[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Mark,

In CS5, all you need to do is drag the footage to the new sequence icon to create a matching sequence.

Is your footage progressive? If so, no fields is the right setting.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

You’re welcome, BTW, it’s not Mac Fusion, it’s MacFuse

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Jake,

H.264 is what YouTube uses, so while it will be re-compressed, and high quality source should be all you need. For 720P, I would start with 8Mb/s VBR and see what you get. High motion footage is never friendly to compression for the web.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

You can always go from one machine to another. You should not have any issues on the Mac side either, but keep that PC close by, or get Win 7 on a new Mac with Boot camp (best of both worlds).

There are solutions that make the hard drive compatibility issue mostly old news. On the PC side, Mac Drive, and on the Mac side, I have been using Mac Fusion very successfully for the past year.

Cheers,

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Geg,

I guess you are on DSL and the upload is saturating your bandwidth. I would charge the same amount you would for tape transfer, that should take you roughly the same amount of time, but you can’t expect them to pay for the connection troubles.

As for bandwidth usage, I usually bill that as part of a project, but never itemize it. They won’t expect it, especially if they are from the corporate world; to them, bandwidth may seem free and unlimited.

On a side note, I have never been charged for FTP transfers, so while it may be common place in some markets, it’s not in the SF bay area

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Gretchen,

I think your frustration mostly comes from the fact that you are used to the Mac interface. It is very difficult to get used to a new OS if you “grew up” on another, but in this field, you’ll likely have to juggle with both.

A couple of misconceptions as well, both PC and Mac can read AVI and Quicktime files, you just need the right software. For a quick playback on either OS, I would recommend a copy of VLC. Premiere does support a ton of formats on both interfaces, including AVIs.

I don’t think anyone who’s been on both platforms for a while could honestly tell you that one is better than the other these days, and if you are going to stay in this field for a long time, I’d recommend you get to like both 🙂

The advantage you would have in getting both is first a backup machine (they do break down on both sides), and an easy way to ingest whatever is thrown at you.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

You can export to 24p to a DVD, but 24P can also be tricky with motion (I honestly stay away from it whenever possible).

It would help if you could post a sample, but a zoom or pan that is too fast can cause jitter with 24P, the same way it does when panning a camera.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

And just to confirm, is this timeline 30P? Is your export 30P as well?

See if you get the same results in VLC, QT is a hog when it comes to H.264, especially at anything above 10 Mb/s

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Send it my way (vince (at) kaptis .com, I’ll check to see if I can do something with it.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi William,

You’re not really saying where this is happening, and in what format.

I’m guessing it’s in playback after export. And if that’s the case, it likely has nothing to do with Premiere itself.

If you are playing back in Quicktime for example, then it’s likely that the machine does not have enough processing power. H.264 and Quicktime need some serious hardware to playback slow pans and zoom smoothly. Ideally, try something else like VLC/Windows Media and see if it goes away.

If you are seeing this on a DVD, then I would look into keeping the bit rate under 8 Mb/s, as well as burning at a very low speed, start with 4x. Both could cause the DVD errors (skipping frames or freezing) on playback.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area