Vince Becquiot
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[Grant Paque] “As far as taking the HDV timeline and putting it into a DV timeline and leaving the letterbox, would you suggest importing the HDV sequence into the DV timeline or would you suggest importing the individual HDV timeline elements (essentially a copy + paste) into the DV timeline? How would Scale to Frame Size effect each?”
You would create a new DV timeline, then drag the HD timeline into it (Creating a single nested clip), you only have to resize once.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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On your first question:
It is possible that your issue is caused by a third party filter (try exporting with no filters at all), or a corrupted application. I would also make sure that you have all the latest updates.
I also noticed that you are exporting a 4:3 avi from a 16:9 sequence. You are essentially squeezing your footage (not pretty).
If the station want 4:3, you would be better off importing your current finished timeline into a new 4:3 DV timeline, then resize using either pan & scan, or leaving letterbox bars on top and bottom. That may also resolve your stalling export issue with AME that way, who knows…
On your side question:
You don’t need to use Maximum Quality in your previews, unless you need an accurate high quality preview. This will not affect your export unless you choose to use your preview files for export.
You should however use Maximum Quality at export time since you are down converting, and that will give you better scaling quality.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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HD footage will need to be rendered on some machines, it all depends on how much processing you have on board.
A wrong frame rate could also be the culprit, many consumer cameras shoot 24p by default, so make sure you working in a matching timeline.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Felix,
If you have CS5, the easiest option is to drag the footage into the new sequence icon (at the bottom of the project panel), that will create a sequence matching your footage.
For previous versions, you can create a desktop sequence under the “General” tab and pick your settings manually. In the case of the 7D, it will likely be 1920×1080 (square / PAR 1.0), and 24P or 30P.
For export, it will depend on where the footage is going. If this is for YouTube, you could start with H.264 at 1920×1080 (Square PAR) and at a bit rate of 12 Mb/s VBR 2 pass, or CBR for quicker render.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Niko,
In that case, all you are doing is exporting the source clip.
Using the shortcuts alt+[ and alt+] in your timeline, you will be able to easily add work area in / out points and send that portion to render queue as you go.
Cheers,
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Hi Vincent,
You only need need to import files from the video folder in your Contents folder.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Hi Kevin,
What type of sound card are you using? Is this a stereo sequence?
Also, check your audio output mapping in your preference and make sure that it is set to the correct output.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Piotr,
[Piotr Niewinski] “1. Try to work with sequence of files, f.e. with TGA sequence. When you put it on timeline you should render preview – especially in HD, and in CS3 it goes (on my system) about 10-15 frames per second – it is fast. In CS5 it goes about 1 frame per second – it is horrible slow. I tried different formats, different sequence and preview settings – everything – always slow in CS3 always fast. Why? CS5 is horrible fast with stream video like AVI or MOV, but what about sequences?”
You haven’t mentioned your system specs, I do have to render as well for a completely smooth playback (I get about 20 fps on our i7 machine,no CUDA card), but my guess is the Mercury engine would solve that. TGA sequences are quite a bit different from AVIs.
[Piotr Niewinski] “2. Where adobe took from such strange pixel aspect of PAL – 1.094 ???
What a shit! I’ve never seen such thing, PAL aspect is 1.066 or 1/1.066 as you wish. It is not possible to correctly work with PAL in CS5. You cannot change/set pixel aspect to be proper. Hopefully most of projects are HD nowadays. But when you try to downscale HD to PAL in CS5 you take a shit!”It is not incorrect. I believe up to CS3, they used to use NLE PAR, it now uses ITU.
https://www.sciencemedianetwork.org/wiki/Tutorials/Video/Pixel_Aspect_Ratio
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Mike,
While Premiere only supports AVI, programs like OnLocation will let you wrap to Mov or AVI. Wrapping here is key, since it does not actually make any changes to the original footage during transfer, and so the size is directly related to the original tape format. For example, an hour from a standard DV tape is always around 10 Gb.
To make them smaller, you would have reduce the quality from the originals through compression. This also is rarely handled in real time, since it takes a lot of processing.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Got it,
Well, you could try creating a shared folder on the network drive, then mounting it as your scratch disk?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area