[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Eric,

Answered in other post, but the GTX 1060/1070 cards are great for Premiere, and make sure you have a Core i7 with min. 16GB, SSD boot and fast video storage.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Eric,

Adobe does not test or list all compatible cards. Basically, anything newer with minimum 1GB memory should work. The GTX 1060, most definitely! If you will be working with 4K, then maybe look at the GTX 1070 as an upgrade. Tests I’ve seen show little difference in render times for 1070 vs. 1080, so 1070 is best I would go unless you have money to burn, but nothing wrong with 1060.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Aaron,

Do you wish to stay with Mac, or considering a PC? Will get more bang for less buck on the PC side these days.

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Carl,

What are the Sequence Settings used? Export Settings? Screen grabs are extremely helpful in these situations, otherwise we have no clue as to your workflow.

One suggestion – scale the flags to required size in Photoshop before importing into Premiere, then Premiere does not need to do any scaling.

Meaning, if the Sequence in Premiere is 1080p (1920×1080) then make the flag image 1920×1080 pixels. Now, the flag does not have to fill that entire frame – size and position flag in the frame like you want it to be in the video, and the background can be transparent (alpha channel). Save as .psd or .png with alpha to maintain the alpha in Premiere.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Well, you don’t capture with alpha channel – you can certainly use Cineform for previews, intermediates, exports. Just not capture.

Capture using what Black Magic offers, and if you must, transcode to Cineform before editing then. Black Magic source clips and Cineform renders can be mixed in the timeline.

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

So what’s the problem with capturing using the Black Magic M-JPEG 4:2:2 codec?

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

For the compatibility/playback reasons you mention, then .mp4 is the most standard format to use.

Your current settings should produce a very high-quality result. You may want to uncheck “Max Render Quality” – that is only used for scaling, which you are not doing in this case, frame size is constant between Source and Export.

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[Jeff Pulera]

PL,

A very important question – what is the purpose of this export – what do you want to do with it? That will influence the choice of codec you choose.

Is it for a MASTER copy, from which you can later export various formats, or do you want to post online, or…??

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Johnny,

Looks like you have 3 different kinds of video clips in the project –

• .mpg
• .m2v
• .mp4

My guess is that the .mpg or .mp4 clips – or both – may be at fault.

ANY video clips you want to use in Encore should be .m2v, created from Premiere/Media Encoder using the MPEG-2 DVD format. Then you are not asking Encore to do a bunch of transcoding of the material, since in the end it all must be MPEG-2 before it goes to disc. Better off to just provide Encore with DVD-ready material to start with.

I also can’t tell from looking at the screen grab what the frame sizes and frame rates are of all the different clips. Could some be HD, or have different frame rates? Should all be 29.97 in the US.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

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