[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Brad,

Premiere is really not that picky about what flavor of video you put into a sequence – the important factor is that the settings match. In other words if the sequence is 1920×1080, 29.97 frames, Progressive, 1.0 Pixel Aspect, then ANY clip with those parameters will work fine together.

You could mix and match ProRes, AVCHD, DSLR clips etc. in this project. Doesn’t matter. You could even toss in some HDV clips just for fun and the 1440×1080 clips will fill the frame (1440×1.333 pixel aspect = 1920, so HDV clips do fit the 1920×1080 frame just fine).

One easy way to select an appropriate sequence preset is to drag a clip from the Project Bin onto the “New Item” button which is next to the Trash Can. This will match up a sequence preset to your media, and it just grabs the first one it finds that matches. So you might have an AVCHD clip and end up with a “ARRI” preset, but doesn’t matter if settings match your clip.

The only difference from one preset to another could be the “render preview codec”, however I seldom render at all in the timeline and never “Use Previews” in final export, so I don’t care what it renders to 😉

Hope this is helpful

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Louis,

Please check out this new offering that allows the use of DVD-style menus on USB sticks with H.264 HD media – https://lacolorpros.com/product/?TBX1-TakyBox-HTML5-Menu-Generator

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

In 15 years of making DVDs, and taking part in forums like this on a daily basis, I have never heard of “BCA” and had to Google it and even now, am not clear as to what the issue is.

See description of BCA here – https://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.11

Are you perhaps having the DVDs “Replicated” rather than “Duplicated”? Duplication is basically burning DVD-R copies as one would at home, while Replication involves making a glass master and pressing out copies, and sometimes copy protection is also part of the replication process. Then this BCA complaint might make more sense to me, as I don’t see what bearing it would have on basic duplication (copying).

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

What are the specs of the original source footage/Premiere Sequence? You currently have output set to 23.976 frames, when the client requested 59.94i, and the black bars are due to the incorrect Aspect of DV (0.9) which for HD ought to be Square (1.0).

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Scott,

This may be a solution, and is full HD as well – https://www.lacolorpros.com/product/?TBX1-TakyBox-HTML5-Menu-Generator

Just came out recently

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Brendan,

It really sounds like you could use TWO versions of the videos – one for archiving, and a second for delivery/viewing. If capturing tapes for archival purposes, H.264 is lossy. Personally, I’d use something like an .avi (PC) or .mov (Mac) for archiving, with intra-frame compression, 4:2:2 color, and higher bitrate. Those clips will be interlaced. Then from those “master” clips, export the H.264 progressive clips for the museum display, online viewing, etc.

We must keep in mind that the average viewer doesn’t know what interlace artifacts are, or how to fix them in the viewing software. They try to view the H.264 clip on their computer, and all they know is “it doesn’t look right”. So I stand by the idea that clips for online and/or computer viewing ought to be delivered as deinterlaced for the best viewing experience for the end user.

Good luck with this

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Juan,

Your English is excellent and I’d fully agree with you. Of course, any time you transcode any compressed video to another compressed format, there is “some” loss to be expected – adding a generation – but what the instructor said did not make sense. If that were the case, we’d see issues just playing/previewing the footage in the timeline. Plus, H.264 is not the only video to use GOPs – think of HDV, XDCAM, etc. that also use GOPs with MPEG-2 for instance.

Thank you

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Any file intended for computer/online viewing should typically be exported as PROGRESSIVE or the viewer will see interlacing artifacts on motion.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Really not a strong area for me and I will defer to someone with more experience.

Just thought of something – it will be helpful if you can post a screen shot of the export settings please. Also, are you encoding as interlaced or progressive, and what is the playback (viewing) setup to be used at the museum?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Proper D1 NTSC video is 720×486, however in the digital world, the DV video standard is used at 720×480. When compressing digital files, video gets encoded in blocks (matrixes)of a certain size, often divisible by 8, so odd sizes may not be possible to encode. My guess is that is why the 486 turns to 488, since 480 plus 8 = 488.

Might be better off exporting as 720×480 and just cropping a few lines off perhaps?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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