Vince Becquiot
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Hi Rudy,
I’ve used subclips and the problem is, if your files go offline, you may a hard time relinking.
What I tend going back to is a separate sequence and blank titles as markers (the title name being my reference on the top track) .
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi David,
Your best option would be to simply overlay letterbox bars.
You certainly can unlink the scale parameters for each clip and change the height, but that would result in deformation / stretching.
You can also use thePhotoshop file I attached and change the scale to get longer or shorter bars.
Finally, is you just want a quick and dirty letterbox, you can always use the cop filter.
Cheers,
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Jay,
3 hours on a single DVD is “very” long. Commercial DVDs over 2 hours usually use dual layers to fit more content, and they often start at resolutions around 4k.
The consumer version of dual layer is not very reliable in my opinion. There are no other options for DVD compression, Mpeg2 is it. You can use a bit rate calculator to figure out optimal settings.
H.264 is not an option for DVDs, it will not play in standard DVD players (with exceptions).
Youtube now offers long form content on some accounts, it may be worth pitching as well.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Alexander,
I you suspect a software corruption, it’s best to use the Adobe Cleaning tool before a new install.
A few other things to try, import into a blank project, delete all your cache / preview files while the project is closed. Do other auto-saved files exhibit the same behavior?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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At this point, if you have 60P sequences, I would export as 60P. I’m sure Youtube will eventually support 60P (I think it did for a while), and hopefully your 60P videos will be automatically replaced at that point (wishful thinking).
As far as compression goes, I would export to H.264 at above 15 Mb/s.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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[Aggelos Poulis] “in premiere pro cs5.5 is better to open a sequence of 720p 60 fps or a sequence of 720p 30 fps ( i dont care for slow motion) i just want to have smooth motion in my whole action video..”
Yes, as long as you can also post it in a place that supports 60P.
720 60P is often used by sports broadcasters like ESPN for that exact reason. Sadly, as far as I can tell, it won’t be any use for Youtube. It may be worth posting on their forum to see if they are planning to support it in the near future. The obvious drawback however is compression requirements. Twice as many frames.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Bob,
You are working with an HDV timeline in Premiere, correct?
The comp created in AE will be HDV as well, which is non-square pixels (PAR 1.33), and 1440×1080 would the correct resolution (anamorphic).
I’m not sure about the crash issue, but be sure to change the Pixel Aspect Ratio to Square as well if you are changing the resolution to 1920×1080 in AE.
Changing the resolution to 1920×1080 square pixel in AE will actually improve the preview quality, so that is the way to go.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Aaron,
That’s a windows limitation, you can’t clone an extended display.
What you can do on the other end and get a cheap DVI or HDMI splitter at Bestbuy etc. and duplicate it that way. Just don’t buy the HDMI cable there 🙂
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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[Lori Savitch] “1. Should we always choose sequence settings that match our footage – and just export according to specs?? If the frame size of our footage is 1280 x 1080, and we export as 1920 x 1080 – is this problematic?? (It looks ok…)
“You advantage in choosing a 1080 sequence with 720 footage would be for graphics/titles which would be native. Incidentally, this is usually where most people first notice any up-conversion. Otherwise, there is obviously no need to up-convert unless the client requests it, and it may in fact affect quality slightly, especially with the added compression overhead.
[Lori Savitch] “2. Should we make sure to shoot everything according to our clients specs — so that the footage matches the sequence setting — which matches the specs? The thing is – we have other needs for this video – we could never satisfy everyone!! “
By all means, yes. At least the highest resolution. For frame rate, I would go with 29.97. Easier to remove frames that to add some.
[Lori Savitch] “Is it even POSSIBLE to shoot 1920 x 1080 with a P2 Camera? I can’t see why not …. (I’m not doing the shooting.) But then, there’s no DVCProHD sequence setting with 1920 v. Should I use the AVCHD sequence setting?????
“1280 x 1080 with DVC Pro HD is simply anamorphic, it’s still is 1920 x 1080 square pixels. But you certainly could pick an AVCHD sequence if you had mixed footage. It just means that your DVCPro footage would not be native and that could create preview issues.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Mike,
Not sure where you are going with the final footage, but instead of making a DV timeline, make a square pixels one. Desktop 854×480 or 640×480 depending on ratio.
You should find that your HD nested sequence no longer shows aliasing which I believe is caused by mixing different PAR sequences.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area