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Probably the easiest way would be to export a wav, split it into two mono tracks in an audio editor, and then import those two tracks back into premiere.
I suppose another way to do it would be to make a second copy of the audio track, and pan one all the way left and the other all the way right. You’ll probably have to unlink the audio from the video to go this route.
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It takes advantage of all the processor cores you have available to increase it’s performance, yes. If you’ve got a dual core cpu, it will behave the same as if you had a dual processor machine.
I use an Athlon 64 X2 chip, and it performs beautifully for me. 🙂
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I would have to agree with Harm on this one.. I’ve always had the best results capturing to an internal drive.
USB 1.0 is far to slow to be useful for much of anything other than keyboards and mice. I would not want to use a hard drive on that connection ever. Trying to capture video to it would be highly discouraging.
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To be clear, DV is compressed. If you export to NTSC DV format, it just won’t be compressed more than it was originally. This is good, because the file sizes are the same they would be straight off the tape (more or less) and exporting is relatively speedy, as no compression calculation is involved. Exporting to uncompressed video is really only worthwhile if you’re using something like an mpeg4 or mpeg2 source file, because you wouldn’t want to introduce any other compression during your editing process. Video compression is a vast subject, and there are many differing opinions. Personally, I’ve found the best thing to do is to play with the various settings, and find what works best for me.
As for your other question, I believe whether you do your mpeg2 compression in premiere or in encore is irrelevant.. I’m pretty sure it’s the same encoder. The only advantage would be if you used a third party encoder (like tmpgenc, or Cinema Craft) But Adobe’s is decent, and there are plenty of settings to tweak.
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virtualdub. Preferably the ‘virtualdubMOD’ branch of the program. It supports more file types and has more features.
I would recommend, depending on the length of the clips, and how much drive space you have to work with, exporting to uncompressed video, so you don’t degrade the quality any more than the mpeg4 already is.
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As far as a soft look goes, you might be able to achieve what you’re after with a radial blur set to 1 or 2, and the Luma Curve.. it will probably involve a fair amount of tweaking, but that would be a good place to start. Ideally, if you’re after that look you should probably shoot the footage with a filter on the camera, maybe a Pro-mist or a black mist.
As for the “film look” I assume you mean something like 24p. Film look in and of itself has more to do with lighting and composition than it does with frame rates. If you light your scenes in the manner that you would for film; key, fill, etc.. you’ll be well on your way to achieving a filmic look. For 24p, however, you’ll need to use a third party application or plugin. Magic Bullet will do conversion to 24p (in After Effects, I believe the Premiere plugin only does the ‘look suite’ portion) Also, there’s DVFilm Maker that will convert standard HDV, HD, or NTSC footage to 24p.
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There is no codec for uncompressed video, because it’s not compressed. codec = COmpressor/DECompressor.
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So far as I can tell, from a little searching on various forums, it’s an issue related to start and stop markers. (And primarily only on DVDs with multiple episodes?)
You might want to try exporting an MPEG-2, and burning with a different program. While that’s not the best fix, it would at least be a usable workaround. Apparently Adobe has not yet posted an official workaround method.
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Do you have quicktime pro? If not, you should pick it up, it’s only $30.. Then you can export to uncompressed, or DV from premiere, though if you export to DV format you *might* need to install a codec (The Panasonic DV Codec.. get it here. I needed this to use DV footage with virtualdub, but it might “just work” in QTPro)
Anyway, open the footage in quicktime, and export a quicktime movie. For YouTube, you could do fine with a 360×240 image, use the H.264 codec, and set your bitrate to about 300kbps.. that’ll look nice, and should be fairly smallish in file size.
If you were compressing the full size video I’d suggest using a bitrate of 600-1000 or so… it tends to be more of an art form than a science sometimes though. Play with the compression settings and see what works.
I used 300kbps for this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKhkpKYXmZI and even when they strech it to fit the player window a bit it looks good. Actual size is 360×240.
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Would have to know what format you’re transfering to via SDI, but at the moment..
I’m afraid the loss your experiencing is likely due to color sampling.When you go from DVCPro50 to DV, DVCAM, or even just plain DVCPro you’re moving from 4:2:2 to 4:1:1
Whereas, if you output to DVCPro50, Digital-S, DigiBeta, D-1, or D-5 you’ll stay within the 4:2:2 colorspace, and shouldn’t experience a loss in quality.