[Vincent Rosati]

If you are getting an acceptable result for a portion of it, you could still use the live trace. After the trace, you could expand the object for further editing (Object/Expand).
I also ran the trace with the Color 6 preset, and it looked pretty good. That trace had the sort-of transparent portions, as well.

As far as drawing or modifying the trace, you would use the pen tool to add or remove points and paths. Than, you could use the direct selection tool or the convert anchor tool to move points, or create bezier curves or hard angles.

Anytime you do an illustration, it’s an interpretation of what you see. Maybe you want a slightly abstracted form.?

I’m not sure what your proficiency is with illustrator, so I’m being cautious with my explanation.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I changed jpeg to jpg and found the image.

I ran it through Live Trace/Tracing Options: Color, 2 Colors, Path Fitting 1 or 2, Minimum Area 0, Corner Angle 0.

It looked pretty good.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Check the link.

I got a 404 error, page not found.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

29.97FPS (AKA 60i) Is the standard NTSC Digital frame rate. 23.967FPS (AKA 24P) Is the standard ‘Film’ frame rate.

Unless that you know that you shot in 24P, you should probably use the Digital frame rate.
You might want to download GSpot. It’s a good tool, it gives you a bunch of info about any video files that you may work with, including frame rate…
https://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

“would I export to an mpeg-2 first…” Yes, but I’d suggest you first do this with a small 1-min. portion. Than you can attempt import into an Encore project to verify that the settings you are using are compliant. If the file isn’t compliant, Encore will re-transcode the file, which is not good.

Export/Movie as AVI will not be DVD compliant. Also, depending on the compressor you use, the file may not play on a Mac, if that is of any concern to you.

Another potential issue with AVI export is, if the video is interlaced you will usually see the interlacing during desktop display. Depending on your needs, this may not be acceptable. You could try enabling the Deinterlace option in the video field settings, although I don’t recall ever being happy with this.

Any time I know that I want to create a file for desktop playback, I will deinterlace in AE prior Premiere import for editing.
Creating a movie for DVD and Desktop is really two different projects.
You can deinterlace directly in Premiere, but it’s methods aren’t the best, although there are Premiere plugins that do this.
Also, you could attempt opening your Premiere Project with After Effects and deinterlace there. Depending on how you constructed the premiere project, this should work with AEs deinterlacing method. There are also some great deinterlacing plugins for AE.
Search the forum archive for more on deinterlacing, its a bit complicated and you can achieve many different results.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Hey Lillian,

You would need DVD authoring software, such as Encore. Exporting the DVD-Video/Encore compliant MPEG out of Premiere, as you intend, is what I would suggest.
As far as export settings, it depends in the specs of your video program. Always start with the presets.
Although, I’ll generally recommend DVD-Video, MPEG-2, VBR, 2-Pass, Multiplexed, audio set to PCM WAV.

Encore has menu templates that you can use, or open in Photoshop to edit.

One of the attributes that you would use in Encore is “First Play”. You would apply ‘First Play’ to a timeline or a menu. This attribute tells the DVD what item should be played first, when the DVD is inserted.

Hope this gets ya’ started,

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

If your final medium is going to be an actual NTSC DVD-Video disc, your project can be either 60i (29.97fps) or 24P.
However, you mentioned that these will be played on computers, and you will have no control over what software the end user will use to do this, or what settings they are using. In which case, a deinterlaced project might be more appropriate.

I’m nervous about suggesting a path you should take, considering your deadline.

One way would be to create a new 24P premiere project. Exporting a 24p C4D file. Than re-time your DV source as 24p in AE with Twixtor or using Andrew Kramer’s technique, here…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/fps.php

Either way, I’d watch the tutorial, it might give you a better idea as to what you are dealing with.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Do you have enough time to render a 60fps file from C4D, that you would interlace in AE, than replace in your Premiere project?

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

So, you’ve combined Interlaced and Progressive material into one project/export?

I’m not sure of the capabilities of your version of Premiere, but I’d be surprised if it could output a clean file that is made from source files with mixed field orders.

Let us know.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

lol. Your welcome.
*smiles*

Vince