Yup, using 2 pass, and I do have a drop shadow behind the titles so there's contrast with white backgrounds. Lemme try it without that, I have a feeling that it's something to do with my fields, like I'm not setting the options right in CCE.

If it's only on small text, then it sounds like a symptom of actually losing a field as if you've halved the resollution.

So playing with your field settings may help.

Jon

What Eric said. But this works only if you wanna apply the effect to ALL the clips on the timeline.

Photoshop Dimensions for 16:9
 

Hi all, having only edited 4:3 PAL before and doing the logos/titles withinin Photoshop used 720x576 for integration with Premiere. We are about to start 16:9 and wondered what dimensons within Photoshop to use for distortion free output from Premiere. Thanks in advance for any help

I work with PAL, so my Avid will export frame grabs from 16:9 footage at 1025 x 576 (square pixels)
These look fine in Photoshop.

Robin

Works fine. Appreciate your help, thank you

1. if you output to a 24p format it will need to be rendered since the original is 29.97 fps, not 24p. The camera turns 24p into 29.97 fps in realtime when recording. The NLE needs to convert this back

2. how the output looks totally depends on how you are outputting

We need more information on how your outputting:

1. which file format are you using (AVI, QuickTime, MPEG1, MPEG2 (=DVD as well), Realvideo, Windows Media etc.)

2. which codec are you using for video (does not apply for MPEG1 or MPEG2), codecs are things like sorenson, mpeg4/divx/xvid etc.

3. what exact settings where you using

If I remeber correctly that field order selection is for the input
file (or was that TMPGEnc?) and not output. But it sounds like
an interlacing issue, I would change it to upper first (DVD default!)
and see what that does.

What was the exact error message pro gave you? Could be anything from video card drivers, to service pack 2.


John

Out of memory
 

The error message I got is 'Out of memory'.

But I have enough disc space(2x70GB HD and 50% of them are available space) and main memory(1GB).

Maybe try to defragment your drives. A program like "memo kit" can free up your ram before you render, or export. You would be suprised how a gig of ram can get broken up by a bunch of little programs running in the background(that you may, or may not know about ;). I honestly cant say ive seen that error message before, anyone else care to add?


John

This goes without saying, but.......... Did you compress it first to mpeg 2 first? I belive a dvd will only hold 20 mins of AVI.


John

Thanks for the help. I really think all the problems I'm having are not really problems with my encode per se, but my roomates crappy panasonic TV. I tested the DVD on another 27" TV and it looks fine, titles are not "jagged". It's also not having the "snow" effect I was having issues with before. Thanks for the help.

MPEG2
 

Hi,
I am not sure ...
I was just exporting it to DVD using PPRO 1.5
It seemed to me that it was converting it to MPEG2 first and then it physically write on the DVD.
Since I was able to create DVD from 7 minute AVI, it is definitely a problem with memory.
But how much Hard/memory is required for converting 28 minute AVI to DVD?
I did disc regrag aslo`and same error at the same position...
I am using DVD RW...

Could very well be, ofcourse. Might be good to test different
encoding parameters on different TV sets and see what does
which. It still might be something is "wrong" and the "crappy"
TV does not "hide" this defect as well, so to speak.