[Patrick Mckenna]

Thanks for the reply Kalle.
It isn’t my intention to upload the file to YouTube. The clip in question is part of a short film that I’m working on. But my concern is that, hypothetically, I were to upload this composition to YouTube, will it mean that the H.264 codec that YouTube uses will cause this glitch and there’s nothing that can be done about it?

[Patrick Mckenna]

Hi Kalle,
Thanks for the responses. I’m a bit lost here. Am I wrong in saying that the issue I’m having is a problem that can’t be fixed?? I can’t grasp what the issue is. The noise and Venetian blinds effect that I added to the footage in After Effects seem to be very simple effects and the composition is nothing too complicated. I would expect that Premiere would be more than capable to export out a flawless video file of the comp, even if it were for YouTube.

[Patrick Mckenna]

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, it’s definitely something in the export settings in Premiere. The AE file on the timeline in the Premiere looks fine but it is when it is exported from Premiere that has the flicker. Do you know what settings would be my best option??? The one I used (that causes the flicker at 1 second intervals) are Format: H.264 and Preset: Match Source – High Bitrate (it exports as .mp4). Any suggestion which might be a better export setting for this particular AE file??

[Patrick Mckenna]

Thanks for the replies guys.
I’m thinking about maybe getting the Movie Studio upgrade to keep me going for another few months before I can afford a more professional upgrade. However, I have read online that Movie Studio 13 converts 4K footage into lower resolution proxy files while editing on the timeline. This doesn’t bother me particularly as long as I can render the footage out in a high quality HD file. From reading the specs on Movie Studio 13, am I right in assuming that it can import 4K files but can’t files render out as 4K??

[Patrick Mckenna]

Thanks for the reply Mike.

I spoke to the DVD duplication company and they suggested if the musical has an intermission they would do a two-disc deal for me (ie. double disc DVD with case). So seeing as the musical has an intermission, I ran with that idea and I’ve already confirmed the order with them.

However, I really do appreciate your feedback. If I wasn’t in such a rush to get these done, I would’ve went with your suggestion. Unfortuantely the school I did it for are finishing for the Easter holidays next week so I want to get the order to them before then.

Thanks again for your help,
Pat

[Patrick Mckenna]

Thanks for the reply John. I understand what you mean. The problem is that this job has already been quoted and paid for, and the DVD duplication company only quoted me for duplication of the single layer DVDs (4.7Gb) with a large quantity. I can go with the dual layer option but it’ll mean me having to go back to the customer explaining the scenario to them and telling them that it is gonna cost them more (which I don’t think they’ll like). I think I’ll have to bite the bullet and try dropping the bitrate down. At least I’ll know for the next time that it’s 80 minutes max for a single layer DVD.

[Patrick Mckenna]

Hi John,
Sorry that I’m only responding to your last reply now. I have rendered out using Main Concept 2 HDV. One thing I noticed was that the original footage was 1920×1080 at 25fps but when I render it out as Main Concept 2 HDV 1080-50i, the footage is no longer at 1920×1080 but 1440×1080 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.333 instead of 1.000. I assume that it shouldn’t affect the final outcome??

Also, regarding render settings,
1) what format (render settings) would you recommend for the purpose of uploading a video online if the original footage is AVCHD 1080 at 25 fps and,
2) what would be the best format (render setting) for viewing on a laptop (which would ultimately be hooked up to a projector)??

Thanks again.

[Patrick Mckenna]

Hi John,
Thank you as always for your kind replies. I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio 10 and I don’t think that I have the option to render to Sony MXF. However, I have Sony AVC with various templates. What would be my best options here?
Pat

[Patrick Mckenna]

Hi John,
Well I finally figured out what the problem was regarding the playback on the Vegas timeline. I had the footage (individual clips) stored on my external hard drive. However, when I copied them onto my “C” drive, playback was fine without any freezing or stuttering at all. It must of been an issue with my external hard drive. Such a relief to sort that issue out.

There was just one quite minor issue that I was hoping I could pick your brain with. I think that I explained to you previously that the footage was shot on was 720p 30fps in MOV format (mpeg2). If I tried to edit the entire project on the one timeline, I was getting a lot of red screen crashes so you recommended that I could split up the project into individual scenes and render them out separately with a view to “stitching” them back together to complete the project. One of the render formats that you recommended was HDV 30fps m2t which rendered fine. However, I noticed a slight glitch during playback in the footage when rendered in this format; in some scenes, where there might be a panning shot or a fast movement by a subject, a horizontal flicker might occur across the screen. I viewed back my original footage that it was shot in to see if the issue was with the camera settings or the original footage itself but they played back without any problems at all. Is there anything that you could recommend that might solve this problem?

Kindest regards,
Pat

[Patrick Mckenna]

Hi John,
Further to my last post, I noticed that rendering times have really slowed down on Vegas. Even when rendering to MPG for DVD purpose, it seems to take much longer than it had ever before. For example when rendering to MPG to be sent to DVD architect, it renders the video first (in MPG format) and then it renders the audio (in AC3 formet). Usually the AC3 rendering takes only a minute or two at the very most, but now, when rendering a 5 minute clip of audio is taking over 20 minutes.