Steven L. gotz
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No, you can create a custom project with that size using the Desktop setting, but for what purpose? How are you planning on playing it back? And why not just use Powerpoint? You won’t be playing anything that size on a television, right?
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Yes. You can.
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You probably have a PPT file that was created on a screen set for 1024X768 or maybe 1280X1080
How do you want to fit that into a 720X480 frame? You must scale it down with the Motion Effect. Also, the PC screen is not the same shape as the Premiere Pro frame shape. So you will either have black bars, or clipped images. Take your pick.
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Simply this…. Premiere Pro will use the preview files that you created to see the clips in real time when it creates a DV AVI file. After all, the preview files are nothing more than DV AVI files, so it is a simple job for Premiere Pro to read them and create the final output.
The program does not use the preview files while exporting to DVD however.
Feel free to check out the preview files using a media player. You’ll see what I mean. Start a new project, put a short clip on the timeline. Add a slight blur. Render. You will see that when you play the newly created preview file in another application, it is basically the clip plus the effects.
Then do this. Export the file to a DV AVI. Time it. Now, delete the preview file and export again. Without the preview file it will take longer to export.
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Let’s define “render”. That is when you create preview files, not when you export a file.
You can move and resize the workarea bar to just render the area under it (by pressing the Enter key).
So you could set it to be one minute in duration, so that each time you render, you move it ahead and render the next minute.
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Just remember that once you decrease the quality from MiniDV to DVD, the loss can never be recovered. I would also make five MiniDV tapes of the footage as well.
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It sounds like you are doing it in a fairly normal and reasonable fashion. The reason for the long render is probably the effects you are applying to the footage. Auto levels and color correction is pretty tough on a PC.
If you rendered a little bit at a time, overnight, during meals, while taking breaks, you could accomplish a lot more. Instead of the entire hour plus, just render a minute here and a minute there as you are doing your editing. If the entire project is rendered, the export to a DV AVI will be quite fast.
And if you use that DV AVI to export (transcode) to DVD or MPEG2-DVD, it will go pretty fast as well. If you use the original footage to create the DVD, it will take a very long time as well.
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You can create the first one, then copy that one and paste it’s attributes to the rest of them.
Before you import them, set your preferences to use 10 seconds worth of frames for the default dutration for stills.
Your pictures are probably a lot bigger than your project’s frame, so you may find that to get to 65% you need to really be at 15% to 30%. Use the Scale parameter of the Motion Effect already in the Effect Controls window.
Change your program monitor from “fit” to 25% so you can see when you move the image off screen. Put the Current Time Indicator (CTI) to the beginning of the image on the sequence. Put the image off screen by clicking on the middle of the program window and dragging it offscreen. Click on the Motion Effect’s Position parameter stopwatch to turn on the keyframming.
Move the CTI to the 2 second mark. Change the scale and position to fit the image in the frame as desired. Changing the values will create keyframes automatically.
Move the CTI to the 8 second mark. Create a keyframe by clicking on the diamond next to the position and scale parameters. Don’t move anything yet.
Move the CTI to the 10 second mark. Move to offscreen and change the scale to match whatever you used for the first keyframe.
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Are you waiting long enough. It can take a while for the AME to come up, and if you click elsewhere you may be hiding it when it finally does come up.
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It is no longer necessary. Aspect Ratio is always maintained unless you tell it to do otherwise.
Steven
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