Multiple Formats/Sequence Settings

I have a Premiere Pro 5.5 project that will eventually be saved on standard DVD.
My assets are as follows:
Canon FS300 - 720x480 29.97 fps (0.9091)
Canon 60D - 1920x1080 29.97 fps (1.0)
Canon 60D - jpg 1024x768 (1.0)
The formats are distributed evenly within the project.
Question: Which asset would be best to use as the sequence settings?

I'd use the 720x480 29.97 for your sequence settings. Otherwise you're going to have to blow up your other footage to match your HD footage and it will look horrible. So if you're planning on editing all that in the same timeline then you need to edit using 720x480 29.97 sequence settings. Plus 720x480 is the resolution of DVD's.

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Multiple Codecs in Single Timeline ---Sequence Settings

This has to do with determining the correct sequence setting when using source material that is originally compressed in different codecs, some of which has square pixels, some ntsc "rectangular pixels," many of which are compressed at different fps.
Is it best first to transcode all the source material to a single codec, with a common frame rate and pixel aspect ratio? And, if so, which codec?
A good deal of the material is standard dv 720x480, 29.97 fps.
Should that be the base codec? Should my sequence settings reflect that and have everything else conform to it? Or should I conform everything to something different?
What I'm aiming for is to avoid constant rendering when I bring these different sources into the timeline.
And, more generally speaking, is there a tutorial regarding codecs and mixing them in a single timeline?
Thanks.
david

Is it best first to transcode all the source material to a single codec, with a common frame rate and pixel aspect ratio?
Yes...absolutely.
And, if so, which codec?
ProRes NTSC. Or DV50.
A good deal of the material is standard dv 720x480, 29.97 fps. Should that be the base codec?
No. DV *****...lowest end SD format that is broadcast acceptable. Don't do with the lowest common denominator...go with a GOOD codec. What are the others?
Shane

Exporting multiple sequences from Premiere with Match Sequence Settings...

If I individually select a sequence in Premiere and Export Media I have the option of checking Match Sequence Settings but with multiple sequences selected the option goes away. So I have to individually select the sequence, check the Match Sequence Settings box and add to the queue for every. darn. sequence. All I want is to export multiple sequences to Media Encoder with Match Sequence Settings (or add multiple sequences to the Media Encoder queue, same thing). Am I missing something? This seems like it would be used a lot...

For PC users, of which I am one, the Preview Render codec in the Sequence is usually MPEG so best to avoid it. If you can actually use ProRes, then it's understandable that you'd want to "Match Sequence" if possible.
Check this link - http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/pro-tip-exporting-a-finished-video-from-premiere-pro/
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

Best Sequence settings for JVC Everio files (TOD format)

I own a JVC Everio camcorder, and I recorded some videos if Full HD (1920 X 1080). I loaded the TOD files to my computer and converted them to MPEGs using the bundled PowerDirector program. When I play these HD MPEG files in Windows Media Player, they look fantastic. Very smooth color and no pixelation.
I loaded these files into a Premier Pro CS4 project because I need to perform some simple editing (trim in/out points, small rotation, and color correction). I created a sequence using the AVCHD 1080p square pixel preset, which has the following settings:
AVCHD 1080p square pixel
29.97 frames/second
Square pixels
Progressive scan
30 fps Drop-Fram time code
48kHz audio
I-Frame Only MPEG
Maximum Bit Depth, Maximum Render Quality
When I play the video files using either the Source or Project Monitor, the quality of the files appears degraded compared to what I see through Windows Media Player. I'm concerned that I'm not using the correct settings to best work with this source video format.
Should I change either the Program or Sequence settings to optimize for this file format, or is Windows Media Player performing some magic in the background?
Thanks,
Matthew
Specs:
Premier Pro CS4 4.2.1
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.67 GHz (having some overheating issues, so no overclocking)
8 GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Graphics Card

