[Vincent Rosati]

Wait a second… For a rocket scientist who has worked at Groom Lake, I’m surprised you’re having an issue with this. 🙂

First, create a project that is in the format that you are going to export – presumably 30P, and at whatever ‘high definition’ frame size you intend to use.

If you are trying to preview the video in Premiere at full frame rate you’ll probably need to prerender the timeline, by pressing the Enter button on your keyboard.

If the clips are sequentially numbered and are actually a true sequence you can import the files as numbered stills. File/Import, select the first image in the sequence and check the ‘Numbered Stills’ box.

If the images aren’t really a sequence, you can import as you have. Than, once the clips are in a timeline, create a new sequence and drop the stills sequence into the new sequence. It’s called nesting, or nesting a sequence.
With either of these methods, you’ll now have all of your images behave as a single clip that you can manipulate just as you would a video file.

As far as the actual export, are you exporting for DVD, HD, desktop, web, archive? Unless you intend to export an uncompressed movie, you should use either Adobe Media Encoder or Main Concept MPEG Pro. AME is free, Main Concept is a third-party plugin.

Hope this helps.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

For the PSP file, maybe try exporting an uncompressed movie out of Premiere. Than, open the file with QuickTime Pro to export the MP4.
I’m pretty sure it has to be a h.264, 756kbps, 320×240, Baseline profile.
You’d also need to have your PSP firmware at 2.71 or later…

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Depending on the codecs used in the MOV, I’d try AVS Video Converter to decompress the files as AVI Uncompressed/PCM Audio.
Premiere likes uncompressed media.

As you’ve said, you’ll do two projects…

…One set to the format of your 16:9 version. You should be able to export to your target format.

…And another set to the format of your 320×240 PSP version. Export with Adobe Media encoder as a QuickTime file using the 756kbps H.264 Baseline profile.

Make sure to use Effect/Distort/Transform to do your resizing, not Motion Control (I’m assuming your source material is not interlaced).

As far as batching in Premiere, I’m not aware of any solutions for that.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

As far as a specific system, I’m not sure.
You’d probably want at least 3 Gigs of RAM, at least 2 internal Serial ATA hard drives, a pci (or better) graphics card with at least 256MB of RAM – ATI, GeForce, etc. You should get, at least, a dual-processor.

Just some ideas.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Not sure if I totally understand, but if you’ve already performed the subtraction and you just want to move one of the paths, use the Group Selection Tool.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

That can be kinda tricky.
Here are a couple of solutions…

http://www.newinelabs.com/rosati/tutorials/Inner_Drop_Shadow_cs2.ai

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Yes. You’d be setting page tiling.

For 8.5×11 Portrait Letter format.

Create a new document and choose the Letter preset.

Click File/Document Setup – Set the width to 17″, click OK.

Click File/Print/Setup. Set Tiling to Tile Full Pages, and make sure your X/Y Placement is 0. Click Done (not Print).

Click View/Show page tiling. Walla.

If you want 20 pages, you can make the artboard 5-across and 4-down (42.5″ x 44″), or whatever.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Probably a codec issue. Open the file with GSpot and compare the file’s codecs with Premiere’s acceptable codecs.
Decompress the video if the codec is not compatible with Premiere.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Check out this thread.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/205/871306#871306

It’s quite long, but it will likely answer your question.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

320×240 is good for web. If you intend to go to youtube, that’s the standard size. You’d want to export an AE project that is that size.

As far as quality, generally that is processor setting – the higher the quality the longer the encode time. I’d always go for the highest setting.

As far as bitrates, that’s a balance that you would have to determine based on your exact needs for quality-versus-file size.
It’s typical to run test encodings numerous times before you find your magic formula. Run test encoding with a small clip so you can test quickly. 256Kbps is good 1280 is better, obviously.

As far as resizing video with Premiere… Resizing is best done in After Effects.
Ideally, your Premiere project should be the same size as your desired output. If you do resize in Premiere, use Effect/Distort/Transform to, don’t use the Motion Control.

You should run one project as 320×240 with square pixels (PAR 1.0) for web. For TV (NTSC anyway) you should run a different project that is 720×480 with full screen or widescreen pixels (0.9 or 1.2).

Vince