my first shoot sucks ,,, need help

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eofeapr

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Have a RENDERING question,,,
does rendering degrade footage within a project ???
I just shot a graduation and spent about 20 hours editing ( am a lil new at this .. you guesed right )
the footage looks fine on the timeline as well as the saved clips in my premiere folders
so I set out to burn a dvd and yuuuck !! the whole thing looks like crap
I shot it 24p,, capture via firewire 24p , did nothing too fancy except disolve transitions and added cool AE clip fot a credit roll.
I did do renders throughout the project so hence my question,,, did rendering degrade my clips ??
Also,,, do I have to finalized the project onto the master track ,,, I did not do that ,,,
someone please help
thnx
 
The problem could be that you just have so much footage going to the dvd. Check your transcoding and export settings in Premiere, and whatever you burned with.
 
What constitutes too much footage ??

how is a movie from blockbuster video coded into the one dvd you throw into your player?? seems to me premiere, final cut and the like is all the rave right ?? I know the pros do have some proprietary stuff and great gear to boot but I gotta figure what's wrong here ,,,we're talking 25 minutes of pretty plain ole 24p footage.
 
when you say it looks crappy - what exactly do you see? is it compression artifacts, jerky motion, strobing, colors?
 
Rendering didn't degrade your clips. You could have your dvd encoding set to something crappy.
 
FiddlerMD said:
when you say it looks crappy - what exactly do you see? is it compression artifacts, jerky motion, strobing, colors?
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pretty much ,,, fast motion looks way choppy,,, colors on my tv look like when you are running a pc monitor at low refresh rate with 8 bit color,,, edges are all spikey
 
reaktor said:
Rendering didn't degrade your clips. You could have your dvd encoding set to something crappy.
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if rendering is not culprit then I totaly agree with ya

gonna do some digging into it to see if I changed a setting at the point of export
 
For 25 minutes of footage, I would export using 7Mbps, Quality 5, CBR, 23.976, Progressive. I'm assuming you're using Premiere Pro 2.0.

Most of the movies you rent from Blockbuster are on Dual layer discs, and are encoded with very expensive hardware and software that allow them to get the highest quality possible . Hope this helps.

-Kevin
 
Sacksnack said:
For 25 minutes of footage, I would export using 7Mbps, Quality 5, CBR, 23.976, Progressive. I'm assuming you're using Premiere Pro 2.0.

Most of the movies you rent from Blockbuster are on Dual layer discs, and are encoded with very expensive hardware and software that allow them to get the highest quality possible . Hope this helps.

-Kevin
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Thanks Kevin,,, sorry to reply so late, was out of town, am checking these settings right now,,, yes am using PP2.0
 
The choppy movement is due to the 24p. Best to record events like grads and weddings in 30i because no one will care about the difference and the strobing problem in 24p can be a problem. Shooting 24p is best kept to structured projects.
 
not sure if this has anything to do with it, but if you did color correcting, maybe some of the colors are out of the realms of NTSC which would explain the colors blowing out. Premier should have a Safe Color option or filter that can be applied to the final output.
Just a thought.
 
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