This ARTICLE might offer some tips on the TOD files.
Good luck,
Hunt

Sequence preset for multiple format of clips

I have sources coming from 3 AVCHD camcorders and one GoPro HD:
AVCHD source #1 is 1920x1080/50i
AVCHD source #2 is 1440x1080/50i
AVCHD source #3 is 1440x1080/60i
GoPro HD H264 source is 1280x720/60p
AVCHD footages have been transcoded to ProResLT codec during the Log&Transfer.
H264 footage has been transcoded to ProResLT codec with MPEG Streamclip utility.
My aim is to use all these footages, to get a final output to be displayed on the web/computer screen. So, ideally, I'd want progressive. What would you suggest as a sequence preset, or as additional pre-work before starting editing?

The GoPro footage is meant to be slo mo, right?
I believe this workflow will provide the sharpest image before compression for the web.
Your project will have the following Sequence Settings:
ProRes LT, 1280x720, 25 fps, Square Pixels, Field Dominance - None.
Convert all of the footage except the GoPro in Compressor to those specs, using Frame Controls to de-interlace and downscale. Be sure to change the frame Rate in the Encoder tab, Video Settings; and change the resolution and pixel aspect ratio in the Geometry tab.
In Cinema Tools, conform the frame rate of the ProRes LT GoPro to 25 fps.
Make sure all audio is 48 kHz, 16 bit.

PP6 Multiple tracks output setting & why MATCH SEQUENCE SETTINGS isn't seeming to work correctly!!

First... can you change a active timeline from stereo to mulititrack 16 channels for instance without creating a new sequence and pasting old sequence into new one.
Also, watch this video...
16 channels of audio... great... try to match sequence settings it changes from 16 channels to stereo. Um... what's happening there???? How do we fix that?
http://youtu.be/EslOPTRk79E

Jim, this is the best place for Mike to post.
This is where the Premiere Pro engineers, testers, and product managers will see questions. It's extremely cumbersome to try to forward a tweet to the relevant expert, and it's even worse to try to troubleshoot and give answers longer than 140 characters (with screenshots) over Twitter.
That said, I'll get someone more familiar with the new audio features to have a look.

[Adobe premiere pro CS4] Getting started: Sequence settings & more

Hi people, I am new here and I am from holland so excuse me if I make some grammar mistakes
I have been trying to edit movies, for fun and for my mother, but everytime I bounce into an numerous of problems.
So I have listed some questions I or problems I bounced into:
Question 1: What is the purpose of the sequence settings? Is it used to match your source video or is it also for your output file?
Question 2: And what if I put multiple vidoe's in one timeline, with sequence settings do I need then? of multiple sequences?
Question 3: Whitch format do I need to use when I want to burn my modified vidoe to a dvd?
I allready tried some stuff out, but when I saved this dvd to my harddrive or burn in on a dvd it's sometimes laggy.
Question 4: Did I put the quality to high for a dvd and was the bitrate to high to read it for a dvd player? or becuase it was an HD movie?, made by a HD camera. Or did something else went wrong?
Question 5: Which output settings can I use
Question 6: Which output settings do I need to use if I want to put the video on youtube, HD-youtube?
Question 7: Which sequence settings do I need to use when I have a movie with stereo audio and my output file will be an 5.1 audio?
When I am busy with a project I found all these questions, while they are the basics which I need to know. So it would be really helpfull if you guys can answer all of my quenstions
Thanks allready
Rik

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Batch Export with Match Sequence Settings

How can I select a bunch of sequences in Premiere Pro and export them with Media Encoder as "Match Sequence" Settings? When I have multiple selections that option is not available. Also, is there an option to either use or ignore the in/out when batching sequences?

Hi TBC,
I think you're on the wrong track with the export. Camera codecs are for acquisition. There are many different options for Export, and they do not need to be, nor should they be in most cases, the same thing you started with. The general consensus I see on these forums is to avoid "Match Sequence Settings" most of the time.
Please let us know the destination, and we can then suggest options. For instance, if you simply want to create a "Master" copy of the completed work, on a Mac you might want ProRes, while on the PC you could look at the Lagarith Lossless codec, or the Avid DNxHDcodec (both need to be installed to use them). If going to the web, there's a ton of options, but a YouTube or Vimeo preset is a good place to start, found under "H.264" format.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

How do I match a clip to sequence settings and sequence presets?

