[Layne Russell]

Thank you so much to all of you for these valuable responses! I’m feeling better about having my Kickstarter video in SD, and will go with just making it as good as I can. Yes, it is 16:9 with a frame rate 29.97. At the time of shooting, I thought I had the Panasonic camera set to HD since I had it set at 16:9. That shows you how much I knew about the camera. I should have gone deeper at the time. But that is how the talking head jump cuts were done, and there is no way I’m going through that again! That was one of the hardest tasks I have ever done.

I will be adding stills and probably three music files into the video. I had thought I needed the video to be higher res to accommodate all this – and look good, and was told it could be upscaled, as I said above. But I’m seeing it’s not so easily (or well) done. So, fine! I’ll go with what I have.

Yes, the audio is 32,000 Hz, PCM audio, 1024 kb/s 2 channels. I’m hoping the snippets of my songs I will be adding will make it into the mix okay.

I’m actually happy to hear that MPEG Streamclip doesn’t need to be used. I’ve already got the project and sequence set up, and I have started making color corrections. I’m thinking I will need to use After Effects to get it right – another program I have never used! I suppose there will be other questions on those kind of adjustments. I do have a manual for Premiere Pro, and I’m finding the farther I get in this project, the more the book is making sense to me. 🙂

MP4 is on the list of acceptable file formats for Kickstarter, along with .avi (WMV encoding) and .mov and four others. Why do you suggest MP4 over the other two?

Thanks again so much. I am swimming in pretty deep water here.

[Layne Russell]

Thanks for your response, Gary.

This video will be on Kickstarter, and I need to get it done as quickly as possible. 🙂

I’ve been reading and watching tutorials, and I see that there are ways to upscale at the beginning of working on the video, not just at the point of exporting. This is what I would like to know more about.

One source says to open a new project, select your sequence settings, and then you should be able to get to general settings where you can select “Desktop” and in that window be able to change the frame size from 720×480 to 1440×1080. Everything else stays the same. The only thing is when I start a new project I’m not getting the option for “Desktop” but “Custom” is available. If Custom is selected, I am able to change to 1440×1080. Under the sequence settings I am choosing “DV NTSC” and then “Widescreen 32kHz”.

Will this do it?

Regarding using MPEG Streamclip and creating multiple files to work with in PPro, one of my reservations (again, not really knowing anything!) is that I don’t want to be going back and forth between the two programs and bringing more clips in to work with. It seems if it’s all here in PPro it would be more efficient. But, again, I am totally inexperienced, so the question is then, are there ways to use them together effectively?

[Layne Russell]

Update: I’m just getting back to this project.

I have started a “new project” in Premiere Pro and in doing so, in the settings chose DV-NTSC. I know my audio on the .avi file is 32,000 Hz, so I chose the 32K Hz version.

I’m guessing I’ve done the right thing, but am hoping for confirmation!

Thanks!

[Layne Russell]

Thank you so much, Steve. I had no idea I could capture the miniDV video with Premiere Pro. I should be fine with my WinDV capture though, right? I will try importing today … and then I will have other questions about my editing process. 🙂