Jeff Pulera
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Hi Stal,
I do a lot of dance recitals and can offer some tips. As Mike said, you’d have been better off downconverting from the camera and simply editing in Widescreen DV. Not much to be done about that at this point. Adobe does a poor job of encoding HDV to MPEG-2 for DVD, the results may be flickery. You won’t go to 4:3, just make 16:9 DVDs.
It sounds like you are trying to do each dance segment as a separate clip? I would put it all on one timeline, and simply add chapter marks at the beginning of each dance. Much less work, and the viewer can then watch the entire program straight through rather than having to watch each segment one at a time. They can still jump to any chapter using the chapter marks you set, whether from a menu or just using the “Next” button on the remote.
In other words, don’t encode 28 different MPEG-2 clips and try and assemble them into a DVD if that was your intention. Create a single, 2-hr. clip with 28 chapter marks in it.
At 2 hours, you can encode using CBR 4500 encode settings. Encore should convert audio to AC-3 Dolby automatically so this will fit a single 4.7GB DVD.
When starting with DV footage, the DVD would come out pretty good at these settings. Coming from HDV, the conversion is going to hurt quality unfortunately. Maybe a third-party encoder like TMPGEnc would do a better job with that
Good luck with the project
Jeff Pulera
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The RT.X2 is a full-length PCIe card which only fits large workstation cases. It has a dedicated DVI-D output to provide video preview to an LCD display.
The RT.X2 LE is a 3/4 length card to fit more cases, and the DVI-D connection is removed. You may use the analog outputs from the RT.X2 breakout box to preview video since DVI output is removed. Besides lacking the DVI output, the LE works identical to the RT.X2.
If you have more RT.X2 questions, please look me up, I’ve put together RT.X2 tutorials
Thank you
Jeff Pulera
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Hope your hardware is compatible. If reinstall doesn’t work, then I don’t know.
Jeff
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Have you tried a NEW project from scratch, or are you continuing to fight with the same project? Something could be corrupted. Choose NEW project, choose Matrox preset, and if this problem continues, then I suggest uninstalling/reinstalling the Matrox drivers. Doesn’t take very long, certainly less time that has been lost already 😉
Would be interested in learning what motherboard/chipset and display card is in the machine
Jeff
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Provided you ARE in a proper Matrox project preset, capture format should always be “Matrox avi”. Do not change this. Click “Configure” button to the right, this is 1394 by default, change to “RT.X2” for analog capture
Jeff Pulera
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Just be sure you are using a Matrox preset, and in capture settings, choose RT.X2 as input device. If this doesn’t work, then I’d suspect there is a bad install or some system incompatibility.
Are you using PPro 3.2 and Matrox 3.6 drivers?
Jeff
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Hi Alex,
When working with the RT.X2, you must always select a MATROX preset in Adobe Premiere, for instance “Matrox SD > NTSC > DV > Standard”.
Next, if capturing via 1394, you don’t have to “select” the Matrox card in the capture Window. The 1394 on Matrox breakout box is simply a pass-thru, just leave capture setting as 1394.
The only time you’d select “RT.X2” as the capture device is when capturing via Analog input on the breakout box, and then you’d have further options to specify Component, S-video or Composite as the input source.
In other words, if capturing DV via Firewire, select a Matrox DV project preset and go to capture. Period. Should work. Often times, these operational issues are caused by trying too hard and pushing buttons that don’t require pushing.
I’ve put together a 3+ tutorial that explains all this and so much more about using the RT.X2 and Matrox effects, available from Safe Harbor. If you will be working with this system much, the training is a life-saver.
If you have any other questions or issues, fire away! You may want to post future questions in the Matrox area of the Cow to reach the right audience though.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers
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Hi Bob,
I’ve almost always filled my DVDs right up to capacity and I duplicate/distribute about 1500 per year, no issues. I use Taiyo Yuden DVD-R media, have had zero rejects out of thousands used, these are the best.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Bob,
There are several at videohelp.com or just Google “bit rate calculator”
Also, just found an Adobe article recently that said to divide 560/minutes and I started using that and it works very well.
Jeff Pulera
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I would have to disagree – it’s like the old commercial that said “You can pay me know, or you can pay me later”.
If you have effects on the timeline, or it’s red because the clip format doesn’t match the project, it will have to render that material for export. Do it now, or do it later during export, it still takes time to render.
If you render the timeline prior to export, the export movie should then go very quickly.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers
http://www.sharbor.com