embedded timecode question
 

We accidently deleted the imported video files so the premiere project shows media offline. My friend said that the digital video has an embedded timecode so it doesn't matter where the tape is when you put it in the camera it won't start at 00:00:00 it will start wherever it left off. That gave me hope that it would be possible to reimport the video and somehow have Premiere relink it. Shouldn't premiere know the embedded timecode of the imported footage and be able to match up with that?

Hi Lars,

Just a few things.

1) When you capture with Scenalyzer what format are you capturing to. what about if you capture within premiere? Do you get the same probs?

2) There might not be enough data thru-put to the drives. how are your SATA2 disks arranged? Another good idea would be to find a freeware program that tells you the read and write speed of your drives (bench marking), this will tell you if the drives are fast enough to cope.

3) All though you might have closed all your apps, they might still be running. i.e. if you have an anti virus program make sure that it is disabled, if you are using google desktop it still could be using resources etc.

4) Open up task manager and see what the performance of the CPU is like when you are editing. If you set task manager to always be on top, if you place it in a corner of the screen, so that when the video begins to jerk you can see if you get any spikes in the graph.

5) Play back the clips in windows media player 5 times and see if they 'jerk'.

Just a few thoughts,

I'm pretty sure it's not vga card problem, sometimes i run ap with very poor vga(except S3). If it follows You whatever hardware You're using then it should be related someway to Your habbits: Screenalyzer(as said yourself), antivirus(as said Ed), codecs...etc. Btw what contains the list currently runs in Your PC?

Thanks for your input!

This time PPro behaves rather well :-) I can even have it running in the background for several hours and the activate it again without it "doing stuff" for 4-5 minutes.

I'll keep close tabs on what else I install - and see if there are some software that premiere pro really doesn't like. I am a professional software developer - so I have some "strange" SW on my pooter!

Happy editing!

//Lazze

Problem with recording voiceover
 

I have a small problem in recording voiceovers in Prempro 1.5. I have done the setup and I get the voice as I'm speaking and it is recording to the target track no problem there. However it's doing a double recording and building in volume ontop of itself. If I stop speaking it continues playing and records what I recorded on top of itself. If I would let it continue the volume would build to infinity. I hope I'm explaining it correctly. I'm fairly sure I havn't set something correctly. I'm not sure what at this point. It seems like there's a doulbe feed coming in. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Harry

anyone know the answer to my question?

Harry, I'll try to help not as a Premiere expert, but just as someone who has done a lot of recording. What you are describing is an "infinite feedback loop". This is caused by the "source" that is being recorded is also the output of the recorder. I would suspect that there is an option to "monitor audio during recording" and that if you set this to off, your problem may be solved. Whatever the remedy setting may be, it sounds certain that the computer is recording what it is playing back, so as you speak, the out-put actually gets recorded, then played back, then recorded again and so-on. Your monitor volume is probably slightly louder that your input, this is what would cause the recording to become louder and louder as it feeds back on itself. Try to trace down in your setting how the record function is including what you are monitoring. Hope this helps.

also check your window mixer to make sure you have chosen the line input
(you are using line for the mic correct?) and not the "record what you hear" or "stereo mix" selection.

if on a mac, well I can't help ya there

Voiceover problem solved
 

Cal And Bill
Thanks for your help. After doing several checks I finally found out that the Master volume control has to be pulled all the way down to avoid the feedback loop Cal refered to. Then boosting it back up in order to listen to the final result. Again thanks so much.

Harry

HDV render settings?
 

How come there is a conveniat HDV preset to choose for your project settings but there are not HDV render settings to choose.
When Im editing in HDV 1080i mode, and I want to render a file out- to be able to use it in the same project -what should my render settings be? It defaults to Microsoft DV AVI. I know HDV is MPEG-2 right? So what do I type in?

Other ways to capture HDV?
 

Hi,

I've been having problems capturing footage on premiere pro 2.0 because everything looks WAY darker. I played the footage directly from the FX1 to a tv and it looked exactly the way I shot it, the way I like it, the way it apears on the lcd. Then I captured this same footage with premiere and it looks WAY too dark. I tried playing it from the timeline, I tried playing it with media player classic, vlc, windows media player, etc...it always looked too dark.

So, my question is: is there a GOOD application (outside premiere) that I can use JUST TO CAPTURE the footage, that will still allow me to import it to premiere and edit it there?

