Vince Becquiot
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Well you could use a black video matte. Under “new”
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If you are trying to add cross dissolves between a still and a video:
Place your 2 clips side by side, then put your CTI (current time indicator cursor) on or very near the cut between the two clips (you can hold the shift key while dragging to make the CTI snap to that cut), make sure that the track is selected by clicking on the name of the track next to the “eye”, then just hit Ctr+D, that’s the shortcut for the default transition which is a cross dissolve.
Vince
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Well, you won’t be able to just drag the Mpeg2, or M2V files right into the DVD folder because these files need to be “muxed” into a .VOB file that a DVD player will be able to read.
You best bet, if Nero doesn’t like those files (You should by the way see a VIDEO_TS and a AUDIO_TS folder in Nero, otherwise you may not be inside an actual video DVD project)
Here is one free DVD authoring app that you may want to take a look at. I haven’t used it myself, but I know a few people who do use it and seem pretty happy with it 😉
https://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/shots.html
Otherwise, you know that you CAN design menus and burn directly from Premiere Pro, using templates; you should take a look at the help file, that may be just what you need, although I’m not sure of the features included in PP1.
Good luck,
Vince
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Are your mixer meters hitting the red ?
Vince
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If you are planning on setting menus with links to different areas in your footage, you can:
1- Use chapter points in Encore and link throughout your footage.
2- Create several sequences in Premiere and export separately as Harm mentioned.
That will allow you to have fade in and outs, etc.
One thing to consider: If you are worried about best possible quality, you have to keep in mind that exporting to DV may recompress your footage if you have effects applied to it and it will always recompress any images, animation. Heavy DV compression doesn’t pair up with DVD compression very well.
If you have the room on your hardrive (200 Gigs+), you should export uncompressed, and then re-import in Encore and set the encoding to automatic.
You can also make use of a bit rate calculator (Google up…) and export using the Adobe Media Encoder and choose Mpeg2 DVD. Again, here you will have to calculate the space requirement for your footage, but you will skip the uncompressed render.
Vince
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It really depends on the version of Premiere you are using. Forget about Nero, it’s nonsense as far as Video DVD burning 😉
On the newer versions of Premiere you can choose export to DVD, and burn directly, or just create a DVD folder that you can usually drag to the DVD.
BTW, an mpeg2 file should include the audio as part of its stream, which may or may not be burned using Nero, depending on the vesion you have… and the time of the day…
If it’s an M2V file, then you should also have a separate audio file.
Many of us do use DVD authoring software such Adobe Encore, etc. for more complex menus.
Vince
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This is probably what is happening… When using an external hardrive, you have to make sure that the same letter is assigned everytime you plug it it. (There are different ways to do that, and I would do a quick search in the archives for that one)
When you select the first clip, Premiere will look in that folder to see if any of the other clips are there as well, and add them automatically.
So, when you save a project, the letter corresponding to the drive where your project footage is saved, is indexed, so even if your project is in the same folder as the files, Premiere will always link the files to the drive letter, then to the folder.
Vince
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Nope, it’ll still be working as one drive as far as file access goes.
I usually use the “best” drive for the operating system alone. Everything media / capture or the second or even third drive.
Vince
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Ha, I would go download a free application called gspot. It will tell you what codec was used for the file, then we may be able to give you more options.
Vince
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Ken,
I have actually recommended the ATI all in wonder to those who are editing for a hobby, it’s a great and cheap way to do it.
But if you try to capture from professionally shot Beta tape, I dare you to compare footages with those of say, an AJA capture capture 😉
That said, everyone has different expectations, and in the end, it seems that the client will usually have the last word…
Vince