[Tobias Andersen]

I tried to crop my video a bit in the top and bottom since I was having small black bars on the left and right in the render from Premiere – this also removed the colored lines! 🙂 I am not 100% sure if my calculation on how many pixels I need to cut away is correct – but since the pixel aspect ratio in premiere for PAL widescreen is 1,458 and the resolution is 720*576, this should result in a display aspect ratio of 1,8225 (720/576*1,458) so to make my source match this I found I needed to remove 26,5 pixels in the vertical resolution – so either 13 or 14 in top and bottom – and 13 seems to work. Does this sound resonable? 🙂

I’m also thinking I should use CBR encoding and a bitrate of 7 Mbps since my clip is so short anyways – but to me there isn’t much of a difference between this and the default VBR 2 pass settings with min bitrate 2.8, target 5 and Max 7 Mbps – do you think one of these settings is better than the other in terms of playback compatibility?

Finally, I’m a little unsure about the settings for the audio – the audio isn’t really important so I was thinking to use Dolby Digital 128kbps – though I often see PCM mentioned – does this choice have an influence on the compatibility?

I hope that’s not too many questions, I appreciate everyone’s help very much 🙂

Conrad: I agree, it looks much better on Vimeo and I do generally send through a link, but actually quite a few of the companies that I intend to apply to ask for a DVD, so I better make one that looks as good as possible 🙂

[Tobias Andersen]

I’m making a PAL DVD.

[Tobias Andersen]

Yes I’m creating 25fps from 24fps – I assumed it was best to use 25fps for the DVD?

I tried to add an empty title in a new video track for the entire sequence, but I’m still seeing this colored line 🙁

It doesn’t do this when I render out an h264 mp4 file.

Do you have any other ideas on how to fix the issue?

edit:

I just tried to render PAL 4:3 instead of widescreen and now I don’t get the lines – could that explain anything?

[Tobias Andersen]

Many thanks for your replies 🙂

Ayyappadas: I’m not entirely sure why I need to make a new sequence? Couldn’t I just tick the frame blending? I will do some testing with that.

Gabriel: I will try it out – though I prefer to keep it simple and just render out a file from Premiere which I can then use in Encore – I feel more comfortable doing it this way, if I can get it to work 🙂

John: I have been thinking about it as I think it’s a shame if my work is only going to be seen in SD (it can be seen in HD online though) – I will consider that – thanks 🙂

[Tobias Andersen]

Hi again – I would very much appreciate if you could help me a bit more with the render settings in Premiere 🙂

I am having some issues with the render – a thin colored bar is showing up for a few seconds in the right side of the image (it does this in the end and beginning of the clip). The playback also seems just a little bit choppy, but not much (haven’t tried to burn to a DVD yet though).

I am not sure if I am using the right render settings in Premiere.

You can see my render settings here: premierepro-export-settings.jpg

Also, my stuff is at 24 fps, but I assume it’s best to leave it at the default 25 fps for PAL?

[Tobias Andersen]

Thanks a lot, I will try it out 🙂

[Tobias Andersen]

I can render out any format from my project in Premiere Pro (where I am working with sequences of tga images) – which format would you recommend?

I know I could probably send it directly to Encore from Premiere Pro, but I like to keep it simple and render to a file that I can then import in Encore 🙂

[Tobias Andersen]

Thanks for your reply 🙂 I think I will go and order those. You mention the bitrate should be below 7.7, I assume that’s also the case even though it’s a very small sequence I’m going to put there (about 2-3 minutes)?

Do you have any other things I should do to ensure compatibility? The clip I’m putting there is a mp4 file that I imported to Encore and then I make the iso from here.

[Tobias Andersen]

Hi, thanks for your replies everyone 🙂

John: Yeah I did try to decrease the sharpness all the way down – and contrast too – it may have helped a little but it’s still very noticeable in this particular scene. Also I think it makes the footage quite blurry, but I guess that could be fixed in post, though sharp footage is technically better for me as I am going to use it for 3D tracking. But I don’t know exactly what the sharpness setting does – like in which ways it is different from sharpening the footage in post?

Bob: I will definitely experiment with decreasing the depth of field and get a better feel for how much I will have in focus for different f-stops 🙂 You say that at 1/2000 shutter speed the image doesn’t suffer significantly at f5.6 – but are those two related? I mean, shouldn’t a fast shutter speed have the same impact on motion blur no matter what the f-stop is?

Brent: I think that getting a mk3 is going to be a little too expensive right now 😀 But it definitely looks like it has some nice improvements on the video side, it seems like it should reduce the rolling shutter artifact too.

[Tobias Andersen]

Thanks for your input – Do you think I can reduce the problem in any way? Any settings?