[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Butch,

I believe the looping option is more a function of the DVD player than the disc itself.

Considering that DVD is SD only, you might look into using a digital media player box – small box under $100 with USB input and HDMI output. Connect a small USB drive or thumb drive with H.264 content on it (HD resolution) and output HD video to high-def display, with looping turned on in player menu.

I have a Western Digital WDTV that I bought several years ago, but there are a lot of imitators, Chinese stuff for instance, check Amazon. Some under $50 (read reviews!)

I try to avoid SD video these days when I can

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Jeff Pulera

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Steve,

What Adobe version, and which output format? Example MPEG-2 or H.264, each will have different options. Help us to help you.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

I have an older Canon HV20 HD camcorder and an after-market WA adapter. While the WA lens usually works fine (on wide-angle) I have seen the issues you describe when zooming. It’s cheap glass and maybe was not even meant for HD video. I think the issue is called Chromatic Aberration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration#/media/File:Chromatic_aberration_(comparison).jpg

Unfortunately, not aware of a fix in post. If image is soft, you can try some Unsharp Mask (which takes forever to render) but for halos/fringes you may be stuck with that, sorry.

Moving forward, if the lens adapter is not a Canon unit meant for that camera, consider investing in the proper glass so this doesn’t happen again.

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Jeff Pulera

[Jeff Pulera]

Glad that helped!

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Duke,

Just realized you are using a YouTube video in your sequence – try transcoding that to something less compressed, should be easier to play back then

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[Jeff Pulera]

So which computer are you on now? I know there was a lot of jockeying around between systems recently and I don’t know what you settled on.

Unless you need to do the Kens Burns zoom/pan on the background, make the still image the sequence size, for instance 1280×720 or 1920×1080. Using super-large images like 5000×4000 can use a lot of resources

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Mini DV camcorders record digital data to the tape. When you transfer that data to the computer hard drive using Firewire, you are simply transferring the data – there is no re-compression happening. One hour of DV footage is 13GB. Period. And for anyone that edits professionally, they will tell you that is NOT a huge file. People today are spoiled by very small .mp4 files from the web and think that is normal. It is normal for delivery, but not for acquisition. You want a higher quality to begin with (larger files), so that the quality can withstand editing and transcoding to other formats for delivery. If you start out highly compressed, the quality goes down quickly from there for any copies.

Do you know that if you have a modern camcorder that records AVCHD, the file sizes will be about the SAME as DV? True. DV is 25Mbps, while most AVCHD cameras record at 24Mbps. This is normal. And for the record, professional HD formats like Apple ProRes can approach 100GB per hour, so 13GB is nothing really.

A 4TB hard drive is now just $100 or less, and at 13GB/hour, that’s 300 hours of DV footage. How are the files too large?

The nice thing about DV footage is that it is not compressed very much – this is to your benefit – no artifacts, good quality! If you want to share your clips with others, you take the good original footage and convert to .mp4 (H.264) format, which will make much smaller files suitable for online, YouTube, tablet, etc. – you would of course not share or upload the DV footage itself.

Consider this – a frame of 1080p video has 6x the pixel count as DV, yet is compressed into roughly the same amount of space, so DV really is a cleaner format all things considered. That should make you happy.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Where did the video come from – camcorder, screen cap software? If this is AVCHD footage for instance, best to copy entire contents of SD card to computer hard drive, all folders included, then in Premiere import using Media Browser tab rather than File > Import. Some of the newer camcorder formats have metadata included on the SD card that is critical in helping Premiere to properly recognize and handle the media. This often fixes a lot of issues.

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[Jeff Pulera]

I think a very important point that is being missed is that YouTube states:

Content ID scans all live streams and Hangouts on Air for third party content. When Content ID identifies third party content, a placeholder image may replace your live broadcast until Content ID no longer detects third party content.

In other words, they are scanning your LIVE broadcast for any copyright music, and will BLOCK the stream when they detect copyright music! This is REALTIME. Not a matter of what anyone thinks is fair use, or “maybe they won’t notice”, most likely them will notice and will shut down the stream on the spot.

I sometimes use the Shazam app on my phone to identify a song I’m hearing on the radio and it can ID most any song in like 2 seconds flat, even in a car or restaurant with lots of other noise…so I don’t think YouTube is going to be fooled, the technology is that good!

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

As has always been the case, any time that you install a newer version of Premiere, the Matrox drivers should be reinstalled as it need to put some hooks into the Adobe software, so maybe try uninstall/reinstall of Matrox if you had not already.

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Jeff Pulera
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