Vince Becquiot
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[Frits Hoeksttra] “Can you explain why the quality, when chosen for DV PAL is better on the final DVD (made with Encore), compared to when chosen for example the XDCAM EX sequence setting. In this setting you see more ‘moiree’.”
This is because you weren’t scaling down to fit the frame. When you create an HD sequence Encore does the scaling to fit the DVD frame.
Make sure you choose Maximum Quality for your encoding as it will affect scaling quality. That will also make the encode quite a bit longer…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Frits,
You are dealing with HD footage.
Your best option is to edit in HD, creating a new AVCHD sequence, then exporting as Mpeg 2 DVD, or to Encore via Dynamic Link.
In CS5, you can also drag one of the files to the “New Sequence” icon at the bottom of the project panel, that will create a sequence matching your footage
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Well, this is the way I do it in Premiere… it’s free.
First, you’ll need the file I attached, or create your own in Photoshop.
For the setup:
1- Put the heart shape file on your top layer.
2- Put the clip you want to “transition to” below that
3- Put the clip you want to transition “from” below both of them.
4- Apply the “Track Matte Key” to the clip your are transitioning to
5- In the effects settings, set Matte to the heart shape layer (top layer), and set the composite to Matte Luma.
Now all you have to so and animate to scale of the heart shape layer to create the transition.
You could create a few hearts of different shape in Photoshop to make things more interesting.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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As long as a monitor is set as extended, it should show up in your Premiere playback settings. If you have several extended monitors, you will then have a list to choose from.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Hi Jan,
Yes, you can use a dual head graphics card, set the second monitor as extended in Windows, and it will appear in the list of full screen playback monitors in Premiere’s playback options.
Keep in mind that the ATI card will not be able to take advantage of the new Mercury Playback Engine that comes with Premiere CS5.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Is your final export going to be 16:9 with 2.35 letterbox?
If so, just put the file attached on your top layer all along your timeline to mask the extra footage.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi John,
I would recommend XP for CS3, it was created way before the Windows 7 days, and it was designed for it, there were in fact some compatibilities issues even with Vista.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi James,
If you are seeing small bars, you are likely seeing it in the overscan area, and that’s normal, part of the PAR conversion.
If you need a perfect screen fill, you can either resize inside a PAL timeline, or use the crop settings above the export preview
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Jason,
I don’t think that you will find a 1080P broadcast monitor, or anything close for $600.00, not yet at least.
If all you are looking for is a monitor, take a look at the HP DreamColor, they start at around $1000.00
There was a review on the Cow for this a while back as well.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
You could try dropping all your files in the Adobe Media Encoder app and convert to Quicktime motion jpeg. There is always the option to replace the footage with the original when you are done with the edit, so in that case you could even go with H.264.
How many files are we talking about?
As far as the capabilities of Premiere in playing back ProRes, my guess is the Apple /Adobe cooperation on this couldn’t have been that great, but that’s just a guess.
After all, Prores is the playback engine in FCP, so I’m sure the Adobe implementation is more likely restricted.
Maybe Todd could shine in on that one.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area