[Mike Cohen]

ok, I can get around this problem by right-clicking to set a link, rather than clicking the little arrow on the right side of the link drop down menu. “Don’t click the arrow” – go figure.

[Mike Cohen]

When I am previewing new music library CDs, for each track I hear I try to envision the genre of video it might go with, based upon our internal genres (education, promo, nursing etc). Then when I need a track, I hope to be able to remember the tracks or CDs I thought might work.
But sometimes the first CD I grab is exactly what I’m looking for.

This conversation about cutting voice and music first takes me back to old timey-time when we had to cut our voice over to Ch. 1 and music to CH. 2, then lay this, mixed down, to Ch. 1 of our master 1″ tape, leaving us an empty CH. 2 for NAT sound.

If you had to make an edit to the VO, and there was music mixed in, you had to make the edit on your original reel, then find an insert edit point on the 1″ master and pray that it would be a clean edit.

Oh those were the days.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

I feel the same way.
I see a lot of books, podcasts and blogs about “rewarding employees” and “retaining employees” with perks, outings, team building exercises, ropes courses, etc.

What happened to “a good salary and benefits” being a good motivator for doing your job?

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

maybe show us a screen shot of your export settings, and your project settings, if you can’t make any progress

[Mike Cohen]

Are there other 16:9 native elements in your 16:9 project?
In other words, why add 4:3 video to a 16:9 project if there are no other 16:9 images in the project?
If your goal is to have your standard def DVD play back in 16:9 tv screen without the usual stretching of the image that these sets like to do, then your 16:9 project with 4:3 non-stretched video does indeed make sense. THis way, when the tv tries to stretch the image, it won’t. Assuming the 16:9 flag on your DVD is working, the video should look correct.
In your media encoder export settings, make sure you set the pixel aspect raio to 16:9 widescreen.

[Mike Cohen]

I usually say, “the bigger the better” – while not always true, you run the risk of getting 200×200 GIF files.

I occasionally see an obvious web-gif printed in a newspaper article – usually my local rag in CT.

While we are on the subject, clients sometimes don’t know the difference between a megabyte or gigabyte, and may ask “I burned the image to a CD because it was too big for a floppy disk (ok, that’s a dated one).

We once had an employee complain that he couldn’t fit a 200megabyte file on a floppy disk. I never figured out what the problem was!

Another common one is “I tried to e-mail someone the DVD but it was taking forever.”

And finally “I tried to copy the DVD you sent me but I couldn’t open it in Windows Movie Maker.” They sometimes forget they are paying someone to provide them with copies as needed.

Oh well, this is why we experts are hired to do work for others.

We cannot expect our clients to have the technical knowledge that we have, just like they do not expect us to have the marketing or product development skills that they have (although we may)

Good thread.

[Mike Cohen]

please clarify your question. This sounds like a test question.

[Mike Cohen]

Coming from the corporate world, the only credit that goes on most videos is the name of the company that paid for the job.

[Mike Cohen]

Newer versions of Premiere render MPEG video a lot faster.

If you use a Canopus Analog to Digital box rather than a camcorder to take the signal from your computer to the DVD recorder, that might work. Or your camcorder with no tape and the DV/AV controls set correctly, you could accomplish the same thing.

My Pioneer DVD recorder actually has a firewire input, but it is designed to capture from a DV camcorder tape.

I disagree with your original question however. unless you are in a big hurry to get video from Premiere to a DVD, for instance to send to a client, I say render the MPEG out of Premiere. Use the CBR setting at 5 or 6 megabits to save some time versus multiple pass VBR.

You say you are using Premiere 7.0 – do you mean Premiere Pro 1.0? If you are using the original version of Premiere Pro, I would imagine you have an older computer as well, which will also impact your rendering speed.

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

Please clarify your workflow. For example:

VHS 16:9 footage, into capture card, into Premiere 16:9 project.

Also your export settings.

When you work in 16:9 and export a MPEG-2 out of Premiere, assuming you set the aspect ration to 16:9, and your DVD authoring software, such as Encore, correctly interprets (or is made to interpret) the aspect ration, the burned DVD will display the video correctly. On a TV/set top DVD player, the 16:9 flag on the video tells the DVD player how to display the video. On a computer DVD player, the same should be the case.

So in summary, your workflow has to follow the aspect ratio from start to finish.

Mike Cohen