[Jeff Pulera]

Just make sure your camera operator is smooth and has a good fluid head tripod to follow the action!

Have done similar live production using a TriCaster switcher, with presenter headshot inset next to his PowerPoint graphic, worked out great.

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[Jeff Pulera]

What you need to be concerned about is that the frame size, frame rate, pixel aspect ratio, and field order (upper, lower, or progressive) of the sequence match the source footage, which it certainly ought to. So as Ann stated, all good. Don’t worry that it says “ARRI” at the top. You will find other presets such as AVCHD with the exact same settings as well, doesn’t matter as long as specs match footage.

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If possible, position yourself farther from the green background to minimize the green spill reflecting onto your head and shoulders. Putting a small light above and behind talent can also help to provide separation between subject and background.

If you are shooting in SD, don’t expect optimum results. Much easier to get a good key using HD cameras, provides smoother edges for one thing.

Lighting is very critical in any case. Use manual focus for subject.

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Hi Alejandro,

My experience with Windows codecs has always been to simply run the codec installer and then that codec is available to render to from ANY app on the PC that can export video. Meaning you do not have to install a codec to Media Encoder specifically, just installing on the PC is enough.

That said, I have never worked with Divx and I don’t know how that works. I have for example installed codecs such as Matrox, Black Magic, Avid, Cineform, Grass Valley, Lagarith and others to the PC and then those formats are just available in AME. Might have to first choose “AVI” as the format, and then from the codec list find the one you want to use.

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Hi Jerel,

As with making DVDs in the old days, home-burned Blu-rays can have compatibility issues with some players and media brands. Not every player likes burned discs, or may need a firmware update.

Have you tried a different player, or different media at all?

What about data rate used for the Encode? Some folks crank it right up to 40 max and that is a mistake. There are many reasons the disc might fail.

If you can share more about your workflow and perhaps a screen shot of the export settings that may shed some light on the situation.

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Can you post a screen grab of what exactly Premiere says the footage is, for instance right-click a clip and hit Properties.

Have you gone into Modify > Interpret to check or change clip settings? Might be a simple issue of changing the fielding there.

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Hi Ellen,

What is the source of the footage? HD video is normally going to be 1080 HD (1920×1080) or 720p (1280×720), both of which neatly work out as a 16:9 ratio.

However, I see that your source is 2048 x 1080, which is called “2k” video. This does not work out nicely as 16:9, is more like 17:9 so I guess that is where the issue begins. Having never worked with a 2k source myself, not sure what the best workflow will be to get to DVD.

When looking at the export panel, the left will show a Preview and at the top there are drop down options for scaling, such as “Scale to Fit”, “Scale to Fill”, “Stretch to Fill” so you might play with those and see how it looks in the Preview window.

Another thought would be to create a 1080p sequence, and put your media into that before exporting (possibly nest the 2k sequence). You may have to scale the video a bit to fit the frame, so I’m guessing it would result in narrow black letterboxing?

I also noticed that the source video shows 24p, while the export is 23.976, the latter being correct for video. True 24p is for film. I don’t know if your footage really is 24p or if the wrong sequence preset was used? Anyways, this may affect the smoothness of the playback since the frame rate is being changed a bit.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Ellen,

Where are you seeing stretching? It will be helpful if you can post a screen shot of the export settings window showing the source and export settings. We’ll get to the bottom of this.

Make sure when you choose “MPEG-2 DVD” that you select a WIDESCREEN preset, since you are starting with a 16:9 HD source.

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I should mention, you will want to have the entire original folder structure as it came from the SD card, not “just the video clips” of AVCHD. Then in Premiere, use the “Media Browser” to import rather than “File > Import”. Media Browser can be found as a tab at lower left of Premiere interface usually. There are many benefits to using the Media Browser including seamless spanning of long clips, proper audio, etc.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Premiere is designed to edit formats natively, no need to transcode first. If you have an older (slower) computer, ProRes may be easier to edit than AVCHD, otherwise native should be fine.

Regarding the burned out image, just read something very interesting, not sure if it applies to your situation, but an interesting concept to try – https://www.eoshd.com/2012/07/mac-avchd-gamma-issues-the-fix/

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Jeff Pulera
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