XDCAM Presets

Am I missing something? When I begin a new project, there are no XDCAM presets, only folders. I am using the education version of Premiere Pro CS3.
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Xdcam preset missing

Hello,
I have recently installed the CC suite that includes Premiere Pro CC.
The version I am using is Premiere Pro CC v8.1, Caravan (I don’t what “Caravan” refers to).
I have no problem playing the files I’m mostly using like, DNxHD 120 and v210, (AVI & MOV containers).
However the MPEG2 OP-1a with MXF container I cannot. The error message I get is:
“Unsupported format or damaged file.”
On previous version of Premiere Pro CS6 & CS 5.5 I still can play them without problems.
On top of that I saw that the XDCAM preset are not showed anymore in the preset list of Premier Pro CC and it looks like codecs are missing.
I have deinstall the whole adobe CC suite by following instructions I found on the Adobe support site and I re-installed it but it haven’t solve my problem.
I spend time on the forum to look at a solution but haven’t found the answer on my problem.
According the specs of Premiere Pro CC, it should support natively the MPEG2 OP-1a.
Any solution to resolve that?
Thank you

I have resolve the problem:
Signed out from Adobe CC
Reinstalled workstation from scratch
Applied all windows updates
Installed Adobe CC
All XDCAM presets are now active and everything seems to be right in place.
It seems that any previous or different installs like trail or education can occur problems for any new or different licence install, even if running the Adobe cleaner.

How to use XDCAM files with Premier 4 Trial

According to everything I have read, using XDCAM files with Premier 4 is easy. It just works. However, it doesn't with me.
For starters, when I create a new project, there are no XDCAM presets, despite it stating there are in the various documents I have read.
If I either try to import a file directly or copy it to the hard drive and then import it, I get:
Error Message
The importer reported a generic error
Not very helpful.
This is a trial version of Premier to try to establish if this product is any good. I did try to contact Adobe but they say they don't support trial users. Not very helpful. Since Adobe are obviously not very interested in selling their products, is there anyone else out there whop can answer this or should I just use Final Cut Pro instead (well if Adobe are not interested in helping a potential customer, what chance is there of being helpful once they have your money???)

As far as I am concerned, editing XDCAM EX files with CS4 - I have yet to edit XDCAM (HD) files - is as easy as editing DV(CAM) material on my i7 Extreme machine with Vista Ultimate and 12 Gig of RAM.
I am also pleased to report that the audio bug that beset CS3 when editing XDCAM EX files namely, audio cutting out randomly, is a thing of the past.
The whole CS4 Suite (including Premiere) has been running very smoothly on my (beefy) machine.

Preset Composition Settings in AE vs. Pr Pro & Saving as QT movie

Hello,
I'm on a Mac using CS4
I use Premiere Pro and in it there are many specific project presets. I use the XDCAM presets for my XDCAM EX1 footage.
In the AE Composition Presets there is not an XDCAM preset like in Pr Pro.
I think I'm about to answer my own question.
I guess I would copy the Pr Pro Preset values and create a custom preset in AE for the XDCAM EX clips.
Is it best to create a composition the exact size of clips or should I make the compostion width and height a little smaller, (and reduce the clip scale if necessary), just in case I want to Pan the image around. Also if I did make the composition size smaller how would that affect using an AE comp in Pr Pro?
Last thing, when render out of AE to use in Pr Pro I read it was best to choose Animation as the preset for maximum color, and make it a Quick time movie, if I have more editing or effects to apply in Pr Pro, not H. 264, it that correct.
thank you
Cris

> You mention that QuickTime Animation is nice as well as a few others.
What would those others be and why would I choose one over the other.
For just 8-bpc (8 bits per channel), I like Animation and PNG codecs in a QuickTime container as lossless interchange formats. The PNG codec is better for photorealistic images---like most video---whereas Animation is better at compressing large areas of the same color, like in a cartoon. (Hence the name, 'Animation'.)
I just encoded a movie using both of these lossless codecs, just for comparison. The QuickTime file that contains the movie encoded with the PNG codec is half the size of the QuickTime file that contains the movie encoded with the Animation codec. And the F4V file is less than a tenth the size of either of them---though the compression makes for some image quality loss compared with the lossless codecs.
BTW, here's what I was encoding: the After Effects 1.1 demo reel from 1993.

Some sequence presets now missing. Help?

I recently had to reinstall Premiere CS4, afterwhich I updated the software to 4.2.1. When I go to make a new sequence, the presets for HDV and the two XDCAM presets are missing. The folders for these sequence presets are still on my hard drive in the"SequencePresets" folder, but Premiere is not seeing them. Is there some sort of "scan for new presets" function? What can I do to get Premiere to see all the sequence presets?
J. D.

It sounds like your full-paid version has reverted to the trial. Do you have ANY MPEG capabilities? This has happened to several users, and so far, no one has been able to tell why.
If this has happened, you will want to undertake these steps and in this order:
1.) De-Activate your PrPro - probably will be grayed out, but check.
2.) Uninstall PrPro
3.) Run Adobe Clean Script (now up to CS5) several times, rebooting between each. Probably a good idea to run a Registry cleaner, like CCleaner.
4.) Reinstall PrPro
5.) Update to CS4.2, before doing ANY editing
Good luck,
Hunt

Sequence Presets Missing in 5.5

Hey all,
I am aware of the CS5 trial version limitations for sequence presets listed here, but it also explicity states that in 5.5, these limitations don't exist. I installed the trial version of 5.5, and subsequently upgraded, and I still do not see any AVCHD, MPEG-2, or XDCAM presets listed when I create a new project; only DV and DVCPRO. How do I obtain these presets? Are there configuration files somewhere I can download? Uninstalling and reinstalling, as suggested elsewhere on the forums, didn't work.
Thanks,
Hugh

The fix for this isn't just to uninstall and reinstall. The fix is to uninstall, run the cleaner script, reboot, and then reinstall.
Yes, even though the third-party codecs are included in the trial version, they're still installed and managed by a separate component. There is a bug in that component that causes it to fail in some cases, and the fix is to basically go back to zero and try again. Running the cleaner script is part of that process.

