[Vincent Rosati]

I don’t ‘know’ the answer – I hope this thread get’s some better answers, but…
I assume you mean 60P. If so, I’m not sure if there are any video standards that use that frame rate, yet.
Right now, I could only see that being good for a slow motion shot.
Or, you’ll end up having to drop half of your frames to get the video to fit into a standard.

As to how to capture 60P, I’m not sure.

I’d pick a format that matches your desired playback media.

Just some thoughts.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

To nest a sequence..
Create a project.
Do all of your editing within a sequence/timeline.
Than, you can create another sequence and drop your first sequence into it. You drop the edited sequence into the new timeline just as if it were a single clip.

You might use this if you intend to apply an effect to an entire sequence, instead of applying it to each individual clip.
Or, if you are editing a long feature. You could edit each scene in it’s own sequence. Than, drop each scene sequence into a ‘Final’ timeline, for export.

So, the nest is the final sequence, the one that holds the other (nested) sequences.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

It’s probably a good idea to use square pixels for web.

‘1/4 Screen’ 320×240 has a Storage Aspect Ratio (SAR) of 4:3. It can be set to ‘Fullscreen’ with a PAR of 0.9, or Wide with a PAR of 1.2.
But, for square pixel ‘fullscreen’ it should be set to 352×240.

To get Widescreen with square pixels you could try…
864×480
720×400
432×240
320×178
As long as each dimension is divisible by 16, you should be good.

Your embed tags control the dimensions of the frame. So, you should have video that displays as wide and set the embed tags to do the same.

So, yes – I agree with you. 🙂

Hope this helps..

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

You should be able to Select/All and ‘shift’ the clips.
Or, you should be able to nest the sequence – drop your edited sequence into a new sequence. This will allow you to work with your edit as if it were a single clip.
Either way, you will have to make space in your timeline for the cues.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I assume these are single frame GIFs, and not animations.
Could you resample the GIFs as TIFFs or PNGs.
Maybe look in the project settings (or Preferences, I can’t remember which), and set the default duration for imported stills to 1-frame.

Just some thoughts

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Decompress the file to PCM WAV, prior to import.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Some cameras don’t shoot in true widescreen, your footage might be letterboxed widescreen.

Assuming your footage is true widescreen…

Your project should be widescreen, indicated by a 1.2 Pixel Aspect Ratio (16:9) in the project settings.
Your footage should also have a PAR of 1.2 (16:9).

Frame Rate settings don’t affect Aspect Ratio.

I assume the frame looks correct in the preview window, the image fills the frame..

Your export settings should also be set with a 1.2 PAR.

If your footage is letterboxed widescreen you would need to deinterlace and upscale the video to fill the 16:9 frame.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I don’t have experience with other editors, just Premiere. So, Premiere Pro gets my biased endorsement. 🙂

Multiple tracks.. Audio channel mixing.. of course.

Regarding the lines you are seeing. It’s probably interlacing.
Usually only DVD players will deinterlace during playback, so you would need to encode for DVD than playback with DVD hardware/software (Power DVD, VLC-DVD).
If your video is only going to be played on desktop, you should deinterlace the footage, that would eliminate the lines.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Clip frames will always snap to the timeline frames, it’s a good thing.

If your issue is with clips snapping together, you can zoom in (+) or Alt+arrow to move clips.
Also, you could disable snap. It’s the button that looks like a magnet, near the top left of the timeline.

I will often position the CTI to the exact frame where I want to snap to (the CTI can also be moved with the arrow keys).

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’m not familiar with that format either.
I’m pretty sure DVD use 4:2:0 color sampling, although MPEG-2 does allow for 4:2:2.

720×480 is DV. 720×486 is D1.
DV refers to both a frame size and a codec.

It’s probably a good idea to familiarize yourself with the acceptable formats of your DVD authoring software, and set your project spec’s accordingly.

Premiere Pro with the HD addon does allow for a 4:2:2 color space, but I think it is only for resolutions of 1280 X 720 and above.

As far as Premiere automatically cropping, that’s in your project settings. It is a setting that can be changed while you are in your project. It will either crop larger frame sizes, or you can set it to scale clips to fit the frame when they are dropped into the timeline.
If your video is interlaced it should not be scaled, you will lose quality.
If you are going to DVD and you are working with a frame size that is greater than DVD, you’ll have to either crop or deinterlace and scale the frame to fit.

The rendering quality is your choice. You can render as uncompressed AVI and you won’t lose a thing. Both DV and DVD compression will generate compression, naturally.
Ideally you might want to have something like Main Concept MPEG Pro so you can encode your edit straight to DVD-Video MPEG-2. The benefit of MPEG Pro is that you have a great deal of control over the encoding process.

If you are going to DVD, there should be no reason for concern in using Premiere.

If you do need to deinterlace for resizing, I’m sure there are plugins that will do a fine job, however I’ve never used them.
I have always deinterlaced in After Effects with Fields Kit Deinterlacer than export as Uncompressed for editing.

Just some thoughts, hope this helps

Vince