m2t to disk
 

does anybody know how.....or if possible, to take a M2T file, stick it in premier1.5.5 and burn it to a disk so i can view it on a large screen T.V.?
i burned one, but it was REALLY pixeled out, so maybe i'm missing a step or something? any help would be great
thanks

Playing Clips in Reverse - APP1.5
 

Hey hey. Another question for you all, regarding Premiere Pro 1.5, again. I recently mastered Color Correction, and now I feel like a big man. But, now, I wanna know something that has been bothering me for a while.

Clips in movies and television occassionally play backward, for, say, jumping backwards up a building or whatever. Is this possible to do in Premiere Pro 1.5? I have no idea where to start - the Mirror effect wasn't what I wanted at all.

As always, thanks in advance for everyone's help.

~Loggie B

Hi Logan,

I think that you should select the clip in your timeline, right mousse click on it, and then go to: speed/duration.
There you can select the speed, but if I'm not mistaken, there's an option there: reverse.
If not, try - 100 %, with the speed, but I think there's an option for it.

Best regards,

Ah! All that time, and all it took was one check box. Thanks a lot sir, 'tis much appreciated indeed!

~Loggie B

.jpg in the timeline dont show up
 

I have never attempted to put still images (.jpg) in the timeline. I dropped one in the timeline today thinking it would show up in the preview monitor. It didn't. Just black video.

Anyone know why it might not?

Adam,

Based on a recent thread here, try converting the JPEG to a Photoshop PSD file and try that. Premiere seems to work best with PSD file.

Josh

If the file size of the .jpeg is too large it will disapear, I had that happen to me on an edit job.

What I did was to import into photoshop and save as .tga
Or you can resize the .jpeg to reduce file size.

Scanning photos for Priemere
 

I want to scan my photos and insert into a video.
What is the best format and dpi to use thats works best in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Thank you

Having the same problem
 

Hi I am having the same problem, and the way you said oyu fixed it is pretty foreign to me, care to elaborate?

Pic gets wider when i place FX or titles on top
 

Hello,

I've had this problem for a while but in the past I've found creative ways to work around it. I'm working on a project now though that I cannot workaround so i have to rectify.

Basically whenever I lay text or a QT with an alpha channel on track 2 over some footage on track 1, when rendered the footage in track 1 gets a wider picture.

any advice? by the way I am using PPro1.5 and the Matrox Rx

Importing stills as a sequence?
 

Is it possible to render a clip out in a TGA (or similar file type) sequence in software like After Effects, and then bring the hundreds of frames/images into Premiere 2.0 as a single clip...This can be done with AE, but I can't seem to do it with Premiere.

For instance,

When working in Particle Illusion, I export the effect as a sequence of TGA files, import them as a single clip into AE, composite them onto a TGA sequence/single clip of original footage exported from Premiere (Should I export from premiere in DV-AVI (the source filetype) or is it better to export the footage that you're going to work on as a series of images too?) then export as a TGA sequence in AE...How can I bring this affected footage back into Premiere though?

Should I always work on image sequences when compositing, but render the final clip out as a DV-AVI video to bring back into the NLE?

File>Import>"Your first image". Mark the checkbox "Numbered Stills" at the bottom of the import-window.

Works here anyway.

/Max

8mm to digital storage
 

I have a lot of old 8mm tape I want to store digitally. I have a 8mm sony comcorder with firewire that I can capture to my computer. I want to store all raw footage from the tapes to DVD and be able to edit later. What would be the best way to get it onto DVD and in what format or file structure is best. I am new to editing so it needs to be simple. It seems the file structure from what I have captured burns to a DVD but I can't seem to get it back into Premier so I can edit.

If you are displaying the pictures full-frame and not applying any zoom or pan to them, you should scan them close to the size of your video project resolution (for example 720 x 480 pixels for standard dv in the U.S.). If you scan much larger you will increase the memory and work load on the program and make it work slower, also Premiere does not resize the pictures as well as most image editing progams and you will see more artifacts in the pictures. If you are zooming or panning you need to scan at a larger size so there are still enough pixels in the zoomed portion of the picture to provide full resolution (eg. 720x480) so Premiere does not have to upsample the picture. I find that keeping the horizontal dimension to about 1000-1100 pixels allows me enough room to zoom and pan in most cases without overburdening the system in both speed and memory. Another problem with scanning too big is that you will create more 'flicker' on the sharp lines in the images when you pan or zoom.

