[Jevans]

Do you want just the tail-lights blurred? Or the whole shot? If you slow down the shutter speed of the video camera you’ll end up with the same sort of effect as a still camera, but anything moving will look choppy (the whole car will be blurred).

You can achieve some interesting effects by layering video on top of each other by blending/masking and blurring the tailights. I’ve done a lot of that with still images but it should work somewhat similarly in Premiere. Just fool around.

[Jevans]

I hardly ever notice interlacing once something is on DVD , but it depends on the DVD player and TV.

For web video de-interlace the footage. LCDs show up zebra lines even in small window sizes. You won’t notice the loss in resolution either.

[Jevans]

The smaller the screen the better it will look by default to most people’s eyes. If you want a projection to look good up close spend a few thousand dollars and maybe. The point of a projector is to make video look good from far away, like in a movie theatre. Have you ever taken a close-up look of a movie theatre projection? It looks like crap, but in the tenth row it looks nice.

Having a pitch-black room, with no dust, and a high-end screen also makes a better projection.

[Jevans]

I use Sorensen squeeze. Much better encoding than Premiere for web video. I can squeeze a 2.5gb movie into a nice viewable 12mb file. Keep in mind YouTube has a 10 minute max, and it takes forever to upload a 10 minute video. YouTube has cause more than it’s share of problems on my system trying to upload video. I like DivX Stage 6 much better.

[Jevans]

Hi there. I’m using Squeeze as well, and have found it creates awesome results for web-based video. This is my method and my videos look almost perfect (considering how small they are in file size)

I export an uncompressed .avi from Premiere of whatever I want online. I don’t bother with Media Encoder, I just do a straight export and set it to Microsoft AVI Uncompressed (audio as well uncompressed). The resulting file size can be quite huge, but I just delete the file once I have compressed it in Squeeze.

Open the uncompressed file in Squeeze. I output from Squeeze as Quicktime 1MB/s setting. I set the kb/s to 1600 for the video, change the frame size to 320×240 (for 4:3). Keep in mind YouTube videos are actually a bit larger, but they incode themselves rather poorly. I set the audio to a 128 kbs MP3 at best quality.

For every 2 minutes the resulting file size is about 15 MB. Considering the original files are almost 1GB, that’s pretty damned good compression when you see the results. I have had no blurry video from Squeeze.

Hope this helps.

[Jevans]

I had a problem way back with various .avi files locking up my sytem and the same thing happened. Dr.Watson(useless!) would freeze my whole computer and I’d have to manually shutdown. I browsed Google for about 3 hours and found a thread about a solution. I hope it works for you too but it may have nothing in common with your problem.

Problem: Quicktime Player Settings
Under the ‘Recently Played’ files/movies list, clear the list. I’m not sure which menu it’s under, but as soon as I cleared this list everything was fine, and no more problems with .avi files. I have no idea why this caused my problem, but it fixed it. I can’t recall if there is a way to show no recently opened files or not, but just constantly clear it if you have to. Also I think since I have installed a newer version of Quicktime it is not a problem.

Hope this helps, or leads you the right way.