When you exported them, the names were in numerical sequence. Import them into Premiere by selecting the first one and checking the box that says they are a numerical sequence.

Help! Premier Pro newbie
 

Ok, I have been working with Pinnacle 8 for several months. It was my first editing experience and I love the program. You don't need to touch the book and it can do any basic functions that I need. However, I am making an extreme sports video and need good slow motion. I got Premier Pro and wow!! I am scratching my head and can't do the first thing. I may enroll in class or something but for the mean time, I am dead in the water. My immediate solution is to do all the basic edits and piece together my video in Pinnacle and then transport the whole file into Premier for the slow motion. How do I do that? How do I get the edited video footage from my files in Pinnacle over to premier to add the slow motion? Do I need to record it back out to a minidv tape and then re-capture it? As is obvious by now, I am very new at this. Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
Sam

i used p pro for the first time last night also, and its actually pretty simple. i figured that you could do a "slow motion" on the clip by right clicking/speed duration. you can adjust either speed or duration of the clip. i dont think you can access speed/duration settings if your clip is linked with an audio track. to unlink the audio from the video track, right click/unlink audio from video. you will now be able to access speed/duration settings...

there may be another way to do it, but this is the only way that i know how.

ive heard the slow motion in p pro sucks though, and youre much better off doing slow motion in after effects..

i could be wrong, feel free to correct me...

=)

good luck! :D

<<<-- Originally posted by Jan Roovers : I am always afraid to use ripple delete because i don't know what it does exatcly anf i am afraid for surpises.

Who can give me more trust in the process? Whar does it doe and what safeguards it? -->>>

haha...thats what im thinking...what the heck is ripple delete!? :D haha...

Just like anything in the video editting work there is about a dozen ways to do this. Try this turtorial to start out with. It worked nicely when I used it once.

http://www.marcpeters.co.uk/dallas-titles.html

Green Screen DV to Windows Media
 

I am about to shoot some green screen for a project in a couple of days. It is not a must to use the green screen and I am debating whether or not to do it based on some tests that I have shot.

I am using the Matrox RTX100 to do the chroma keying. The NTSC looks very good on the monitor for my test footage. However, when I encode to WM9 I get lots of artifacts around the subject area. Is it typical that ultra-compressed formats such as WM9 will look bad around the edges on chroma keyed clips?

My end product will be delivered on CD and will be a compressed format, probably WM9 or Quick-time and NOT DVD.

Would chroma keying in AfterEffects yield better results?

I would begin with an un-install and then re-install of Premiere.

You have much more control over your key in AE, so if you know what you are doing then you could def. get better results. However, I dont know about the quality when you compress it.

I have done a lot of Slo-Mo with PPro and the results have been acceptable. I like turning on the frame blend speed option (right click, go to field options).
As for your question about doing the edit in Pinnacle, all you have to do is save the final product in pinnacle to a format that PPro accepts. I recommend .AVI . Then open pro, select file/import or double click in the project window and select your file. Then drop it onto the time line, right click and go to speed duration, and presto! speed changes in PPro.
I would recommend trying to do the edit in Pro however. You have to learn sometime! Get the manual, and start playing. You will figure it out before too long. Good luck!

I just tried using AE for the same footage and could not obtain any acceptable results. My lighting of the green screen was not even and with AE I was only able to get have the background keyed out without keying out the subject. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but there are only controls available in AE where there are a lot more with Matrox and you can select a range of colors for your keying too. I could not figure out how to do this in AE.

Well, I knew it was easy. Thanks.

Do you have the standard or professional edition of AE? If you have the pro version then there should be far more controls. But as fo rthe standard version you get about the same chroma key controls as you do with premiere (not very many). Using the Matrox plug in will give you more.

It can be tricky uninstalling plug in files, unless there was an uninstall application when you installed the plugin. Plug-ins are normally kept with in the plugin folder of Premiere. But rather than fidderling around in there I would to a re-install, like Rob suggested.

For greenscreen shots, you have to avoid compressing your source video.

Capture the video directly to the native format of your capture device. Any additional compression will add at least some artifacts to your video that increase the difficulty in getting good composits. WM9 may be fine for a final release, but it's terrible for keying work.

Good luck.
Have fun.

Thanks for the replies.

I do have AE professional version 6. The chroma key effect has the following controls available:

key color
color tolerance
edge thin
edge feather

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I am editing in DV, so far using Matrox DV codec. Like I said, the DV edit with the chroma key applied looks good on my test. But when I take this clip and write to windows media, that is when I am noticing objectionable artifacts. I even tried WM9 "uncompressed" and it did not look much better. My green screen test footage was not lit quite as well as my production will be.