User guide

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Chapter 2, Defining Your Adobe Premiere Pro Settings
3 Under Error Reporting, select Report dropped frames if you want to be
warned each time frames are dropped when you play back video from the
Timeline. Otherwise, clear this option.
Remarks
$ Once playback of the Timeline has stopped, a red bar will appear over
segments of the Timeline that have dropped frames (even if you don’t select
Report dropped frames). To perform a Matrox realtime export to disk or
export to DV tape, you must first render the segments identified by the red
bar. If you close your project before rendering, the red bar won’t re-appear
when you re-open the project.
$ If the Display Mode setting for the Program view of the Monitor window
is anything other than
Composite Video (for example, you’re displaying
Premiere Pro’s vectorscope to analyze your video), you will not receive any
dropped frames warnings, even if you’ve selected
Report dropped
frames
. Therefore, when you’ve finished analyzing your video, you should
set the
Display Mode of the Monitor window back to Composite Video.
4 Under Scrubbing Options, select which field (Field 1 or Field 2) you want
to display when scrubbing the Timeline. When you scrub the Timeline, or
pause or stop playback on the Timeline, only one field is displayed (except
when using the render-play or render-scrub feature as explained in
“Rendering while previewing the Timeline” on page 52). If you see a
“glitch” in your project when you play it back from the Timeline, but notice
that when you scrub on the Timeline to find the glitch, you can’t find it, you
may need to switch the field you’re scrubbing over. You can then return to
the Timeline and find the problem.
5 Click OK to save your settings and return to the Project Settings dialog
box. You can specify additional General settings as explained in your Adobe
Premiere Pro User Guide.
Selecting your NTSC setup level for analog
video
Most commercial DV cameras that have a 1394 interface follow the Japanese
specification for analog NTSC video, where the black level (setup) is 0 IRE. The
standard setup level for analog NTSC video in North America, however, is
7.5 IRE.
The black level used for the digital bit stream is the same for both Japanese and
North American video equipment. This means that when you capture DV video
over the 1394 interface on Matrox RT.X, the video is captured at the correct black
level. When you play back the captured clips on your NTSC monitor, however,
you may find that the video appears too bright or colors appear to be washed out.
This is because the default setup level for the analog output of Matrox RT.X is