[Lillian Fidler]

well, that sounds easy enough…. I’ll give it a shot… should I look for dynamic link in premiere or just do a copy of a sequence then paste over into AE? Thanks so much.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thank you for your reply…

Yes, I would like it widescreen dv for the final output.

I’ve done most of my work in premiere pro… ie all of the sequences etc. and I would like to bring it into AE to add effects, titles and transitions.

What would you suggest would be the best way to export this and then import into AE?

My original project is setup as hdv and the footage was imported from my camera hard drive as m2t files and from my camera tape as mpeg files (this was the only format available).

Thanks so much for your help and suggestions. I’m pretty new at this and want to make sure that I’m going to get a good output in the end. I don’t know alot about codecs and proper formats, etc.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

One more thing… As I’ve mentioned, when I capture the footage from my camera tape, there is no other option than mpeg for hdv format. In the capture settings the only two options are hdv and dv. I’m wondering if it might be an idea to capture at dv? Or, once the files are captured then convert them outside of premiere to another format and reimport them? Just ideas as you’ve mentioned that performance may be affected by using compressed files. I tried using avs video converter to decompress one of the mpeg files and it’s giving me an unrecognized file format error.

Thanks again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

thanks again for your quick reply.

the files that I cannot clip are m2t files which were saved to a hard drive I have for my camera. I just copied them over to my computer hard drive in m2t format and imported them as is. I’m not exactly sure what m2t is… So, I have actually a combination of m2t files from the hard drive and captured mpeg files from the tape.

Unless you think otherwise I can continue working with these files and then export the sequences to work on the effects in AE -what format should I save them as to work in AE?… avi uncompressed for example?

One more question. If I want to get rid of all the effects that I currently have in my sequences easily and quickly, how would I go about that?

Thanks so much, this is very helpful and much appreciated.
Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thanks again… it’s very reassuring to have someone who knows what they are doing :.)

I’m using an hp laptop (vista) with 160 gig hard drive and also an external 250 gig drive for my editing. Already my project is taking up about 75 gigs on my hard drive. I’m using the external drive for a scratch disk and backup. I think I figured out the syncing problem. There were a couple of clips that were coming from the external drive so I moved them over to the laptop and it seems to be fine now. However, premiere is slow, slow, slow. Even though I’ve closed down most unnecessary services and programs. I have captured some video from a tape on my sony V1U and I also have a hard drive which created m2t files. When capturing I can take just the pieces I want from the tape, but I can’t seem to do that with the pieces from the hard drive and some of them are really large 2-3 gigs. I have to bring in the whole file to get a clip that I want. This could be accounting for the slow processing?

I have been putting some effects on things in Premiere and I think I will take your advice and use AE for that and also the de-interlacing. I’ll go back and take all effects off except for the transitions. This may account for slowness as well I guess. I’m really pulling my hair out things are taking so long.

Thanks again and if you have any more suggestions after reading this that would be great.

cheers,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thanks for the information again.

Just a couple of more things:

I tried to start a new project and find de-interlacing… There is just one place that I found anything to do with that and it’s under playback settings – you can choose either ‘repeat frame (ABBCD)’ or ‘interlaced frame’ – my original project was ‘interlaced frame’.

When I tried to import a clip I got an error – something to the effect that the clip size is too large…

Can I use after effects after to de-interlace? Should I not put any effects on the footage in premiere? Can you do the effects in After Effects? I have the program but haven’t used it yet.

Sorry for all the questions. Any further information you have would be much appreciated.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Hi: thanks so much for your reply and information. Would it be safe to continue on the way I’m going and worry about the deinterlacing when I’m finished? It seemed that the format in capturing and importing the footage was mpeg as the default, I couldn’t change it. Or perhaps just didn’t know how to change it. Would you recommend that I start a new project with new settings? I’ll have a look at the other information you recommended as well.

Thanks again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

thank you for the information.

No, I didn’t watch it on standard def TV, I just opened it in winamp on my computer.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

o.k., so I set the project up as HDV?

How do I shrink it after to SD?

I did set up an hd project initially… when I imported the files from disk (m2t format) they came in as mpeg files… is that the correct format to enable me to output uncompressed?

Thanks so much for your help, it’s so much appreciated.

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada

[Lillian Fidler]

Thanks for your reply.

I’ve set up the project to be DV NTSC but not sure if that’s the best setting.

I’m using a sony V1U camera

I’ve already shot all of hte footage with the following settings:

rec format: hdv 1080i
component 1080i/480i
program scan: 24

There are two settings under in/out rec
DV rec mode: is set to DVCAM
and
DV wide rec: set to on

these are greyed out and can’t be changed.

thanks again,

Lillian

Lillian Fidler
Jillian Productions
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada