3year itch.
 

hello,

i have been using Premiere 2 for about 2yrs now and until 2 months earlier, I noticed that i was getting very disappointed with the way premiere handled my video. I recently purchased a camera thats HD and down converting in premiere to dvd has resulted in some very blurry video thats lacking that hd sweetness.

Color Correction in premiere is a pain to say the least and my final product on h264/quicktime always ends up looking hazy/smoky and lacking that colorful picture. Today at work i found myself seriously contemplating getting an apple system just for the editing and color correcting the videos.

I'm I alone in this thought or are there other people here that found or keep finding themselves in the same situation?

i use premiere and adobe media encoder just plainly disappoints in quality. so now i use premiere-> debug_frameserve-> TMPGEnc express then to high quality h264 file, then to quicktime and i bring the quality of the video/audio down for final product. This is extremely painful and i think paying $799 for a product that ditches you at the end is unacceptable.

anyone find good ways to color correct in premiere? what options do you use? outputting for web/dvd, what solutions do you use?

You just need to learn the tricks. The trick for the HD to is to edit HDV and then import that into a standard definition project, resize the scale parameter to fit the frame, then export. That improves quality quiet a bit.

The color correcting I never had a problem with it. It just takes practice. I find RGB Curves pretty useful.

The scaling down issue is apparently fixed in Premiere Pro CS3 so the extra woraround (which works just fine) will no longer be necessary.

isnt that the same thing as just exporting the dvd. i mean you have a project thats HDV and it moves it to DVD and you will still end up with the same picture wouldnt you?

You would think it would be the same but there is a bug with Premiere on this issue. It will be fixed in CS3 but for 2.0 you need to import the project into a new SD project.

Kalulu, there are alternatives that will yield a much better picture compared to the "import into SD project" method. Trust me, I tested them all.

See http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=70792. All you need in addition to what you already have (PremPro and TMPGEnc) is a freeware, VirtualDub, for resizing.