Mike Velte
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OK, I misunderstood you, thinking you had a video file and not 168 photos. Before you import them choose; Edit>Preferences>General and change the default still image duration to 150 frames. Then reimport your stills.
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What version of Premiere?
Are you using a 3rd party capture card…Matrox, Decklink, etc?
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Without any reference to what is correct, adjusting levels could create an overly bright images with blown highlights in the final DVD or web video. This is why we use external monitors and Premiere’s wave form monitor. These take the guess work out of the loop.
The most basic step might be to view a gray scale chart at 100% in Photoshop or your image editor. Then try to calibrate your PC monitor using the Menu buttons (brightness and contrast) on the front of the monitor. Most inexpensive LCD’s crush the shadows from about 40 on down at their factory settings. I can email you a chart (velteATcoxDOTnet).The next step would be to learn about Premiere’s waveform monitor and how to read luminance values when you want to make levels changes.
finally, there is nothing your camera or Windows or Premiere can do to change anything about video that is being captured via OHCI firewire.
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Try this;
right click on the file in the Project Window and choose “Interpret Footage” and select “Assume this frame rate” and set it to 30 fps. Then drag it to the timeline. -
[Jack Aguilar] “Premiere CS3 there is a specific listing for the GL-1 with respect to capture?”
Yes!
[Jack Aguilar] “batch capture functions within Premiere CS3”
Yes, it is called Scene Detection.
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The DM-GL1a and 2a are both listed in device control of CS3.
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The behavior is normal. Most of us would be concentrating on either the client or the video. I can see how the under 25 generation who text messages and drives at the same time might want Premiere to play on, so suggest you make a feature suggestion with Adobe for a new Preference option.
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[RaMarie Swart] “There are pixels dancing all over the place”
This is hopefully just a play back issue with your deck and when captured with the shooter’s camera all will be well.
[RaMarie Swart] “something I must do with the software to capture in Progressive mode?”
Capturing is simply data transfer.
[RaMarie Swart] “what is the best way to ensure that the time code will line up”
You will manually need to synchronize both camera capture files once in the sequence by using a video or audio event like a still camera flash or hand clap or some other very short event.
You might want to read about multicam editing in the Help files.
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Capturing via firewire is simple data transfer…no changes are made. Both your displays have plenty of adjustments and the chances they display the same are remote…that is why we use external monitors and Premiere’s waveform monitor.
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Not quite free, but Lynda.com has a huge selection of quality tuts on Premiere and Encore…$25 for 1 months access.