[Tim Kolb]

[Steven L. Gotz] “And video is the way you shot it. So what is so terrible about showing people what you shot? If you want it to look like film, use film”

Old argument. Couldn’t agree more. I guess it’s just the way most look at what is “high end”.

The DVX100A is a beautiful little camera, but what made it sell was the 24p, which unfortunately in many cases in NTSC land just meant that 20% less poorly lit and shot footage was committed to tape every second. Many users thought that 24p fixed everything.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

Have you tried rendering an AVI? Perhaps the QT file isn’t interpreting properly?

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

Put the work area bar over the area you want to measure and simply hover the cursor over the work area bar and it will give you the start, end, and duration.

Every version of PPro has had this feature…I don’t recall whether it was on Premiere or not, but I suspect it was…

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

I think Steven hit it on the head. Most of the traits you seek are achieved in the camera, not the editing system.

Proper lighting, exposure, depth of field, etc have far more to do with the “film look” than the frame rate does. Film doesn’t run “slowed down” as you suggest, but it does have less frames per second than NTSC video does.

There are cameras that will simulate this 24 frame per second look, but again, unless you’ve got a handle on the camera techniques in the first place, I doubt you’ll be satisfied with the result.

…there’s a reason why cinematographers accumulate experience and education to accel in their craft.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

The manual is part of the software product and selling it is “parting out” the product, not to mention if the manual is available like that, it makes hacking the software more viable.

I would pull the manual back and sell it with the software unless you plan on upgrading, then you would need to keep it.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

Just so we’re clear…I’m not going into a hired position…I’m moving my business into another facility and sub-letting space…also looking forward to a certain intra-building “synergy” if you will.

Everything like this is rolling the dice of course, but I have clients with work and I need a place to put my stuff…

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

You should have a plugin called “Steady Move” on your PPro install disk. It’s a freebie image stabilization tool that functions pretty well in my experience…otherwise After Effects is obviously very good in this department.

As far as HDV goes…many would say that, from an image quality point of view, PPro handles HDV better than Apple and Avid as they both handle HDV natively, but editing HDV native can be problematic as the quality will certainly drop. Both Apple and Avid have intermediate codecs to convert HDV to…but DVC Pro on the Mac and DNxHD on Avid are both still a step behind the CineForm HD codec for image quality.

I use CineForm’s full version of Aspect HD for editing HDV originated material. The CineForm codec (included in PPro 1.5.1) is very high quality and the Aspect software speeds the process quite a bit with very nimble playback capability…even when you’re editing HD on an external FW drive.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

First, USB2 will handle DV…most of the time, but your files are bigger with PPro 1.5.1. While HDV is technically the same data footprint as DV, once the HDV is captured with PPro, it’s converted to CineForm HD codec, which is a better codec to maintain image quality than MPEG-based HDV, but the files are larger.

While USB2 technically “peaks” a bit higher than FireWire, for sustained data rate, USB2 frequently proves to be more erratic in sustained data rate than FireWire.

You may want to try a FireWire drive for this application.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

In my experience, I’ve hired far to soon and too often.

Other than that, I would recommend hiring during steady growth…for an explosion you need subconractors. Explosions are intense…and big…and over quickly. Plus training and breaking in a new employee while your workload is exploding will sap more time from you than it will free up initially.

…then after the explosion, you’re left with another mouth to feed…

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Tim Kolb]

My first guess would be that the same typeface doesn’t exist on the new system. Double check the font list on the original machine and make sure the new machine has it.

…if you don’t have the original machine and you don’t remember what the typeface was…I’m afraid your only option is probably to redo the titles.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net