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If Premiere isn’t recognizing your camera, then I’d opt for an inexpensive SD card reader. It will then look like a regular drive to Premiere, and you should be able to import the native files easily.
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My first guess would be that iMovie is transcoding the files on the camera from their native AVCHD format to something else that is less compressed – hence the larger file sizes.
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You are correct. While preview on an external NTSC precisely calibrated monitor is the best method for determining how your project will look on a precisely calibrated NTSC monitor or television, it merely serves as a baseline. Walk through an home entertainment center with a bank of display TV’s all running the same program. Unless someone has spent a lot of time tweaking each, you’ll more than likely see many different pictures.
A well calibrated computer monitor will show you exactly how the video will appear – on your monitor. Once it leaves that environment, and is viewed on several thousand other monitors, it will look several thousand different ways. But at least you’ll know that it looked good on your’s!
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Your source is HD, and DVD’s are SD, so quality loss is unavoidable. You cannot ‘match settings’ since there is no such thing as a HD DVD. Your DVD will be 720 x 480, period.
At that short a duration though, you’ll be able to export to an MPEG2-DVD at a high data rate, around 8Mbps, make sure ‘Use Maximum Render Quality’ is checked, and make your ‘Quality’ setting ‘5’. We prefer CBR for programs that will obviously fit onto a single DVD encoded to the highest data rate.
Here is an online calculator to give you a settings goal.
https://dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php
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Nope, RAM Preview is not set to skip frames. It’s actually skipping around 10 frames at a time. Here’s a link to a screen capture..
Steve Brame
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OK…thanks Dave. I’ve never used AE much for this sort of work. Mainly keying and rotoscoping out wireless mic belt packs and such, and this just seemed like too long a render time for a 26 sec comp.
I do have version 10.0.2.4, which should be the latest, unless my update function is broken.
I did drop the $$$ on Nucleo Pro when they went 64 bit, but I swear I can’t see much difference. Oh well, live and learn.
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First of all – very, very nicely done!
Next, there are several repositories for selling your video or AE projects. Probably not allowed to mention them by name here, but a simple search for the words “stock After Effects” or “stock footage” and you’ll find them.
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Pretty much the recommended ‘norm’ for such would be Cineform. We used to use it to transcode our AVCHD footage for use with both CS3 and CS4. Proxy files are another way to go, but involve more work.
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Great recommendation from Chris! Our last 3 editing machines have been built following these guides, and we’ve been quite pleased with all 3.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions