Bugga_Guy Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 is there anyway to go higher than 720x480 res out for a dvd? I am still not getting that crystal clear movie In my movie I have huge renderings that I pan (10000 x 10000 300dpi) but I when I instert them to premiere I can only get up tp 4000 x4000 but it still never looks sharp at all. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 We've experienced the same thing here. On this current project doing a "pan and scan" as you are, we opted for Combusion. Works like a champ when it's not crashing and corrupting files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 We've experienced the same thing here. On this current project doing a "pan and scan" as you are, we opted for Combusion. Works like a champ when it's not crashing and corrupting files. At least Premiere doesn't (usually) corrupt files when it crashes. And first it politely announces that it is crashing. When you say 'to DVD' what do you mean? To an mpeg2 format? Or do you just mean 'output a movie'? Because you may find better results with a different format, like QT Sorenson3, or one of the typical .avi formats. Indeo5.1 is pretty good, though it does not seem to play on Macs. Just remember that 'DVD' involves some heavy compression. Just pause any movie and really look at the still--a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Used to be that premiere sucked at panning stills. I don't know with the new version though. If you have after effects, try that. It works much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted June 6, 2005 Author Share Posted June 6, 2005 Sorry, I really should not say DVD, what I really mean is Mpeg2 (but any compression still turns out muddy). I got grilled by management today because the rendering they had were not showing up so clear. It was so bad and there were these little jumps as a pan was being made. We ended up using a powerpoint presentation instead No way I can use combustion I don't think our office could afford it. I have heard people talk about using after effects, but not sure there either. Its not only the pans but its also the resolution. I was suprised that priemere gave me a max of 4000x4000 pixels, and even at that it looked like crap. I am just wondering is it worth investing to After Effects? What is the max resolution of an image you can insert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 Unless you plan on zooming into a couple square inches of your image, the image size really doesn't need to be that much bigger than DVD resolution. I would wager that it is premiere doing it to you. What version are you using? Adobe has a free tryout of after effects. You could test and see if that is the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted June 6, 2005 Author Share Posted June 6, 2005 I use Version 6.5. I cannot upgrade to the latest as I hear you need Windows XP, we only have win2000 here. Testing out a trial version with after effects sounds like a good idea. However I never used it before - People who I know use it for effects, then export that clip to premiere. Can you render straight to DVD with after effects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 If you are using 6.5, thats definately your problem with the stills. They jitter horribly when you try to pan. I don't know about exporting straight to dvd with after effects, we export to an avi then use tmpeg for the mpeg part of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 i tried mpeg2 for a short period, but could not produce anything but fuzzy animations with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I noticed a huge improvement in the quality between premiere 6.5 and pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 I noticed a huge improvement in the quality between premiere 6.5 and pro. Pro is better, though Pro 1 has bugs that the Adobe website helpfully tells you to fix by buying an upgrade to Pro 1.5 Also, the main reason I upgraded from 6.5 was better mpeg output. The problem is that with Pro Adobe decided we needed a whole new working method, so if you plan to upgrade you must build in a day or two to get used to the new methods. And not for the better, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dp Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 in the past i used the moving pictures plugin for prem and that worked fine on pan and zoom on hi res stills then depending on the quality of the still silly qustion maybe but when you import into the project bins are you compressing files - i would always leave everything uncompressed and use the encoder at the end and i found that the adobe encoder in 6.5 works fine for what i needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 I just hate trying to explain to my superiors about the concept of DVD's/mpeg. They always think if its on a DVD's its going to be the highest quality. When I make a movie here they want it on DVD thinking its going to be as crystal clear as the movies they rent at the video stores. When I explain to them that its all in the compression and DVD is just a way of storage they start to think I am making up stories. ArgH!!!! There is no way I can make an image high quality as in its original form (ie jpg,tiff etc) when its converted to a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 in the past i used the moving pictures plugin for prem and that worked fine on pan and zoom on hi res stills then depending on the quality of the still silly qustion maybe but when you import into the project bins are you compressing files - i would always leave everything uncompressed and use the encoder at the end and i found that the adobe encoder in 6.5 works fine for what i needed Moving pictures plugin.. Should look into it. I don't compress the files while importing into priemere, but I have to reduce the overall size to 3500 x 3500 200 dpi since priemere only takes images as big to 4000 x 4000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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