[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Peter,

I wish to apologize to you – just looked in Photoshop, and the adjustment for DPI is actually called Resolution. I don’t know if it always said that in older versions or not? I also realized that changing the “resolution” setting, which is really DPI in this case, does change the dimensions of the image in pixels. So, you were correct in saying that you lowered the DPI of the image!

My point about DPI is that the term is not used in video (but you were talking about a still image). When printing an image at say 150 dpi, it will be the same size on paper regardless of printer used or paper used – 150 dpi is 150 dpi. With video, the image is made of pixels, and the size of those pixels is dictated by the resolution and size of the screen displaying the video. Could be a phone, could be a 70″ or larger TV, screen might be 720p or might be 1080p, showing the same video source.

I just have a knee-jerk reaction when I see posts about video and DPI together, typically something like “what DPI should I make my stills to put in a video?” In that case, DPI does not work. 300 dpi might be great for printing, but if the still image is only one inch square, 300 dpi is not so great then because the dimensions would be only 300×300 pixels – far smaller than an HD frame and only half the size of even an SD video frame at 720×480.

So if someone asks “What size should my stills be for HD video” then I would say for instance “1920 x 1080 pixels” and the DPI is irrelevant. Meaning, I could have an image in Photoshop with dimensions of 1920 x 1080, and whether DPI was already set at 72 or 300, the pixel count would be the same either way. That is what I was referring to earlier.

Honestly, I’m confused. Been using Photoshop for many years, and I swear that at one point changing the DPI setting would NOT change the pixel count (it would change the inches though). Now I see that it’s changing pixels also and I don’t recall that always being the case. Maybe I’m wrong or maybe Adobe changed it somewhere along the way.

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Peter,

Glad you got the issue sorted, but DPI has nothing whatsoever to do with video. With video, it’s all about resolution, meaning pixels, so I will assume you lowered the resolution of the image? For instance, image went from 10000×8000 to 2000×1600 pixels?

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I meant Shane, sorry!

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

I agree with Shawn – I edit 4K stage event footage in 1080p and 720p sequences so that I can fake a multi-cam shoot, cutting to “close ups”, panning across stage, etc.

If you copy/paste the contents of the 4K timeline to a 1080p timeline, you will want to apply Set to Frame to the clips to scale them (available via right-click) – do not use Scale to Frame, otherwise when you punch in you immediately lose quality since Scale to Frame does what it says – the 4K footage gets scaled down to 1080 right away. Set to Frame preserves the 4K quality to use all the extra pixels when scaling with Motion effect.

One thing to consider – you said your footage is 4096×2160, which might be called 4K Cinema. This is not 16:9, so if you export as 1080p, or drop the clips into a 1080p sequence, there will be some black around the edges, so you will have to scale to fit the frame and part of the image would then be cropped off.

The more common 4K UHD is 3840×2160 and is 16:9 so I don’t run into that issue at all.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Make sure the still is 8-bit RGB, can be checked in Photoshop

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

I took your .png into Photoshop and it does not appear to have any transparency – the while area is solid background.

Also, the resolution is odd, being 1431×805.

I would go back to the drawing board – make a NEW image, starting at 1920×1080. Make sure to have at least 2 layers – the “Background” layer being transparent, then save as .png.

You can test a proper image by just dropping it into the Premiere timeline above a video clip – does the background show through properly? If it doesn’t work in Premiere, not going to work in Titler.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I didn’t answer on the image file because I wasn’t sure what to say. But thinking about it more, make sure the image is the same size as the video frame, for instance 1920×1080. If you are using something smaller, maybe that is the issue?

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Steven

Once you have created a title in Titler, hit the little “T” button at upper left of Titler screen for New Title from Current Title and give it a different name. Then modify the text. By using the New Title button, you’re using the current title as a template to create the new one.

I shoot dance recitals and need to create hundreds of titles for a weekend event (multiple programs). What I do is create the first title, with text formatted the way I want it. That will be my “template” moving forward. I can insert that same title between every act when roughing out the edit. To update titles for each act, I just double-click the “placeholder” title to open Titler, click New and name it, then update the text. The last step when returning to the timeline is to right-click the title and select Replace with > Clip from Bin

The placeholder title in the timeline is replaced by the newly created title, and any effects or transitions applied to placeholder are still on the new title as well then.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

I tend to do my trimming right on the timeline. Use the Razor tool to place a cut where you want to start clip, then right-click on that first portion (before the cut) and select Ripple Delete. Then cut again where you want to end, then just select and delete that end part. Many ways to accomplish the edits. There’s also Mark In/ Mark Out then Lift or Extract, and those tools are available in the Program Monitor window.

As for export, where is the clip going? For myself, I may shoot 4K at times, but am not delivering 4K to my viewers – will export as 1080p or 720p. Most people are not set up to play/view 4K, that’s my opinion.

Exports for delivery (either for online or thumb drive, etc.) are usually H.264 – this is pretty universal for playback on Mac, PC, online, etc. and provides an .mp4 file format.

Before you even start editing – important to choose a proper Sequence Setting for the footage. If clip is in the Project Bin, you can right-click and select New Sequence from Clip. Then the sequence will match the source.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

First off, 4+ hours of video is way too much content for a 4.7GB disc. Will be very highly compressed and just can’t look very good. 2 hours is suggested maximum, though I have pushed it to 2.5 hours on occasion, but only using special software and methods to tweak quality.

Next, you will find that the majority of users here are “video professionals” so you may not find anyone fluent in using Nero which is more of a consumer commodity software. Maybe check over at videohelp.com and get better results.

Not trying to blow you off, but there are a million possibilities as to why a DVD will malfunction, and unless we know every detail of the workflow you used, screen shots of how you set up the software, etc. – who knows why it doesn’t work? Could be anything at all really.

A lot of folks use Adobe Encore for DVD and when they get an odd glitch like you have and it does not appear to be user-error, sometimes just starting over fixes it. Could be the software and you didn’t do anything wrong.

I’ll say that in my general experience, throwing all kinds of different formats at a DVD is never a good idea. I always encode to MPEG-2 DVD format first, then use the resulting assets in Encore because they are DVD-compliant and will not need any further conversion in the authoring software. MPEG-2 is the only kind of video that can be on a finished DVD, so anything else just gets converted either way.

These .wmv and .mp4 files – what is the resolution and frame rate of each? Do they even match? Might be better off to put them all into some editing software together, export as MPEG-2 DVD, then put that proper file into Nero.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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