[Robert Storm]

Okay, so I was trying to render it out before I put it into premier, but After Effects keeps on crashing..just a generic “sorry, after effects has crashed, here’s a chance to save your project” type thing.

Any idea about that?

[Robert Storm]

Ah cool, thanks a ton! I’ll try that.
It takes 4-5 minutes to load the project, usually.. if I render it out, will that fix that, too?

(I’m exporting it to an image sequence now, because I only have like 3 hours left, so..next time)

[Robert Storm]

Right on-
Well, we’re almost done shooting a project, and I’ve been using a tripod the whole way through (but no mounted microphone). I guess you can turn down the sensitivity of the mic, so I just turned it down until dead silence was reading -40db and then had the subjects project more.

But I’ll definitely look into getting a wireless mic…or 4.. I guess I can’t get away with cheap ones here, eh?
There’s gotta be kind of a generally acknowledged list of reputable dealers- anywhere in particular that I should look for these?

[Robert Storm]

Ah, I’ll try that, thanks!

The video is being captured in 1440×1080, but looks distorted unless I stretch it to 1920×1080- which, although I know I’m making the video bigger which means a loss of quality, actually looks better.
(I’m not at my editing PC either right now, but I can post two images when I get back if that’ll help.)

I just thought that HDV capture was supposed to be in 1440×1080, but the program knew its non-square pixels, so its supposed to correct that?

Robert Storm

[Robert Storm]

Well, its my first time using this camera, and using premier, so I figured that I should pick the “HDV” preset for capture. So I did that, but then it was all squished…so yeah, we do have a problem, one that I’m doing my best to rectify. But I guess my scenario was a little unrealistic, so you’re right there, but…what about this? I mean..I would expect premier to resize the footage?
Maybe I just don’t know how to set it right…
Thanks,
Robert Storm

[Robert Storm]

Wow…so suppose you started a project in standard definition, and then realized that you wanted to use a few HD clips, you couldn’t change the resolution for that?

Man- That just seems like a terrible feature (or lack thereof), because…what, it can’t hurt them if you change the resolution…so why…?

Well, thanks anyway guys,
Robert Storm

[Robert Storm]

1) Definitely a problem, but I’m considering purchasing Premier- so that won’t be a problem if that happens.

2) The camcorder captures in non-square pixels, so when I capture it in Premier, the image is all squished, but it looks fine when I stretch it to 1920 pixels wide.

3) Well, I haven’t really started the project yet, all of the video is in 1920×1080, so… I could just start a new project, but I was hoping that a $400 program would allow such changes mid-project.

So really I’m just looking at #3…how can I change the resolution?

Thanks,
Robert Storm

[Robert Storm]

ah, so… this doesn’t look distorted, but maybe I’m understanding it wrong, because I thought that they were kinda squished together so it could be 1440 pixels wide and then it would be stretched to 1920? But I guess that’s not how it works, if the picture isn’t distorted?

Thanks for the help!

[Robert Storm]

Ah, ok, I was hoping someone a noise filter or something, haha. You don’t think that would work?

[Robert Storm]

ahk thanks a ton guys, I really appreciate it!