What's New and What's Fixed in 2014.1

First, here are links to the two main documents about new features in the 2014.1 release:
Product Manager Al Mooney's blog: Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 Release
The What's New page in the Help: Adobe Premiere Pro Help | New features summary
(I'll review both of those documents ASAP to see if any little goodies got skipped.)
And now, the bugs that were fixed in this release:
Import
Import of CinemaDNG clip fails if the file has been renamed.
Gamma shift in some re-imported QuickTime IMX clips
Some QuickTime Reference files import without timecode.
Indexing of XDCAM clips can take an excessively long time, footage shows Media Pending until indexing completes.
XAVC-S files import without Timecode
Unable to import certain XDCAMHD 422 Long-GOP clips with Pixel Aspect Ratio of 0.7500 MXF
Spanned XDCAM HD422 clips not handled correctly if the clip names do not follow the normal convention
When a sequence is loaded from Media Browser to the Source Monitor and then inserted to a sequence without explicitly importing, two copies of the sequence are added to project.
Scaling values are not properly handled for clips/sequences imported via an XML file written by some shot management and conforming programs
If the reported duration of an XDCAM HD MXF clip shorter than the actual length in the file, then frames outside the stated duration can be accessed.
Some XAVC and XDCAM-IMX-MXF clips have audio noise introduced on playback
Some .mp4 have green frames and 'static' garbage when played in Source Monitor
Canon XF300 Footage has unacceptable performance for playback
.mp4 clips generated by certain transcoding programs exhibit poor playback performance
PPro no longer recognizes timecode from a .qtc file, referenced from within a QuickTime reference movie.
Some XDCAM422 clips fail to import with generic error
Occasional crash on opening Source Settings for DNG footage, with 2nd monitor enabled
Overexposed white areas in some CinemaDNG footage display magenta artifacts.
When scrubbing C300 clips in Project panel’s Icon view, red frames sometimes show and Event panel reports error decoding frame.
If SpeedGrade was installed before Premiere, then double-clicking a prproj file launches SpeedGrade (Mac Only)
Growing Files
The last frames of some growing file are green. Must relaunch Premiere to correct the problem.
Importing a growing file can take an exceedingly long time, with footage showing as Media Pending
When a growing file refreshes, it stops voiceover recording
The incorrect timecode is shown in the Timecode Panel for growing files.
Timeline playback of growing files drops audio for about 1 second each time the growing file refreshes.
QuickTime reference files for growing files fail to import.
Export
When source is 120fps, export fails if Match Sequence Settings enabled
The Advanced XDCAM Settings section in Export Settings is blank for imported XDCAM presets
In QuickTime encodes, audio exported as uncompressed stereo imports into FCP as dual mono.
When you export to 5.1 AAC with the “Import into Project” option enabled, the resulting clip fails to import, throwing
“File import failure”
Image flicker is introduced in some constant-bitrate MPEG2 encodes
When the only variable blocking smart rendering is an adjustment layer, the effect(s) thereon are ignored and the segment is smart rendered.
ProRes media encoded by Premiere causes are not compatible with certain video QC programs.
AAF export: 88.2kHz and 96kHz audio clips exported to AAF do not appear in some audio production programs.
Audio EDL gets wrong source timecode if clip is nested or part of a multicam source sequence
EDL does not give correct Source In and Out for clips with speed reversed.
EDL does not give correct source in and out on reversed clips.
OMF export fails with some multicam sequences, reporting Audio Export Failure.
Hang during OMF export when the sequence contains a 5.1 audio track/clip.
Smart rendering can introduce black and red frames
Playback
Playback of IMX 50 clip freezes after 12 seconds.
With XDCAMHD and DVCProHD footage, frames are sometimes dropped though the render bar is green.
Audio for some mp4 files plays back at double speed
When pre-roll is set to 1 frame, timecode and video of XDCAM .mxf files are out of sync
Some DNxHD do not decode properly, resulting in frames being played out of order
Performance of playback for some QuickTime is poor because they are unnecessarily falling back to QT32
Dropped frames when playing R3D clips with RocketX enabled and Playback Resolution at ¼
Audio
With Maintain Pitch enabled, no audio when playing at slower than real-time
Solo buttons in Audio Meters do not work for clips loaded into the Source Monitor
Mono and Standard track puck and tray panner routing for Ls, Rs, C and LFE channels do not adhere to ITU-R BR.1384 standard.
Occasional crash on switching a clip from mono to stereo via Modify>Audio Channels
5.1 channels are not properly mapped for some Dolby content.
5.1 clip changes to a 6 mono channel clip when “Extract Audio” or “Edit in Adobe Audition>Clip” is performed on a project item or track item.
Changes to Frame Rate via Interpret Footage are sometimes not applied to saved for all audio streams, causing most audio channels to be out of sync after closing/reloading project.
Constant Power audio transitions introduce buzz if either track item has zero channels (generally limited to multicam clips)
Crash on applying changes in Modify Audio Channels dialog [Mac Only]
Project Panel
Sorting by Duration is broken if the column has been moved during the current session
If the Project panel is filtered via Rapid Find when a bin is created, the edit control for naming the new bin does not become active automatically, and it cannot be activated manually until Rapid Find is cleared.
Project items cannot be deleted or renamed if the list view is scrolled to the right.
Project panel does not autoscroll to the left when a column is dragged to the right side of the Name column
When a timecode value is typed in the Video Out control for a clip in the Project panel, the value gets reduced by 2 frames upon committing the change
Subclip
When a soft subclip with only an Out Point set is edited into a sequence, the Subclip Start is ignored; the resulting track item extends all the way to Media Start.
The Media Start/End and Subclip Start/End times for subclips from a merged clip are incorrect
Editing/Timeline
3-Point edit: If the source is a sequence and only an Out Point is set for the source, the wrong segment gets inserted when KEM Roll is set to Insert as Individual Clips
Keyboard trim commands do not affect clips on targeted tracks that are outside of visible area of in the Timeline
Switching between sequences can turn the render bar red.
Frame Hold option doesn't generate the freeze frame when speed change is in effect
In the Timeline, the FX badge gets hidden when the clip is not wide enough to show the full clip name.
