Steven L. gotz
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That is why Jacob Rosenberg suggests using Quicktime in Clip Notes – so you can go one frame at a time unlike WMV files. Strange isn’t it.
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Some of those lines look like they would be just perfect for use in the backgound of some lower thirds. This is really a very nice library.
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Which is really sad because the auto scale used to use the scale parameter so all you had to do was start from that point. No more. Big change and nobody has mentioned it much.
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Mike, I don’t think we are communicating properly, or we are discussing different issues. By the way, I learned about this issue from Jacob Rosenberg on his Total Training DVD for What’s New in Premiere Pro 2. He didn’t do this, he just told us about it.
Try this:
Put a large still in the sequence without automatic scale to fit. I used a 2272X1704 still I had handy. Manually resize it with the scale parameter in the motion effect. I used 29%.
Put a second copy next to it on the sequence. Scale it using the right-click context menu and select “Scale to Frame Size”.
The first thing I see is that there are some very thin black bars on either side of the second still, so I would want to zoom in a bit to get rid of them. So I move it to 101%. No problem.
OK, now let’s get fancy. Animate the first still from 29% at the first frame to 58% at the last. Looks fine, right?
Now, animate the second still from 101% to 202% – which should be the same size, right?
I was lucky and a person way far off in the background had on red shoes. The shoes were very clear in the first still, and a bit blurred in the second. And we are not even at 100% yet compared to the original still.
Now lets get crazy. Get rid of the keyframes by turning off the stopwatch on both stills. Bring the first still to two times it’s current size. From 58% to 116% – and the second still from 202% to 404%.
OK? See the problem? Any time you zoom in on an automatically scaled clip by any amount, you lose quality and if you zoom back in on a manually scaled clip, you don’t begin to lose quality until you exceed 100%.
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It depends on how you capture it. In Premiere Pro 1.5.1 you convert from M2T to AVI when you capture so it takes around 40GB per hour instead of almost 13 or so that DV takes. If you capture native M2T, it is exactly the same file size as DV.
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Convert the audio and video separately? Put them on the timeline and group them?
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It will always be the default duration for transitions. You would have to make 15 frames the new default for all transitions I believe.
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It moved from Project Settings to Preferences. But be careful. It does not work the same way. The old way merely applied the scale from the motion effect but the still or clip was left at the original resolution. The new way rasters the image to the frame size. So you can not zoom in without losing quality. In that case, you must right click on the clip and tell it to NOT scale. Then do it manually.
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Try moving the clips to another track, and then delete the track with the problem.
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I took another look at the picture and realized that there was a serious difference in scale between the image in the titler and on the sequence. I am glad to hear that the problem “went away”.
Steven
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