Vince Becquiot
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Well, this was discussed a few times, and unfortunately, unless you know someone at Google, the compression you pick isn’t really going to be a science.
There have been reports that WMV uploads were leading to better quality (you’ll have to experiment on this one), but most of the CBS and other “partner video” stuff you see that looks really good is uploaded and compressed through other means than your standard upload.
So, in short, you can either export uncompressed from AE for Windows Media Encoder (which will get you more options), or export to WMV directly from AE. Again, WMV was said to be the option used by some of the director’s better looking videos out there…
Do a quick search in the archives as many people suggested many options.
Vince
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If you figure about a half second per converted picture for batch process in PS, that’s only about 4 hours… not a bad render 😉
Vince
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The splitting will make things much more difficult. If the originals were split as well and lost their original timecode then skip to the last paragraph.
Are you able to put the entire tape on the drive?
If so, then there shouldn’t be any issues importing it. If the problem is with putting the file on the drive, it’s probably because it isn’t formatted to NTFS; it was common for a while for external drives to be FAT formatted.
You definitely want the original timecode so that you can match the IN and OUT from the old clip.
The reason I create a subclip out of the new footage is to create a new clip with exactly the same IN and out as the original. I don’t believe that the old clip can be replaced by that subclip, so an export of that clip from a new sequence is necessary to create an identical file to the original. Then simply tell Premiere to replace th old clip so that you can tell Premiere to replace it.
If the original one was split as well, and you are sure that the original timecode wasn’t kept, then you’ll have to match the 4 clips as close as you can frame by frame, reproducing the IN and OUT for each to match the originals (not for the faint of heart). Then export each one separately and replace the originals with the new export. The best the matching the less you’ll have to fine tune. Since I don’t know what kind of footage it is, it could be easy or quite difficult.
let me know how that goes.
Vince
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Well, let me start by asking if there was any attention made to the original timecode on the tape?
If the footage was batch captured, it should be as easy as replacing the clips in your original project, which some fine tuning at he end.
If these were just straight captures from whole tapes, and the original timecode is there, then my method below will work, but if you have more than 10 separate clips, it’s going to be a real pain.
This is what I would do, understanding that someone may have an easier way out of this.
First save your project for back up.
Import the new first captured clip in your old project, keeping the old captures as well.
Double click on your old footage from the first tape to bring it to the source window. Note the timecode In and Out down.
Now, bring the new footage from the first tape in the source window. Make In and Out points that match the old one.
Right click on the source window and choose make subclip. Now, create a new sequence, drag the subclip to it, and export to AVI. You should then be able to right clip on your old clip and replace it with the new one.
Repeat for all other captures.
Vince
What about just replacing the footage with the new capture in your project?
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Just out of curiosity, why are you using this workflow and not uncompressed AVI.
Vince
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Blast is probably right about that, I do use external hard drives quite often when I’m on a laptop. External SATA drives are the way to go, but a nice buffer size should solve that issue, do you happen to know what it is on your drive?
I have an external IDE drive with a 32 MB buffer and no problems of that sort, the render time are actually about the same as well.
Vince
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Dump your preferences holding Ctrl+Shift at start up, if that doesn’t work a new install may be required.
Vince
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Is it just with one particular project or with any video files ?
Vince
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Actually, it is only on the Production Studio Steven: https://www.adobe.com/products/productionstudio/dynamiclink.html
I found out the hard way doing a last minute change on someone else’ s laptop.Cheers,
Vince
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https://www.archive.org/ is actually a great site and still growing, some of the footage is pretty compressed, but if it’s a small segment, quality may not be such an issue as I am guessing it probably is older footage as well. Do export uncompressed however.
Vince