I'm getting the warning: Attention - This clip does not match this sequence's settings or any or our sequence presets.
I'm trying to figure out how to set things up in Compressor so that my clips do match my sequence settings and presets. The issue seems to be with the audio not matching.
Here are the sequence settings:
Audio-2 Outputs
Frame Size- 1920x1080
Vid Rate-24fps
Compressor-Apple ProRes 422 (proxy)
Aud Rate 48.0 KHz
Aud Format 32-bit floating Point
I shot all the footage with a Canon 5D Mark II. I'm using Compressor to convert all my original clips. The only thing I don't seem to be able to match is the Audio. I can't find any way in Compressor to encode clips that have "two outputs" in the Audio column.
The dialogue box for "Sound Settings" in Compressor doesn't offer any sort of options, that I can find anyway, to generate clips with "two outputs."

These are the Compressor settings:
Description: Apple ProRes 422 10-bit video with audio pass-through. Settings based off the source resolution and frame-rate.
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 16.36 GB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
Apple Lossless, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Selected: 1920 x 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 24
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 0
Temporal quality: 0
Min. temporal quality: 0
These are the sequence settings:
Frame Size: 1920 x 1080
Editing Timebase: 24fps
Field Dominance: None
Pixel Aspect Ration: Square
Anamorphic 16:9: Off
Video Processing YUV allowed (8-bit)
Compressor: Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)
Millions of Colors (24 bit)
No Data Rate Limit
No Keyframes Set
Quality: 100
Audio Settings:
16-bit 48.000 kHz Stereo
I made screen shots, but don't see how to paste them into this post.

When creating a new project, the step "new sequence settings" doe not appear automatically, what to do?

Hi there,
I have a question I am doing product videos for a comany they would like me to do this in a format that is 16:9 and in HD. Since they don't know on which channels they want to publish it but it is certain they will publish it on youtube I wanted to do it in the settings HDV and then DVCPROHD 720p24 or even 1080p24. I have bought the license of Premiere online and for some reason I do not have the option in the beginning when I create a new project to change the sequence settings. They do not appear and afterwards I cannot change them. Do you guys have an idea what can be done in order to access this setting before the project ultimately opens?
I'd highly appreciate any kind of help on the matter!
Cheers,
Mascha

Or do this:
or this

Using Animation in your Sequence Settings ... Amazing!

Well here's the thing ....
And I'll start off by saying I have so much to learn about FCP but this has made a big difference to how my images look, especially graphics and titles.
So I'm working away at my project and the graphic images that I import into the timeline from the viewer are just ok and I'm a bit disillusioned like so many people seem to be on these forums about how the image degrades from the viewer to the canvas. And of course it is apparent later on the QT file and then the DVD that's produced at the end.
So one day, and I can't remember how it came about, I open the sequence settings and change the Compressor in QT Video Settings to Animation! Well what can I say, the image in the canvas was absolutely perfect and in some cases, it's actually a little better than how it looked in the viewer before I brought it across.
I have to produce a DVD where each week, some of the moving footage and graphic images have to be changed over. A total of about 15 minutes and all of it of course is in this Animation sequence. The downside of using Animation is
(1) the rendering time is horrendous, (or is that horrenderous?)
(2) as I'm editing, the playhead disobeys what you ask of it and you get the spinning beach ball quite often (can take 1-4 minutes before you can continue again)
(3) sometimes when you're playing through the timeline the image on the canvas and the sound quality are poor (processor running out of puff I guess)
It's a bit of a nightmare but I have no choice but to use Animation now the Marketing Department have seen the difference and expect the higher quality on the images. Cannot get this quality with any other setting I've tried in the Compressor setting. HDV1080 for instance means the rendering problem goes away but the difference in quality is obvious. The project has many different files and formats from HDV to H264s to Pro Res 422s and lots of various jpegs in various forms. But regardless of the project, I have experimented with unrelated sequences in different projects with the same result.
My questions are..... has anyone else experienced this, is there another setting that would bring about the same results and lastly, would the rendering and the other problems significantly be reduced with say the top-end iMac?
I have to tell you I almost didn't post this coz I have so little experience with FCP but it would be great to get your feedback. The weekly project I produce may take more time than it should but I have to say I'm happy with the results.
Thanks for reading.
Peter L

