Tcindie
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Your description of the clicking from the monitor would lead me to guess that your laptop is trying to supply a picture with resolution or refresh rates out of the range the monitor can handle.
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Its outputting 16:9 anamorphic. To output letterboxed 16:9 you’ll have to render that timeline out, then bring it in to a 4:3 aspect ratio project, make sure it’s sized correctly, and then export it to tape.
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Yes, it can be difficult to remember proper framing. It would be nice if all cameras had a setting to display frame border lines for various formats, so you could frame within them, but not record those lines to tape. Either way though, as long as you keep in mind that you are framing for 16:9, shooting full frame and cropping later has advantages.
Something helpful to keep in mind for that is to keep all the eye levels of your cast at about the same level, then even if you have to slide the image up or down to fit what you had in mind into the final picture, it should all fit nicely. This is even more important if you go with a wider screen picture, like the academy 2.35:1 ratio, otherwise you’ll end up having to cut off heads.
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Safe margins are there for TV broadcast. TVs are ‘overscan’ so some of the image (outside the safe area margins) won’t display on a TV. If you’re planning to use the video only on a computer, it should be fine as is. Most projectors too allow you to do ‘underscan’ so you can see the full image. But if you’re intending to show the video on a TV screen, you’d need to adjust it to fit within the margins. The easiest way to do that is to click on the video in the preview monitor, and drag one of the handles inward, which should shrink the entire picture uniformly. Drag it to fit the safe area, and you’ll see the whole picture on the TV, on a computer screen you’ll have a black border around the outside of the image.
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It sounds like the problem is that he can’t even get to the screen to load a project or start a new project. When the initial splash screen comes up, and initializes all the plugins, that’s where it’s crashing. Before the program even really starts.
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I had bad luck with both a seagate and a lacie drive.. The lacie I think was due to a lack of cooling, without a fan in the case after a lot of accessing it gets hot. It’s not my drive, it was something I had borrowed from a friend.. I think the controller was a bit flaky too, because I was only able to access the drive reliably — when I used it — by cracking open the case, and taking the drive out to use with a different controller.
My seagate was a worse situation.. Everything would be chugging along just fine and out of the blue I’d hear a clunk, then get a delayed write error and the system wouldn’t recognize the drive anymore until I cycled the power on the external enclosure. At first it struck me as being a problem with the controller and perhaps my computer, but it turned out the drive itself was bad. Although the SMART data shows it to be fine, it’s got some significant physical problems.
Long story short.. I only use external drives as an absolute last resort. Personally, I loathe them. I’ve had much better luck with internals, and you can always get the hot swap SATA’s, and a case that supports the hot swapping sleds, etc. For whatever reason, internal just works better for me.
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It sounds like you’ve got your project set up for mono sound. You should be able to change that in the project settings, but if you can’t, why not start a new project with the audio set to stereo, and capture in it?
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Ok, so Premiere Pro 2 has never worked on that system for you then.. Hmm. I would guess you might have a corrupt install disk, but you said it worked on a different machine. There has got to be some aspect of your hardware setup that’s not playing nicely with Premiere.
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Well, it shouldn’t, because you’d be working with the same amount of screen area if you expand the full frame to fill the 16:9 frame, it should fit perfectly so the only part outside the frame would be the letterboxed bars.
I just tried it with a video I had onhand and it looked fine.. If you just drag the top (or bottom) middle anchor straight up (or down) it will maintain the aspect ratio and just scale to fill the frame. Since the frame width is the same, when you drag it into the timeline and it shows up with bars on the sides it’s actually scaled down. So scaling to fill the screen brings you back to full resolution. The difference in PAR isn’t really relevent because you’re talking about the same data…
The difference being that rather than shooting anamorphic initially you shot full frame. The benefit to shooting this way, especially if you were to shoot non-letterboxed full frame, and I would recommend shooting without the letterbox in the future, is that you can adjust your framing (vertically) in post on a scene by scene basis (or if you want to add a tilt up/down you could do that during a scene by incorporating motion keyframes)
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Probably because premiere prefers frame accurate video, and mpeg relies on keyframes to keep things in sync. You’d probably do well to convert your mpeg to either DV or uncompressed format before editing it.