[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Greg,

720p footage often looks just fine in a 1080p sequence, and the viewer will likely never know the difference. That would be my first choice as a resolution to this issue.

Otherwise, you can simply put the 720p clip on the V2 track, and put whatever background still/video beneath it on V1 to replace the black area. That solution however is going to draw attention to itself, due to video not being full-screen, so again back to simply using the 720p footage full-screen (right-click and use Set to Frame Size to fill screen).

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[Jeff Pulera]

I would recommend against lowering the video resolution or audio quality – most online content these days is HD. Your content is SD, already a much lower quality to begin with, don’t make it worse ????

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[Jeff Pulera]

Having never exported anything as PAL, I was uneducated. Just went into the YouTube 480p settings and found if I change NTSC to PAL, it automatically changes the resolution and frame rate, so that is good.

Two things determine the size of an exported file, and those are length and bit rate. Comparing the DV PAL and YouTube 480p (PAL), looks like DV PAL uses a 3mbps average, while YT uses 8mbps, so the YT file will be like 2.5x bigger I guess.

Try each and see how they look on playback

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[Jeff Pulera]

Make sure when exporting that you match the frame rate of source. I’m in the US so typically 29.97 for me, but based on your video dimensions I will assume PAL so you’d likely be wanting 25fps on exports. If source is interlaced, that is fine for DVD, but any export for computer/online viewing should be Progressive, check for that under ‘fields’ in Export Settings.

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[Jeff Pulera]

When exporting using H.264, the resulting file is an .mp4 which can be played on any PC or Mac, tablet, uploaded to YouTube, etc., pretty universal format. Can probably put it on a USB stick and play from USB slot of many HD TV sets or newer DVD/Blu-ray players that have a USB port. Maybe you won’t need to make a disc after all?

File size should be considerably smaller than the .mov option.

If you use the H.264 > YouTube preset, look for the “480p” option, as 1080p or 720p would be HD and your source is not HD.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Gareth,

As a subscriber to Adobe Premiere CC, you do have the option to download previous versions. You need to download Premiere CS6 and that will include Encore CS6 for creating DVDs.

https://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb/encore-cs6-installed-cc.html

From Premiere, use File > Export > Media and export as MPEG-2 DVD, using an appropriate preset such as PAL DV. This will create two files, .m2v video and .wav audio. Both will get imported into Encore to build a DVD.

Lacking a DVD burner, you can instead instruct Encore to Build a FOLDER or an IMAGE, the latter being an .iso file, to your hard drive. Some media player software will allow you to “play” either the folder content or image from the hard drive as if playing the actual DVD. The free VLC Media Player for PC will play from an .iso but I understand you have a Mac, so I don’t know which app to suggest.

There is a Preview option in Encore to test DVD menus before burning. Encore or a similar DVD Authoring software must be used to create an actual DVD, once cannot simply burn the exported files to a data disc. Look at any DVD in a computer and you will see a VIDEO_TS folder, with .vob files inside – that layout and format is all created by the authoring package and is part of what makes a “Video DVD” versus video files on a disc.

For YouTube and other online/computer viewing, export using an H.264 format and a preset appropriate to your needs, such as PAL DV.

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[Jeff Pulera]

There is a little button at the upper left of Audition (pictured) to enable Spectral View. I don’t have a clip available at the moment to demonstrate, but if there were a sharp noise in the clip, you might see a bright-colored “spike” in the color spectrum. Take the mouse and draw a tight box around it to highlight that part of the sound spectrum, then Ctrl – U to “Auto Heal” and see if that helps.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Try what John recommended with the Spectral view – that can be very helpful when manually removing noises.

I have seen one piece of software perform actual magic, and that is SpectralLayers Pro 3 from Magix (formerly from Sony).

You can have someone talking, and a police siren goes by in the background, and with some effort, the siren can be completely removed! There is not a “remove siren” button – this takes some work and effort to accomplish, but is possible. So amazing things can be accomplished with this software.

Perhaps you can post a short example of the issue so we know what problems your audio has? Would make it easier to suggest a fix

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

It’s quite possible the person complaining about fan noise quite simply has a bad fan…have not noticed any excessive fan noise at all. My computer already has a bunch of fans running, I don’t notice anything additional from Intensity.

Old analog recordings can sometimes have playback issues, with jittery/unstable picture. That can be a problem for capturing, because the capture device will lose sync with an unstable source. Now, if your tapes are in good shape, then maybe no problem at all. However if there are issues, then a VCR with TBC can certainly help. I have a high-end consumer JVC S-VHS deck with TBC (forget the model, not at this location).

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Michael,

Please be aware that the Shuttle can be fussy about which particular USB 3.0 chip set your computer has inside – it may or may not work unfortunately. If you have issues, the Intensity Pro 4K has the exact same functionality as its external brother, but goes into a PCI-e slot in your desktop, and uses a less-convenient breakout cable arrangement. But does the same thing.

Upon further investigation, you may just need to update the USB driver if you have trouble, see this thread – https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/879920

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Jeff Pulera
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