Same thing happened to me on a rather large project. I had to restore from an Auto-Save...

Yes, this happened to me before. Navigate to your project folder and open up the most recently modified auto-save project file. You shouldn't be too far from where you left off.

Never mind. I tried capturing with vegas and the footage is still dark. I think it may be something to do with the graphic card.

Audio sync problem...please help
 

I use Premiere Elements 2.0 for my editing. I just finished editing a 1.5 hour long wedding video. Everything looks great, except for ONE clip. While viewing this ~10 second clip, the audio looks fine, matching up with the lips of the person talking. However, when I burn the DVD and view on my TV, the audio is out of sync by ~0.5 seconds. It is very noticable so it needs to be fixed. This is only happening on this one particular clip, the rest of the DVD looks fine. What is additionally puzzling is that the audio track is grouped with several video clips, so why would only this one clip be off?

Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on? I need to get this finished ASAP. I told the bride I would have it done by this Saturday. Thanks!!

Displaying weird (total frames) timecode..
 

I was working away with 2.0, and suddenly noticed that my display setting for time code now seem to be set to "total frames" rather than frames and seconds etc. I went to Preferences, General, and set the display back to normal settings, but it still only displays frames, a total count. Anyone know what's up?

Bug in PP2.0 DVD Scene Selection Menu?
 

When using multi-line text in menus, it's necessary to add multiple blank lines
between the lines of text. Example, my scene description looks like this:

"Scene name line 1



Scene name line 2



Scene name line 3"

I can insert multiple blank lines via CTRL+ENTER, (similar to adding a new page in MS Word), but that doesn't space the lines of text properly. To do that, I have to add the multiple blank lines. If I don't, then each text line just lays on top of each other.

The same thing seems to happen with Main Menu text, too.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this? Or maybe a patch/update for PP 2.0? Or does this provide some benefit that I don't recognize?

Go to Project > Project Settings > General and change Display Format from Frames to anything else that has the word Timecode in it. (25 fps Timecode if you edit PAL.)

/Roger

uh, thanks Roger... I'm really tired as I was up all night, so my post wasn't too clear. That is where I am going, and when I reset the timecode option, it doesn't change anything. Its as if the project is stuck in that mode and won't get out of it.

What do you set the Display Format to?

/Roger

My guess is that at some point during editing you have unlinked audio and video and forgot about it... I would try moving the audio of that clip on a different track and dragging it back or forth to sync it.

Closed Captioning in PP2
 

I have a spot that is closed capioned and I need to have it encoded for web download (easily done in PP2), but here's the question. Will the CC stay with it? I'm not sure how that works and I can't use it if it's not CC. Anyone do this?

Bad vob quality.
 

Hi there!
I have shoot some sceens with one XL2. Super quality.

But, when i render to DVD in premiere elements the quality just aint the same, it gets, i how should i put it...a lite bit pixelated. The sharpness och details get a little bit dul compera to the original.

Any one experience the same problem?

Hi Per, welcome aboard DV Info Net.

It would be a great help if you could provide some more information like the
steps you go through, which presets you are using and any other settings
(especially for the export).

My settings
 

ok, I´m kind of a newbee on thise, but i seams like the only setting i can change when exporting to DVD is the bitrate, and the maximum for thise is 8.00 Mbps.

Thank you by the way! Fun to be here!

Had Prem Pro 2 only for just over a week
 

Greetings from the newbie,

This definitely is a quantum leap up from version 6.5 which I was using for some time.I could only afford the "educational" version.Are there any differences between this and the full blown retail version which lists for $500 more?

My opening question to the forum is this:

My goal is to have the entire audiotrack be uniform in both quality and amptitude.Yes,I know how to normalize clip by clip but not the whole project at once.Is that possible and if so how is that done?I ask that because right now the individual clips & segments on the timeframe have varying levels of audio.They all need to be the same,i.e. normalized.

The follow up question is when exporting a completed project to tape,is there a combination of settings to make sure is enabled/active or something I should do before I select export to tape or will it just port over seemlessly and flawlessly without any futher ado?

Thanks,
Bruce

Same problem with export to DVD
 

I've got the exact same problem! Why can't I get super quality on the DVD like the .avi file? It's extremely annoying! I've tried to change bitrate, but I don't seem to manage to get it right..

