[Jeremy Wiles]

It makes no sense that you cannot have footage at different frame rates on the same timeline. It completely defeats the purpose of overcranking your footage when filming. I did export it as an avi and it worked – the footage was not washed out.

I suspect Premier has a bug with footage at different frame rates and the quicktime codec.

Thanks for your help.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Wiles]

I’m on a PC.

[Jeremy Wiles]

I took it into AE and rendered it out without any problem. If Adobe can hear me… Please fix this problem.

I shot it with the Red camera in 4k resolution. In Premier CS4 it is scaled down to 1920×1080. Any clip that had slow motion on it went dark upon render in QT.

For people experiencing this problem, you simply need to export those clips from AE, and apply some frame blending while you’re at it and then import back into Premier.

Thanks for the help.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Wiles]

Yeah, I just found that out. Maestro is not an option now.

I’m trying to resize the video using VirtualDub because Encore and Premier do a horrible job at resizing video. The source footage is 1920×1080. DVD footage is always 720×480, then you can determine if it’s widescreen or not by the PAR (pixel aspect ratio). However, how do I go about scaling 1920×1080 down to 720×480? It is not the same aspect ratio. Do I need to make it 853.333 x 480 and crop to 720×480 using the filter resize option inside Virtualdub?

So, what is the simple way to resize HD footage for DVD widescreen inside VirtualDub?

thanks,

jeremy

[Jeremy Wiles]

Has anyone ever used DVD Maestro?

According to Wikipedia it has become the standard for DVD production in Hollywood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_authoring

Jeremy

[Jeremy Wiles]

Bitrate: 8mbs 2 pass VBR
Length of video: 18mins

I did not just drop the QT file into encore. We brought the Premier timelines into Encore through the dynamic link feature.

This morning we followed the entire process John had listed for HD to SD conversions, but did not notice any quality difference. I’d hire an expert in DVD authoring to handle this, but we are already past the deadline. This DVD was supposed to be in the mail yesterday for the plant to duplicate 1000 copies.

Thanks for your time and help. If you have any other advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Jeremy Wiles]

Eric, thanks for the help.

The footage is 1920×1080. We did some troubleshooting and learned that it was the menu that we created in Photoshop that was causing the problem. I used a preset Encore menu and authored just fine.

Our next problem is the quality of the footage. The footage has come out looking very poor when we played the DVD, even though it was shot with a Red camera. Do you have any idea why we are getting such a poor looking quality? The text seems to be aliasing and it looks a bit squeezed. I was thinking the PAR (pixel aspect ratio) might be wrong, but we checked and it was 1.0 square, which is how the footage was shot.

If I render a quicktime file out of premier without any compression, will it be the same quality as a dynamic link from Encore to the Premier timeline? This seems to be an easier solution.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again,

Jeremy

[Jeremy Wiles]

Sometimes the most obvious things can pass me by!

Can you go into a little more detail on capturing live footage with a computer? Please keep in mind we are shooting high-def. Does a firewire cable come straight out of the mixer into the computer? And what software do I need to use for live capture?

I really appreciate your help.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Wiles]

Thanks for your advice.

Do you have any experience with DVD players not being setup correctly to handle the 720×480 widescreen (1.21 PAR)? I’m just wondering if I should play it safe and go with 720×480 if alot of the DVD players won’t scale it properly. Do you have a wild guess of how many DVD players in 100 would not scale the widescreen version properly? What would you do?

Thanks again,

Jeremy