This happened to me once also. Try saving a new workspace, and give it a different name. Do this with the effcts window closed. Restart Premiere and select the new workspace. Then open the effects window and the scroll should return. Be sure your premiere window is stretched completely across both monitors so none of the windows overlap; Timeline, monitor, effects, info etc.

thanks alot! it worked! boo yah!

Which Graphics Cards Work Well with Permier Pro 1.5?
 

I'm builing my PC around PP1.5. I'm starting with software and working downward. First I choose the software (Premier Pro 1.5); then find the graphics card that works best with PP1.5 (in the PC world). The graphics card determines which processor(s), and the processors determine which motherboard. So...,

Which graphics card(s) work well with PP1.5? Remember, I'm doing uncompressed editing, MiniDV and (ideally) HDV.

Also, does Adobe have a users group web site where I can post such questions?

Tks!

Just curious...are you able to capture into the HD Capture utility that came with the cam? I do not yet own Premiere (with or without the Aspect plugin!), but can't even get this to work. See my post just now on this topic, but I wonder if we have the same problem.

problem exporting to mov
 

I'm trying to export a sequence to quicktime mov format. But the final output video gets messed up while the audio is fine. It starts out ok at first but then the video "fast forwards" quickly, totally out of sync w/ the audio. Has anyone seen this?

I'm using premiere pro and exported using the adobe media encoder. I tried several of the quicktime presets such as 256 streaming NTSC, 384 streaming NTSC, and alternate NTSC download. I get the same result or it stops due to an error. Is there a proper preset I should use or should they all work (I'm using NTSC)?

Thanks.
Donald

2 hard drives, what to put where?
 

hi i have just got premiere pro and want to install it, thing is i have one 160 gig c drive, and a second hard drive...which is about 80 gig.

where should i install premiere, on the c drive? should i use the second drive as a scratch disk? where should i capture all the video too..

thanxs

I would install the program on C:, have the scratch disk and capture on the new drive.

but would 80 gig be enough for all the video?

How much video do you have? What are you doing? If you don't feel 80 gig will be enough, either transfer everything to the 80 and use the 160 for capture, or get more drives and set up a raid.

just short films, home movies....how much video can i fit on 80 gig? whats a raid. thanxs for your reply's

could i have premiere and captured video on c and other drive as scratch disk?

A Raid array is several hard drives that are set up to work as one large drive. There are several types of raid setups, the best being a mirrored raid, where you have copies of your data in case one drive goes bad.

Dylan,

Figure on appx 13 gigs per hour of standard DV. So 80 gigs will hold about six hours of footage.

Obviously, swapping the drives would give you more storage for your media. Use the 80 gig for the C drive, the 160 for media.

If you do not feel tech savvy enough, to swap drives and reboot systems, you've probably got enough to get you started. You can simply buy additional 'external' drives as you need them and hook them up by firewire.

Hi Donald,

That is a bit strange.

I take it if you were to export out as an AVI or WMV file it would play back OK?

Have you tried playing the QT file on a separate PC?

Does it always do it at the same point? If so is there anything major happening in the video at the point (effects etc)?

Just a few things to try...

Hi Monty,

As per Adobes min spec:

1,280x1,024 32-bit color video display adapter (OpenGL card recommended)

This basically emplys any modern video card whether it be AGP or PCI-express.

The things that are most important to Premiere (in terms of hardware) is the processor and how much RAM you put in the machine. Premiere does not really use the GPU to increase its performance.

Take a look at adobes sepc:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs.html

Yes Adobe do have a user forum. Just search the support page on there website. You can also use this forum!

Cheers,

Yes, I'm able to export avi and mpeg. When I tried the different QT presets the problem happened at different points. I'll still play around w/ it.

16x9 templates?
 

ok, i shot a wedding in 16x9...and i opened up a project in premier set for 16x9 video. i want to use one of the standard wedding templates but i dont want it to be in 16x9. do i have to open a template up in a 4x3 project, export as a frame, then import back in as a still...or what? if i did that then i wouldnt get any animation on the graphic...so im confused.

Help with Premier's Alpha Glow
 

I can't seem to get Alpha Glow in Premiere 6.5 to work.
Could any kind soul take me through using Alpha Glow step by step. For the life of me I can't seem to get it to work. Premiere's on-line help is not very specific. And I've tried another Forum with zero response.
I just want to give an overall soft whitening to the image with a bit of a glow to it...I can get the soft whitening OK but not the glow...

I have Premiere 6.5 with CanopusRT2 on a P4 with plenty of everything.

Hi Mike,

You might find this previous thread of interest.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...ght=alpha+glow

Although this is mentioned for PP, it should be the same for P6.5

Hope this helps,

In Post, How can I convert a 4:3 Image to 16:9?
 

I have a Canon Gl2, I want to shoot in 4:3 to have the best quality image and then somehow convert the image to 16:9. I am aware that in Adobe Premier I can goto "add titles" and place black bars at the bottom and top to create quasi 16:9. What I really want to do is reformat the image so that it will play as 16:9 on a widescreen TV, I don't want a stretched image (adding bar in titles still will stretch the image).

So, ideally I want to make this conversion so that my DVD authoring program will accept my footage as genuine 16:9. What program can do this 4:3 to 16:9 conversion for the PC? Thanks a bunch!

Thanks Ed. I'll give Pete Bauer's suggestions a go. Nice to kow I'm not alone in finding Alpha Glow difficult.

Cheers

Mike

To convert your 4:3 footage to 16:9 you will need to start a new project in Premiere and choose 16:9 as the aspect ratio. Then, import your 4:3 footage and scale it up to fill the whole 16:9 frame. You will lose the some of the top and bottom of the 4:3 frame when you do this, so watch for things like people's heads getting lopped off at the top. You can move your video up and down to compensate for this.

