Hi!

This happened to me with PPro 1.5 when i was testing Trapcode's plug-in, Shine. This happened several times and everytime it happened was when i used Shine. (It was the trialversion of Shine i was testing.)

This was the first and only time/s PPro 1.5 just shut down.

/Roger

Thanks to all for the useful thoughts and tips.

Ed: I'll certainly try the upgrade to version 1.5.1.

The interesting point is that the problem does not appear while rendering. Rather, after completion and when I click on something such as a timeline tab.

I do ensure that there are no other programs running and no screen savers. One thing that I do during rendering is to boost up the priority of PPro from Normal to High.

I will check the event viewer - good idea.

Keith: do you remember which setting fixed the problem?

Roger: I have previously used Trapcode's plug-in Shine on that system. I'll now ensure that it is fully removed.

Thanks for the helpful ideas!

I don't remember exactly which setting, but it was an Abit board. It took me over a year to find this out, and lots of trial and error.

Newbie audio question
 

I have been digitizing a video tape via PPro1.5, and something odd is happening with the audio.

After capturing the video (via my DV camcorder), I can see the video clips just fine in PPro, but I don't hear any audio. At first I thought that it was capturing the audio properly, but when I open the captured clips in Windows Media Player it sounds fine, or when I render and then watch in WMP is also sounds fine.

I'm sure I'm not clicking a box or something. Thanks in advance for the help.

David

Also, when I drag the "line" on the timeline I hear sound (blurred of course), when I press play I hear nothing.

I already found the answer:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...ighlight=audio


That's why I'm a Newbie!

Sorry for wasting harddrive space!

Thanks everyone for your great replies to my question. They are very helpful. I am still new to Premiere Pro so it is great to have people that are willing to give of their time and knowledge to help people like me. I really appreciate it.

Nate

I'm not working with Premiere, so I can't help you with any specifics. However,
what you need to do is make sure EVERYTHING is set to 24p.

Make sure when you start the project (before capture) in Premiere you select
a 24p advanced profile. Then capture the footage and do your thing. When
exporting make sure you select a profile that has a name like "DVD MPEG-2
24p" (you get the idea). That should get everything going.

The best a 3D animator can do is export an UNCOMPRESSED (ie, no codec!)
AVI at 24p or offer an image sequence in 24p (test beforehand you can
load such TIFF/TARGA/PNG sequences!).

Right Settings for a Filmstrip
 

I'm putting together a filmstrip of photographs that were taken on a vacation to music in PPro. All the pictures were digital so I took them into Photoshop and reduced them so that their width wasn't more than 720 pixels and their height wasn't more than 480 pixels.

My question is what settings should I be using?

When I created the project, I choose the DV - NTSC Standard 48 kHz preset. When I exported it, I just chose the default settings.

Is there anything I can do more? Any settings to optimize anything?

Thanks guys. :)

That's fine if you just want to display the pictures with no motion or panning/zooming. The NTSC size will cut down on rendering, provided that your images are only 72ppi. If they are more (150, 300), then you might as well nto have resized them.

If you plan on adding motion, then you want your pics to be larger than 720x480. Otherwise any zooming will pixelate.

Ppro can handle up to 4000x4000 pixel images. But that will tax your system.

I go for 1200x1600 (usually 200-300ppi res), because I use a lot of "ken-burns-ey" techniques.

Either way, you can just check the box in Project settings-> General to "scale clips to project dimensions" and you don't need to do any resizing prior to import. (Just re-import your stills if they are already in Premiere).

Nested Sequence - Playback is jerky during transitions
 

I'm using adobe premiere pro 1.5
windows xp, service pack 1
2 gigs of ram
2 striped 240 gig raids
3.4ghz
Matrox Parhelia APVe
Matrox RTX.100 Extreme Pro

Now, I've created a sequence (sequence 1) with disolves from one scene to the next. When playing it on the timeline, it plays smooth..

BUT, when I create a new sequence (let's call it sequence 2), and add sequence 1 to it, the video on sequence 2 plays smooth until it gets to a transition (disolve). It kind of studders for a second (maybe 1 frame) and then continues on through the disolve smoothly.

