[Mike Velte]

The only reliable method I have found for editing video from a DVD is to play it from a stand alone player thru a analog/digital converter to Premiere via firewire.

[Mike Velte]

1. Select the light ray clip in the timeline.
2. Open the Effects Controls window and twiddle open “Motion”.
3. Position the CTI to the first frame of the clip.
4. Click the tiny stop watch icon in front of Rotation.
5. Page Down and then left arrow back one to position the CTI on the last frame of the clip
6. Now the value to change is 0.0′. Change that to say 25.0′ and your clip will rotate 25 times…adjust value as needed.

[Mike Velte]

My guesses;
1. Virus or spyware scanners enabled at start up.
2. Serious multitasking with only 1 GB memory.

Tell us a bit about your hardware config including external drives.

[Mike Velte]

Premiere on a PC does not like QT files well. Premiere will import many (not H264) but import times can be long and real time playback poor.
Premiere on a PC is a Microsoft DirectShow DV.avi type 2 app without additional plug-ins/hardware.

[Mike Velte]

1. [Vin2000] “Once it’s encoded and I burn another copy in the future, will it have to encode all over again?”
Yes. In the future choose the “Burn to:Folder” option. Then use your burning app to “Record Video_TS”, navigate to the Video_TS folder Premiere has created.

2. Timelines are called Sequences. Each lives in the Project bin as well as tabbed on the timeline. Delete the sequence in the Project bin or rename it there.

3. You can only export one sequence at a time, either the entire sequence or part of it as isolated with the Work Area Bar. The choice is made in the Media Encoder under “Range”.

4. Maybe the line above some video is Red? Red indicates that a real preview might not be possible due to effects added. You can play that red area but might not get all the frames displayed (jerky). You can render that red area (changes to green) by positioning the Work Area Bar over that area and clicking Enter key.

5. You can Alt+left click on an audio file in the timeline to select just the audio, than right click on it and choose Enable to disable the audio.

6. I have heard that, but more important, there are few valid reasons to Export QT from Premiere…quality is the issue. The only half decent quality from QT is H264 and for that requires QT 7.

[Mike Velte]

Can you email me one of the titles? velte AT cox.net

[Mike Velte]

If you had cineform installed in Premiere 2.0 on the same PC as CS3, copy the Cineform plug-in folder from 2.0 into CS3.
Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro 2\Plug-ins\en_US

[Mike Velte]

In your original post you said the AE PAR was square, now it is 1.07?
It should be 1.067.

When you export from Premiere…is it also uncompressed?

[Mike Velte]

Is the PAR (Pixel aspect ratio) of the video 1.0? Set the “View zoom level” of the program monitor to a lower value than “Fit” to see the entire screen.

[Mike Velte]

Pixels per inch has nothing to do with video.
Make sure “Default scale to frame size” is not selected in Preferences>General. With this setting, any further scale effects will degrade the image. If this setting was in place when you imported the stills, start over and reimport the stills.
Also change the “View zoom level” of the Program window from “Fit” to a low value or Preview on a external monitor if your target is DVD.