Matt Lee
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Brilliant! Thanks so much for this tip, worked like a charm for me after uninstalling a portion of the CS3 bundle but keeping all of CS4. This trick solved my Premiere CS4 to Media Encoder CS4 problems.
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For anyone still in doubt, Premiere CS4 does in fact work very well with AVCHD. I use CS4 both in WinXP and Vista (32bit) with a Canon Vixia HF20 and it works quite well. I just installed Win7 (64bit) and am excited to try it out. I have read there is a 250% performance increase when using a 64bit OS. But because of the lack of AVCHD support in the trial version, I too am frustrated. I have to deactivate my Adobe suite on Vista so I can test it out Win7.
Anyway, my system is an Intel Core2Duo 2.66GHz with 4GB RAM and nVidia8500GT video card and I can edit AVCHD without dropping frames. I do have dynamic quality playback so the quality drops most of the time but it doesn’t really tax my system on playback of the timeline.
Side note…when exporting an H.264 for playback on your computer or upload to YouTube or Facebook, definitely download VLC player to play the QuickTime files back. QuickTime player taxes the system heavily and does not play back at the full frame rate. VLC player plays perfectly, full res, full frame rate and has a very light load on the system.
-Matt
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You can’t de-interlace the video while burning. Encore will only burn the DVD compliant video, it won’t de-interlace unless you give it a new encoding preset in which it will de-interlace (which will also re-encode the whole thing. As I’m sure you are already aware, de-interlacing a video reduces the resolution….actually cuts it in half. Be sure you REALLY want that before encoding again. Those who watch on an old CRT TV will not notice the interlacing, in fact the interlacing will make it look smoother (unless the field rendering is backwards).
-Matt
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I’ve had this same issue with looping audio. It only happens in preview for me, not when I build the project to a VIDEO_TS folder and burn it. Have you tried building the project and trying it in a software DVD player? it should work fine as it does for me, I think it’s just a preview issue within Encore.
-Matt
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Definitely make sure the files you are using in Encore are DVD-Video compliant. If not, Encore will tell you that the material needs to be transcoded in the project media window. Set the Transcoding method to that which will best fit your material on the DVD, or try the ‘Automatic’ setting. How long is the material in minutes or hours? 2.5 hours is the most I’d even attempt at putting on a single side, single layer DVD-R to maintain any bit of quality.
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Does it play properly on a standard DVD player? My aspect ratio test is to play the DVD on a computer NOT in full screen mode. If the window is 4:3 and the program is the correct aspect ratio, then everything is set up properly on the disc. If the program plays stretched in a 16:9 window on your computer, then the aspect flag is not correct on the DVD. I don’t know much about Blu-ray players, but to test to make sure everything is correct, you should also try it on a standard DVD player on a 4:3 monitor as well as a computer not in full screen mode. Seems to me some newer TVs might not have the capabilities for playing 4:3 content properly…..can’t confirm this for sure, but a client of mine is convinced of this as his 4:3 content plays back stretched on 50% of the TVs he has tried.
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Thanks for following up on this….I certainly didn’t. Thank you for the link, but a couple weeks back we tried opening a ProRes422 file on the PC and everything worked just fine. I assume it was included in a QuickTime update from Apple.
Premiere Pro CS4 plays back the ProRes files without rendering….sweet
-Matt Lee