[Vincent Rosati]

The project field order should be based on the field order of your source material.

DVD playback hardware will handle the deinterlacing for display on LCD and Plasma. I think it’s called Bob &/or Weave deinterlacing.

In Premiere, unless you are using a deinterlacing plugin or some other creative processing technique, you are losing 50% of your vertical resolution when deinterlacing. Premiere’s deinterlacing method removes every other line, than doubles the remaining lines (removes one field, than duplicates the remaining field)to create a Progressive frame.

As long as you are in the DVD format, you should be okay.

But, if you’re going to be recompressing the video for web or desktop delivery you should deinterlace.
In which case you would create a second Premiere project, one that uses Progresive frames.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Here’s one way to do it…
Using the Track Matte Key on the bubble image, targeting a grayscale matte layer using Luma Matte.
Project File: PP 1.5, 355KB
https://www.handcranked.newinelabs.com/tutorials/Thought_Bubble.zip

If you have a problem with the file, let me know.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

In AE, if you pull the clip from the bin and drop it on the Make Comp button (at the bottom of the bin) it will size appropriately.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Hmmm. I cant download the file to get a good look at it, but they appear to be using all of the tricks for the transitions.
The straight cuts, really fast pushes and wipes from all directions based on the movement in the frame, and all with the film flash.
I think your idea will do the trick.

For the frame fly-bys, check this Kramer tutorial…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/3dcompositing.php
It’ll give you all of the mechanics you’ll need to create the effect. It looks like there are about 3 comp’d layers holding the mini tv screens, each on a different z-axis.
You could add a white solid as the frame for each screen, than keyframe the position of the comps to create the movement.

Back to the overexposed look. If you apply MB-Misfire Flicker at it’s default, than MB Looks – Bleach Bypass and bump the grade up to 5, that should come close. But, you do need a good bright shot for it to work well.

You Said:
“mostly making all of this up as I stumble along.”

Me too, cuz that’s how a player do it!

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Welcome Michael – A lot of times, there a are issues of this sort in premiere with using non-editing formats, such as MPEG or AVIs or MOVs utilizing non-editing CODECs.
If you get a chance, fill out your System Details in your profile.
Are you using DV footage, MPEG, or something else? If it’s an option, and you have the hard disk space, usually decompressing the audio and video before import will prevent a good number of problems.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

This might be a question for the After Effects forum, there are some real AE geniuses over there.

But, looking at your example, there are a bunch of techniques being used.

Much of the lower-thirds graphics appear to be text on 3D modeling, either pre-matted or feather masked to create the blend.

The video ‘fly-by’, with all the little video frames, can be done totally in AE with the 3D Layer enabled in the timeline.

The blown out segments, which is what you’re questioning, can also be done totally in AE.
I see optical dissolves, as opposed to linear dissolves. Do this by keyframing the Levels and Fast-blur of a clip instead of dissolving into a solid.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Film_Flash.php

Andrew Kramer has a 5-second clip of real 8mm film damage here…
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=57
You can multiply this onto any footage, and you can increase it’s length to 20-seconds by flipping it and running it in reverse.

This Film Damage has a pretty strong vignette, but you can create one in AE by creating a black layer on top. Than, adding a mask to it, r-click or Layer/Mask. Than open the mask settings and set it to Ellipse – Subtract. Than, feather the mask and adjust the expansion. Maybe set the layer’s blending mode to Color Burn, or something.

You can blow-out the footage with AE by adjusting the layer’s levels or curves, than keyframing to add the flickering.
Also, Magic Bullet Suite, and Sapphire have plugins that can automate many of these results.

I’d check all of the AE tutorials here and at VideoCopilot.net.
They can give you more accurate instruction than I can here.

🙂

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’ve experienced similar errors – heartbreaking when you’re so close to the end.
Some things I might check are…
-If you have multiple hard disks, set your scratch disk settings in Edit/Preferences.
-Defragment your hard drive.
-If you’re using any compressed audio files, decompress them to match your project settings- WAV, 44.8kHx, 16bit, stereo, or whatever.
-If you’re using video that is not in a standard editing format, such as MPEG, you should decompress that also.
-Render your timeline by pressing Enter, before export.
-Export an Uncompressed version before doing a compressed export.

Let us know how it goes.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I don’t think you can add a video transition to multiple clips, at one time.
But you can do it with effects.
You would apply the desired effect to one clip, than with the clip highlighted, click in the name of the effect in the Effect Controls tab and press Ctrl+C (to copy the effect).
Than select all of the other target clips in the timeline an press Ctrl+V, to paste.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I use Premiere Pro 1.5 and it’s default behavior is to stop playing when it is returned from the background (loses focus), I don’t know of any way to have Premiere behave differently…
Other than running your IM and other tasks on another system.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I tried answering you earlier, but it looks like my post didn’t go through??

Settings:
Compressor-NONE, Depth- Millions+, Qaulity 100%
[The ‘+’ in Millions+ means your including an alpha channel]

Frame size 720h 480v (defauly setting for widescreen- even though it’s not right)
[NTSC DV Full & Widescreen are both 720×480 pixels]

Recompress (tried both checked and unchecked)
[Recompression is unnecessary]

Frame rendering: default is LOWER FIELD (tried upper and none)
[Try using Gspot to determine the correct field order of your source, https://www.headbands.com/gspot/ if it’s NTSC it’s probably lower field first.]

Modify- tried checking Deinterlace or left unchecked.
[Don’t check ‘Deinterlace’]

After Effects defaults to deinterlace the video. You have to R-Click on the clip in the import bin and select Interpret Footage/Main and set Separate Fields to None. Otherwise it will deinterlace.

Exporting as DV AVI or AVI shouldn’t make a difference.

But to actually answer your last question… 🙂
You could either copy each export clip into a new sequence and export as a movie.
Or, Set the Work Area markers (at the top of the timeline) to the portion that you want to export, than Export Movie Settings/General/Range/Work Area Bar (instead of Range/Entire Sequence).

Hope this helps

Vince