If the Left/Right Balance control is displayed in Timeline header, the balance will change if the mouse strays over the Header region during click-and-drag operations in the Timeline (such as trimming out)
'Select In to Out' selects clips on locked tracks.
Multicam
If time-remapping is used on a Multicam Source Sequence, the Program Monitor's multicam view continues to play at 100%; if source sequence was slowed, the Composite view goes black after the original end point.
When a multicam source sequence has been slowed down via speed change or time remapping, the extended of the clip goes black—no video
If the audio in a multicam sequence is selected when it is flattened, the audio is sometimes deleted.
Disabled multicam source clips are sometimes rendered to the composite output
The camera can be changed for a multicam clip on a locked track.
The overlay displays timecode in audio time units for part of a multicam sequence if the source clips are stereo and the MC sequence is mapped to mono
If a nested multicam sequence's duration has been increased via Time Remapping, then upon reaching the original end point during an editing pass, the composite view restarts from beginning
Flattening
If a multicam sequence’s audio is 5.1 or adaptive, then flattening deletes the audio.
Crash on flattening multicam clip with keyframed scale when using a camera angle that does not start at time zero.
Flattening multicam can remove some audio clips from the sequence.
Flattening a multicam sequence with reverse speed applied results in incorrect frames being used
Effects
AE Text Template] When text fields are active for editing, they’re not being visually highlighted
Adding mask points very close to each can result in the ordering of the points being incorrect
Incorrect scaling of 1920x1080 adjustment layers in 720 sequences
Unexpected behavior with Cross Dissolves between Adjustments Layers.
Applying both Echo & Levels effects to an adjustment layer causes video playback to freeze
Crash on rendering previews for a Lumetri filter in Software-Only mode.
Crash on deleting a clip from a sequence after pasting an effect mask to the clip.
JPG frame sequence gets scaled down if an adjustment layers is in effect above it [OpenCL only]
Rename GoPro lens distortion presets to include the camera name
Clip name effect doesn't work correctly if Source Track is set to a different track.
Crash on using Clip effect or Timecode effect on a transparent video.
Crash on loading or applying VST Effects (Mac only)
Intermittent Crash with Warp Stabilizer applied (AEVideoFilter)
The Clip Name effect does not work when applied to a transparent video track item, with Source Track set to a video clip.
Crash on applying audio transition to clips with overlapping timecode
Previewing fails when an adjustment layer has an animated mask applied to Opacity and any other video effect.
In Software-Only mode, rendering previews of the new Cross Dissolve is slower than the old one.
Masking and Tracking
Shift-dragging a control point for an effect mask sometimes yields unexpected results
If a clip has an effect with a mask applied, moving the clip in the Timeline cause rendered preview files to be lost.
Previews rendered to a P2 codec are incorrect for the first 10-30 frames of an Opacity effect with mask applied
If a mask is applied to a GPU accelerated effect on an adjustment layer, the Program Monitor shows a cropped frame with Playback Resolution at Half and goes completely black at Quarter.
Opacity effect on Adjustment Layers fails to render within the mask with tracking.
After rendering an adjustment layer with multiple effects with masks applied, some of the effects are no longer confined within the mask [Mac only]
Crash on opening some projects with masking and tracking applied to effects
Direct Manipulation control fails to switch between multiple masks that are applied to the Opacity intrinsic effect.
3rd Party
Certain audio filters cannot be applied to a clip in a sequence that is imported via XML
PPro reports audio filter missing when opening a saved project with certain audio filters applied to the clips in a sequence that was imported via XML
Artifacts are introduced when using certain 3rd party transitions.
Certain 3rd party stabilizer plug-in are not working
Markers
On mouse-up after adjusting the Out point of a marker with duration, the playhead jumps to the marker's In point.
Video in Program Monitor strobes when dragging the In or Out point of a sequence marker
GPU
With GPU acceleration enabled, Gamma is being applied to some RAW media when it shouldn’t be.
Basic 3D effect can result in Program Monitor’s video overlay to become corrupted on some GPUs
Performance (Note: Most of these fixes are also listed under a product area)
Locking all Audio Tracks can significantly impair performance.
Performance of playback for some QuickTime is poor because they are unnecessarily falling back to QT32
Dropped frames when playing R3D clips with RocketX enabled and Playback Resolution at ¼
Navigating through projects in multiple Media Browser panels impairs performance and can culminate in a crash
In Software-Only mode, rendering previews of the new Cross Dissolve is slower than the old one.
Canon XF300 Footage has unacceptable performance for playback
.mp4 clips generated by certain transcoding programs exhibit poor playback performance
Interop
Crash on selecting Edit>Edit in Adobe Audition>Sequence...
When a 5.1 clip is sent to Audition via Edit Clip In Adobe Audition, the first channel is used for all channels.
Exporting from Audition to Premiere Pro opens Premiere, but the file fails to import
After grading a sequence in SpeedGrade, Premiere regenerates index & pek files
Miscellaneous
With some capture card hardware, captured uncompressed clips have the wrong field order
In the Overlay Settings dialog, the Track control is not properly constrained by the Property control.
A single preference flag is used for the "Import into Project" setting in the Export Settings dialog and the Export Frame dialog; they should be managed independently.
Custom scratch disk location for Video and Audio Preview folders get’s reset to default, “Same as Project File"
Changes to the label color cannot be undone.
In the Usage lists, all instance are ordered by track item start time; should sort by Sequence Name first, then by track item start
Automatic relinking fails in certain cases when the name of a folder in the relative paths are too similar. [Mac only]
With OpenCL GPU acceleration and Transmit enabled with some 3rd party I/O cards, the video on the output monitor is corrupted
Newly created projects sometimes have multiple Project Panels open.
And in closing, a request: If this post prompts you to think "Great, but what about..." or "Thanks, but I just found this new bug in 2014.1," please start a new thread--after, of course searching to see if there's already a topic on that issue.
[And Shooter, I apologize in advance if the foregoing contains any typos ;-)]

