Vince Becquiot
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Hi Zip,
Well, regarding the Firewire “input only” that really doesn’t make much sense to me. Unless it’s an HP thing…
Yes, you can buy a cheap firewire card (Also called IEEE 1394). It a PCI Card, so you do need an empty PCI slot available on the mother board.
That card should be under 20 bucks, at circuit city, best buy, CompUSA, etc.> Am i right in understanding that the ntsc/reference composite video out is only accessed thru the dv port in premiere?
Yes, and if you think about it, a lot would have to be done to get that signal to thje Svideo Port. Premiere doesn’t really provide a composite signal, but a DV format, which would have to be converted back in realtime by Premiere (That would require quite a bit of processing power) or by the Nvidia card, which really isn’t made for that purpose.
On top of that, Premiere and Nvidia would have to have a special deal in order to make the routing happen. That’s a lot in cost for the very few people that would actually use that feature.
So, firewire is the only way that you will get that Video preview only (Well, there are cards out there that also will do that if you want an HD format output, but that’s in the $500.00 or more range).
Again, as long as your Ads Pyro supports Firewire (DV in) to Composite or Svideo out, (I’m guessing it’s this one ? https://www.adstech.com/products/API-555/specifications/api-555_spec.asp?pid=API-555 )
that Firewire card will do the trick.
Let me know how that goes.
Vince
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Hi Zip,
Well, I think it should be enabled by default, but if not, click on the small black arrow at the top right of the video preview window, and go to Playback settings (All the way down) Make sure that Desktop Video is checked and that External Device is set to DV 29.97.
Also, make sure that this is the only thing plugged in your firewire port. Additional units have been known to cause problems.
I am not familiar with the Ads Pyro unit configation, so I can’t really help you there.
All I can say, is that if when you turn on the Ads Pyro, XP brings up an option dialog, such as capture etc, then you should be good to go.
Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions.
Vince
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Regarding the compression issues, if you are using MS DV to export to AE, you are likely recompressing, even if the original was in DV format. And a DV recompression, will indeed look pretty bad. A true uncompressed video should size 100 GB or more per hour of footage. Make sure you choose “Uncompressed” as your export setting.
What do you mean by “Missing” frame ? What are your project settings in Premiere ?
Cheers,
Vince
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What you get out of your “SVideo” output, not to be confused with SVHS (That’s a tape format) is simply the same as what you see on your PC screen. Not much interest in seing a lower resolution version of an already cluttered screen and tiny fonts, unless you plan on watching just a full screen video on your pc from your media player and TV at the same time. (It is to be noted that the quality from suchh output will be mediocre at best, certainely not a good way to check for a video on an NTSC monitor).
What you want is an output of your Video Preview alone and full screen, at full frame rate and resolution. For that, you need a firewire output. Usually a 20 dollar card on a PC.
You will also need a DV to composite/ Svideo converter such a Canopus ADVC 110 (That in the upper 200 or cheaper on ebay)
Hope that clarifies things,
Vince
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Is this a fat32 formatted disk ?
Vince
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I hope you are retired 🙂
It is of course one way to do it, but also the absolute longest way.
A long , but still much shorter way would be to use masks in AE. Not sure what your time is worth, and it seems that you are just having fun there, but if you are not getting paid $1000.00 a day for this, I think you’ll give up around frame # 29 😉
Vince
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The svideo out would likely only allow you to mirror the image on your computer to your monitor, thus not much of a use there.
What Ads Pyro unit do you have ?
If it supports Firewire to composite, then just plug it in a firewire port. If you don’t have a firewire port, you’ll need to get a card (20 bucks). And if your ads pyro doesn’t support DV to composite, then you need on that does, or go to Canopus.com and look for the ADVC 110.
Chhers,
Vince
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Haa, I like that… The idea sound great !
But I would still be worried about having to handle bare drives everytime I need to access a project 😉
For archiving, this is a winner.
Vince
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There is an easy way to reduce video noise, add a little bet of guaussian blur to the blue channel(I did say “Little”) and play with it until you get what you are looking for. Many noise reducers actually use this exact technique. Your method might actually end up adding noise since you are likely recompressing the video.
Vince
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Well, I think using DVD shrink might not be such a good isea, since you are recompressing a second time, where it really isn’t needed.
Mpg2 compression in itself is actually better than DV, so your loss usually really occurs in noisy areas, unless you pick a really low encoding setting.
Now, your solution will depend on whether you are just doing a DVD dump (Without any menus, chapters, etc) or actually authoring in a separate DVD app.
If you are doing a DVD dump, use the Premiere export to DVD option (Not the media encoder)
That will create the highest possible quality within the allowed DVD space.
If you are encoding for DVD authoring, then it is best to export as uncompressed (If you have the space, about 100 gigs and change per hour of standard def video)
You then let you DVD encoder (Encore does a good job at it) choose the appropriate encoding setting.
Your last alternative is a little bet of math 😉
You mentionned a VHS import that I didn’t quite understand.
Cheers,
Vince