Question About Creating a 30P Preset

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Joe_Hicks

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I'm using Premiere CS2 and I'm wanting to create a 30P preset since Adobe seemed to forget about 30P.

So far here are my settings:

General
Editing mode: Desktop
Timebase: 29.97
Adjusted my playback settings appropriately
Video Size: 720x480
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC
Fields: No Fields
Etc.

Video Rendering
Here's my big question: What Compressor to use
I tried the "Cinepak" and the render looked like crap (looks like it limited the video to thousands of colors)
I tried "Indeo Video 5.10" and froze the machine 50% through a render of a 105 minute project.
"No compressor' and the files are massive
What about all the others in between.

Can someone make some sense of these codecs and make a recommendation.

Thanks,
Joe
 
I had to create settings for intermediate codecs on CS4 Mac because they wouldn't
render in the timeline. I found "motion jpeg a" or "motion jpeg b" were quicker rendering and looked pretty good. I don't know if these codecs are even available on Premiere PC. Also "hdv720p30" worked out okay. These are QT codecs so might not even be a choice for you.
 
My work typically goes to DVD while a small amount goes out to AVI then shown for presentation from computer to an LCD projector.
 
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DVDs are MPEG-2. If you want to go to AVI for projection from a computer, you can try DV -- but you may want to look at WMV or MPEG-4/h.264 at high quality instead.
 
David:
When I create a preset using "Desktop" for the editing mode (the only mode that allows me to use Progressive Scan) my choices for output are:
Cinepak
Indeo Video 5.10
Intel Indeo Video R3.2
Intel Indeo Video 4.5
Intel IYUV
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Uncompressed UYVY 422 8bit
None

There is no DV.

As far as building DVD's, in the past I have used the DV NTSC preset and the DV NTSC is the default compressor. I then export to AVI and stick it in Encore and let Encore do the transcoding to mpeg.
 
Well, I don't have CS2 installed to look at things, but if you're able to export for DVD/Encore using DV NTSC, then you should be able to use that AVI for projection. If you edited in a progressive timeline, you shouldn't see any interlacing; each field pair should be from the same frame, so there should be no artifacts. In theory, anyway. :)
 
The only time I can use DV NTSC is if I used that preset to work with an interlaced project. If editing in a (30p) progressive timeline that's when I have to use the Desktop editing mode which then limits me to the options I mentioned above.

I would think many others out there are editing 30p projects-- what's everyone else doing?-- or have I dug up something here that no one has thought about?
 
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