DV Encoding

[ribac]

Just finished editin in Premiere Pro.
Now I need to save my DV AVI file which is 23GB.Can I use Virtual Dub to slice the file??

Also I need to convert to MPEG2 for DVD export.
What is best way to encode it??In TMPGENC or Use encoder in Premiere Pro??
What's best?/

[edDV]

For MPeg2,

Do samples for both (yellow bar at top) and see which you like best. Burn both to DVD and evaluate with your reference TV viewing environment.

The internal Mainconcept based encoder is OK by me.


PS: You can use the yellow bar at top (work area marker) to output selected DV-AVI files. You don't need to split.

[ribac]

I'll try,thanks.
What about to slice the AVI for storage.
Or what's your steps during your process.
Do u store AVI or already compressed MPEG??

[edDV]

As a separate project, I edit Raw captures on the timeline and save the "good stuff" back to a tape for archive. You could save them to DVD in 20min chunks if you want.

When the project is finished, I also archive the final timeline to tape as DV-AVI and to DVD as MPeg2.

[ribac]

I'm sorry,but what's the Raw file?

[ribac]

Ok Igot it

[edDV]

I'm sorry,but what's the Raw file?

The captured DV camcorder file.
aka logging or picking out useful shots.

I only archive the potentially useful shots.

[ribac]

Yeah I got it,but i have full movie from my ski trip,which is 1hrs10min.so I'll save it back to MiniDv and encoded file to DVD.
That's the best way right?

[ribac]

I forgot to ask.when I use to upload file in to WinDV I had 100 dropped frames.Is that bad??Or is better way??
Also How i can send my edited file from Premiere back to my camcorder??

Thanks for help,u really helped me

[edDV]

Yeah I got it,but i have full movie from my ski trip,which is 1hrs10min.so I'll save it back to MiniDv and encoded file to DVD.
That's the best way right?

I would just save the original camera tape in that case.
Then I would save the edited timeline to a separate DV tape and the MPeg2 to DVD.

I forgot to ask.when I use to upload file in to WinDV I had 100 dropped frames.Is that bad??Or is better way??
Also How i can send my edited file from Premiere back to my camcorder??
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Dropped frames can happen, especially with single drive systems. About all you can do is minimize background tasks including anti-virus while transferring DV from or to the camera. Better to use a second drive (and second disk controller) for video captures.

Premiere will export the timeline to the camcorder. You must render the project first.
Export Timeline - Export to Tape

Also you could save the project to a DV-AVI file (Export Timeline - Movie) and then transfer that to
the camcorder with WinDV, but that would consume 13.5GB/hr additional disk space.

[ribac]

Thanks agin for great input.
If I can have a last question.
The DV file when I play it on my computer is kind of not to smooth,kind of smudgy.

Is this have anything to do with de/interlacing ??

[pijetro]

Don't worry.
It's very intensive as far as playback goes.
Could be defragmented hardrive..

Perhaps your system isn't up to snuff..But i'm sure your computer specs would verify that.. :P :P

[edDV]

Thanks agin for great input.
If I can have a last question.
The DV file when I play it on my computer is kind of not to smooth,kind of smudgy.

Is this have anything to do with de/interlacing ??

Computer speed influences playback quality. Premiere makes no attempt to clean it up. The idea is to see what you have interlaced warts and all.

You will see proper playback on a TV connected to your camcorder. Make sure Premiere is set to feed monitor playback through the Firewire port back to the camcorder. The picture will be smooth there because the camcorder's hardware DV decoder is being used to feed the image to the TV.

The assumption with Premiere and other premium video editors is you want the picture to look best when played to a TV set, not to a computer monitor.

Computer playback is best done with a good deinterlacing player like PowerDVD.

[ribac]

I use Toshiba laptop with P4 3.2Mhz,80GB HDD,512MB(soon'll be 1GHZ).