"lower than intended output quality: frame blending DISabled"???

When I print to tape, after all conforming processes have finished I get
"Note: The following conditions exist in this sequence which may result in lower than intended output quality.
The following can be adjusted using the Render Control tab in the Sequence Settings:
- Frame Blending For Speed is disabled"
??? Frame blending, if anything, will lower the quality even further?
And, if I turn ON frame blending the warning does not disappear but I get the additional warning
"There are sections that are rendered at proxy quality"
***???

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Hi,
I have a vertical scrollbar always showed (JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS),
but I want it to be disabled when the content in the viewport is lower than the viewport's height.
Take for example Chrome browser in Windows: when u open up Google, the content of the page is quite low in height and the scrollbar in Chrome will be disabled. As soon as you have enough content on the page the scrollbar will be active.
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Hello,
It's not really a problem, I just realize it is a SWING limitation, (...)
Almost all app have this behaviour; it isn't really nice visually.I don't have Chrome, and haven't seen this behavior anywhere so far (but admittedly, I'm way behind in terms of GUI fashion).
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import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
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        final JScrollPane widget = new JScrollPane(view, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
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My SD video keeps jumping between the upper and lower frames. So the video starts frame blending and blurring in and out.

My SD video keeps jumping between the upper and lower frames. So the video starts frame blending and blurring in and out. The sequence settings are set to
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What is the source of your video, and exactly what is inside your video?
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30 for screen shot instructions
Free programs to get file information for PC/Mac http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

Adobe Media Encoder 4.2 update forces Frame Blend

I didn't really want to repost, but I felt the title and info in my previous post were innacurate (http://forums.adobe.com/message/2576915#2576915)
In my previous post, I thought Premiere was to blame, but after a few reinstallations, I've found that the update to AME 4.2 causes the problem.
I've found that Adobe Media Encoder 4.2 forces Frame Blend, even if it has been disabled on each clip of the timeline, when the frame rate of your sequence settings differ from the frame rate of the target format.
Example: Exporting from 24fps Desktop -> MPEG2-DVD (23.976fps)
Adobe Media Encoder 4.1 does not have this behavior. I've reverted to 4.1 for the time being.
If anyone has a workaround for this, or any other info on this problem, please share.

I am having a similar problem. Is it just me or is it Adobe? I have had so many problems with Adobe Premiere CS4. It may have also been exacerbated by the fact the I updated to 4.2.1 (mostly in part to determine if another issue was resolved with this update).
I have some editing background in the Windows Movie Maker and iMovie world, and was excited to use Adobe Premiere, but I have had nothing but problems.
Everything that I am trying to do, looks really washed out, and renders the video useless.
I am trying to do what you just described, with speeding up and slowing video to match the computer actions with the person's voice. I am capturing video using CamStudio and Helix YV12 CODEC, and tried to use HuffyUV lossless compression: using DV-NTSC as the standard format.
Then I go to compose my video, and output the video, but the video is crap. It sounds like the Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder are having major problems.
I tried rendering it to Uncompressed Microsoft AVI with UYVY @ 100% quality, and tried to compare it with Windows Media at the highest quality, and it is frustrating. When I hear that Frame Blend is being applied, it seems to look worse.
I am running:
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2.33 GHz (which is kind of slow)
8 GB RAM, 2 SATA 1 TB Drives WD Caviar Green (a little substandard)
Windows XP 64-bit
Let me know there is another process that I am missing. I don't really want to give up on Adobe Premiere, but from a end-user standpoint, I will have to revert back to using WMM due to time constraints. I want to take full advantage of all of the editing and effects capabilities of Premiere, but can't because I can't even produce a decent export to be used by any other program (and given that every conversion will in some way affect the quality of the output, I want to reduce any intermediate steps).
Arrggh!!!

Question on Whether to Check Frame Blending & Use Previews in AME

Hi, When I export a project for transcoding, there are 3 boxes at the bottom of the menu selctions. One is "Use Maximum quality." I ckeck that. I am unsure as to whether I should check, "Use Previews," and of "Use Frame Blending?" I am encoding Mpeg 2, 1080p, Max quality, 80 frame rate.
Thanka Roman

"Use Previews"
No. That's only if you want to use rendered previews as the source for your encodes. About 99.99% of the time, you don't want that; it will result in lower quality exports, as you're using "precooked" files.
"Use Frame Blending?"
Depends. This is a global switch that you may or may not want to use when your export has a different frame rate that your source sequence/footage. It forces frame interpolation (blending) using two or more discrete frames to create new frames. The exact times you'd want this vary depending on your destination and preferred output look.
The help docs say this about Frame Blending:
Select Use Frame Blending to create smoother motion
by blending adjacent frames when output frame rate doesn’t match
input frame rate.
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IDVD output quality

I'm trying to create a slide show with music using iDVD ver 7.1.2 running on Mac OS X ver 10.6.8 and the output quality is very poor. I'm using high quality jpg files some from Lightroom and others from Photoshop CS5. Both are highest quality when saving or exporting. I've tried all thee encoding settings in iDVD with no noticable difference. I've tried to drop the photos directly into iDVD and also tried to put them in iPhoto and export them to iDVD...nothing works for me. What am I doing wrong?

