[Tim Robinson]

You mean m2t? First, why do you want to export to the m2t format?
Second, the only plugin I know of that lets you export to m2t from premiere is cineform prospect HD codec.

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[Tim Robinson]

m2t files are supported by premiere, no matter what hardware you have.

Does the audio go out of sync over time?? The longer the clip the more out of sync?

What are the project settings, specifically the frame rate?
What type of camera are you shooting with? (I have a DR-HD100 with a JVC-GYHD110U and had audio sync issues when putting 24p files in a 30p project)

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[Tim Robinson]

I’m going out on a limb here… It could be that this “jumping” has nothing to do with your settings and may have everything to do with the codec used in your footage. Sounds to me that premiere can play it back on the timeline fine, but when you export it, it has no idea how to handle frames.

First, try exporting the footage as just a simple mpg1 or mov file with animation. If that still has the “jumps”…. try converting some of the footage and replacing the clips in the project (try with 1 clip first and test).

Do you have CS4 or CS3?
Also what are your project settings? DV PAL 25fps (for example)?

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You’ve got to think about what the DVD can hold (more video) vs the playback speed your DVD can handle (resulting in higher quality).

There’s threads on here that talk about max CBR/VBR rates. From my POV, when you start going below 3mbs, it starts to get lossy. If you can crank it to 6-7, it’s great. Anything higher than 8, your DVD risks the chance of not playing back smoothly on all DVD players.

Premiere will show you how much estimated space it will take up. You can also try compressing your audio in mpg, instead of using uncompressed PCM audio.

Even if premiere estimates it would be under the DVD size, with menus the DVD could still be slightly larger than the estimate. (more menus/more graphics, less space)

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Have you tried exporting your videos in progressive format? Most standard TV’s and DVD players show progressive formatted DVDs without issue. But most high def flat screens (which are native progressive) show “interlaced” video like junk (since it’s trying to convert it to progressive.. which more often than not ends up making it look blurry close up)

Also how close are you viewing the TV? Of course a higher quality TV will bring out more of the “detail” of a standard DVD. If your only a foot or two away, it will look blocky. 6-10 feet, it may look fine.

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You shoot either extreme close-up shots of people’s faces or you put your camera far back and zoom in to get depth-of-field. Just write a simple release. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just something to cover you. If the person makes a big enough stink about using them later, you most likely don’t want to use them anyway!

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I don’t know of a plugin that would do that in premiere, but to me it seems like an expression in After Effects would do the trick for you!

Create a text layer in a new comp.

Then drag the expression “Frame Number” from your presets and apply to your text layer.

Expand down text, source text and ALT-CLICK on the stop watch for the expression “Timetoframes()” and change it to “(Timetoframes())*2” this will then do exactly what you described above.

If you don’t want to do it over your footage inside of after effects, you can just make the stand alone counter in a blank comp created to any time/length you want and then export the counter with an alpha channel to use it over your footage in premiere.

Here’s a screen grab…
fast-speeds.jpg

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For me the JVC-GY110U has been a great camera. It’s in the same family as the JVC you listed above. If I was buying a camera now, I’d buy that one in a heartbeat!!

From the cameras you listed, yes the Panasonic is nice, but P2 is a waste of money.

The Sony looks like a wedding videographer camera to me. Also I don’t like Sony’s because they’re HDV is interlaced! 1080i! While it’s “1080” it’s only shooting 540 lines at a time, unlike the JVC that shoots progressive!

Also the JVC and it’s cheap SD card usage is amazing.

I have a HDV deck but I never use it.

Copying media files (instead of digitizing tape) is a real time saver. It’s also CHEAPER than tape for the amount of storage you get!

I love JVC’s full size detectable lenses are a BIG plus!

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[Tim Robinson]

I’m going to take a guess here, your not working in a DV project are you? (HD sized maybe?)

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Damn those “HD” handhelds!!! Can you get your hands on the software to do the conversion yourself? What type of camera is it?

We came into this same problem with a JVC “HD” mini handheld. It records its own file format that no program could read. However if we renamed the file to sometime like “.mpg” premiere could read it.

Try renaming it to .avi and .mpg if that’s the issue with “weird” file formats.

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