Tim Robinson
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When you create a new file in photoshop, you can size your canvas to match Premiere. 720 x 480, resolution 72 and when click the advanced arrow expansion and under “pixel aspect ratio” you can select D1/DV NTSC .91. Now this is basically a preview, so if you export as a JPG, it will go to square pixels (1.0)… but you can always resize your graphics to “640 x 480” to get them to 1.0 and display right on a computer monitor.
As for your .wmv or quicktime playback… that’s fine, but if it’s quicktime, it will be a large file. I would compare WMV to MPEG 1. MPEG 1 is more universal. If you don’t have a windows media player or quicktime movie player on the machine, the person will be out of luck depending on the format you output. MPEG 1 (.mpg) files are universal (for the most part) and playback on most every player!
You don’t need to create two separate projects. Just export through media encoder based on your output. (Once for DVD, a second time for MPEG 1). When you setup your playback for the PC, try and export as large as possiable at the max size that works for you. I always try to push DVD playback on PC’s because the quality is the best!
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.MOV is just a header. The codec is internal. For example it could be a quicktime .MOV file with the “animation” codec.
Open the file up in quick time and click on window/show movie inspector. What you see in there under format??
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Your indexes should be in your cache folder. Look under preferences/media and you should see the locations listed there.
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Does this clip do this when you put it in a brand new project all by itself?
It sounds like the clip itself is corrupted (in the file structure) to me.
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10 hours????
How big is the project? How long is the video? What export settings did you use? CBR or VBR?
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You don’t NEED to edit in a DV widescreen project. If you export your HD widescreen project to “MPEG2-DVD” media encoder will convert it to the correct size (just make sure you chose either widescreen or standard based on what you want to do)
No matter what you chose a “DVD” will never be “HD” no matter how you format it in premiere. It will either be widescreen or standard and in SD. How you set it up in media encoder to export to encore matters! The only way to get HD discs is with BluRay.
ITS UP TO THE DVD PLAYER’S SETTINGS which determines how the video displays…. either letterboxed or full screen (with the wings cut off) Most DVD players I’ve seen today will letterbox because most all your home movies are letterboxed.
You can also import your entire project/timelines into a new project, then resize.
“Upconverting” is a fancy marketing term. All it means is that the DVD player SCALES the footage to match the display. It processes the video playback so to make SD look better on HDTV’s.
My suggestion is to play it safe and edit your footage for HDTV, but don’t worry about the wings. Make sure all your graphics/text and important footage fits in your 4:3 safe area. That way your safe all around.
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When you say “highest quality settings” what do you mean, are you using presets? The default in Premiere for “high” uses variable bit rates, instead of constant. If it’s a small project with static images, you should try constant bit rates and go with the highest quality possible. To do that in CS4 in the premiere exporter, click the double arrow button near export video / audio (greyd out device central) for detailed tabs to appear (why it’s now hidden by default, I don’t know). Under the video tab turn quality up to 5 and down under bitrate settings click the drop-down by bitrate encoding and pick CBR. Anything around 5-6-7 Mbps should be good.
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There really is no perfect way to fill the “HD WINGS”. Here’s what most people try…
You can fill with an animated background (popular for the network newscasts) or static background
(favorite of ESPN to highlight your watching them in “ESPN HD”, but often this just highlights the space.You can zoom in (video effects/motion/scale… if in 720 198% is about right) and then move your footage position (2nd # is for Y and is default at 360… up the number to slide the clip down, lower the number to slide it higher… if you click and hold over the numbers you can slide your mouse right-left to change it and watch the preview to get it just right)
Often when I zoom in I move my footage down to allow for clear head room on the model.If your footage is framed too tight and you don’t want to “cut off” anything you can try one of these two things…
Just a simple zoom and leave the black space. It gives the footage an archive feel now-a-days.
A popular style now is the blur fill.
This is a great way to fill with the same colors of the footage. Often if the background is generic enough, you won’t even notice (white walls or a grassy field).To do this just duplicate your video footage on the timeline, stacking the clips. Zoom the motion of the top clip to fit to the top and bottom of the frame. Then take the background clip, zoom in to fill the rest of the HD “wings”, then use a blur (like fast blur) to fill the space. (If you’ve already edited your timeline, just copy all and paste right above then copy/paste your effects to each clip below). You can play around with it to get it even more less noticeable (more zoom, more blur)
A couple more things you can try to smooth out the footage…
If your SD is interlaced and your HD is progressive (most are) then you can right click on your clips and click on field options… you can try either “flicker removal” or “always interlace”. For me flicker removal is cleaner. Also you may want to see what frame blending does, if your using SD in an HD project, it shouldn’t matter if “flicker removal” is checked. If your using HD in SD, it might if your HD has slower frame rates. Its default on. If your shutter speed is FAST and your HD project is slow (24p?) It may make everything very blurry. (To turn off right click on clip and click “frame blending” to turn off. If you right click again, the checkmark will be gone).Hope this helps!
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I have CS4 so there is no ImporterFastMpeg.prm file.
Also I didn’t rename anything.I deleted all my index and peak files. As well as preferences and disk cache. That seemed to do the trick
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Tried it… media is still pending forever.
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