Hi
There are several layers to this
• DVD - is as Standard (whatever program used) - interlaced SD-Video - and can not be anything better than this.
• How material was created to iDVD matters
iMovie'08 to 11 - is not the tool of choise if quality is of importance - as they can not export interlaced video any way known to me - but does this by discarding every second line resulting in a sever quality loss
iMovie HD6 and FinalCut are so much better - as they can deliver 100% interlaced video over to iDVD
• How material is sent to iDVD matters
Share to iDVD - I NEVER USE as this makes iMovie any version to render (badly)
iMovie'08 to 11 - Share to Media Browser and as Large (NOT HD or other resoultion as this too degrades final quality) - forces iMovie to NOT RENDER and iDVD to do this (and so much better)
iMovie HD6 - just close it and import the movie icon into iDVD and iDVD renders.
Else my notes on DVD Quality
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn speed as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
Yours Bengt W

"Frame Blending" while reversing the clip..?

Do I suppose to use "Frame Blending" while reversing the clip..? When going to check the "Reverse" in order to reverse direction of a movement of the clip - it is already checked by default... B U T - when I UNchecked it the quality of the footage with the reversed movement was somehow more clear.. (this is before rendering - just watching in the Viewer).
Is there any general rule regarding this "Frame Blending" (while reversing the clip)? Can I just trust the Viewer quality/difference between when the "Frame Blending" is checked and when is unchecked?

Hi all, and thanks for trying and commenting my plugins.
marekn,
unfortunately there are 2 potential limits in the use of both my Time Remap plugin and the corresponding FCP built-in Time Remap Function:
a. +only the speed of the video portion+ of the clip is modified, and there is no way I know to change speed of the corresponding audio accordingly;
b. the +clip length does not adapt to the new speed+ (longer for a lower speed, shorter for a higher speed - as in the Speed command).
If the average speed of the clip after applying the plugin is lower than its original speed a number of its last frames will be cut off the clip; in the opposite case instead the last frames of the clip will be a freeze frame of the last frame in the original clip.
Only the Speed command in both FCE and FCP changes speed of the audio and adapts the clip length: but Speed applies only a constant speed for the whole clip (not variable as Time Remap). Note that also Fit to Fill changes the audio speed and the clip length, because it basically applies a constant Speed change...
So, marekn, I'm afraid then there is no simple solution to your problem.
If you want the audio to keep in sync with the video while changing speed you have to unlink audio from video, apply Time Remap to the video and fix the audio by splitting it onto sections with different constant speeds, using the Speed command only applied to audio.
About the length of the clip you can use the workaround described in the last Hint (d.) in the Time Remap instructions: it basically suggests to apply Time Remap to a +nested sequence+ containing your clip followed by a stub: the new nested sequence should be long enough to contain the new 100%-50%-100% modified clip. In practice you could make it even longer and than cut off the needless frames after applying the plugin.
I hope this helps.
Piero

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Newbie FMS Output Quality

Hi there.
Just installed FMS3.5 and obtain very low output quality. On
a side-by-side comparison of the capture and output ( FMS start
page ) the stream on the output size is big time choppy and
pixelized.
I read that FMS is doing automatic bandwith detection but
even that, I'm testing on localhost. Is there some specific setup
on server side ?
Thanks for help.

Since you're using the flashplayer as the publishing client,
you can expect crappy, blocky video at any bitrate under about
500kbps. Sorenson spark (the encoder that the flashplayer uses)
produces very low quality images at low bitrates.
Your publishing bitrate is determined by the
camera.setQuality method on the client side. If you are not
explicitly setting the bitrate, video will be encoded at the
default 128kbps... very low quality
The reason the preview image looks better than the final
image is likely because your are looking at the uncompressed camera
image in your preview (i.e attaching the camera directly to the
video object).
Also, make sure the camera supports 320x240 natively (most
do, but one never knows). If it doesn't, the flashplayer will
capture the camera at the camera's closest native resolution, in
which case the image has to be scaled to fit in a 320x240 area. Any
such scaling has a negative impact on image quality.
On the note of automatic bandwidth detection... the included
server side methods do nothing more than determine a client's
server-to-client bandwidth. It's up to the programmer to take the
results of that bandwidth test and apply it to client side
actionscript (for example, choose a specific version of a video to
play when bandwidth is limited). FMS doesn't do any sort of
recompression of streams, so you would need to publish multiple
streams at varied bitrates to take advantage of bandwidth targeted
content delivery.