Well... the animation codec is primarily used for sneakernetting files from one platform to another, mac to pc for example. It's a bear for a lot of computers to even play out a file without choking. The concept is make animation file, put on disk or drive, carry across the hall to the pc station, convert to something the pc station can use without choking.
I would suggest you try a little experiment: take your input material and convert it to prores (NOT HQ) before import or WHEN you import (log and transfer) and work with that natively. HDV as HDV is really a cruddy medium. Prores will give you a much better color space and have actual frames all the way through, which hdv does not. Take a one minute section of material, load on some graphics and filters etc, render it out, do your whole production process and see what it looks like. Once you move beyond the artifacts inherent in hdv and h.264 encoding you might be surprised.
Bad mistake to point out to marketing folks how cool it looks. You must be young!

Sequence settings misunderstanding

Hello everybody. I have searched the forums and have went back to the manual for FCP but cant seem to find the answer to my questions. Any help would be appreciated.
I am curious about the sequence settings in FCP. I believe that a mistake was made in the very beginning and i know that the editing timebase cannot be changed once a sequence has been created and edited in. It seems that other changes can be made though.
Before I go further, here is my set up... I shot on HDV 1080 24p (1440X1080).
My sequence settings for the project seem to deviate from what I shot at. Some things are as they should be and others are not. The frame size is good, the pixel aspect ratio is good, and my audio settings seem on track too.
However, The field dominance is set to Upper(odd)....this should be set to 'none' since i shot progressive correct??? My editing timebase is 29.97, since i shot 24p and it cannot be changed... how does this effect my project/the final output to dvd ?? My quicktime video settings are set to HDV 1080i60, it seems that I can change this back to what it was shot at, but my question about this is what exactly does this effect in relation to my project and final out put of the project to DVD??
I have not had any major problems viewing or working on my project in FCP. I have done a few tests with compressor and then burning to dvd, and my quality seems to be less than what I would like. I have tried different compression settings including HD MPEG-2 @ 18Mbps.
Could the loss of quality be coming from my current settings in FCP or are they more than likely in Compressor. If my frame controls in compressor are on, what should the rate conversion be set to, and what qualities does this effect? I also am not understanding the deinterlace settings. If the output field setting is to 'same as source', why does it even give you a choice if you shot progressive?? I AM Confused about these settings as well.
I realize there are many questions bundled within this post. Please be patient with me and any info would be appreciated.
thanks
joe

To my knowledge HDV at 1080 is interlaced.
You could:
Open a new sequence and drop a HDV clip in/FC will ask if you want to conform the sequence to the clip-click yes/sequence settings will now match the clip and show you exactly what you are dealing with. This info can also be found in the columns for each clip and sequence but I find sequence view is easier to understand what you have.
Creating a Blu-Ray via Compressor is your only option for HD on a disc. DSP has no relevant HD options as HD-DVD lost the format war to BR over two years ago.

