[Jon Doughtie]

Oops – one correction. I zoomed in on your pixel aspect ratio for your project timeline. Although your timeline is 1280×720, you have set a pixel aspect ratio from NTSC SD widescreen. 1280×720 is natively widescreen.

That pixel aspect ratio seting is likely distorting your pixels in your finished project, also creating the issues you are seeing.

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[Jon Doughtie]

One thing I observe is that although you are editing in SD, you are outputting HD. You are blowing up the resolution from 720×480 interlaced widescreen to 1280×720 progressive. That alone may account for the softness and slight imperfections you are noticing.

Although rendering using “Maximum Render Quality” will help in your upscale, it will not produce miracles, I’m afraid. SD is still SD.

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[Jon Doughtie]

If you didn’t “customize” your audio settings before edit, it isn’t too late – but it will require you to re-lay shots in the timeline.

In these examples, the audio I “cared about” was on channel 1 only.

I select all clips in the bin, right-click and choose “Modify –> Audio”.

Then I set my footage up so it uses channel 1 only and all other tracks are “abandoned”, so to speak.

You can save this as a preset. I also have a preset named “No audio, please” that gets rid of all sound on b-roll.

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[Jon Doughtie]

We don’t know what version of the software you are using.

But this is pretty easy. To start you add a blur to your footage, keyframed to blur at the right moment.

Place a black clip on the layer above your footage, beginning at the moment you want it to appear. Add the barndoor wipe, set it up horizontal, and keyframe to behave as you like.

Finally add your graphics on the next layer above. Done.

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[Jon Doughtie]

Hi Duke. Your statement about minimal prefs is no doubt completely true.

However, if the file that stores those prefs has become corrupted. . .

Also, I had some weird file behaviors until I cleared all cache files generated from the previous version. Cache files had to be rebuilt when I started up projects again – but a lot of little issues went away.

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[Jon Doughtie]

If it were me, I’d take the time to isolate the ring in Photoshop and cut it from the BG completely. It’ll take some pen-and-curves work, because the highlights at the top of the band are very close to the levels of the BG. I’d place the rin in a seperate layer, so I could do whatever I needed to both the ring and the BG.

But the advantages of the effort will be multi-fold. You’ll build some additional Photoshop skills, if that kind of work is new for you. You can have any BG you want for the ring, and you can handle the contrast and color of the ring completely separate from the BG.

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[Jon Doughtie]

What Oki said. I believe the default is 5 seconds, but it doesn’t matter. Drop it in the timeline and make it any length you need.

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[Jon Doughtie]

Jim, in Premiere Pro you would place your image you want as a background in track 1. Place your footage shot on green screen or blue screen on track 2.

Then, in Effects->Video Effects, drop Ultra Key onto your track two clip. Adjust as you need to get your key.

Here’s a link to using Ultra Key in Premiere Pro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouhWVZZXw5E

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[Jon Doughtie]

Joshua, we will need you to be much more specific about what you are asking.

I do not see anything in a brief review of the video that would be difficult at all to edit in Premiere Pro. What are your specific questions and concerns?

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[Jon Doughtie]

Nothing underneath it? If that is the case, black is what you would see.

System:
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4 internal media drives RAID 5
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