Vince Becquiot
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I’ve done quite a few subtitling jobs for DVD’s, and I can tell you that none of them ever involved an editing application, unless you have a few months with nothing to do and a lot of patience 😉
As you guessed, with Premiere you’ll have to generate alpha with text images from your subtitler, overlay them on the video, and of course it’s permanent. Encore has a built in subtitler, but it’s really slow as well…
The best way to do it is with a hardware based system, these are really expensive…
The way I do it involves a subtitling application, the one you are using is probably fine, and a DVD authoring program that will support the subtitling format you are working in. That format is usually in the following text form:
‘Timecode in’ – ‘Timecode out’ – “subtitle”
Other settings will involve color, drop shadow, font, and size.
In my experience, Encore isn’t the best here since I think it only supports one format, anyway it wasn’t the one my subtitler was using.
If you have something like Sonic Scenarist, the you are probably home free.
BTW, I forgot the name of the one I was using (hopefully it’ll come back and I’ll post it), but you really need something that will take your script and automatically converts it to a subtitle format so that you only have to make minor adjustments.
Good luck,
Vince
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I understand the issue, and I don’t think there is an solution here on DV export, but why export as DV AVI if you are going to Digibeta ? It seems that compressing at 5:1 would defeat the whole purpose of using a final 2:1 output such as Digibeta. Most of the other export options, including uncompressed AVI will allow you to change your frame settings. Forgive me if I am missing something in your workflow…
Vince
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If you are really going to go with the progressive option, just make sure that every step of the encoding is progressive, but going through AVI uncompressed shouldn’t make a difference.
I honestly only use progressive when I work in HD, and never when I go to DVD because of other issues that I’ve noticed with some cheaper players such as jittering and artifacts, so maybe someone else can confirm that working with progressive in a DV NTSC project doesn’t affect things in your final render.
Your settings should also be set to progressive in your Mainconcept settings.
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Got it… yep no waveform there. But I would really encourage you to reconcider the upgrade, I think you might be amazed at the amount of improvement over 6.5 (Couldn’t list them all in one post)
Couldn’t you just import your time lapse image sequence in Premiere Pro ? That’s how I’ve done it and it usually works flawlessly, or are you creating a timelapse from a video.
Regarding the brightness issue, it could have been a 6.5 issue, but believe me, looking back, there were plenty of much more annoying things than that, just try pulling a smooth image pan or zoom as an example 😉
Cheers,
Vince
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>>>”another question raise up for me, if i have a Title, can’t i just copy and paste and do some changes to the duplicated >>>Title while the initial Title remain unchange ? that’s mean i need the “save as” function, or else i end up with pressing >>>F9 everytime to create a new title.”
I’m using 2.0, not sure what version you are using.
If you duplicate the title, changes to the new title will only be reflected on the new title, or maybe I am misunderstanding you question…
>>>”PP: when i drag the video track from track 1 to others track, the audio clip remain in audio track 1, is there anyway to >>>let the audio track follow the video track ?
>>>I don’t believe so, but this has it’s advantages. Say you want to keep the nats from all you B-roll clips on the same track >>>but in some cases the video needs to be on Video track 2 or 3, etc. So I don’t count this as a negative in PP”In theory, you should not have to move the audio to another track from where you first placed it, since the track doesn’t affect audio in the timeline, and it should remain where it was when you move the video to another track.
Just to confirm the right workflow: Set your in/out points in the source window, select the video/audio target tracks, then hit “.” and everything will land where they should. You really rarely should need to move things between tracks if you planned it right.
>>>”i do some tv programes, so is there any function to set the timecode bar in PP ? i can see a ‘ Timecode’ in the File tab, >>>wat is it for ?”
Do you mean alter the timecode ? You can set a zero point anywhere in the timeline. Use the small arrow at the top right of the timeline.
>>>”and what is the function of ‘Revert ‘”
Right click on a clip and select speed/duration.
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Sure should reflect the rest of the display, as well as your video.
What version of Premiere are we talking about ? Also, if you change the monitor to waveform and uncheck Chroma, how many IRE’s are you getting on average?
Vince
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BTW, are they working in a DV NTSC or a DV 24P project ?
Vince
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I’m gonna take a wild stab at this…
DV in a Premiere project is an intermediate codec, and unless I’m mistaken, your timeline is converted to interlaced, but your final output always depends on what rendering settings you are using.
Now, anytime you are putting progressive on a DVD you are always taking somewhat of a chance that the DVD player will have some issues converting it back to interlaced, if the player itself isn’t progressive, so I have a feeling that it has more to do with the player than the projector.
Vince
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Deselect default scale to frame size in your preferences.
Vince
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I would do it all in Encore. Just assign chapter points in Encore. Vob1_… Chapter 1, VOB2_… Chapter 2, or use the Encore timeline, but I always found that it’s sketchy when it comes to joining files.
If you need to modify the files at all other than their length (which you can also do in Encore), you’ll have to use Premiere and you will have to re-compress them.
Cheers,
Vince