It doesn't need to be rendered and when exporting to dvd, it plays the same when when I nest a sequence... Smooth until it gets to the transition, then studders for a frame, and the continues on smoothly until it gets to the next transition... and so on and so on...

Has anyone experienced this behavior? I'm kind of thinking it has something to do with the matrox cards. On my other computer system, AMD 3200+ with 1 gig of ram, I can nest sequences and it performs perfect...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Eric

You mention exporting to DVD. Have you tested an export to plain old AVI?

I too had this problem, but never after exporting. I'd have to do some testing, but I think the problem also went away one or two RTX100 driver build updates ago. Have you updated your Matrox drivers lately?

Also check the Matrox forums. Matrox tech support is not stellar, but I've had a lot of help from other users on the forum.

For a workaround in the meantime, you can import your MTX project into a new standard PPro project. Then export. Yeah, rendering. Sometimes we can't avoid it.

In Premiere Pro, use the shadow feature to add the glow. Use the color wht, use the angle to place the shadow directly behind the text, then use the spread ( I think that's what it's called) to "spread out" the shadow. This will give it a feathered look.

Good Luck.

24P in Premiere using Matrox
 

I currently am using the Matrox RTX100 with Premiere Pro 1.5. I placed a 24p clip in the timeline but am unable to view this clip on my tv monitor. So my question is: can you use 24p footage in Premiere Pro while using the Matrox?

Thanks.

Linda

Sorry, RTX100 does not support 24p. There are no plans to add 24p support.

gary

It does this on the timeline and will do it when I export to any format.

I don't have hotfix 1 or 2 installed so maybe that might be the problem... I'll have to try and install hotfix 2 tonight and see what happens...

Eric

I have the exact same intermittent problem using the Matrox RTX100.
I'm afraid that I haven’t found a fix either.

Sorry to hear someone else is having problems too.

You're saying that if my original pictures were ~ 72 ppi I should resize them, but if they are around 150 or 300 ppi I shouldn't? Why is that?

I assume that it will fill the rest of the area behind the picture with a black screen?

Thanks for responding so quickly! :)

Can you do me a favor and check your driver date and version in your systems hardware config for your matrox rtx.100 card?

Thanks,

Eric

Here's the diagnostic test. Try your project with no hardware support. I have been working for over a year now with no 3rd party real-time card. I have yet to find a reason to go back. O.K. once in while the really neat page curls I am without can be inticing, but then I think about the creative muscle I have since installing AFX and I wake up.
So far I have nested 4 layers deep with no affect on the final output.

Adobe flaw puts PCs at risk
 

http://news.com.com/Adobe+flaw+puts+...ml?tag=cd.lede

A flaw in several of Adobe Systems' popular graphics design applications could expose users to hacker attacks, the software maker has warned.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...jsp?ftpID=2955

This update addresses a potential vulnerability in the Adobe License Management Service, which is installed with various Adobe products that require product activation. It affects only computers running Windows®. Note that Adobe is not aware of any report of malicious code that exploits this vulnerability, but Adobe wants to be proactive by providing users with a simple mechanism to protect their systems.

David,
Thanks for posting this; I had just cruised Adobe's site this weekend and didn't run into this. ALL of us who use any Adobe application that requires Product Activation (including Photoshop CS and PPro) need to run this patch!

Eric, i think your solution is:

In PPro, go to Project > Project Settings > Video Rendering and uncheck Optimize Stills.

When you are exporting to avi make sure to uncheck Optimize Stills as well.

/Roger

I would check out the forums for the RT.X100
http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/rtx100/ultimatebb.cgi

Some users have been able to fake it and trick the matrox preset to doing 24p or something along those lines.. I would search their for more information. But Gary is right, it doesn't support 24p.

Ed pretty much covered everything..

basically if you have alot of fades or other action sequences the higher bitrate is needed, I believe I read somewhere if you have a black screen with simple white title it only needs .5Mb for good quality.. So VBR will go through your video twice and select the best bitrates for each scene.

