Jeff Pulera
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If you are looking to create a file just as it appears on the HDV tape, I believe there is a workaround that will help you, here is the link –
https://forum.matrox.com/rtx2/viewtopic.php?t=2570Jeff Pulera
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Ditto on DPI, but as far as the still image, if you do NOT plan on doing zoom/pans on the stills, just make them 1920×1080 with square pixels.
HDV cheats by using a 1.333 pixel aspect ratio to get down to 1440 x 1080 and still offer 1920 x 1080 playback because 1440 x 1.333 = 1920, but for stills just use the full 1920 x 1080 and Premiere will interpret correctly in an HDV project.
This goes the same for Adobe Encore DVD menu backgrounds for a 1440 x 1080 project, they must be 1920 x 1080 (.psd format for Encore).
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Hi Laura,
You must have an older version of PS, as the CS3 version includes a preset for HDV, which is 1440 x 1080 pixels and uses a “pixel aspect ratio” of 1.333. The final viewable display is still 1920 x 1080 since 1440 x 1.333 = 1920, that is how HDV works.
I edit in Premiere, and even for HDV projects at 1440 x 1080, graphics are created at the full 1920 x 1080 with square pixels (1.0 aspect) and the edit software correctly interprets the display based on the pixel aspect.
I’d check with the editor and see what his software requires for stills (I don’t use Final Cut), or just get him a sample of each to try (1440×1080, 1.333 and 1920×1080, 1.0), but I’m guessing that 1920×1080 would be fine.
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Just use “Dip to white” keeping the transition length down to several frames. It looks like a photo flash, looks very natural and hides the jump cut very well. I see this on TV often and it works great for me.
Since the white frame, however brief, breaks the continuity between the 2 different clips, the visual cortex accepts this as normal, while a dissolve or transition just screams for attention, “Look at me!”
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I guess I need to learn to type faster, you beat me!
Jeff
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Hi John,
Some of the software DVD players for the PC will offer the option to play from the hard drive, and with this option you just specify the “VIDEO_TS” folder to use as a source
Jeff Pulera
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Ditto on Fritz comments for Premiere. After Effects has about 300 really neat text presets for the fly-ins, buzzing bees, bounce ins, randomized letters, all the commercial goodness, I’ve been learning AE just to use those on occassion with nice results
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The issue may be that you are watching the original animation on the computer, which uses RGB color and can reproduce vibrant, high-resolution graphics. NTSC can’t reproduce the color resolution or sharpness of a computer display, it will never look as good.
I’d be careful about the DVD data rate also, 8.9 is pushing the limits and could cause playback issues on some players. There is a point of diminishing returns – the viewer would probably never see a difference between material encoded at 7.0 vs. 8.9
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Hi Matt,
Well that is truly strange. Do you have a 4-pin to 4-pin Firewire cable? Try dubbing tape from one camera to another to make a digital duplicate and see if the new copy can be captured, new timecode is written when you do this
Jeff Pulera
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I’ve reused DV tapes for over 10 years without issues, so that’s not likely to be the problem. If you have a bad recording, could be something going wrong with the camera alignment, dirty head, etc.
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