I have the last version (downloaded from adobe site one month ago).
You are right: what I wanted to do is to edit a short video from clips recorded using a DV camera. I would like to see it with decent quality in a tv (as I can see the original dv recordings) or a PC. I don't mind the format, but of course, it makes no sense to export to produce full definition, etc. What I get is very bad (even in a 13" laptop screen: pixelation, etc. Yesterday I got better results using h264 and "settings from seq.", but still, significantly worse than original material and using big resolution in the output video, which makes no sense).
From the tutorial video about "selecting sequence settings" I understood that the final scaling is done during the encoder step. I though that the scaling at that time would not take into account the sequence settings, only the format of the original footage and the exported video. But maybe this is not the case.
It seems that it scales up first and using a big scale (>500%) is terrible, even if at the end it is scaled down.
Yesterday I tried to change the sequence settings but I did not succeeded. I read that after you add clips to a sequence the settings cannot be changed (or some settings cannot be changed). Now that you confirm that I should change the sequence settings I will try again.
The most critical parts are:
- The audio was created with an external program so that now it is a unique track of the full length. I need to hold the exact timeline so that voice is synchronized with the video. If I cannot manage to change the sequence settings, your proposal of create a new sequence and copy paste seems really helpful! (I was thinking on create a new project from scratch, but this seems much better).
- I have adjusted the video scale. Most cases is just "resize to photogram size" but there are animated parts (I mean, change scale on time), both in still images and in a few video sequences. I think I will have to redo this, but this is not so much work.
Thank you very much for your help!