Can you help? - Dv Capture in premiere pro cs4

Hi,

I am helping my friends to make their own TV show. They have old dv camcorders. I tried to capture the videos in quicktime *.mov / dv-pal codec but there is no option for that. it only capture *.avi / dv-avi. I checked creative cow and some more forums but I found nothing. (maybe I missed).

Do you know is there any option for *.mov capture in premiere cs4 from dv cassette? (by the way we are using pc)

Depending on the camera, it may only recognize AVI as the codec of choice based on the data and the firmware in the camera. But there is nothing that stops you from bringing in avi and then rendering out to .mov when your project is finished. Converting from what looks to be perhaps ntsc to pal is another story. But it can be done. You must bring in from the camera in native mode of what the camera shoots, then convert in post to what you need.

Rendering out to *.mov is not working because in the project, there will be a combination of *.mov and *.avi files.(they will use some *.mov animations.) the gamma values of *mov and *avi are different. Thus, converting *mov to *avi then converting back *avi to *mov will kill the value of the animations. and also will take so much time. (their company has digital juice collection and probably have more then 10thousands stock footages ready to use with pre-matte. so they don't want to loose the alpha channels as well as their time.). That's why *mov capture in premier pro is very crucial. To work with both *avi and *mov in same project results very bad picture quality in general. that's why I am asking..

I think if you use a Mac and capture DV, it'll be MOV. But on a PC, I think the spec for DV is AVI.

There should be no issue with AVIs. Even if you transfer those to a Mac.

Use DV-NTSC input on CS4 and it will bring the footage in as an AVI file.Then drag the footage to the first timeline and put alpha channel clips on second timeline above. When finished render it out to Quick Time.

thanks feedbacks. they simply don't want to mix *mov and *avi. it is something like mixing ntsc and pal same project. we will search for another solution other than premier..

HI!
Premiere has some problems with Quicktime export. I do not know whether it is only a bug or an Adobe policy.


Anyway, do your project and render it to an intermediary codec and wrapper, anything other than Quicktime .mov. Than convert the intermediate to .mov using either QuickTime, either MPEGStreamclip.

God bless us all!
Christian