[William Mcqueen]

I guess it’s time to switch versions, then. Are there any issues in bringing in a PP2 version prproj file into CS3?

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Another possibility would be to play around with the track matte effect….
You can make many interesting effects by playing around with this important tool, and it really comes alive when you use animated backgrounds for the matte. ….

If this is something that interests you, check to see if the Cows already has such a tutorial for PPRO; if not, let me know and I will gladly create one for you and this community.

A tutorial would be really awesome, Scot. I’ve looked and don’t see any examples on the site.

But your information gave me just what I needed; and thanks so much.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks for your speedy and generous reply, Scot.

I have some very “busy” video which is “distracting” to the super name and ID. I want to put an underlying opaque rectangle to enhance readability. AND at the same time the lettering seemed to “degrade” when I originally output to AVI, not so bad in QT h.264. Ultimately, I have two short video clips created for the Web, but want to super in PPro.

I did not make the opaque rectangle before I made up the name and ID, and can’t for the life of me get a borderless rectangle afterwards. I can only guess that that the underlying layer has to be put in first, then the text. But maybe I’m missing an approach.

Most of this started out to create accessible web captioning for video media. I’ve been using (in PC) Charles Silverman’s JustTheCaps early beta, an offspring of CapScribe, a more developed and sophisticated programme of media captioning for the MAC. (https://snow.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=393&Itemid=356)

And you’ve given me some new ideas, and for that I’m very appreciative, too.

Thanks again.

Bye for now,

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Hi Vince,

You said:
>Make sure you preview on either on an HD or broadcast monitor, >not in Premiere. Export to DVD if you have to.

>Don’t export to MS DV.

Eventually, these 4:3 short (3 to 4 minute) clips will be web-based, maybe at medium broadband. Am using a new programme (“JustTheCaps” for PC; or CapScribe for MAC) to permit me to add open captioning below the image frame in a web app (requires MOV files mpeg-4). Want to take advantage of the new H.264 codec. However, I wanted to add the supers in the video edit.

My second monitor is a CRT and the lettering does look “better” when I move the image over there, but it still has a “fuzzy” incomplete look. I’m a bit surprised as I don’t remember this problem in earlier versions of Premiere. (I’m using PP2) My first monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 713V 17IN LCD 1280X1024 0.264MM Silver Analog – maybe that’s the problem. Still….

So, originally, I did output to MS DV AVI and used the new QuickTime Pro 7.2 to export same to mpeg4 format, but the supers still really look poor, quite dreadful and, to my sense of things, unprofessional, even when they’re blown down with the images.

Do you think uncompressed Microsoft AVI might be better way to go that route? I’m not sure which QuickTime codec PP2 would use, but although I have exported the work several times, I can’t find the MOV file output location, though I’ve searched any number of times for it, and successfully exported to MS DV AVI to the appropriate project location. I wonder if there is a conflict with QuickTime Pro.

Thanks for your collective wisdom….

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Thanks for taking time to reply, Riredale. I really appreciate it.

I’m working with someone who constantly talks about “broadcast” quality versus “web quality” in regard to the rendering of animation cells into a movie for DVD or Web, that is, a moving segment of animation of about 30 to 60 seconds. He always talks about rendering to these levels of “dpi” quality (DVD versus Web).

He talks about outputting from MAYA the animation cells at 72dpi for web, and encoding from “broadcast” quality for a DVD in order to achieve a high levels of texture, brightness and colour.

I am much more familiar with the rendering of video images from raw AVI files which are directly from a camcorder through a NLE, but I just can’t understand the relevance to high versus low resolution, e.g web versus DVD as it is expressed by the gentleman. (One requiring much more time for rendering!?)

Thanks for your insight,

Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

I greatly appreciated your help, Borjis. Thanks for the lesson, it was useful learning.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

Actually, PP2 does have scene recognition, but the camera clock must be set accurately, and turned on, so that when the camera is paused, Premiere will recognize discrete clips based on date/time. (see “About timecode” in the help utility”). For the future you could “stripe” the tape in the begining, i.e. record black onto the tape, that will help avoid broken time code.) Some record rooms used to be able to restripe a tape with broken code, but that’s not your problem at the moment.)

One suggestion that comes to mind would be to sit for the hour of tape, and create separate clips each time there is a break. When you see and note that the time code has shifted, exit capture, save the clip with a discrete name and continue and restart from where the time code was broken to the end of the break. You could go through the whole tape that way ending up with say 4 or 5 clips with the original time code, rather than continuous code. I also believe you can reset a individual clip time code by going to file–>timecode. I’ve never done that, but there are lots of suggestions in the help file with Premiere 2.

Cheers,
Bill in Toronto

[William Mcqueen]

further follow-up:

I just attempted to burn the timeline to DVD using Premier Pro. The amount of video was only 71 minutes. Even when I attempted to lower the quality of the output, I still received the message that there was too much data for a 4.7G diskette.

Bill in Toronto.

[William Mcqueen]

The video exists as raw, native uncompressed AVI files, expressed as usual in the editing timeline. Output from workspace to the DVD Encoder. There doesn’t seem to be any ability to choose the “media length”, eg. 60,90,120. So, even if the project info media length is said to be under either the file size, or video length for a single layer 4.7 diskette, the DVD Encoder says the media is too large for a 4.6GIG diskette.

B.

[William Mcqueen]

Fair enough. However, I have various chunks of raw video under 90 minutes in actual length, and yet, I still get an error message that it represents a greater amount than 4.7Gigs. This is not true, and perhaps there is a switch I’ve missed, but it just means extra work…. My work around is to play out as an AVI movie, and then encode using Canopus ProCoder Express and burning to DVD with another programme. What is annoying is that it won’t create DVD files, nor a disk image, eventhough there is ample space on the HDD.

Cheers,
Bill