I am trying without success to place more than one completed HDV video onto the timeline of Premiere pro 2 in order to make a blu-ray disc with several short videos on it. Pro 2 won,t burn a Blu-ray disc so I will transfer the assembled projects from Pro2 to Vegas 10 for burning to blu-ray disc. If the videos were Standard Def it would be easy, I would simply make the projects into a movie and then they would go on the Pro 2 timeline. However using the export to movie programme with a HDV project doesn't work, it reduces the HDV video to SD. Any Ideas please?
Never had to do this myself (missed v2 out) but here's the brief on a workaround:-
Load HDV project.
Choose file/export/export to tape.
Don't tick/uncheck the option to activate recording device.
Allow computer to render timeline.
This is the vague bit.....
Stop the export to tape as soon as it starts.
Keep the project open.
Go into Windows Explorer and browse to the temp folder inside you Premiere project.
You should find a large temp file with an MTS extension - made up of random characters - this is the Mpeg file you need to copy to another folder and rename.
I think you could rename it right there but I'm not certain.
Sorry it's not to detailed but I'm working from memory.
I also missed CS2 but in all CS versions I have used there have been multiple output options.
Export to tape
Export to file
Media Encoder
If CS2 has it, use Media Encoder to create an MPG file then inport that file ito Vegas.
Alternativly
Why not export your HDV timeline back into the camcorder and re-capture it using Vegas.
Hi Gavin, Colin. I am using Adobe Premiere Pro2. I think perhaps this is different to CS2 but I don't know. Anyway my first thought was to put the finished video back from Pro2 timeline to the HDV camcorder and then capture it with Vegas. Unfortunately pro 2 wouldn't transfer back to the camera. I believe this is because it is HDV. Some message came up about error in control device and something about a port.Anyway it was above my head so I gave it a miss. Finally I used export>Adobe media encoder and selected MPeg2 . I saved the result. Low and behold Vegas accepted it and I find that all rendered projects can be placed on the Vegas timeline and so several videos can be burnt onto a Blu-ray disc or up to thirty mins on a standard DVD. You may be wondering why I edit on Pro 2 and not Vegas. Well pro 2 has several transitions and effects that Vegas hasn't. For instance if I use a scrolling title credit or message I like the end few lines to stay on the centre of the screen before fading out or dissolving into the opening scene.. Vegas won't do this and just
continues the scroll until the last line moves off the screen. With Pro 2 I can stop the scroll where I want it. However you can't expect everything for £50 odd. Which compared with the cost od Pro 23, is dirt cheap. Thanks for your info. which has solved my problem. Roy