Sequence settings / render confusion

Hi,
One thing with FCP I never seem to understand is the way that it deals with sequence settings. I always find myself thinking: Final Cut Pro is smart, why can't it just figure out what my clip settings are and adjust it so that I don't have to do a render?
Quite frequently, I will get a video, and think that I understand exactly what format it is, etc.. and I will drag it into FCP and set the settings to match, and the red-line will persist, and force me to render... I just don't understand this.
Just now, I used Snap-Z-Pro to do a screen capture, and I recorded audio with my microphone via logic pro.. So I had an aiff and this quicktime .mov file (animation compression, 30fps) 921 x 926... All I wanted to do was combine them together, and export them to compressor so that I could make an h.264 video and upload it to the web.
I brought the video into FCP, told the sequence settings to be Animation.. I got the red line...
I set the resolution to custom, pixel aspect to square.. set the x & y to 921 and 926...
red line...
I also noticed that the clip attributes in the bin/browser show hat it is "10fps" when snapzpro recorded at 30fps, and it certainly does not look like 10fps.
... Anyway.. Lastly, I took a small 5 second clip and exported it to compressor to see how it looked.. And it looks awful. The frame size is super small and surrounded by black--- Even though the frame size of the sequence settings matches the frame size of the video! How do I tell FCP to just leave the original material alone and let me just add audio to it?
thank you!
-p

First off, you need to use Cinema Tools to conform your footage to 30fps. SnapzPro doesn't make a solid 30fps...it wavers when you play back. Cinema Tools will lock the frame rate...basically add timecode to lock thing into place. Dunno why Snapz does what it does.
Next, if you had FCP 6, it would make a sequence to match the settings. Although I am not sure about YOUR settings. FCP is designed for working with tape and tapeless broadcast formats, not strange sized windows. But this might help...Making a timeline with off-codec settings:
http://proappstuff.com/proapptipsvideotutorials/194F4DC2-ACBB-4DD6-A1D0-F46D7D8D CAFC/739BE552-5A0A-474C-8792-537C4082427B.html
Lastly...Animation is not an editing codec. It is an uncompressed codec that makes huge files and requires more than a firewire drive to play back...talking decent RAID here. If you converted to a different lighter codec then playback would be smoother.
Shane

Sequence settings when mixing 25fps (1920x1080) and 50fps (1280x720) ??

I've got some DSLR footage filmed at different frame rates (25 and 50) and as a result also different sizes (1920 x 1080 / 1280 x 720) compressed as H.264.... can anybody advise me as to what format the footage would edit best in (fastest render times) what my sequence settings (frame rate and frame size) should be in FCP while editing a mixture of both these types of footage? I understand that setting the frame rate at 50 is suitable for slowing 50fps footage down by 50% but would this affect the 25fps footage?
Any help would be brilliant, cheers.

Convert both to ProRes. If you want, Magic Bullet Grinder will make this process very fast, and upscale the 720p footage to 1080, and make the 50fps into smooth slow motion 25fps. It utilizes all the processors in the computer.
Sadly it doesn't bring in the source timecode nor assign a reel number (important to professional editors). The only way to do that is via Log and Transfer...here's the workflow for that: Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial
Most important is to backup the files, and to convert to ProRes. What footage do you have the most of? What format do you want to deliver? These are what help you decide what format to edit in. Do you want the 50fps to be slow motion? Then use can CONFORM with Cinema Tools. And edit in a 1080p timeline (720p will be upscaled).
Shane

Sequence Settings

Hi, I'm still fairly new at using FCP, and get a bit lost when it comes to the technical lingo. I need to know what sequence settings to use for an upcoming project. The footage is coming from three main sources, Sony XDCAM, Canon 5D Mark II and a Varicam, so it's all been transferred with different formats (frame size, compressor, video rate etc). Once the film is completed, we want to save it on a hard drive to send off for grading, and then transfer it to Digibeta (for TV).
Can someone tell me specifically what sequence settings should be used?
Thanks!

Final Cut Automatically sets the Sequence settings to match the video that you put into it. But if the video is from different cameras and is in different frame rates and such it might not all match up for the best. I guess the best thing to do would be to put the best format video in first. For example, if you have some HD quality video and then some SD put the HD in first so that the sequence is set to that. Like the guy before me said this is a question that cannot be simply answered without knowing more.
Hope this helps,
Matt

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