[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Steve,

I just duplicate the sequence, put it above for reference.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

By all means, Premiere should be able to handle these without issue, CUDA really comes into play with effects and multi-layered sequences.

I’ve edited 1080P H.264 on a MacBook Pro i7 (win7), and I didn’t notice any slow down with playback.

Were these files re-encoded by any chance? What type of drive are they stored on?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Hannah,

Cuda drivers will not make a difference on a MacBook Pro. There are a couple of hacks around, but I found little difference on the MAC or Windows side without one of the supported cards (It doesn’t have to be a Quadro BTW).

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

If you can get a hold of a Windows machine, check out HDV split, there is a stream repair function that often does the trick, although, I’m not sure it will take in a Quicktime file.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

[Anthony Hartis] “Is the Pixel Aspect Ratio what you refer to as PAL 1? I’m not familar with what the “PAL” acronym is and the pixel aspect ratio was the closest thing I could find that had “1” in it.”

Yes, PAR 1 referred to pixel aspect ratio

[Anthony Hartis] “Do I crop and import this (1920×1080) size to all my stills and should I use some “basic” sharpening for good measure.”

Depending on the size of your original images, you may or may not need to crop. Remember, if you are going to zoom in in Premiere, you’ll want to crop to a size higher than 1920×1080. Some Raw images are huge, and Premiere may start to choke on them. I would keep them under 3000 res for good measure, but even that can slow you down quite a bit.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Any particular reason why you are exporting to HDV? Where is the footage going to be played/sent?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Ruben,

What version of Premiere / Quicktime? What type of Mov file are you exporting to?

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Matthew,

I read your post of couple of times, but it’s Monday… I think this is what you are looking for:

You can go to the context menu in your effects control and uncheck pin to clip, that will allow you to scroll past the beginning/end of clip and find those missing keyframes.

Ideally, you’d want to apply transition before you create your pan/zoom, that should take care of that issue.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Anthony,

[Anthony Hartis] ” I understand that YouTube uses Flash and I know that there is a setting for YouTube in the Adobe Encoder under the H.264 setting. On another post, someone said to use the F4V compression so as to be closest to the current YouTube compression.”

Youtube does use H.264, I think they are still using the Sorenson codec. But your exports using Mainconcept’s H.264 in Premiere should be just as good for most clips.

[Anthony Hartis] “how should I prep the files in Photoshop? Use square pixels for monitor viewing, import large files into Premiere, etc.? I just want the sharpest image possible, like I see it in Photoshop. I know my files are large enough. Thanks for any advice.”

You want your original pictures to be as large as the amount of zoom you will apply in Premiere. So if you zoom in at 200%, you’ll want the files to twice the size of your frame. If your hardware allows it, you can work in a 1920×1080 sequence. If all you have are images, just go to the custom sequence tab and set a desktop sequence at 1920×1080 30p, PAR 1.

At export time, choose those same settings, and start with a bit rate of 8-10 MB/s VBR 2 pass. Check “Use Max Quality” and go to sleep or take a short vacation 🙂

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

And I noticed that you are exporting at 0.9 PAR. I would use square pixels instead and adjust the resolution accordingly.

Also, try H.264 from Mainconcept instead of Apple’s. You can find it as H.264 in your export list. Start with a bit rate of 6 MB/s.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area