I'm sure there are some good premiere plugins, I just do no know of any other than maybe Magic Bullet, but some others on these boards should know. Try doing a search on deinterlacing and see if any older topics have the answer. If you're familiar with AVIsynth, there's some filters by Donald Graft http://neuron2.net/mine.html that deinterlace quite well. I use the old 2.0 Decomb filters which work well enough.

ppro plugin for deinterlacing and slow mo?
 

In order to do slow mo in ppro, you have to deinterlace and frame blend. Both of these has too much resolution loss for me.

I have used some virtual dub filters that have done a good job. I have also tried the "slow mo" programs and those also do a good job.

I am really looking for a ppro plugin that I can just drop onto my clip and experience the same results. Has anyone seen or used such a plugin?

What about a plugin that simply converts 60i footage to 60p footage. In otherwords, it takes the 60 interlaced fields and converts them to 60 full frames. When played at normal rates this would be slow motion of 50%. The tool would still have to interpolate half of each frame, but at least the frame blend step could be avoided. If there is such a tool, you would not have to do frame blending if you wanted 50% speed. Again, I have seen this type of tool for virtual dub.

Thick black boarder around footage
 

I captured my footage with adobe premier pro 1.5. The footage was shot widescreen with the Panasonic DVX-100a. I captured with a sony trv-950. When I import the captured footage and begin to cut, the footage shrinks itself down and leave large black bars all around it.

Heres and example of what I'm talking about
http://www.verbalstreet.com/images/boxy.jpg

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreaciated.

Bad reception
 

Can anyone tell me what is the best way to make a bad reception clip. What I mean is that I want create the effect of a television that has not cable so it starts with that snow like picture and slowly gains reception of the image. But while gaining reception the clip is still distorted if someone is playing with the antenna then clears up at the end.

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow.. I never knew that.. lol!

It does look better de-interlaced and frame blended.. yeah the rendering sucks.. I use the RT.X100 so if I don't mess with the field options it's realtime slow or fast..

I just copy the .VOB to the hard drive rename it to whatever.mpeg and import the mpeg. It takes a while sometimes at least for me I think it's the audio portion stalling it up.. but anyways after that I export it back out as an .AVI and then bring it back in as an .AVI (not slow then). Audio works also..

16:9 Editing
 

So I'm thinking about the new Sony HVR-Z1U as my next camera purchase. (Using big DSR-300 DVCAM now.) I don't plan on doing HDV editing for awhile (not one single request as of yet) however I am intrigued by the native 16:9 capture of the HDV cameras.
If I record 16:9 SD in the camera, can I use my current DSR-30 deck to play back the tapes for capture? I do not want to put additional headwear on the camera.
Does the image get recorded to the DV tape in a way that the DSR-30 (DVCAM only w/DV playback capabilities) can read it?
Thanks - Ray

Does it also look like that when you export? Check over some of your project settings to see if something is amiss.

Did you check to make sure the settings are not a PAL. I shoot in NTSC and one I got black borders on my clips, but my settings were to set to PAL. Once I changed them to NTSC the picture was fine..

If you record in SD, you'll be able to play it back on any DV deck or camera.
Since you have the Z1 and you may choose to record in DVCAM, then the choices are less, though you seem to be covered there...

Robin

Yes, it exports the same way. When I watch in full screen mode, there is about an inch or two of black around the edge of the screen with my footage in the middle.


I'm working in NTSC. When I first started the project, I picked the panasonic 24p preset to work in.

Actually, I think I figured out my problem. When I export, I usually export for widescreen. When I export for 4:3 it works.

the dvx100 doesnt shoot in true 16x9, it just adds bars to the top and bottom of a 4:3 image. so edit it all in a 4:3 project and that should solve your problem just fine, unless you want to stretch the footage out to fit 16x9... you will lose quality though.

Hi Pushpa,

Can you tell us what software/ version you are using?

What happens if you only burn a samll propotion of teh project to DVD, do you still get the same error?

What spec is your PC? What settings are you using to export to DVD?

Has the DVD reached it max capicity?

Have you been able to export to DVD before, using the same steps?

Cheers,

back lit footage problem!!!
 

Hey guys,

I'm editing a wedding for an old employer and the second camera is really back lit. It's a nice shot, indoors, looking down the aisle at the bride and groom but behind them is three large windows. Is there a way to bring up the foreground with out blowing out the windows. (they is a nice view out the windows). I don't think I can just matte the windows out cause they are in front of them. But Premiere has to have some filter telling the program to lift all dark images, right?

I'm on premiere 6.0 but I do have AF 6.0 as well. I don't have any other plug ins, just what was out of the box.

Thanks for any help guys & gals.

PP1.5 Background Render
 

Just wondered if it does or does not background render... NOT for preview but real render.. I can't find it and this really bugs me.. thanks

You should be able to auto-contrast the image and see what happens, if the information is there (recorded correctly) should give you what you want. You might have to tweak the image a little to get it right.

Let us know how you do.
Miguel

under project settings in premier pro, there is a check box for maintain project aspect ratio, if you're working in 16:9 make sure it's checked to maintain that ratio, same goes for 4:3, I use it to make sure that my stills import correctly into projects but this might do what you needed.

The shadow/highlite filter is the best way to fix this. I recently saved some outdoor footage using this filter that had trees heavily backlit in the background behind my subjects whose faces and bodies looked too dark overall in the dappled shadows they were standing in. It worked great to brighten up the actors while at the same time actually bringing more detail out of the foliage behind them.

Brian,

You can also use the Levels filter, lowering the master gamma adjustment to bring up the shadows. The highlights should gently roll up but not clip. There is a limit to how much you can adjust this before you start to reveal nasty DV artifacts.

