Adobe Premiere and the D90

version? os? version of that? "right" for what? your question lacks so many details that it hardly even qualifies as a question. perhaps it's simply the manual you're looking for? i'm sure it sits there at your desk somewhere... :-)
 
Sil3ntp8nd8 said:
I have been looking around for the right format to use and which file types to use/export in. Any ideas?

thanks!
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My workflow with Adobe Premiere CS3:


I make a custom project:

It's called Desktop setting.

1280 x 720
Square Pixels

24 frames per second
No Fields Progressive


Tick Maximum bitrate depth.
Un-tick re-compress



I then import whatever d90 footage. Each time I put a clip
on the timeline, I make-sure to UNTICK 'Frame Blend' as this
will mess you up if you do speed up/down or conforming to
a different frame speed [ie: 29.97, 30, 25, 23.97].


When I've done everything I want to, I File> export> Movie
logarith lossless codec for archiving.

For online upload, File> export>Adobe Media Encoder>h264 same settings
as the project but varying the compression for file size etc.

For DVD mpeg2, File> export>Adobe Media Encoder>MPEG2 DVD etc etc



ONE THING I AM UN-SURE ON though, is this:

1) I do heavy colour correction,

2) I then export to logarith, then I do stairstep fix on that logarith file using AVIsynth and destep script in virtual dub.

3) Then I load that logarith file back into Premiere Pro and add my titles and credits and text.

4) I export back out to logarith.


Is this the best way to do about it, or should I stairstep fix first, then do colour correction? It's just inconvenient if I do the fix on every original clip...
 
fix the stairsteps first. for simple grading it doesn't matter, but as soon as you add any secondary correction or effects like diffusion you mess up the cadence of the stairsteps and removing them later will cause artifacts.
 
Ah I've only been doing gamma shifts and slight colour correction.
I suppose what I'll do to change my work flow is:

1) Export to logarith, then do stairstep fix

2) Load stairstep fix file back into Premiere Pro and add my titles and credits and text AND colour correction.



Problem with this is it's one huge file and I lose all my cut markings to tweak each individual shot for colour correction. Anyone know how add the cuts on Adobe Premiere not manually?

In the studios I'm trained with Avid, and all I'd need to do here is copy/paste into the well above the clip and it works, but that function doesn't work on Adobe Premiere.


Grrr if only Premiere Pro had a simple displacement map filter...
 
why convert to anything, just do the fix in the original codec? premiere can save avi's without transcoding, right? save your edited movie, create an avisynth script for it, import, grade, add titles.

to add the edits back just leave the original in the timeline, add the clip to another layer, step through with "next edit" and "add edit" at every point. not automatic but close, i've done entire features that way and it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes. this is fcp but i seem to remember premiere having the same functions.

/matt
 
Ah, good idea about the next edit and razor each section tip. That's what I've been having to do, and yeah you're right it only takes a few minutes.

Yeah I could do the stairstep fix in the original mjpeg codec. For some reason in Adobe Premiere CS3 when I export it [with recompress ticked OFF], it plays weird on Quicktime and VLC Player. Cuts where it would have joined the video, the shots would appear to be zoomed in, fuzzy, or warped. It does play perfectly fine when imported back into Premiere so that's good. I think I'll just do that before the grading.

If I choose to recompress and transcode saving max quality with PICvideo, it becomes the same file size as Logarith.
 
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