Hello guru's
Anyone have experience with producing/burning short DVD video segments using Adobe Premiere 2.0 from a Sony Pro HVR-Z1U HDV 1080i Camcorder
MY BACKGROUND:
I have next to no experience with HDV or DV CamCorders beyond my limited experience of hooking up an older 8MM style camcorder to my TV using RCA cables to review simple tapes at home. I also have never worked with HDV/DV or Digital Video Editing software on my computer before now.
** I am however a Professional Software Engineer that is very computer savy in terms of learning things like this real fast ** I not "affraid" of hardware
BACKGROUND:
My wife has a deadline of August 3rd to submit a 3 minute video audition segment On DVD (Or VHS tape) for a television program that is interested in casting her....
.. So a few days ago I borrowed my companies brand-new Sony 1080i HDV Camcorder model HRVZ1U http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplayModel?m=10014&p=2&sp=141&id=78439
Amazing Professional Camera!!!
After a few hours of setup (Tripod and natural lighting) and learning to control the camera (zoom, focus, start, stop), we managed to Record 6 different takes/segments for a total of about 18 minutes of HDV footage.
The camera was in HDV mode during the recording.. NOT DV mode; Maybe this was a mistake???
I installed Adobe Premiere 2.0 on my laptop and figured out how to Capture (using i.Link Cable) the best 3 minute segment from tape onto my Hard Drive as an AVI file using Adobe Premiere 2.0
The avi and video is reported as being 720 x 480 resolution (16:9) @ 29.xxx FPS with 2.0 44khz Stereo AUdio. I'm not sure about the whole interlate/non-interlace issue with what is on tape vs. what is captured into the computer.
My laptop is a 1.7Ghz Centrino Pentium-M with 80Gbyte 7200rpm Hard Drive and 2GB ram
- I'm assuming my Laptop performance should NOT be a problem???
The laptop can play back the captured source AVI file perfectly in both Windows Media Player and during the editing stages in Adobe Premiere. Premiere seems to be quick and responsive with lots of free ram.
MY PROBLEM:
- Every attempt to "Export to DVD" (no menus; just an autoplay DVD) results in a NON widescreen video with slow playback speed and garbled audio.
- the video has large black borders on ALL 4 SIDES.. not just the TOP and BOTTOM as expected.
- I exported the DVD to an ISO format file, and then burned the DVD ISO image using NERO; except that nero insisted that i use a blank CD instead of a blank DVD for burning.
- the physical burn to CD was succesfull, but the image on my tv when playing back using my home DVD player is bizaare, the playback speed is like 1/4 the speed and the video image is BLACK BOXED on all 4 sides.
QUESTIONS:
- Any advice/tips on what camera iLink settings I should be using when capturing the source video from tape.
- the link settings on the camera can be use to force HDV->DV downgrading
- Should i force the Camera iLink mode into HDV->DV downgrade mode when capturing to the computer using Premiere
- Should i force the Camera to BOX CLIPPED the video on either side to convert the 16:9 source to 4:3 to make this easier.
- The camera can also let me downgrade the video to 480i, or 720p/i??
Or should I just give up and try to hook the camera up to my VHS RCA Source Inputs and make a VHS copy of the 3 minute segment and be done with it?
Sounds a bit like you may have Premiere set to make an HD project, but the camera recording is either SD NTSC DV, or the camera is set to downconvert. (The program can also be set to deal with non native resolutions in different ways - scale or pixel map.) Check your project settings - I'd suggest a standard widescreen NTSC project, and set the camera to downconvert, which it sounds like it may already be set to and hence the report that the res is 720x480.
Thanks for the reply.. I will review both the camera settings and the premier project settings.
When i did the original capture i did select HD widescreen NTSC, but i'm not sure about the camera downconvert settings.
If i'm forced to do a VHS analog dub.. i hope it is still a reasonable quality for SD NTSC playback.
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