Lots to be excited about. BUT...Just updated to 8.1 on one of my computers to test it out...
Sadly, the following issue is NOT fixed for me. Is it with new projects only? I haven't started a new project on 8.1 I've only opened an old project but the issue that I'm referring to which involves also a delay/freeze of anywhere from a few seconds to a MINUTE while the render bar goes from yellow to red and then back to yellow is still there. Boo.
On the list above...
Switching between sequences can turn the render bar red.
This issue is incredibly easy to replicate. I really do hope it gets fixed. Here are the steps:
1) Create two sequences with multiple short clips (the more clips the better)
2) Make sure GPU acceleration is enabled.
3) Add warp stabilizer to the clips in both sequences. Again, the more clips the longer the delay/freeze will be as the render bar goes from YELLOW to RED and then eventually back to YELLOW again.
4) Hit SAVE.
5) Now, toggle between sequences. You'll hit a short delay with a few clips stabilized and a LONG delay with lots stabilized. In my case this delay is around a full minute. The render bar will go from YELLOW to RED and then back to yellow...eventually.
6) Toggle back to the original sequence and the delay occurs again.
7) Once you've toggled between sequences and have gone through this delay, that's it, there is no longer a delay...UNTIL...(and here's the big kicker)...until the project is SAVED again. After that the issue returns when you toggle between sequences. Both saving manually and AUTOSAVING cause this issue. No way around it except not editing with GPU acceleration.
Not sure what the issue is...caching issue when saving maybe? Either way, it stinks and it's still there in 8.1. Big bummer.
Again, lots to be excited about with this release but I really was hopefully this specific issue was resolved.
Sigh.