As far as format goes, I have not seem a difference between using JPG, TIFF or PSD (Photoshop version of TIFF). Some have reported problems with one or the other and the dreaded or green or black screen in Premiere. I have had problems with all formats when I have too many or too large of pictures in PPro 1.5, but have not encountered the problem yet in PPro 2.0

bumping this as the problem has not been fixed, cannot seem to find any documentation about it online, and I'm hoping someone here might know the fix!

I'm able to export in anything but WM9 1080 60i or Mpeg2 1080 60i 15mbps. Any ideas????

.: Twixtor Pro setting for short scene :.
 

Hi all,

as i told in a diffrend thread im working on my shortmovie.
And i'm in postproduction stage at the moment,

i have gotten myself twixtor pro kit and as i am still learning it, i wanted to
know if somebody could help me out to slow down a short shot of a seat falling down a window.

If you can help me don't hesitate to reply,
cause i could really use some help on this!

Ps: if you want to i can mail you a copy of the scene, just ask me

thank you guys!

greets

Michaël.

Image size for stills
 

My projects are now in HDV with the project declared 1080x1920. I have been using my digital camera images without first resizing. They are 3072x2048. I find the sizing and zooming infinitely better in PPro than old Premiere6.5. They look great on my TVs (both are 720p, so are 720x1280 or so). I have 2 gigs of RAM, run the excellent CineformAccessHD plugin and have not seen slugishness between frames. PPro1.5 did often crash when rendering more than three or four at a time, but I've done dozens at a time in PPro2.0 without problems.

In my book you should scan prints 4x6 and over plus negatives to aim for about 3000 pixels across the long edge for your archives. That would be about 500 or 600 dpi over 6 inches. More is usually beyond the resolution your camera/film/focus/steadyness can deliver. Unless your scans will only be for a one-off standard definition project, I'd say the above post's recommendation of 1000 across is a minimum. Stills done 1080x1440 looked VERY sharp, far sharper than my (then) Canon ZR70.

When I did use 6.5 (as your profiles show), I made a copy at 1080x1440 (square pixels 3:4) before importing. And yes, zooming in 6.5 was hopeless since I believe it knocked each image down to 480x720 BEFORE zooming. Stills done this way were VERY sharp, far sharper than video from my inexpensive Canon ZR70.

Adobe pp2 with 720 24p footage
 

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone here could give me some advice. I have a recent project shot on the hd100 24p hdv. I would like to edit natively and I believe the latest version of premiere can do this. I was just wondering if anyone here has tried this and could advise me of the relative merits and misgivings of doing so. I'd like to avoid any intermediate if I can and native sounds like a possible solution. However, I'm not sure what kind of set up I'm going to need in order to do this effectively. The project is mostly straight edits with some magic bullet thrown in i.e. no heavy cgi stuff. Although, I suppose even magic bullet effects are still pretty heavy going when editing natively but not sure.

Thanks in advance, Greg C.

Nevermind this post,

i have found out what settings to use the hard way

greets

Michaël.

Longshot: are you using Cineform AccessHD
 

You didn't mention, but are you using Cineform AccessHD4 (for PPro2)? When first introduced, you had to keep old PPro1.5.1+AHD3.x on disc since a licensing issue requires it to export to cameta in PPro2. Expected to be cleared by AHD4.1. Good luck.

Still images
 

Are you on old 6.5 or PPro? Old 6.5 would deal with .jpgs for days then suddenly go black - so I just took to using .tiffs for them. In PPro1.5.1 and now 2.0, it deals with my .jpgs fine. Prem6.5 had a 4000 pixel limit. I suppose HD capable PPro has a limit too but it must be quite high. My routine digicam pics are 3072x2304 and they size and zoom beautifully in my HDV projects.

If you do zoom out enough to not cover the frame, don't forget to put "new item"/"black video" under them...or you may get that ugly green on the edges.

Dynamic Link substitute?
 

I got After Effects and Premiere Pro 2 on a student discount separately, but is there anyway to use Dynamic Link, or an equal substitute, without having to purchase the entire Prouduction Studio?

