Adobe 65021048 User Guide - Page 41

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS3 35 User Guide Disable 24p pulldown to simulate film-video transfer By default, Adobe Premiere Pro uses a 24p pulldown scheme to playback 24p DV footage at 29.97 fps in a project based on one of the NTSC presets. You can disable the pulldown scheme to give your movie the look of a film transferred to video or broadcast, without frame interpolation. 1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a 24p clip in the Project panel. 2 Select Interpret Footage. 3 Under Frame Rate, select Remove 24P DV Pulldown. 4 Click OK. Additionally, you can apply any of a number of third-party film-look plug-in effects to the master sequence. These plug-ins can often perform telecine-style conversion, or add grain or color correction to simulate various film stocks. Pay close attention to lighting and, during shooting, use tripods and do slow pans to create the appearance of using a heavy film camera. Attention to these details will give your project more of a film look. Display 24p source timecode When you import 24p footage, Adobe Premiere Pro treats it as 23.976 fps progressive footage. Because of this, when you work with 24p footage in a 24p project, the timecode is displayed as 24 fps. However, the camera records and logs 24p footage in 30 fps non-drop-frame timecode. When you log 24p footage for capture, you log clips according to the camera's timecode count of 30 fps non-drop-frame timecode. For example, a clip that you log for capture may have an In point of 00:01:00:28. However, as an offline clip in a 24p project, the In point is shown as 00:01:00:23. In addition, mixing non-drop-frame footage with drop-frame footage can cause larger differences in timecode display between the project and the clip, with minutes, seconds, and entire durations seemingly out of sync. Be aware of these discrepancies as you edit. If you use 30 fps non-drop-frame timecode for projects containing 24p footage, Adobe Premiere Pro drops every fifth frame from the 24p footage timecode count. When you view the properties of your 24p clip, the frame rate is shown as 23.976, but the timebase as 29.97. If you'd prefer to read a clip's original timecode, do the following: 1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the clip in the Project panel. 2 Select Interpret Footage > Use Frame Rate from File. Start an HDV or HD project You can edit HDV footage in the 720p, 1080p, or 1080i formats. When creating a new project for these formats, make sure you select the project settings preset that matches the specifications of your source footage. The DVCPROHD project settings presets included with Adobe Premiere Pro are for editing material recorded to MXF files with a Panasonic P2 video camera. Additional HD project settings presets are usually installed into Adobe Premiere Pro when an HD capture card that supports Adobe Premiere Pro is installed. For best playback performance, it is sometimes helpful to render HD footage when you first place it in a sequence. 1 Do one of the following: • From the Welcome screen, click New Project. • Select File > New > Project. 2 In the New Project dialog box, select the Load Preset tab. 3 Select a project preset that matches your footage. April 1, 2008