Frame Blending always on when exporting to MPEG2 with Premiere 4.2.1

Hi,
Can anyone confirm that when exporting to MPEG-2 DVD that Frame Blending seems to always be present even if you disable it on the timeline with Premiere 4.2.1. I know that sometime before the 4.2.1 update that this was not the case.
The problem is not present when exporting to other formats, like H.264.
Note: I am going from a 24fps Desktop timeline -> MPEG2
Can someone confirm this, please?

Colin: So was this introduced before 4.2.1? I'd like to know which version to revert to to avoid this problem.
I'm not actually goign from 24fps to 29.97fps, but from 24fps to 23.976. I've tried a range of settings/frame rates, but with mpeg2 specifically, I have forced frame blending.
From what I understand, my settings should not introduce frame blending.
Here are my sequence settings:
Desktop
24fps
1280 x 720
Square Pixel
No fields (progressive scan)
Outputting to:
Mpeg2-dvd
23.976
Widescreen
No fields (progressive scan)
Interpolation does not necessarily involve frame blending...It should simply duplicate frames....

Frame blending makes rendered version really jerky? Why?

I have been experimenting with different rendering options and with frame blending on, it comes out really jerky. It seems to just ruin any project. Why on earth would anyone want to use it?
Motion blur makes it look much better and smoother but takes hours to render. I thought frame blending was supposed to be a quicker option but still smoothed things out a bit rather than simply make it worse.
Maybe there is something else that needs to be done before it looks good? Any clues anyone?

No, not on a clip. This project only has stills in it.
I mean one of the check items in render menu. It just makes the rendered output look terrible. What is it there for? When does it do something useful?

"The version of the Player that you are trying to install is lower than what is currently installed" when installing 14.0.0.176

I've been deploying flash updates thru SCCM for a long time using the MSI. With this update, many computers updated successfully, but about 200+ of them failed. Each computer I have looked at has the message "Product: Adobe Flash Player 14 ActiveX -- The version of the Player that you are trying to install is lower than what is currently installed." in event viewer. Attempting a manual install of the MSI produces a similar interactive message. The current installed version is definitely older than the one I am attempting to install. I am only able to re-mediate by manually uninstalling, and then installing 14.0.0.176. I could script and deploy an uninstaller, but I would rather the bug with the MSI be fixed.

Dear María,
Finally, I have been able to reproduce the error, both in ActiveX and plugin installers updating from version 15.0.0.246.
Here you have the logs:
ACTIVEX
=== Verbose logging started: 18/12/2014 16:12:54 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.7601.00 Calling process: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe ===
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:137]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:137]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:137]: ******* RunEngine:
           ******* Product: install_flash_player_16_active_x.msi
           ******* Action:
           ******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:138]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:138]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:155]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:155]: Attempting to enable all disabled privileges before calling Install on Server
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:158]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:162]: Running installation inside multi-package transaction C:\WINDOWS\system32\install_flash_player_16_active_x.msi
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:162]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (s) (30:4C) [16:12:54:163]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (s) (30:4C) [16:12:54:163]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (s) (30:4C) [16:12:54:163]: ******* RunEngine:
           ******* Product: C:\WINDOWS\system32\install_flash_player_16_active_x.msi
           ******* Action:
           ******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (s) (30:4C) [16:12:54:163]: Note: 1: 2203 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\install_flash_player_16_active_x.msi 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (30:4C) [16:12:54:164]: MainEngineThread is returning 2
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:177]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Rollback\Scripts 3: 2
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Rollback\Scripts 3: 2
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress 3: 2
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Note: 1: 1402 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress 3: 2
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied. Counter after decrement: -1
MSI (s) (30:E4) [16:12:54:178]: Restoring environment variables
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:188]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied. Counter after decrement: -1
MSI (c) (E0:1C) [16:12:54:188]: MainEngineThread is returning 2
=== Verbose logging stopped: 18/12/2014 16:12:54 ===
PLUGIN
=== Verbose logging started: 18/12/2014 16:15:40 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.7601.00 Calling process: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe ===
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:364]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:364]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:364]: ******* RunEngine:
           ******* Product: install_flash_player_16_plugin.msi
           ******* Action:
           ******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:364]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:364]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:384]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:384]: Attempting to enable all disabled privileges before calling Install on Server
MSI (c) (28:44) [16:15:40:384]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (s) (30:2C) [16:15:40:384]: Running installation inside multi-package transaction C:\WINDOWS\system32\install_flash_player_16_plugin.msi
MSI (s) (30:2C) [16:15:40:384]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (s) (30:3C) [16:15:40:384]: Resetting cached policy values
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Turning off frame blending in Adobe Media Encoder

