which would compare the empty room scene to the same scene with the person in it and look at what is different, which would be the person, and the key would be created that way.
I have never tried using a difference key and don’t know how well that works, but it’s a thought.
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Crop one of the images, creating a split-screen effect. Go to HELP and look up CROP
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Hi Errol,
I’ve been using the Matrox RT.X2 hardware with CS3 for all realtime performance with HDV and DV. You can capture/edit HDV natively without transcoding or intermediate codecs. Allows you to mix DV and HDV in same project with realtime upconvert/downconvert, and you can connect card to an HD display for full-screen output/preview during the edit.
Effects require NO rendering! The RT.X2 LE is compatible with your system hardware
Jeff Pulera
Digital Vision Productions