PP CS3 Preset/Media Formatting Help -- Banquet show using projector

[scotonn]

Am about to edit a football highlight video using Premiere Pro CS3 on a Mac. The video will be shown in a banquet hall using a NEC projector attached to the ceiling. The hall owner doesn't have any info on the projector, so I don't know its native resolution or any other specs. (He said they used a ladder to look at the projector, but couldn't find a model number.) The screen is standard size.

I'm being given a potpourri of media:

1) The team's game DVDs shot from the press box. MPEG Streamclip shows the VOBs have these properties: 720 × 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps, 9.30 Mbps, upper field first - 128 AC3 2/0, 48 kHz, 256 kbps. I have converted the VOBs to dv files with these properties: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, 720 × 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps, 28.77 Mbps - DV stereo, 48 kHz, 28.77 Mbps.

2) Field level video taken with a Canon HV30 (HD, wide screen). The files I've been given are: Apple Intermediate Codec, 960 × 540, 29.97 fps, 30.09 Mbps - 16-bit Big Endian stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps. I could ask to have these files recaptured as SD files.

3) Many side line photos (TIFFs) taken with a Canon 30D.

After editing the project, I was planning on exporting the final video as a mov file to be played from my lap top hard drive rather than from a DVD.

If there is additional info I need to provide, let me know.

My questions are: which PP preset should I use, or should I use custom settings? If so, what should they be?

Have I converted the VOBs to the proper format?

Should I recapture the HV30 footage or convert it to another format?

I have the photos in Lightroom and can export them as TIFFs, JPEGs, PSDs or DNGs and can resize them down if necessary. Any suggestions?

Finally, I was thinking of converting the background music from mp3s to aif files at 48 kHz, 16-bit to be consistent across the different audio files. Any suggestions with the audio?

Any thoughts or suggestions on these issues would be most appreciated. Sorry for the length of this post.

[poisondeathray]

Ideally, the sequence settings you would use would match the input settings for the projector

It would be prudent to find out what formats the projector accepts before continuing. It would be horrible to spend a lot of time on this, only to find out it doesn't work with the projector. Even if you have to do some "mini tests" on the projector if you can't find the model #

[scotonn]

Looks like the projector is set at a resolution of 800 by 600, 60 hertz.

[poisondeathray]

Looks like the projector is set at a resolution of 800 by 600, 60 hertz.

That's likely the projected display signal.

You need to find acceptable input signals and what physical connections it has

Chances are it will accept a NTSC DV 720x480 29.97 input signal, as that is a pretty standard format. But I would verify this to make sure. Since most of your main DVD footage is the same format, I would be inclined to use that too (assuming that footage would make up most of the composition)

It's unclear from the info if your #2 camera footage was deinterlaced or if it was the native 60 fields per second. It would be better if it was 60 fields/sec, to match #1 (which was interlaced 30frames/sec or 60fields/sec).

Since this will be done on a MAC, it might be better if a mod moved this thread to the MAC subforum