[Jon Barrie]

I must say that getting the timing right of a DVD or vtr playback of this already edited material is becoming complicated. 1st the stuff on tv needs to shot and edited before you can go about shooting the next scene with the tv. And then there is the issue of playback timing which limits creative options and the tv needs to be adjusted so it’s not blown out in the shot… Mate. Use after effects to motion track or even better use mocha, you will need to learn these things but there are online vid tutorials about them so it’s not too bad. Just be sure to shoot it with the tv screen off so it’s black and had whatever reflections are happening. You can incorporate them into the composite for realism by using overlay or another multiplier in AE and the inserted video you want. Make sure you don’t have anyone cover the tv screen in your zoom out/dolly back and the motion track will make it all look real nice. Add a mask to match the shape of the tv edge and feather the edge a little. This is how i would do this shot anyways.
– Jon Barrie

Jon Barrie
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[Jon Barrie]

If your colour correction req’s are as simple as shifting around the levels. You can do all that in Premiere Pro using either “levels” or the “Fast Color Corrector” and playing with the Master Levels settings.

I doubt there is a need for you to go to AE at all.

Re: film effect over the whole project, AE doesn’t have an effect for that, there are filters you can buy to do it, but AE as a stand-alone s/ware doesn’t have it. If you buy it then you most likely get the plugin within PPro also so again there is no need to use AE.

The other option is if you have a short clip with the grain effect and you want to overlay it, again this can be done in PPro by adding it to the track above everything, setting the opactity to Multiply (CS4 only) adjusting the look with the opacity value until your are happy and then copying/pasting it back to back until it covers the whole project length.

(If you are using CS3 then nest the edit into a new seq, make new seq and add the edited one into the new one so it looks like 1 layer clip onto track 1, then put the film grain look clip onto track 2, find the effect “compound arithmetic” add it to the flim clip on track 2 and set the effect properties to:
second source: video 1
operator: multiply or find one you like the look of.
copy/paste method.)

– Jon Barrie

Jon Barrie
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[Jon Barrie]

Try changing the audio preferences in Edit>Preferences…
There are a couple of audio pref sections make sure the surround card you have is set as the output and that you aren’t making a surround mixdown to stereo as that will affect the mixdown while editing.

– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

Reinstall premiere and media encoder. Then if you have time, run the updates.
If you don’t gave the time hut you have after effects dynamic link the ppro seq into AE And export it this from there.
– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

Sounds like video card driver version issue… The latest might not be the one that works on your system the best. 64bot drivers are a little funky so thereight some
searching online about last known working drivers with your cards.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

I think you may need to set the playback settings to got
out to your camera and the audio too…
Can I ask why you are goingback to hdv tape? There will be some quality loss as the original hdv will need to recompress to hdv…
test with a small portion if the timeline. Set the work area to the export length.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Try connecting a dv camera and setting up the Analog cable out of the cam and into the VCR. Then set up the playback settings to see the dv cam for vision and audio output. Once you’ve got it working to the cam the way you used to playout to tape should work ok. Just make sure you add an extra 5-10sec of black to the head of the timeline for the timeline to get to speed by the time it reaches your actual production.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

If the final process is to go to DVD then going to h.264 then mpeg-2 in encore is going to create compression based generation loss and aspect ratio pixel compression anomolies. Best to try to test with shorter lengths and direct Mpeg-2 from ppro timeline. If you have long project times for productions you a
want to sell find a place to master dual layer DVDs from an encoreDVD iso.
Good luck. I knew a guy that made a living on making low budget (vampire/horror) straight to DVD release productions.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Thats great you have found a solution to your capturing problem. Professionals never use the first 10sec of a tape as it might not be running at speed when recording and can have errors on playback and that professional systems require some time for tape to reach constant threading speed before capturing. Like the default 2sec on ppro, fcp. We always put colour bars on the first 10-30sec of tape. I’m pretty sure if the capture settings are on none it will start capturing on hitting G, but if you tested it then I guess keep using winDV or use up the first 10sec of tape.
-JB

Jon Barrie
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[Jon Barrie]

Try to capture via FireWire but with the DV/HDV control set to none. Then hit the record button (G) and once it starts recording press play on the tape playback (camera) you should get all the visible frames within the capture file. But you won’t have correct timecode…

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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