[Stal Lionne]

Yes, I did have all my eggs in one basket. Following an earlier advice, I strung together 32 video clips into 1 seq. This problem was in 1 of the clips.
Please forgive my ignorance, I thought work area in AP was the entire “work area” not just a portion of a video on the sequence/timeline. So, is there a way to just activate only a portion of the clip in the timeline and render workarea such that AP doesn’t redo the whole seq?
I also thought rendering workarea is like rendering all sequences, as opposed to the active seq? Please clarify.

Thanks,
Stal

[Stal Lionne]

Thanks guys…you have been very helpful.
So, when creating the project, do I start with HDV 1080p or HDV 1080i or NTSC DV Widescreen 48KHz? I am trying to test each projecct settings combination with the final encoding settings…too many permutations in the time I have…Even a small 2 min clip for testing is taking quite a while to encode burn, run to the TV and repeat…

Thanks,
Stal

[Stal Lionne]

More info:
Please can you tell, based on my published source formats in main thread, which of these settings would give me a reasonably quality video output at a reasonable render time.

(A)
General
Editing mode: HDV 1080p
Timebase: 25.00 fps

Video Settings
Frame size: 1440h 1080v (1.333)
Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)

Audio Settings
Sample rate: 48000 samples/second

Capture Format
HDV Capture

Video Rendering
Maximum Bit Depth: Off
Preview File Format: I-Frame only MPEG-2
Compressor: I-Frame Only MPEG
Color depth: Millions of colors

(B)
General
Editing mode: HDV 1080i
Timebase: 29.97 fps

Video Settings
Frame size: 1440h 1080v (1.333)
Frame rate: 29.97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
Fields: Upper Field First

Audio Settings
Sample rate: 48000 samples/second

Capture Format
HDV Capture

Video Rendering
Maximum Bit Depth: Off
Preview File Format: I-Frame only MPEG-2
Compressor: I-Frame Only MPEG
Color depth: Millions of colors

Thanks,
Stal

[Stal Lionne]

Hi Jeff and Mike, thanks for your inputs. As you can see, the source format is water over the bridge as I can’t go back an reshoot (basically, I got a vidoegrapher to shoot the scenes, and now he is sick an unable to produce the video, so I am stuck with the raw formats with screaming mothers wanting to see the videos of their kids dancing 🙂
Ok. So I need a solution. So far here’s what I gather from your inputs.
(1) Use one timeline to build video. (Was already doing it that way 🙂
(2) Produce the DVD in wide screen 1440×1080(16:9), progressive 29.97fps @ 7Mbps or 4.5Mbps?
(3) Compress using CBR 4500 (not sure what this is. I don’t mind using 2 single disks if this would help quality)

Also, I tried different outputs after my 10 hrs debacle (which didn’t look good), but I have this problem: The source video fits nicely in AP CS3 source view window (and all the media players I tested it with). But in the program window + encoded output, the video is magnified and cutting out footage. So I tried to scale down the clip to almost 49%. That is terrible as I think any resizing of the frames is going to hurt my quality and render time. What’s up with my settings to cause this? If I am going to do wide screen I would like the video to come out taking up the same safe margins, instead of expanding out of the safe margins. I can provide a screen capture if that would help you see my dilema.

Thanks again,
Stal