[Trevor Osborn]

I tried the desktop to my other drives. I deleted some codecs and got it to 99.9% then it created a dat file, i then converted it back to mov and it seems to play fine… I think Premiere hates different codecs, i cant export as wmv at all now!

[Trevor Osborn]

That really sucks, you cant even get a good H264 compression choosing QT, mine crashes everything too. One thing I am doing a lot now is exporting to SWF, i need it to be saved in flash 8 and have an end of action script to make it play once. Im having all sorts of issues with it being stretched to full screen and having bars of white or black in it. Exporting as a QT from AE then taking it into flash is proving time consuming and not to sure if it is worth the job at the moment…

I hope after effects can get a plug in for this as I really dont want to work in flash!!!

Anyone know of any tips for this type of work?

[Trevor Osborn]

Awesome thanks for that, I didn’t quite understand where to purge. I ended up exporting 3 files for the 60second project and edited it back in Premiere, but will re try with a new purge setting and 40% Ram cache.

I am about to upgrade from CS3 to CS4 as I now am using a Sony EX1. I hear CS3.2 should work fine too. Kind of not sure what is the most stable editing platform for HD if you don’t have external hardware. Might help my after effects problems too getting some though. At the moment CS3 isn’t liking my EX1 no matter what i do in the clip browser or the other codec’s. It murders my sweet HD footage in compression. Anyway that’s another forum i guess.

Thanks again Kev!

[Trevor Osborn]

Thanks for that, unlucky for me it still wont export. I thought I had it when I precomposed every element, but when I used the same settings again to export the blue render bar runs to the end and nothing gets rendered or I get an error saying cant render a buffer image and crashes.

Might have to try the re install…

[Trevor Osborn]

Thanks for getting back so quick,

I have been braking up all the segments but it will take me 100 years to complete the job.

I have not tried converting the footage yet, but as the rest of my premiere project is in hdv 1440 x 1080 it could be an issue.

Those settings didn’t help unfortunately, is there anything else like – prevent DLL or the open GL render settings. I think I have tried them all so it might be a case of converting the footage in the end…. unless a miracle happens!

Also what setting with HDV would you recommend for producing DVD’s and which settings and format for television?
I worked in Australia making TVC’s for year and we just used AVID DV25, shot everything on digi beta and it looked pretty good but no 1:1.

Thanks,

Trevor

[Trevor Osborn]

OK the new problem I found, that I captured in Premiere CS3 in a HDV project but could only capture in DV – I then made a DV project and imported the footage from the HDV project into it. The size is fine, picture is grainy and jitters every second, and audio is out of sync.

Any tips on what I should do I what programs would be better to do it in?

Cheers,

Trev

[Trevor Osborn]

Yeah I have just learned that you can have 720 x 576 as 16:9. But what I don’t understand is why it wont play on my 1 chip Sony. The tape is DV/HDV. Well you learn from your mistakes I guess, will this size still come out crisp on DVD? Just to anyone new to shooting HDV check to make sure your camera isn’t on auto!

[Trevor Osborn]

I’ve been having similar problems with footage I filmed recently. I have been trying to de interlace it but it does not seem to make much difference…

I shot stuff with a sony Z1 the other day thinking it was on HDV, but it was on auto and shot in what i think is DV but it wont show up in a normal DVcan thus making me think it was HDV still… I opened a 1080p 50i project in Permiere CS3 and the only way I could capture was in DV.

Here is what the properties say about the file:

Type: AVI Movie
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 720
Frame Rate: 25.00
Average Data Rate: 3.6 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.422

Interleave: 1 : 24.26

Video track 1:
Size is 126.61M bytes (average frame = 148.12K bytes)
There are 922 keyframes.
Frame rate is 25.00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.

My question now is how can I make this look good quality for DVD? I opened a 1024 x 576 project but exporting frames of this still leaves it looking 4×3.

Any tips would be great!

Trev not so smart 🙁