[Vincent Rosati]

The subject is thoroughly covered here. Do a forum search, towards the top of this page – photoshop video, or something.

All you need to know is the project’s aspect ratio. If you are using Photoshop CS, there are video format templates available in the New Document dialogue.
You can either use these templates, or use the traditional technique described in my first response.

Here’s a great site that helped me…
https://lipas.uwasa.fi/~f76998/
You would want to see Essential Resources and Quick Guide.
It’s not a tutorial on creating graphics, but it provides all of the necessary math and equations. It also gives insight into the reasons why there are conflicting views on correct square pixel frame sizes for DV.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

You would need to find a third-party plugin. There are a number available. Just search for ‘Premiere morph plugin’.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I think they use MPEG-4. On PC I always decompress video with AVS Video Converter, prior to import.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Both H64 and FLV are quite capable of good video. Are you trying to render full resolution video? If so, try reducing the frame size to as little as 1/4 screen.

Fraps uses a proprietary codec. I use AVS Video Converter to decompress Fraps prior to edit.
Maybe try to Export for Web directly from QuickTime using the Desktop settings.

Also, when doing compression tests, it might be useful to prepare a 5-second clip to do the testing with, as opposed to testing with full length clips. It’s much quicker and you can test more settings.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

The font might be damaged or there could be a duplicate.
It might be worthwhile running FontDoctor or NexusFont to look for issues.

Just some thoughts

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

You can use JPEG, but TIFF or PSD would be better as they are lossless.
When preparing graphics for video you need to know the aspect ratio of the video – Is it full Screen (4:3), widescreen (19:9) or square pixel (1:1).
Square pixel graphics for full screen should be created in a 720×540 artboard.
Square pixel graphics for widescreen should be created in a 864×480 artboard.
Both should be scaled down (unconstrained) to 720×480 before import.

Hope this helps

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

H.264 Is a compressed delivery format. It’s not designed to be edited. To prepare the source for editing, you should decompress the video to ‘Uncompressed’ or codec ‘None’.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Going back to your first post, is your source material 16:9 or are you exporting 4:3 as 16:9?

I imagine that the video frame is stretched horizontally?

Can you test the Adobe Media Encoder MPEG2 file on a desktop DVD player like power dvd?
If it is stretched in power dvd, than it is likely to be stretched.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Try saving the image file as a PSD or PNG…

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Ideally, you’d probably want to do that kind of thing with Twixtor in AE, or even with AE’s factory effects.

In Premiere, it sounds like you would have to render the footage a few times. Each time, making the length shorter.

If you’re familiar with nesting, you might achieve the effect by nesting your sequence and applying the rate change, than repeat the nesting/rate change as many times a necessary.

Vince