Help Exporting Film Shot on DVX100 From Adobe CS3 Premiere

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ajwwong

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Hello, everyone!

I recently got a film accepted to the Secret City Film Festival ( yeaah! :-) ) and they're asking for an exhibition copy in one of the following formats.

EXHIBITION COPY: [...One option is for you to email a link that we can download your film (Vimeo, MailBigFile, DropBox, etc.) The other option is tape. We can screen DigiBeta, BetaSP, DVCam or MiniDV. We cannot screen Blu-Ray, HDV or any other format not listed here.

We do not screen in High Definition but we have very, very high quality Standard Definition.
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What is the best export option in Premiere that preserves the quality of the film, but is not too complicated for a complete novice?

Thanks so much!

Best,
Al

PS. Feel free to like my film, here! http://www.facebook.com/StepOneBreathe
 
Well, I was going to try to do export to MiniDV, but I just realized the film is 100 minutes long... so that's not going to work (I don't think). Will try to figure out something else.
 
Well, I've decided that I'm not going to try to export to tape since that seems to be not an option on MiniDV and I don't have access to the other equipment.


I also DAFS and found some helpful advice... which suggests that perhaps lossless exporting options (.avi or Animation or Photo jpeg codecs) would be good for me, even if the file ends up being quite large.

I tested File > Export > Movie to see what the trailer would look like as an uncompressed avi... and unfortunately, there's some ugly interlacing effects when I try to play the avi in VLC media player, even though I shot it in 24p and Deinterlacing is Disabled in VLC. However, I don't see the same ugly interlacing effect when I try to play it in Windows Media Player, which seems strange. Windows Media Player seems to have gotten it right for playback, but VLC adds the interlacing *into* what should be a progressive film. Anywho, I might try to compress it through a codec like Photo Jpeg, just to guarantee the interlacing ugliness is absent, though this is taking a huge amount of time to render.

Thanks for your help.
 
Printing to DVCAM is probably your best bet, as you can get long 184 minute tapes. most rental houses have dvcam decks for hire, something like a dsr11 which you should be able to get for a couple days pretty cheap. alternatively if you have any post houses near you they'd probably do you a transfer to tape pretty cheaply. otherwise your best bet is exporting as a dv avi, the file size, though still massive will be much, much smaller than an uncompressed file and the quality is exactly the same.
 
Thanks for the great advice. I will look into seeing if I can rent a DVCAM!

I'm actually in the middle of an export using the Photo-JPEG codec, but it's taking a full 60 hours.

Actually my big worry now is that I'm exporting it 720x400 (rather than 720x480) since that was what the actual pixels used were, but now that it's going, I'm kinda worried that this pixel dimension might make it incompatible with SD. :-(

Does anyone know if a 720x400 export dimensions makes a .mov file incompatible with an SD digital movie projector?

Thanks so much!
 
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