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Originally Posted by randygurl
Shakran - I understood most of everything that you posted. The only part that got confusing was the 'authoring' of the dvd.
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Authoring a DVD is simply getting the movie that you make in premiere onto the DVD in a format that can be read by a regular DVD player.
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I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by that and how will I know if Premiere will recognize my burner or not? I have just Premiere Pro (not Pro 2)
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Ahh, then never mind. Pro 1 will not author dvd's at all. You'll need to get a dvd authoring tool to do that. An example is Nerovision. This part isn't my area of expertise since in my video-editing world I upload all my cuts directly to a server for broadcast. But someone else here has probably done more DVD authoring and can recommend a good (hopefully even free!) authoring tool.
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Oh and the other thought I had was an inquiry as to whether I can create a menu and/or chapters within this dvd. Does Adobe Premiere Pro have that capability?
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That's what you will do when you author the DVD. Premiere Pro 2 can do it with certain burners, but Pro 1 cannot.
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And while I'm at it (haha) I have one other question. When I'm editing my photos in photoshop - to what ratio/size should I put my photos so that they won't be abnormally cropped when viewed on a standard tv? I was told a 4/3 ratio but I'm not sure how to achieve that in photoshop??
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Yes, a 4/3 ratio would be appropriate. the 4 is horizontal, the 3 is vertical. Standard monitor resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768) are all 4/3 ratios. So if you size them to 800x600 you're good to go.
now here's the problem - photographs are VERY rarely printed in a 4/3 ratio, so if you try to stretch the photo out to 4/3, you'll end up with very misshapen images. You'll need to put the photo in its original dimension on top of a 4/3 background.
A good trick, by the way, when doing still photos on a video is to zoom slowly into or out from the picture. Creates motion and makes for a much more viewable product. This is somewhat complicated but I'll try to make it understandable:
click on the clip you want to zoom. and then move the timeline insert bar (the red line under the blue arrow on the ruler) to the beginning of the clip.
Then click on the "effect properties" tab, which is just above the video window.
click the triangle next to "motion" and then click the little gray stopwatch next to "scale." Note the diamond that shows up to the right of the scale setting. That's called a keyframe. Move the insert bar to the end of the clip and make another keyframe by clicking on the diamond between the two arrows (just to the left of the first keyframe).
Now the trick with keyframes is that they tell Premiere how you want the video to look at that point. So if your first keyframe, on the left, is at 100% scale, and then you set the last keyframe, on the right, to 200% scale, you're telling Premeire to start at 100%, then zoom in steadilly so that it's at 200% at the last keyframe.
I know this sounds just confusing as hell (it would be so much easier if you were in my edit bay and i could just show you) but play with it awhile and I think you'll get it.
If you want to change the point you're zooming in toward, create matching keyframes in the "position" section, then move the video around until it's where you want it.
Let me know if there's anything here you need to have cleared up.