What really made me take this seriously is the fact that Adobe actually admitted a flaw.

They didn't try to pass it off as a "feature enhancement" that needed to be "optimized" by this patch.

Must be very bad indeed.

Adobe After Effects: Pixelation Help!
 

Hey all,

I'm using Adobe After Effects 6.0 to do some "cloning," and it seems that whenever I see the video, there is a noticeable amount of pixelation. This is especially apparent when I add it to a Premiere timeline with other non-edited film. Is this normal for AE? The pixelation is small, and would be overlooked normally, but upon closer inspection it is easily seen. I'm doing cloning with raw .avi footage, and rendering in a lossless format, and in both the previews and the renders, the pixelation is there. I'm just wondering what the cause of the pixelation is and how I can fix it.

Thanks!

-Derek

Are you rendering using "Draft" settings perhaps? (as opposed to "Best")

-Steve

Missing Fancy Fonts
 

I just purchased PPro and was saddened to discover the lack of fancy fonts (most look the same). Specifically I'm looking for ones used on wedding titles that look like caligraphy/handwriting.

Is there software with additional fonts that can be added to the PPro title designer (or is Photoshop the answer), or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

You can go online, and search for fonts... And that is where the fun really begins! Most programs will use fonts already installed, so just start looking at the millions of sites that have fonts, and download a few you like.

Agreed! Take a look at http://www.dafont.com.

Should I warn him, he is about to enter "pop-up Hell"?

Nope..."Best" Settings and "Lossless" Output (with audio added). The pixelation is bugging me now, and I don't know why it's happening. It's completely different with Premiere...looks like a normal .avi. But footage in AE looks terribly pixelated, even when I just import it into a composition, no effects. I just noticed it since I started working with Premiere. Anyone know what the problem is?

Fonts
 

Thanks Aanarav and Keith:

Just loaded the fonts onto a CD here at work. Now I'm going to try to load them into Premiere at home.

Can't believe it's that simple. Will let know how it works tomorrow.

Clarence

I use Scenalyzer Live to capture dv footage and it is a GREAT- even superior- tool for making backups of source footage of my projects and for long term storage. As a matter of fact it has the ability to save the exact file names of your multiple captured dv avi clips so you can easily reconstitute your Premiere Pro projects as long as you save the project files and misc. graphics & titles along with the source footage on mini-dv.

I Agree
 

I agree with you Derek, I have noticed the same thing... but I thought it was just me. I still haven't figured it out, so any insight that someone can provide would be helpful.

My only thought is that I'm taking the 4:3 image I captured with an XL1s and upscaling it 135% to fit in the 16:9 frame then rendering it out. It might be the upscaling that's doing it. You wouldn't happen to be doing something similar would you? I haven't tried a straight 4:3 to 4:3 output to see if that pixelates too.

Is your footage interlaced? If so, check to see if your footage is only interpreted bottom field only. I think that's what it's called, I don't have AfterFX on this computer right now. In your composition, right click on your footage > interpret footage > fields (make sure it's showing both fields). Hope this helps a bit.

Yeah, if the footage is interlaced After Effects almost always separates the fields. You could be seeing a vertical resolution drop by nearly a factor of 2, especially if you're not doing the deinterlace with best quality settings.

Furthermore, blowing up a 4:3 XL1s frame to 16:9 anamorphic frame will only decrease image quality. You'd be better off to just letterbox the 4:3 image.
-Steve

Which filter to use for color temperatur correction?
 

Hi there,

which filter in Adobe Premiere 6.5 (or PP 1.5) must I apply to a DV-video, when I want to correct the color temp. a little?

Say, I filmed with outdoor WB which is Celvin 5500°. When I now need a correction to say 4500° to 4800° - which is the correct filter to use to achieve this with best results and smallest quality loss / noise?

The Color Balance Filter HLS?
The Channel Mixer?
Or what?
With what settings, please?

BTW - I use it for night skys with fireworks. I have my correct WB in Canon and Sony cam stored but sometimes I need to adjust these a little, when they become a little to cold or warm...

Thanks in advance,
regards
Markus

Thanks a lot! That did it!