Adobe Premiere & Premiere Pro discussions from 2005

[James Emory]

Is there any particular reason why Premiere 6.5 crashes when I try to import images that are 1024x768? I want to resize them within Premiere but it crashes every time I try to import them. Is this normal? If so, what is the maximum image resolution that can be imported without it crashing?

[Rob Lohman]

The best way to go between the two programs is uncompressed AVI (ie,
select "none" for the codec). However, this creates large files. If that (really)
is a problem I would simply go with DV AVI files (later versions of After Effects
should support that I think).

[Peter Higginbottom]

Hi
If You want to import large pictures into 6.5 & scroll around & zoom in with no loss of quality, a program called "Moving Picture 5" is the one to use.
Recently started using it Myself, tho not a lot yet.
Installs as a plug in.
6.5 is supposed to resize "on the fly" I think, but I`ve always, before had to rezize to 720x576(I`m in PAL land) before importing to 6.5.
Or it would crash more often than not.


Hope this helps.


Regards.


Peter.

[Steven Gotz]

To go from Premiere Pro to After Effects, I assume you are exporting as Cineform AVI? Or are you using MainConcept's HD plugin?

If Cineform, do you have Aspect HD? Or just PPro 1.5.1?

It makes a big difference in the answer.

If you have Aspect HD then I suggest exporting it back in a Cineform AVI so you don't have to render in Premiere Pro. If you don't, the the Quicktime Animation codec will do the job just fine. And you can even have an alpha channel if needed.

[Matthew Weitz]

When I preview my work in Premiere 6.02 by clicking the play button on the monitor window, the playback is all stuttery.

Also when I want to render a preview, it takes forever (about 5 minutes for 10 seconds of footage).

Are there any project settings that I should be using to make previewing and rendering previews faster?

I'm running a P4 2.8GHz with 512 MB of RAM.

[Ed Smith]

Hi Matt,

Have you got lots of effects on your clip you are trying to render? The more effects, the longer it'll take to render!

Can you give us any more details about what you are doing?

Cheers

[Patrick Smith]

thanks so much. i just put togther a little video for my cousin. just something i can build off of. but i feel like i did a good job just learning with it.

i usally just shoot the film and my partner edits. i've been trying to learn.

anyone know where i can uplaod it so you guys can check it out?

[Jeff Boeckman]

I am running the trial version of these programs and don't have many days left and I am done beating my head over the non-helpful help files that come with these programs so I am here to ask you this. Why after I capture my video in PP and go through and make my clips (and renaming them to match the scene) doesn't Encore see my new named clips from the project? As far as I can tell, all it sees is the original .avi files that were from the original capture. It doesn't see my updated project with the new named .avi's.
Please help.
jb
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[Steven Gotz]

It is impossible for Encore to see the wrong files. It sees what you told it to see. So I suspect that you have confused the file names or the directory somehow.

You exported a new AVI out of Premiere Pro. right? And put it into a separate directory. And imported the AVIs from that new directory as timelines. Tight?

[Christopher Lefchik]

When you rename a clip inside a Premiere Pro project the clip retains it's original name on the hard drive. This is stated in the manual (and would be in the help file) under "Naming, finding and deleting Project window items" in the "Working with Projects" chapter:

"Whenever you rename, edit, or delete a clip in Premiere Pro, the original file and filename remain untouched on your hard disk."

And as Mr. Gotz said, you would normally export your project from Premiere Pro as an avi (or MPEG-2) file before working with it in Encore DVD.

[Dave Ferdinand]

It really sucks to have to buy a plugin for $500 just for secondary color correction...

It should come as a standard feature. I think Vegas 5 has it, why not PPro?

I'm starting to wonder what other features I'm missing from Vegas...

[Steven Gotz]

Dave,

Have you taken a look at the RGB tonal range in the Color Corrector? You can set the Gamma, Pedestal and Gain of each channel (Red, green & blue) as well as the Curves for each. And of course, the HSL settings are available to you.

What is it that you find inadequate about them?

[Dave Ferdinand]

Thanks Steve, but that will not do what I desire. Say, I change the Red gain, it will affect all colors that have red, including white, yellow, etc.

What I want is to change the hue/saturation of a particular tonal range, like if I chose yellows it will only affect 'yellowish' tones, and leave all others alone (including white).

I know Photoshop allows you to do this on all primary colors, but haven't been able to find this feature in PPro.

From what I've heard, Vegas automatically generates an alpha mask for the chosen color range and updates it on a per-frame basis.

[Glenn Chan]

Chroma key might work if you can key out yellow.

An inelegant solution, but it may work.

I don't like Color Finesse's secondary CC function that much, but at least it gives you a secondary color corrector.
Vegas and Final Cut both have (better) secondary color correctors.

I think Vegas 5 has it, why not PPro?

I'm not really sure, because Final Cut has it and Premiere Pro tries to mimic Final Cut in so many ways. As well, the Apple website touts the benefit of its 3-way color corrector.

My guess is that Adobe didn't think it was a priority, or that secondary color correction is hard to program for if you want hardware acceleration for it (or if you want backwards compatibility with old hardware acceleration cards).

[Christopher Lefchik]

Dave,

You might want to try the Color Replace effect.