Microsoft DV AVI settings in premier

[jruben4]

Hello all;

Quick DV related question with adobe premier (6.5 I believe)...

I am trying to edit a captured DV movie - by capturing it with adobe, then dragging it to the video editing timeline, then trimming it. When saving the timeline as a movie, I want to get the same parameters as the captured DV stream - I can set everything the same except "quality" which is 100% on the original stream and 95% on the timeline / exporting configuration. "Advanced configuration" button next to "microsoft DV AVI" is grayed on on the properties menu - any ideas how to bump up the exporting quality of the DV AVI to 100%?

Thanks!

-J

[ehickert]

I use Premiere 6.5 but this applies to 6.0 as well.

Look at your Project Settings (first option in the PROJECT column at the top) and on the right side of the pop up window there is a LOAD button. Select it and the options for DV - NTSC or DV - PAL depending on your region and audio tracks (32Khz or 48 Khz).

In order to export your edited DV from the timeline, the capture settings, project settings and the export settings must be identical. You can verify this in the second option in the PROJECT column. The option is SETTINGS VIEWER. This window displays all the settings for Capture, Project and Export. If they are the same, then no RECOMPRESSING takes place except for your transitions and the other effects you might have used on the timeline.

Hope this helps

[jruben4]

Right, I can get to that screen to compare the differnt settings for the timeline and export settings - and I see that under video the quality setting is "100%" for all off the different catagories except for "export" which is set to 95% for some reason - but can't figure out how to bump this up to 100%. I have a feeling it would be under the advanced settings button next to the Microsoft DV AVI codec box in the video settings tab, but it is grayed out.

Under premier help (search for "video quality export"):
Producing Final Video > Choosing export settings > Video export settings:
Quality - Drag the slider or type a value to affect the picture quality of and disk space used by exported video.

(I don't see a slider on this screen!)

It also says:
Note: If you cannot find options that your codec provides, see the documentation provided by the hardware manufacturer. Some codecs included with video-capture hardware require that you set compression options in dialog boxes provided by the codec, instead of through the options described in this book.

Is there a control panel somewhere for the microsoft DV codec?

Any ideas?

-J

[ehickert]

I am not sure how you can change this. I use a HW DV codec (Matrox RT-2000).

What I would do is try to export the timeline and see if the export rate is around 30fps or higher (try different export settings). If you can achieve 30fps or higher, then you are not recompressing the video and the video quality will be the same as your capture quality.