Rob Manning
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Charles,
I was taking the high road, tools are chosen and used variously.
I am a Nikon junkie, lenses, D-800, D-7000 back up and D3S for venue stills.
RM
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If you are hard set on the HD enabled DSLR’s other than the GH series, look into renting a camera that has a direct out HDMI, then rent a Ninja 2 with an external drive which should run for a very long time.
RM
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Bryan,
I’ve asked a similar question of a couple of friends, both of whom work ongoing with RED on the job and HD enabled DSLR’s for hand held.
The subject came up regarding HDMI direct capture, to an external device from the D800 Nikon, and Sony A99.
The short answer, according to them is if one is using heavy AE motion graphics and effects, then there is a case to be made for ingesting I frame specific codec.
Generally as noted, CS6 works fine without that step and yes, if one has an older computer or previous version of Premiere then trans coding also as noted (can) make the process smoother reducing the stutter.
RM
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Ricky Thanks,
Looks like settings is a subset of acuity within the 720 wrapper then and does not alter that even within the Quality settings.
I do appreciate the comments.
Thanks,
Rob
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Yes Stan in this case.
The issue is when the HD content is resolved by/through/into the default DVD aspect ratio, invariably it crops the video segments when played on a typical DVD device, in this case an older Toshiba flat face CRT television.
One forum stated to NOT re-size the content in Premiere, allow the authoring to do that and set the buttons to 16:9 etc. but so far none of the burns have fixed what happens when played on a DVD device.
The caveat is that opening the DVD on a laptop, with VLC etc. gives the correct aspect ratio when the screen is sized.
So far, yikes and bewildered at what should be an automatic process.
Thanks for the comments.
Rob
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Hello Rick,
In CS5, what settings are you, were you actually using?
The preferences box (edit drop down) has the DVD specs hard set allowing no changes.
It says these can be changed at any time from the File drop down, Project settings, but that also defaults allowing no changes for DVD video.
“A project’s authoring mode can be changed at any time in the Project Settings dialog box” is tagged at the bottom of the Basic tab in the Project Settings box no matter how it is accessed.
If one uses the File drop down, Edit Quality Presets then there are choices and presets etc.
Questions for you, if you have time.
Is there some magic place where the defaults can actually be reassigned?
If not, do you assign the transcode setting from the Edit Quality Presets then?
If so, which do you use?
The footage we have released plays fine from the DVD in the computer but when put into a TV with a hardware DVD player it is cropped and so far no matter which preset I choose, does not play at full frame whether choosing 4:3 or 16:9.
There seem to be few if any threads out there in Adobe land, so I very much appreciate any answers you might come up with.
Content is all set to 1920-1080 from Premiere, exported as separate (songs) files into MPEG2, before being constructed in Encore.
Thanks,
Rob
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Johna and Bill, I’ll be seeing him this week. Stay tuned.
Rob
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Bottom line, do not rely on Dynamic Link, export to DVD/BluRay format, and load Encore from these rendered files.
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As noted, the 8 bit 4.2.2 compression is not available on the D7K.
Canon users via Magic Lantern, have hacks availed to do that but AFAICT Nikon does not get that love.
Note for HDMI direct on the D800 these are 1080i and some type of “B” frames priority designed by Nikon’s engineering crew.
Not at issue for most.
Some say the Nikon sensor/OS outperform for DR versus the Canons.
HTH’s
Rob
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Hi Tony,
That information should be in the manual for the camera.
RM