[William Mcqueen]

Hi Chris,

I set the bit rate to VBR, 1 pass
Target Bitrate 3
Maximum Bitrate 6

I “volunteered” to do a short YouTube piece for some folks and
it stutters online. Also YT says these are their standards…

Video codec: H.264
Progressive scan (no interlacing)
High Profile
2 consecutive B frames
Closed GOP. GOP of half the frame rate.
CABAC
Variable bitrate. No bitrate limit required, though we offer recommended bit rates below for reference
Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0

Don’t understand some of this stuff. I did h264 on 16:9.

Any help very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I finally got hold of someone at SONY, but I’m not sure if they got he drift of my question. They said that the PVW series played both metal and oxide tape. He really didn’t answer the question as to whether the UVW1800 could safely play BCT oxide tapes. (sigh)

Thanks for your insight.

Cheers,
Bill

[William Mcqueen]

Yes, both audio and video are selected. And when I look at the AVI file in the timeline, the capture took mono channel 1 audio, but not channel 2 which is where the mono audio resides on the tape.

Thanks,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

PS: The audio was recorded mono on Channel 2, just to be specific.

Thanks.
Bill

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks Stefan and Vishesh. RGB Curve helped almost enough. Didn’t know where to find RGB Scope.

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Dave,
I’ve identified one over-exposed clip of 15 secs and 7 frames. It sits above the “good” footage. I was going to try to export it into AE from Premiere Pro CS4, but don’t readily identify how. When I right click the clip, the menu items include editing original, in soundbooth and “Replace with After Effects Composition”. AE referenced command only strands Premiere Pro which just churns and churns away, but never goes to AE.

Thanks,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thank you Dave. It was a good idea to match the footage and lock it prior to making any effects changes. Now, I’m waiting on instructions from the organisation as to the further changes she requires using this overexposed footage.

Thanks,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks so much, Dave, for replying to this entirely newbie guy in AE. Over the years I have used Premiere Pro for editing and of course Photoshop, too, but never had any need to correct, so severely, very much of the footage, until now.

So, if you have the patience: I shot 2 cameras and the camera being used for close ups was for the most part fine, but the wide shot of the stage has overexposed hot spot(s) due to ceiling floods. However, I expect to use only 4 brief chunks and am hoping I can make changes to those four to reduce the over exposure. The other complication is that at the right side of the stage, the percussionist is appropriately exposed.

I’ve only used some of the effects in Premiere Pro (CS4 currently), I have my doubts about correcting the exposure, though, as in the stage-wide shots, there doesn’t seem to be very much detail left in these hotspots.

So, I’m trying to keep optimistic about the learning curve and trying to do some test runs.

Well, I’ve palavered on long enough. Some questions

1. Should I begin the process from Premiere Pro, or open a project in AE?

2. Should I wait until I identify the four clips first and see how to isolate them?

3. Does each frame have to be adjusted, or how can a series of frames be affected by the effect?

Thanks,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Maybe because the orphan timeline is still in the queue, the disk has recorded both size requirements for the timeline and the Chapter playlist and thus it appears that there is too much material for a single layer.

Oh well…such a saga.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

The problem with linking the timeline is that it will only play Chapter 1 and not the rest of the timeline chapters. But even though the disk works in my Windows7 Media Player and also my Toshiba player, when I’ve tried to duplicate the original disk, the dup machine says that the “Master” is “bad” or that the length of the blank single disk is insufficient for a single layer, even though looking at the disk itself, it only fills the Master about 3/4. Still a lot of learning to do here, alas.

Again, many thanks,
Bill in Toronto