I've been editing a lot of Sony HDV stuff lately (1080i, 30fps) and have just tried exporting an HDV sequence from Premiere Pro CS3 to Encore CS3 so I can burn a standard DV version of the videos on a standard DVD. I've been getting really lousy results from Premiere when it down-converts HDV into a DV AVI file for import into Encore: everything looks soft and out of focus.
Just for comparison, I tried recording the HDV production from Premiere to my original camcorder, a Sony HVR-A1U, and then re-captured the footage in Premiere while the A1U played back and down-converted in camera to DV. The results were spectacularly better! You can take a look at comparison frame grabs here: http://tinyurl.com/2fqgyp It turns out that a Sony HDV camcorder, down-converting from HDV to DV on the fly, does a far superior job to Premiere, which has all the time in the world to down-convert from HDV to DV into an AVI file. I've tried every different export setting in Premiere that I can think of: MS AVI, MS DV AVI, MS uncompressed AVI, recompression on, recompression off, and much more but it all ends up looking like out-of-focus garbage. The same is true if I let Premiere do compression into standard-def mpeg2 files. Has anyone on the list figured out a way to whip Premiere into shape when exporting HDV to DV AVI? Right now it's unusable. I don't want to have to export to tape, then recapture and export to AVI to burn a decent DVD. Premiere should be able to export straight to usable DV AVI for import into Encore. Thanks for any pointers or ideas, Mike Boom Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