Audio advanced by 3 frames when rendered

Hi,
Thanx in advance for your help.
I'm using CS5 Production Suite.
Cameras are:
Sony FX1000
Sony AX2000
Sony V1U
Sony SR11
Canon 7D
Sequences are created using an XDCAM HD 1080 30p preset.
I'm shooting live music videos & all videos are shot in 30P (most tracks at 1920 x 1080 with the FX1000 at 1440 x 1080, all at 48 Khz stereo).
The H.264 preset has been slightly modified to render at 1280 x 720 30P, audio is shot and renedered at 48 Khz stereo.
In the editing window things are synched perfectly. When I export to an MP4 file using the H.264 preset the audio gets rendered out of synch advanced by 3 frames. If I go into the editing window and delay the audio by 3 frames it renders the output file in perfect synch. This is true for on-camera audio tracks, multi-camera edited audio tracks and for tracks with imported audio wave files produced in Cubase by the sound engineer.
Can someone help me understand why this renders out of synch?
Thanx,
Mel

Thank you Harm for your help. When I use the new
item icon to create a new sequence the XDCAM presets match the parameters of
what my cameras shoot more closely than any others. I did take the base
preset for the XDCAM 1080 30p and modify it a bit to better match my cameras. But the only mismatch I have is that the FX shoots 1440x1080 1.333 pixels and the others shoot 1920x1080 1.0 pixels. But that's a video issue and I assumed it didn't affect the audio output. I've tried other settings, like the ones worked under CS4, but they produced jerky video and audio in CS5.
May I ask which preset you would suggest based on the cameras and parameters of the footage?
Thanx,
mel

Converting clips to dual mono

I'm trying to convert HDV clips shot in stereo into XDCAM HD clips that will support write-back to my Sony PDW-U1. But the U1 only supports "dual mono" audio, not stereo. I'm looking at the audio tab in my Compressor settings, and don't see such an option. I have Mono, Stereo, Stereo Headphones, and on and on. I'm currently running tests, but has anyone found a way to create supported audio for write-back to XDCAM devices that would be dual mono? Or is there a feature in FCP that I haven't found?
Chris.

This has to be done through Final Cut Pro. Not possible to do in Compressor yet.
Have a look at this article: http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/ljmultaudio.html
"In Final Cut Pro 6 the Sequence Settings window got a new audio export option called Discrete. This option is used with the Export QuickTime Movie command. If you choose this option, each exported QuickTime audio track is labeled with the corresponding output bus number of your sequence."
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/FinalCut_Pro_6_NewFeatures.pdf
Here is what I would try doing.
1. Make a sequence in FCP with dual mono audio and add your HDV material.
2. Choose File > Export > Using Compressor
3. Create a new QuickTime Movie setting with the XDCAM compressor you want (under video settings)
4. Set the audio to Pass-through
5. Select at destination and a name for your clip and hit submit!
If that does not work, change the sequence settings in FCP to the XDCAM preset you want, change the audio output settings, and add your HDV material. Render and output.

Steve - About Your Flip FAQ

Your FAQ item at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/437535?tstart=0 says to convert Flip files to edit
A message elsewhere said to use a different camera's XDCAM EX 720p 30p (or 60p?) setting to edit Flip files - http://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2009/12/using_a_flip_minohd_camera_wit.html
If Elements 9 now includes that XDCAM preset, you might want to add that note to your FAQ

My notes so far are at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/727278?tstart=0 which includes that fact that PPro CS4 edits these MP4 files by using the XDCAM preset (the link I already posted was for CS4)
I have an i7 930 computer with 12Gig of ram and 3 hard drives and a GTX 285 graphic adapter... and at least so far the files are "smooth as warm butter" on the timeline
A lesser computer (such as a dual core) might struggle with such a highly compressed codec
But, since I don't have PreEl 9 I have no idea if it has the XDCAM preset to be able to natively edit Flip files

Best dimensions for youtube HD

Hi there - I'm shooting tomorrow in XDCAM EX HD (1920 x 1080) and need to upload to youtube in the evening. I was wondering if I should output a 1920 x 1080 - highest res - file or a 1280 x 720 - as recommended by youtube - for my video?
Thanks for your help!
Oliver