Josh

You mean like Pinnacle Liquid Edition, where the app renders in the background as one edits? If that is the question, then no, Premiere Pro does not have this feature.

yep,
 

that's what I meant... Guess I'll buy the Matrox X100 then... thanks

I suggest checking out this guide, "How to frameserve DVD/MPEG2/HDTV to an advanced video editor", that shows how to edit the DVD contents from within Premiere (or another editor).

That there is just what he needs. I used the same method when I started ripping and editing dvd's.

since it is really bright at the windows, making everything else dark since your camera exposed more for the windows it seems like... try going into after effects and making masks around the bright windows, then apply filters to those new mask layers (there should be an eraser function in your tools window, that will create a mask on a new layer). so add a brightness contrast filter to the window layer and you should be good if your whole thing was on tripod with that camera.

Damn compression results , any way to improve it ?
 

Hello i am having a lot of problems when putting some titles similar to the ones that you see in tv normally, but when i render it it looses a lot of quality, i even tried to normalize to broadcast colors, and it improved a little, but still looks like crap... i put the samples below.

http://www.todosobreruedas.tv/rendertest/frametest1.jpg like it should.

http://www.todosobreruedas.tv/rendertest/frametest2.jpg looks bad, check where it says TSR.


Any solution for this ??

Is this a "normal" DV-project and image 1 is before render and image 2 after render? There seems to be several issues (although image no 2 seems to suffer of jpg-artifacts)...

- Are you thingking of the interlace-lines?
Where will you show the video, tv, internet etc? Is there any motion applied to the title (looks like a crawltext at the top)? Correct project settings?

- The slight blurryness of the title (image 2) seems to resemble somewhat of the AMD title issue that some people have had. Are you using a AMD cpu by any chance? If so, try to apply a "dummy-filter" to the clip beneath the title (ex a brightness/contrast filter with the default settings).

/Max

Network rendering, is it possible?
 

Just wondering if it's possible to render a movie using multiple computers in Premiere Pro and/or in Encore.

Adobe Premiere film look plugins?
 

Hello

Can anyone advise me what plug-ins are available for Adobe Premiere to give your HD footage a film look? is it possible to get a film look with something that has been shot in HD with the right plug-ins?

Thanks

I am using a intel P4.

Also the settings are the normal for dv proyects in premiere, and the video is made for a tv show.

also thhe text in the red bar is also moving, thats why it is interlaced.

Seens taht the dv codec has problems with red over black only.

Agus, read about titles, colors and DV compression here: Great titles with the DV Codec

It may be helpful for you! :)

/Roger

Check the film look forum here.

As far as I know, Magic Bullet Editor's is really the only "film look" plug-in for Premiere.

There's also Color Finesse, which is a pricier color correction tool. It has a higher learning curve and is useful if you want to spent more time coloring your shots. Color Finesse and MBE do some things the other cannot do.

There's lots of threads about this in the film look forum. Generally what the plug-ins don't do is:
A- Increase the amount of information captured to equal film. Film captures greater exposure latitude than video.
B- Film shoots typically have more money and more talented people working on them. The film look plugins don't do anything about that.
C- Video may have more high contrast edges than film. It helps to turn off edge enhancement on your camera.

Try making the red brighter? The color is going to bleed all over because of the 4:1:1 color space.

Thank you very much Glenn much appreciated for your help and time on this.


I am new to video editing so i am trying to get as much information as i can and i hope when i am up to your standard i can offer my assistants to people who are just starting out like my self.

Thanks again

Jim

that tutorial is great... still the compresion smooth out your high contrast fonts, especially at red...

I found that in the TV even the compression problems it seens ok... still if you see the master you notice the loss of quality.


This issue should be more investigated, perhaps using another method of editiing and recompress afterwars it could get better results.

The same happened to me using magic bullet, when you interlace with it and compress it to DV you seen a whole diferente result if you export it uncompressed.

Good, New, ideas for editing. Plus more..
 

Well, being sorta new to the whole editing scene, not trying to make a career out of it, I was wondering some ideas or suggestions you guys may have for me when editing to spice things up. Sure I have adapted to some things as my own style, as you probably have, but I'm looking for some new things to try...

Some backround... I got a free Prinacle Studio with my purchase of my canon optura 300 back in May 2004. I learned how to edit, and the basics. I then upgraded and purchased Premiere after about 5-6 edits with Pinnacle.

I now have done over 10 projects with Premiere, and have tryed just about everything, from changing the clip speed, all the transitions, key frames with music, long and short fades, im sure I forgetting a lot.

But when it comes down to it, what am I really missing? I'm pursing a career in Mass Commuications/Journalism, and I know I going to have to learn AVID down the road. But what really makes AVID that much different then Final Cut Pro or Premiere?

Avid was one of the editing systems around in the early days that worked well. It's been kind of the industry standard since then, but Final Cut (and some other editing programs) have been eroding away at it.

For journalism, it doesn't matter too much what you use.
Some places still edit linear because it can be faster.

Premiere as far as I am aware does not have a network rendering farm option. Sorry... It would be a cool feature.

i found that linear is hard. Not so much hard as time consuming. I oculd edit something way faster non-linear. But i never grew up doing linear

DV to disk via USB2?
 

So I read someplace that a USB2 connection has sufficient bandwidth to record a DV signal to an external drive (ie, firewire from camera to laptop, and USB2 from laptop to external HD; in this case, a 160GB Iomega unit).

Anyone have any experience with the set-up? Duz it work...?

I'll try a test cap myself tonight, but if anyone has advice they wanna share...