Most grateful for any help and advice!

Multi-camera edit?
 

So I have the original uncut footage in my main sequence. Then, following the directions from the PP help menu, I made a new sequence with some footage and edited it using the multi cam feature. My footage is all edited the way I want it and I "recorded" it (although I don't understand the purpose). Now I went back to the main time line and tried to delete the original uncut footage and *poof* my edited, recorded, multicam shots were gone. When I undo and add the uncut footage back to the main timeline VOILA my images return to my multi cam sequence.

What I *want* to do is delete the old footage and replace it on the main timeline with my edited footage. How do I do this?

I keep getting this error...
 

"[\dev\starsky\MediaLayer\Src\AESupport\AEInData.cpp-692]"

...when using Adobe media encoder.

Something else about missing a frame.

Any ideas?

Conditional effects
 

I'm planning to do two different versions of a sequence, one with certain video effects applied, and one without. The easiest way would be to just to a master edit of everything as the "without" version, then copy that timeline and go through and apply the various effects to each clip in the copied "with" timeline.

Problem is, if I then have to go back and make any edits to the "without" timeline, I'd have to mirror them in the "with" timeline. Or vice-versa. It's possible, but error-prone.

Is there a way that anyone's aware of to only conditionally apply effects (and only certain effects, at that)?

(I'm guessing the answer is no, and I can think of a couple of potentially hacky ways around it, but I thought I'd throw it out here.)

Regard your 'without' version as Sequence 1. Now create a new Sequence 2. I import sequence 1 into it ...then apply the extra affects.

Then when you are finally done and ready to export, copy the project, and then revert the copied version back to Sequence 1 before exporting.

I think that gets you were you want to be.

Thanks
 

Thank you guys.

I did just that, opened the auto save file. But later the original did open, go figure!

Severo

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm not sure how this gets around having to reapply the effects if I make changes to the "without" sequence that change timing, etc. I should mention that these are per shot/clip effects.

For instance, if I have a sequence of clips A-B-C, and C has a particular effect to be conditionally applied to it, and I trim the original sequence so that B is slightly shorter...see what I mean?

True - if you change the timing of sequence 1, I doubt my suggestion will work.

Converting 4:3 into 16:9
 

I saw a very interesting device at a video show recently made by a company called Tarenex. It could take in 480I and upconvert to 720P and 1080I and do so very nicely.

What I was impressed with was how it took and stretched the image left and right. It left the center of the picture pretty much alone and progressively stretched the ends out. This was much less noticeable distortion-wise since your eye tends to go to the center of the picture where the action is.

I'm looking for something to do this but in standard def. Take 4:3 and make it 16:9 and still look acceptable. I'd shoot with the image frame cropped to take care of top and bottom. Just need to do stretch the sides.

Question: Does anyone know if a software plugin for Premiere or even a standalone that works on the same principle?

Thanks!

BTW: I did find these free presets for the Premiere motion filter on a site. Not sure how well they will work but will give them a try. http://www.mykaskin.freeserve.co.uk/...s/plugins.html

Hi George,
My TV has a setting to do the same thing - 'Panorama'
FWIW it can be OK but is distracting when you pan, and if you are having composition with subjects set 1/3 or less from the frame edge.

Sorry - can't help with the plugins.

Cheers.

Kyle:

Funny you should be the one to reply first. This all came about because I'm shooting some material for Australian television. The producer is requiring 16:9 since all TV is 16:9 in your country. Is this really the case?

Currently I'm needing to rent a camera to complete the work but they did
offer to look at a conversion from 4:3 to 16:9.

I prefer not to normalize audio in premiere (does not seem to work right all the time). I would start with the audio mixer and get as close as you can to what you want. Then export audio only, bring it into adobe audition (or back into premiere), and normalize that audio clip.

Exporting to tape, just plug in camera, set to VCR mode, and click export to tape.

As far as I know there is no difference between the "Educational" and regular version.

Premire Pro and Panasonic MXF
 

I shot some footage for a client and gave it to them on a HDD, they are editing in Premiere Pro 2 and can't figure out how to import it.

We are a mac based post facility so I have no idea how Premiere handles this.

According to Adobes web site it will except P2 MXF, but they don't explain how to do it. The clients not an editor and I can't convince them to just let us edit it.

Does anyone no how to import MXF Files into Premiere Pro 2 off a HDD