Thanks Nick ... so 1280 x 720 is best then. I couldn't get Ken Stone's Compressor presets to import - do you know how to do this?
And when I setup FCP to work with full-res XDCAM footage at 1920 x 1080 the settings of the timeline are 1440 x 1080 when using the XDCAM Preset. Is this correct? Surely it should be 1920 x 1080?
Thanks!
Oliver

Need some hand-holding and bullet point direction

ok, i need some help. We shoot our church services on Sony PDW-700 HD XDCAMS. We shoot in 420 HQ (whatever that is). Once we finish shooting the service, we pull the source video off of the XDCAM disk using the Sony XDCAM transfer utility. I believe we end up with a .mls file. We then edit the source and send it to compressor and then to DVD studio pro and it gets burned to a standard DVD. What we end up with is a video with artifacts in it. What I mean by artifacts is wavy lines around the edges of movement.
What I need to know, from step 1 to step whatever, is HOW to get the source from FCP to DVD w/out artifacts. It seems that we should be able to produce a DVD that looks better than ours and w/out the wavy lines around the edges of moving objects.
What I'm looking for is something like this:
When we open FCP, are there any preferences we need to have set before we import our source or will FCP adjust our project settings to match our source?
When done editing, do we need to do anything special when we send it to compressor?
Once in DVDSP, what do we need to be doing to make sure it comes out looking it's best.
I realize I am asking a lot here, but we're not novices. We understand things like the format of our media, etc. We're looking for a list or bullet point process to get from Media to DVD and have it look it's best.
Thank you
Cliff

If you have any doubts regarding the format you shot,
look in the Browser, control-click the media file, and select Item Properties > Format.
That will tell you exactly what FCP thinks you're using.
Note that if Field Dominance is None, your clip is progressive.
In the future, you should ask your camera crew to shoot progressive.
crp0499 wrote:
Creator: QT Player
Source: HD 2:XDCAM
Vid Rate: 29.97 fps
Frame Size: 1440 x 1080
Compressor: XDCAM HD 1080i60 (35 mb/s VBR)
You may want to simplify the workflow by setting your sequence up first.
Before you create any sequences, choose menu item > Easy Setup,
and choose one of the XDCAM presets.
• Chose Sony XDCAM HD
• Choose HDCAM HD 1080i60 VBR
• Choose framerate 20.97
Once you do this, all new sequences will have that format.
If you've set your sequence up correctly, dragging a clip to the sequence will not produce this:
For best performance, your sequence and external video should be set to the format
of the clips you are editing. Change sequence settings to match clip settings?
If you click yes, you are not transcoding. You are setting the sequence format to be the same
as what you shot.
The bottom line is that when you set the sequence to match the footage,
you should be able to play the footage without rendering. Of course,
once you start editing and adding transitions, rendering may become
necessary. Check out the note on rendering to ProRes 422 in this article:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/ex1_sd_outputyoung.html
Although he's talking about going from XDCAM EX to a PAL DVD,
most of the principles apply. In particular:
• Set Rendering preferences to ProRes 422, i.e.
Sequence Settings > Render Control > Render > Codec
• Do your HD edit.
• When it's time to convert to SD (step 2 in the article) create a new sequence
with the settings NTSC Anamorphic. This will preserve the nice wide-screen look
of the original footage even when played on an SD DVD.
• Step 4 of the article: choose NTSC anamorphic.
If your footage was shot interlaced, choose field dominance lower (even).
The compressor is NTSC, and the frame rate is 29.97.
In the advanced compression settings, note that it should be 16:9,
and Progressive if you're shooting or converting to progressive.
Check out the last section of this article:
http://www.lafcpug.org/features/featurekeeping_thejob.html
where field dominance is discussed in more detail.
Right when you got the WiFi, file-sharing, and printing working great–
they hand you a video camera!
I've got the reverse problem.