Is there a way to turn off frame blending in Adobe Media Encoder? I have a bunch of
Flip Mino HD footage (1280x720p) which I wish to convert to P2 720p format so that
I can more easily mix and match it in the Premiere timeline with actual P2 footage
shot on an HVX200.
I successfully used Media Encoder to perform this task but there is one problem. The
Flip footage is 30fps and P2 720p is 29.97fps. So Media Encoder uses frame blending.
The frame blending sometimes creates obnoxious artifacts so I would like to turn it
off but there seems to be no way to do this (or alternatively "conform" the 30fps input
to 29.97fps so that no blending is nescessary).
After Effects CS4 would seem like an alternative since it has nice batch composition
creation and rendering features but it cannot render to the P2 format - it appears to
have a older version of Media Encoder embedded within it - predating P2 support.
I would like a solution that is easily "batchable" as I have several hunderd Flip Mino HD
clips that need to be processed.
You might also ask, why not just import the Flip clips unchanged into Premiere CS4
and mix them with the P2 clips?....I have tried this and it seems to drive Premiere crazy
introducing various crashes and other strange behaviors. The pre conversion to P2
route seems to work fine. I just want to get rid of the frame blending.

I happened upon this video just before I made my posting and it doesn't help with the
crashes/hangs. When I import more than about 20 Flip Mino HD clips it seems to trigger
some sort of memory corruption bug in Premiere. Some of the clips start to just
show as solid green in their thumbnail views in the timeline and scrubbing the timeline
eventually hangs Premiere altogether. This is reproducible on two different computers
although the exact symptoms change slightly each time it is tried. Importing only 3 or 4
clips actually seems to work, at least for a short while.
The problems happen even if the only thing imported into the project are Mino footage and
the Sequence is set to Desktop or XDCAM mode. So the crashes have nothing to do
with P2 editing mode.
The same installation of Premiere CS4 on one of these computers has been just used to
successfully edit and render out a P2 project with hundreds of clips, stills and titles so the
basic CS4 installation seems to be solid.
I'll eventually file a bug report but for now I'm more interested in getting the job done.

How Do I Change Video Output Quality When Capturing .DV Video From Camera?

I am experimenting with both this Premiere Elements 10 trial, as well as other brands of software, finding the best one to purchase for my needs.
In some other software, I not only indicate the source quality, but the output quality to the computer. If I want to upload the full quality video files to edit for retransferring back to a DV video tape, that's fine, but I will take up a lot of computer memory, relatively speaking. On the other hand, if I know that I'm going to be editing the video for replay on the computer or over the web, I can tell the program to upload to MPEG4 or some other conversion.
I am not seeing this as an option with the Premiere Elements. Can anyone tell me where, if possible, I can alter the output quality before the program begins the download? I certainly can find the input quality (such as .dv 4:3 ratio). I'd prefer not to always have to download the full quality video, THEN have to covert it as a separate step.
Thank you!

The PRE workflow is (1) Create your project (2) import your assets (3) sequence and edit your assets (4) create your menus (5) share your project.
The quality of intended output has no effect on your project settings which should match your source footage. Done this way optimises PRE's performance - as it can internally process far more effectively when matched to a 'native' format.
For standard definition the ideal format for PRE is DV-AVI Type 2. This is almost lossless and operates at around 13GB per hour.
Compression to an output format (e.g. DVD, or an iPod, or viewing online) is managed through the share process.
You could:
Import your footage - e.g AVCHD, HDV, DV-AVI, VOB
Share it to a compressed format - e.g. MP4
Delete the original capture source (in Step 1)
Work in a new project using the compressed output (in step 2).
But if you do this your final output quality will be lessened through working with a compressed original that you will then compress again. I can't see what you feel you will gain by this - disk space is so cheap now why wouldn't you want to give yourself the best quality source to work with.
Note that once you are finished with a project you can archive it off to free up your disk space.
Cheers,
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

Is it possible to partially export a video using frame blending?

For example, I have a video intro that, after being uploaded and processed on YouTube, looks very choppy. However, if I export it using frame blending, it looks perfectly fine. The down side is that the rest of the video looks somewhat more blurry, as frame blending tends to do. I like how fluid the intro is when frame blended, but I perfer the rest of the video when it's just exported normally. I found an option called frame blend under the clip's video options, making me think that I could fix my problem, but it didn't seem like it did anything at all when I exported it. Is what I'm trying to achieve actually possible, or will I just have to deal with it, one way or the other?

1. I export in H.264 with the preset HDTV 720p 29.97 fps High Quality. I would use the YouTube preset, but it compresses the audio to a point where it sounds terrible. I'm sure there's a way to fix this, but I don't know enough about it to do so myself.
2. My sequence also runs at 29.97 fps.
3. The intro consists of several game capture clips all .avi at what I think is 29 fps. Many of the clips are sped up to at least 200%.

"lower than intended output quality: frame blending DISabled"???

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