Lloyd Coleman
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In Premiere Pro go to the ‘Time’ folder in the Effects tab and choose ‘Posterize Time’. Try a frame rate of about 6 to start and then adjust from there.
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That techique is pretty slick because the keys you choose are in a great location. However, there is a method that is almost as fast without having to assign hot keys. The ‘page down’ key will go to the next cut and the combination of ‘control+d’ will apply the default transition. To do this fast requires two hands, but it is as fast and easier than your method because you don’t have to assign keys.
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Yes, the 1080i is a standard format that either camera/deck can play. However, the Sony deck cannot play back Canon 24f or 30f.
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I don’t own the Sony deck, but I understand that the Canon footage shot in 1080i can be read by any HD deck. The Canon footage shot in 30f or 24f can only be read by the cameras that shoot it or the Canon HV10 camera. Many people are buying the HV10 to use as a deck since there is no deck available at this time.
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I am having the same problem. I found a couple of things that to work so far. If I import the HD footage into a SD project and resize it in Premiere it will export as an SD(avi or mpeg) file and look great. The problem for me with this is that I would like to do my editing in HD and then be able to deliver in both HD and SD. If I import the edited HD project in the SD project it looks bad. I also downloaded the trial of Aspect HD. It does work very well for editing and the exports in any format look good. I am not excited about buying more software, but I guess that is the best solution I have found so far. If anyone else has a solution, I would love to hear about it.
It is curious to me that Premiere can import and resize HD footage inside an SD project and look great, but can’t downsize out of an HD project and look good enough to be usable.
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Aanarov is correct as usual. Be aware that you must change the settings before you import the pictures. If you already have them in the project, just delete them and re-import after changing the settings. The duration is the number of frames long that the picture will show for. So, on a standard 30 frames/sec project, set the duration to 300 to have them hold for 10 seconds.
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Yes, Steven, I found that bringing HD material into an SD project works much better than exporting as an AVI from an HD project. Do you know why? What is Premiere doing differently when it resizes inside a project as opposed to exporting? It appears that Premiere has the capability to do the down conversion well, just not using the export to avi from HD project.
Thanks for your help.
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I find the easiest thing to do is export from Premiere as AVIs and then bring the AVIs and other assets (menu, music, etc) into Encore and let it calculate the highest bitrate that will fit on the disc. In theory I guess that you take a slight quality hit in the extra step from AVI to MPEG instead of directly to MPEG, but I can’t see the difference in the final product and find it much easier that trying to calcuate the total size and appropriate MPEG settings to use so that I maximize quality while still being able to fit it all on a disc.
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The black border is caused by the conversion from NTSC to PAL. PAL video is a little larger than NTSC (and a different frame rate) however, Premiere Pro can handle the conversion just fine as you have found. The solution to getting rid of the black border is the same as the solution to getting your pictures the right size.
1. Select the clip or picture in the timeline that you want to change.
2. In the ‘Effects Control’ tab click on the triangle next to the ‘Motion’ menu item.
3. Change the size of the picture or video so that it fills the frame as you like.
4. Do the same for each clip or picture until you are done.The pictures have enough pixels to look good after you resize them, but the video will start to look a little soft as you zoom in. If it looks too soft, you might find that leaving the black border is a better solution. You also might find that deinterlacing the video as you convert from NTSC to PAL (right click on the clip in the timeline, choose field options, choose always interlace) improves the picture. Thy it both ways and see which looks better on your TV (not just your monitor in Premiere Pro)
Good luck and welcome to the world of video editing.