[Stef Hoffer]

Hi Brian,

It actually seems like you solved the mystery! I did get to see field tears in the material exporting the way I did. It’s possible to export deinterlaced and after doing that (plus rendering) the clips play fine in QT.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Stef

[Stef Hoffer]

Hi Keith, thanks for your reply. I haven’t been able to try ProRes yet, and can’t find it in my export format list either.

However, it seems the issue is not the actual export, but the compatibility of Quicktime and WMP. If I import the .MOV file that I created back into Premiere it actually looks fine, whereas QT/WMP both play the file distorted.

Do you think this means the file is actually OK but the playback function in both QT & WMP can’t handle it?

[Stef Hoffer]

Thanks Jeff, that clears up my question. I’m delighted with the scene detect button as it allows me to keep the original quality as mentioned before. And from there, the editing starts!

Undoubtedly I’ll be back in a later stage with more questions, but I just want to say this forum is amazing, and many other questions I had before were answered by browsing through the threads. Hopefully I’ll be able to help others at some point as well. Thanks for now!

[Stef Hoffer]

I don’t mind the editing involved, I mind the supposed quality loss while exporting. Therefore I’d rather keep the original clips in my database, preferably smoothly cut, than exporting them into the database. But from your post I understand that automatically ‘smoothening’ the scenes is not possible, right?

[Stef Hoffer]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks again for your very helpful answer! The scene detect button is indeed amazing and it cuts up the tape automatically.

What I will do is follow your suggestion, and capture from the original tape again, this time creating single clips directly.

The only ‘issue’ that I am still debating is how to smoothen the initial rough shots. Because of the camera handling it often happens that the beginning and/or end of the clip show some movement which will have to be cut off in a later stage.

When exporting these original clips I’d want to aim for the best quality of course, and that if I understand correctly is MPEG2. The more specified settings I still have to figure out but this is a huge step in the right direction.

Thanks again!
Stef

[Stef Hoffer]

Hello Jeff,

Thanks for your reply! This certainly clears up some mysteries for me, although it’s hard to grasp everything you say because I’m new to all of it. To be complete, I use the CS5 version of Premiere.

To start off, the main purpose for cutting up the hour long original clips is that I hope to create a ‘database’. Right now the footage consists of approximately 65 clips of about one hour. Eventually I hope to organize this into themes, such as traffic, people, nature, beaches, markets, etc. For this purpose I rather have single clips outside of Premiere than clips inside that are tagged to the originals. This would enable me to rapidly find the appropriate clips for new projects. What do you think about this?

To what codec I use, and I hope I’ve grasped this properly, the extension on the original is .mpeg , when I create new clips matching the sequence they are also .mpeg , but for instance exporting as MPEG2 they appear as .mpg. Perhaps you mean something different though, so excuse me if I’m mixing up some terms. The ‘match sequence settings’ have the set format of ‘MPEG preview’.

I’m unsure whether I should proceed this way. It’s a lot of work to cut up the clips but that’s something worth investing time in. That is, at least, if it provides me with an organized set of clips at the end, in the best quality/size ratio.

Any more info or thoughts are much appreciated, thanks for now though.

Stef