Since you have to blow up the 4:3 footage to fit it inside a 16:9 frame, you are still losing quality. Sometime ago I read that Canon's camcorders were among the better ones shooting 16:9 video, even though they only had 4:3 CCDs (this was before Canon’s newest camcorder, the XL2, which does have 16:9 CCDs). If that is the case you may just be better off shooting 16:9 to begin with, since that is your final product anyway. You could easily perform an experiment to find out which shooting method gives you the best image quality.

Sequence Question
 

Can somebody explain the purpose of breaking up a long project between multiple sequences? Is this so you won't have one long timeline to navigate through? How do you get the sequences to connect when your project is finished?

There are many uses for Premiere Pro's sequences. It all depends on the project and your editing preferences. Here are some that I can think of.

To take your example, if you're working on a particular project that is quite complex, it could simplify the timeline to break it up into separate sequences. To put all the separate sequences together you just drop them into another sequence. A sequence placed in another sequence behaves just like a video clip; you can edit it, and apply any transitions or effects you want to it.

For another example, let's say you're editing a conference. You could edit each session in it's own sequence. Then you could build the opening and closing titles/graphics in their own sequences, and drop them into each session’s sequence. Should you decide to make a change to the opening or closing, it will then be updated in every sequence it is used.

On longer, more complex projects I usually capture multiple tapes (on my current project I have at least ten tapes captured). Placing the contents of each tape on it's own sequence makes it much easier to scan through my footage to locate the shots I need. It also makes it easier to assemble certain scenes in one place (behind the scenes bloopers, etc).

Another use for multiple sequences would be to put together several different cuts for a certain section of your project. With each cut in it's own sequence you could then easily swap the different versions in and out of your main timeline.

You pretty much nailed it. Obviously, your method of editing is purely your own choice, but some people (myself included) feel that breaking a long project up into sequences simplifies things by making it much easier to find things. The nice part about sequences in Premiere Pro is that you can nest them. That means that if you open a new sequence, you can drag and drop another sequence into that sequence. That way, all the clips and edits you have from one sequence just show up as one long clip in its parent sequence. Again, there is no right or wrong way to do things. It's simply a matter of personal preference.

Hope that all made sense.

EDIT: You beat me to it Christopher.

Brent,

Looks like we were both posting at the same time! The more information, the better.

OH! How fabulous is that? Make a title change in the original sequence holding the title and wherever else you dropped that title sequence the changes take effect.

You Go Boy!

Hugh,

Excellent advice here. One of my NLE manuals also noted that this is how many sitcoms and tv drama shows are done. You keep a sequence of the opening, the closing credits, and a sequence for each 'scene' in the script. I tend to look at the hierachy as Clips-->Sequences-->Project.

-gb-

I have a GeForce 6800 OC that I use dual displays with, it works really well and I haven't had a problem with it.

widescreen in after effects??
 

Hello
I have my GL2 set on widescreen and capture the video with PPro. The video look good in PPro but when I open it in AE 6.0 it is squished horizontally. Its not quite 16/9 but a little wider then 4/3. I have AE composite settings on Perset: NTSC DV widescreen 720x480 and Pixel aspect ratio: D1/DV NTSC widescreen 1.2 but it still doesnt look right. After I make the movie and open it back in PPro it looks fine. It just make it a little hard to do the effects in AE. Is there a way around this?

I'm at work so may not get the terminology quite right, but...

There is an option in AE's monitor window for showing, or not showing corrected aspect ratio. "Not" requires less processing power and so is helpful if the computer is struggling to keep up.

Square pixels at 720x480 gives an image with a width to height ratio 1.5. DV, of course, uses non-square pixels...narrow screen gets to 4:3 by using 0.9 pixel aspect ratio (PAR), whereas widescreen uses PAR 1.2. I'm guessing your monitor window is set to "not" which will then show the image at square pixels, or an image aspect ratio of 1.5. This is simply a display option; it doesn't affect rendering.

If that isn't the trouble, let us know!

i also am having quite a bit of trouble with the alpha glow effect...

Will Premiere Pro work on an Athlon X2 system?
 

The topic says it all...

cuttting and saving parts in PPro?
 

How do cut parts and save them in PPro? Like if I have a 20 second clip and I only want to save the first five seconds as a file and delete the rest?

The only way to do this is to bring your 20-second clip into a timeline, do the necessary cutting, then re-export the file. Make sure, if you're using Premiere, to keep the export settings to Microsoft DV AVI in order to keep the same uncompressed quality as your original captured footage. After you do this, you can delete your original 20-second file.

It's kind of a tedious process for such a seemingly simple request, but I'm not aware of a better way.

If you specifically want the 5 seconds as a separate file, I think export as Brent said is probably the only way to do it.

But, if all you want to do is be able to come back to that 5 seconds at a later time for editing, just save your project, and the IN and OUT points will be preserved within the project (without actually affecting the source file), which you can even import into another project.

It should lol

Blurring Faces
 

How do blur faces like in the TV show COPS in Premiere Pro 1.5 or in After Effects? Which would be the easiest way?

Insufficient Media. This transition will contain repeated frames?
 

Now I understand this happens when you apply a transition to two clips with no tail or head room, but why does this matter. If I captured two clips just the way I wanted them and just placed them on the timeline, why can't I just dissolve between the two. Why must I trim them for head and tail room. Or do I? Seems like Premiere adds diagonal lines to the transition. Even though I get this warning, the dissolve looks good. Can I just leave it as is?

I found it!
 

To those who also had the question...

http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotut...o_blurface.htm

i've got a radeon 8000pro and a matrox dv card...works fine but i want dual screen now!