Mike Velte
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[Jake Hawkes] “.I always pop for the 50 buck for pro, not sure if this makes a difference.”
I dont think you have to pay for an upgrade from 7.x to 7.xx. Pro version allows for encoding and some crude editing and joining of .mov files without recompression.
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You could extract the background from the photo first but that would require Photoshop.
Yes the photo goes in V2; select it in the timeline, click on the word Motion in the Effects Controls palette and then re size the image in the Program window as needed. If the photo is very large you may need to change the zoom of the Program window to see the bounding box of the photo. -
As you can see from the “Related Threads” below your post, this topic is very popular and your concerns valid.
Much of the issue involves Premiere’s deinterlacing of your HD footage during the resizing. The resizing also contributes.
You did not mention what camera you have, because AVCHD has its own set of challenges.
Some determined guy named Dan Isaacs invented a rather convoluted workflow as discussed in this very long thread at Adobe;
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5b2fb/56 -
A 2 DVD set would allow for better quality than a single DVD.
Set up a Widescreen DV NTSC Project. Choose Edit>Preferences>General and deselect “Default scale to frame size”. Import your 1440×1080 footage and scale to 40%. 40% will keep all the action within the action safe zone.
Edit and then export. Format= Mpeg 2 DVD, Range = Entire sequence, Preset= NTSC Widescreen Medium Quality. Change “Bitrate Encoding” to CBR. Change “Bitrate” to 7.5 Mbps. Cook until done. -
[terry gipson] “So are you saying I don’t have to deal with the little red bars in the larger sequence of nested sequences???”
The red bars essentially say that if your computer cannot preview this video smoothly, you will need to render it. Does not effect any output options.
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“Renders” are for preview only. Preview if needed in the original sequences, then have faith all is well in the nested sequence.
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Compressing HDV down to SD is going to take forever without 2 Quad core processors. Further the resulting quality is poor compared to shooting in SD.
You could have down-converted in the camera at capture in real time.Putting 2 hours of dancing on a single sided DVD at 4200 kbps is going to produce mediocre results. Dual layer at 7000 kbps will produce much better results, but dual layer discs have compatibility issues.
Encoding 16:9 widescreen footage creates other issues…many DVD players require the user to choose the Aspect ratio on their DVD remote, resulting in customer complaints of squishing.
Other challenges you face involves HDV low light capabilities. Very poor compared to say a VX2100.
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Editing Mpeg files is dicey in any version of Premiere. It is likely the audio is AC3 Dolby. Convert audio into Wave and probably convert video into DV type 2 and then edit in Premiere.
Premiere Elements is probably a better solution for editing Mpeg. -
Look at the Calculations effect and it’s Blending modes.
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[Jason Murray] “The path to all of the files has not changed relative to the Premiere project file”
But the drive letter has probably changed. After pointing Premiere to one of the files it should locate the remaining files in that folder…not sure about subfolders.