Nero DIGITAL PLUG-IN FOR ADOBE PREMIERE user Manual

Nero Digital™ Plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® Manual

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The Nero Digital™ Plug-in for Adobe

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Contents

1 General information 5

1.1 About the manual 5

1.2 About the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® 5

2 Technical information 6

2.1 System requirements 6

2.1.1 Operating systems 6

3 Installing the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® 7 4 Setting chapter and subtitle markers 8

4.1 Exporting to Nero Digital™ 10

5 Nero Digital™ settings 11

5.1 Nero Digital™ profiles 11

5.1.1 Creating a copy of a Nero Digital™ profile 12

5.2 Nero Digital 12

5.2.1 Video 12

5.2.2 Audio 13

5.2.3 Subtitle 13

5.2.4 Chapters 14

5.2.5 Muxer 14

6 Nero Digital™ expert settings 15

6.1 MPEG-4 glossary 15

6.2 MPEG-4 profiles 17

6.3 Creating a new default profile for expert settings 17

6.4 MPEG-4 Encoder 18

6.4.1 Encoding Method 18

6.4.2 Quality/Speed 18

6.4.3 Advanced 20

6.4.4 Keyframes 21

6.4.5 Error resilience 21

6.4.6 Matrices 22

6.4.7 AVC Encoder 22

6.4.8 Rate control 23

6.4.9 General Settings 23

6.4.10 Decision quality 23

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Contents

6.4.11 Encoding Tools 24

6.4.12 Visual Enhancement 24

7 List of figures 26 8 Index 27 9 Contact 28

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General information

1 General information

1.1 About the manual

This manual is intended for all users who want to find out about how to use Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe

Premiere®. It is process-based and explains how to reach a particular

objective on a step-by-basis. In order to make best use of this manual, please note the following conventions:

Symbol Meaning

Indicates warnings, preconditions or instructions that have to be followed strictly.

Indicates additional information or advice.

1. Start …

Æ Î

Chapter

A number at the beginning of a line indicates a request for action. Carry out these actions in the order specified.

Indicates an intermediate result. Indicates a result. Indicates text passages or buttons that appear in the program

interface. They are shown in bold face. Indicates references to other chapters. They are executed as

links and are shown in red and underlined.

[…] Indicates keyboard shortcuts for entering commands.

1.2 About the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere®

The Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® allows you to convert video files edited in

Adobe Additional setting options are available during encoding.

The Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe and in Adobe For simplicity's sake the different versions are referred to generically as Adobe in this manual.

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Premiere® into Nero Digital™ files (MPEG-4).

Premiere® Elements.

Premiere® is available both in Adobe® Premiere® Pro

Premiere®

Technical information

2 Technical information

2.1 System requirements

In addition to the general system requirements for the Nero suite, it is also necessary to install Adobe

Premiere® to enable the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® to be

installed

2.1.1 Operating systems

The Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere® supports the same operating systems as the Nero suite

Information about the system requirements for Adobe operating systems and formats, can be found in the Adobe

Premiere®, such as supported

Premiere® documentation.

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Installing the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere®

3 Installing the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe® Premiere®

Please note that it is important that Adobe before you install Nero, as otherwise the plug-in will not be activated.

To install the Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe

1. Install Nero. To do this, follow the instructions in the QuickStart Guide.

Æ Nero has been installed.

Premiere® has been installed on your system

Premiere®, proceed as follows:

2. Open Adobe Î The Nero Digital™ plug-in for Adobe

time Adobe

Premiere®.

Premiere® was opened after installing Nero.

Premiere® installed itself automatically the first

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Setting chapter and subtitle markers

4 Setting chapter and subtitle markers

You can set subtitle and chapter markers in the Adobe® Premiere® project which will then be transferred to the MPEG-4 output file.

To do this, proceed as follows:

1. Open Adobe

2. Create a new project.

3. Import a video file you want to convert with Nero Digital™ into the Adobe

4. Insert the video in the timeline.

5. If you want to set chapter markers:

1. Set a marker at the required point in the timeline.

2. Repeat this step until you have set all the required markers.

3. Double-click on a marker. Æ The Marker window is opened.

4. Enter the name of the chapter in the Chapter box in the Marker window. You can also

make an entry under Comments however this is optional.

5. Repeat the last two steps for all markers in the timeline that you want to convert into

chapter markers.

Premiere®.

Premiere® project.

Æ You have now set chapter markers.

6. If you want to set the subtitle markers:

1. Set a marker at the required point in the timeline.

2. Repeat this step until you have set all the required markers

3. Double-click on a marker.

Fig. 1: Marker window for chapters

Æ The Marker window is opened.

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Setting chapter and subtitle markers

4. Enter the required subtitle text in the Comments box in the Marker window. An entry is

required in the Comments box in order to create a subtitle.

5. In the Duration box enter the length of time for which the subtitle is to be displayed.

The length of time for which a subtitle is displayed must be at least one second. If the duration is too short or not specified at all, the subtitle will not be displayed in the video.

6. Repeat the last three steps for all markers in the timeline that you want to convert into

subtitles.

Æ You have now set subtitle markers.

Fig. 2: Marker window for subtitles

Î The video now has markers for chapters and subtitles. You can now proceed to convert

the processed video to MPEG-4 format. The set markers are transferred to the MPEG-4 version.

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