I want to reduce the size of my digital video files before they are edited and therefore want to keep them at a high quality while reducing the amount of space needed to save them.
I have a Canon XM2 and downloaded the video using firewire and edit in Premiere 6.5.
What settings should I set Premiere to use?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Atlas
You could try Batch Capturing in Premiere to capture only the segments you really need (with a bit of extra on the ends for editing purposes) but you would need to examine all footage on tape to determine this. I believe Scenalyzer scans the tape automatically and you can pick out the scenes you want from the results it presents.
These options (there are probably many more varieties) keeps the capture in full quality. Only some sort of compression will reduce the capture size, but then the fun really starts you have fun tying to edit in, say, mpeg2.
Its slightly more complicated than that unfortunately. I'm downloading video for others which then sits on my server until they are finished with it as part of their college assessment. There's a number of groups and each group has a large amount of video footage and the server size is limited.
If I converted each file to MPEG-1 how badly would this affect the quality of the video?
And which settings in particular in premiere should I use to convert?
[This message has been edited by atlas (edited 23 February 2003).]
quote:Originally posted by atlas:
[B]Its slightly more complicated than that unfortunately. I'm downloading video for others which then sits on my server until they are finished with it as part of their college assessment. There's a number of groups and each group has a large amount of video footage and the server size is limited.If I converted each file to MPEG-1 how badly would this affect the quality of the video?
And which settings in particular in premiere should I use to convert?
DON'T.
You don't want to change the footage to mpeg1 , the quality will be approx the same as a vhs tape , why waste the quality that digital has converting to mpeg1.( and will you be able to edit mpeg1 in your version of the editing software ? )
space required is one of the major bugbears for dv footage.
we just purchased a 480GB array to get round the same problem you are now suffering from.
ask your computer support guys to increase the server storage area or allocate more storage on a second server if they won't upgrade yours.
That unfortunately is also not an option. There's a serious shortage of cash at the moment.
Basically I want to know what trade off I get by downloading to Mpeg and what's the best option to use?
try saving a small section of dv footage as mpeg1 , and then reloading it to the timeline.
i cannot get any mpeg1 to play from the timeline/or edit without rendering to a different codec , i.e dv , which is where you started.
as i said in my post above , Are you sure you can edit mpeg1 footage in premiere ?
if not you will have to find a different codec to save footage in for editing on the timeline.
MOV is a format that should be editable on the timeline.
you could then edit the mov using the 'quicktime' preset in premiere