Sequence presets XDCAM or DSLR

I'm a recent convert from FCP and am starting to edit a new feature documentary with mixed footage from XDCAM and Canon 5D.
Both shot at 1080 30p. Have about 60% DSLR & 40% XDCAM footage.
My question is - do I set up my sequence as DSLR or XDCAM?
Is one or the other going to give me a better image quality overall?
Thanks
Mike

When you create a new project you are presented
with a menu of sequence settings to choose from.
You can skip this step by hitting "Cancel", then import your media
and create the type of sequence that best suits your footage.
Try this:
caveat
And to best understand what is happening, watch this:
How do I choose the right sequence settings?

NanoFlash Footage-XDCAM 422 1080p Preset-Only Razors Video Not Audio Using Control K

Hi Everyone, I am having a problem razoring on the timeline. When using the keyboard short cut C-K, only the video is cut and the audio track does not cut. I have to manually switch to the razor and cut the audio track. Is there a fix for this. Normally it would razor both. The audio track in all the way down on track 9. Thanks Roman

Thank you very much for the reply Colin. That is what makes it work. When I target both tracks by highlighting as your screen shot showed, both track razor with the simple control - K.
Thanks Roman

Anyone know how I set up a new project at 1920x1080 59.94i fps ntsc when none of the presets match?

I have just bought Adobe Premiere Elements 10 here in the UK for my laptop: Windows Vista, 32bit OS, 2GB Ram.
I am editing a video I shot in NTSC format at 1920 x 1080, 59.94i frames per second (MPEG2 HD Long 35mbps), from a Sony XDCAM EX1 camcorder.
I notice that none of the Project Set Up Presets in Adobe Premiere Elements vs 10 have this matching format.
Therefore when I drag my video and play it on the timeline in a 30fps file set up, the frames per second is not matching the sound and it's jumpy!
Can I download any XDCAM EX1 camcorder presets for Adobe Premiere Elements 10? like there are for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5?
Also, will I have to upgrade my laptop for it to run properly?
Many thanks for this (from a really frustrated Editor, who is based in London and has already spent 5 months trying to get a Nero edit software working, and has replaced this with Adobe, because Nero finally admitted that their software doesnt work with MP4s!!!)

Yes, I agree with both of you. I understand that my camera may be more expensive than the edit software I am using. I am making a birthday video surprise for my brother's 40th birthday party. He lives permanently in the USA. I live in London. I run my own Video Production company. Therefore I cant edit a less-than-high-definition video, as it would look bad on my business. So I have been very prepared and shot it in NTSC format at a high res. The unfortunate thing is that I cant (without distress) take my desktop computer on holiday with me. That leaves me with a very basic laptop to edit all the stuff on. When I get to the US I will be filming the American relatives using the same camera, but Adobe Premiere Elements 10 is obviously not up to the job (as with my laptop - although I'm looking to upgrade my laptop to a better spec, without spending a fortune, although I cant change the Processor without buying a new laptop). So that is the conundrum I face. When you see these adverts on television for a news channel and you see the news anchor in a dangerous place with bullets flying past them and they're sitting at their laptop editing, or transferrring footage from the piece they have just done, it's all a load of "bollox" (excuse my French), because basically there isnt a laptop out there, or software that can handle high definition footage! By the time it takes me to figure out all of this I could have learnt to write my own editing software! (by the way, I am a massive fan of all things ADOBE). My friend, used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the film 'Monsters' and he's about to direct the next Godzilla movie!!!!!! So yes, it is fantastic. Steve, I have just uploaded the preset you suggested, however, the clip on my timeline isnt quite right. When I play the clip from the XDCAM clip browser software it is fine and plays at normal rate with sound and visuals in sync. However, when I play in the software the visuals play at half the speed of the sound/timeline line. When I run my processor guide it shows that just to play the clip the processor is at 100%, so I guess that the software might actually be working ok, but actually it's my laptop at fault. Although on the side of the Adobe Elements box it doesnt specify what processor spec you need to run the software. Oh deary me. Looks like it's back to the drawing board and that my bro isnt going to get his 40th birthday surprise video after all.....boo hoo! (I am only a girl after all! and so all of this is beyond my comprehension anyway...I should just go back to cleaning the dishes)!!!!!! Thanks very much for your advice! Lynds x

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