[Jon Barrie]

Hi Bill,
been working on the tutorial I said i’d do about your Pic in Pic situation.
To crop the bottom or any other side find the crop effect in the quick search box, add it to the clip, crop the bottom to your desired look.
– Jon 🙂
I’ll have the PIP tutorial posted on my youtube site faster than it will be on the cow (youtube.com/aJBprods)

[Jon Barrie]

I’ve had a play here with a bit of DV footage inside the 1080i project, should respond the same as full 1080i as it is in its native size lining up the interlacing.
Check this clip here

The clip was exported from the 1080i project to an mp4 720p deinterlacing active. Then re-exported from a 720p project.
The first time you see the logo that was exported as part of the 1st export from the 1080i timeline. The second logo was shrunk to fit the 1st size when in the 720p project and exported at the end of the whole process.

Phew, let me know if it looks any better than your own R&D has been going? – Jon

[Jon Barrie]

Sounds like you need a bit of R&D to work with 1080i footage and outputting to 720p.
Having a closer look at your graphic in PShop it does look like the edges I think are the jaggie-est… are actually not that great in their original image either. The inner curve.
AI files will always come out schmick. PSDs should work perfectly too as PPro uses the native PShop code.
I would try to work with a 300dpi original and shrink it down.
I tampered with deinterlacing the footage only (took a while – might wanna try exporting and deinterlacing a completed single file rather than cuts, that’s not the sexiest way to do things compressing and compressing again) then imported that into a 720p project and did the graphics there.
R&D, not working with native res and anamorphic is hell, why can’t everyone work in one format!!!!???? ahhhh.
It keeps us busy and off facebook I guess.
– GoodLuck, Jon B 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

Try copying to new location instead of New Trimmed. See if the problems are solved. Then do the New Trimmed.
Make sure the project you are working with and the footage are all the same format NTSC or PAL. If there are conflicting you’ll get all sorts of errors in timecode IN OUT points as the frame rate is different.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

When I do that-move contents from one project to another- I lose all the video effects, don’t know why? 🙁 (is it because I’m copying and pasting?)

Do you mean import project into another project or copy a timeline edit and paste into another timeline?
It shouldn’t have that problem either way. (You might need to reinstall the Premiere Pro software)

Project “A” has audio 2 muted, but when I move project “B” into project “A”, i need to play audio 2. so i f i unmute it I start getting audio from project “A” playing where I don’t want it playing.

Move the audio into another audio track and then you don’t need to unmute your audio layer.

– JOn

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Vince,
I know what you mean, but working with the audio samples in the timeline won’t help syncing the vision. Working with audio at a sample level won’t help with syncing footage, you might shift the audio 1/48000th at a time and that will shift your audio out of sync with the captured vision.
– jon

[Jon Barrie]

1. Cut the clip where you want to have it in a different position, scale, whatever.
2. change the motion settings of that cut clip
3. repeat every time you want the pic in a different spot.
4. making a border…
not at workstation at the moment give me bit.
i’d probably look in the effects… generate or render… I mix up my AE and PPro effect names some times.
– Jon 🙂

I’ll make a tutorial on it ASAP…

[Jon Barrie]

I’m really not sure what you are expecting from the image. A pixel is a colour square – It has an edge. When you work in Anamorphic which 1080i HDV is, the pixel gets stretched out to make a 16:9 picture from a 4:3 source. On TV or Projection it looks fine. Studying it on a computer is not a great representation of what it will look like anywhere else.
The distortion of the image i have made (16:9 ana – really 4:3) gets stretched out to fit your original image (sq pixel) So you will see a difference in the compare.
working in 1920×1080 (true 16:9 HD) you can compare and it will look the same as the original.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

What you just said, leave the deinterlace box unchecked. If you have a mix of footage with interlaced and progressive the interlaced settings of the project will sort it out on export. The only time to set it to progressive is if the project is prog and the screening will happen that way too.
New TVs have a way of dealing with broadcast interlaced footage, most of it is anyway.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

Just so you know I’ve made a tutorial with the different ways to sync clips for multicam editing. It should be up any day now.
You can find something to sync at any point in time, a visual change when something moves, stops, flashes, bounces, lands, hits, etc. Set a numbered marker on each clips at that point in time make sure they both have the same number (0). sync to the numbered marker in the sync options (right click the two selected clips).
– Jon 🙂