16:9 25p XL2 picture to APPro2.0 ?
 

hi all,

I have just started to shoot Xl2 for 1 months and now I tried to capture the footage to comp with Adobe premiere pro 2.0. The picture is PAL 16:9, 25p. in capture settings, there is no progressive sd or 25p.so I set 720x576 wide screen 1.422. but where XL2's native 960x576 image goes ? does it downrez to 720x576 wide screen or it keeps its resolution ? whats is the basic settings for capturing XL2 16x9 25p footage in Adobe pemiere pro2.0

thanks

Unfortunately, no.

While the XL2 has 960x576 pixels on the CCDs, it only records to tape at the DV standard anamorphic 720x576 (PAL) resolution.

I'm not sure about PAL, but in NTSC there were presets for standard and widescreen DV at 60i and 24P.

More than 4 in Multicam?
 

I've been thinking that if I do a music video where the entire video is just of the band playing in one location with no narrative, I'd film the band playing their song through 10 or 12 times from a different angle and cut from those to make a music in the end. If I could use more than four video tracks in the multi-cam mode, this could make editing that type of music video as easy as watch-and-click...Is there any way to do that though? Taking more than 4 angles, watching each of them in a separate monitor and clicking on each monitor to switch angles?

You can do the main four. Then add it footage from the next three, then the next three, etc.

If you look closely, you will probably find that there are only a few shots outside of your favorite four that you really want to use. Get the major cuts done, then add in the other footage.

Of course, remember to take the time to submit a feature request to Adobe to add more camera angles. They might listen.

It would be a good feature, I think. You'd be able to have something edited in a fraction of the time it takes to manually take each clip and cut it.

I'm thinking that there'd be shots from the less frequent angles I'd want to splice in between stuff from the main four...It would be good to edit everything in order. For instance, I might have only one shot from the second batch of multicam shots I'd like to be with the primary batch.

easiest way to alter a voice
 

using PP1.5, to edit a PRACTICE short. and I dont have much experience with altering/sweetening sound. So that being said, I would like to alter some kids voices when they become zombies. Being that this project is just for practice, I am trying to not spend anymore money to complete it. So what is the easiest way to give there vocies that deep/scary sound? Within the audio effects that come with PP1.5, Ive used the pitchshifter filter and that sounds okay. Is there another filter I could use, or another one to apply with pitchshifter? Is there other (free) software that could do the trick? Or if I need to pay, what other software out there is easy to use/learn?

wheres a good place to buy/get sound effects to emphasize certain scenes
thanks
ruben

No one has responded to this problem I am still having, plese help me out if you have any ideas

Problems with Device Control in Premiere Pro 1.5
 

Hullo!
Just when I've started to post-process my first digital movie, problems started to pour in. You may not find this problem as annoying as it is to me, but here goes :

My camera is uncontrollable from the PC in Adobe Premiere 1.5. The timestamp does update when I'm rewinding or forwarding, but buttons like play, forward, stop are inactive and do nothing. I tried changing the options, but nothing works.
The weird thing is that the device control works in all the other programs, including Windows Movie Maker or WinDV.

Has anybody got a clue? I'd be thankful for any response.
-X

Hi daniel,

Have you set the device control in Premiere. Generally generic DV should do, if your camera is not on the list. If movie maker and other Dv controlled software can detect it OKthen Premiere should be fine also.

What camera are you using?

What settings/ configurations have you tried?

Cheers,

Perhaps nobody responded because you never said which software you are using, or what kind of footage, or what size the frame is (widescreen or 4:3), or if the problem happens when you skip using the Matrox, or if you upgraded the Matrox drivers to match your version of software?

My audio page has links to lots of free sound effects. Start with FindSounds.

Try applying a little echo, some noise, stuff like that.

Problem when slowing down
 

As you can see, the problem starts when slowing down.
I only make it 80% and the picture starts to get some stroby effect. Even if I deinterlace it in Premiere, I again get this annoying efect.
On TV it looks like I the interlacing is going slow. (well it is, but I worked on lots of cheaper and worse editing softwares which could make slow-mo better.)
I read that Premiere is not so good with slow-mo, but it's hard for me to give up on Premiere,
because I used it so much, so wanted to see how you guys handle this.

Any advice more than welcome...

OK, after reading some old posts, realized it's a known weakness and that possible solutions are 3rd party plugins or going to AfterEffects which does it better.

My question is how you do it in AE.
Not meaning what's the procedure, but for example a wedding 'walk in the park' intro.
Do you take all the footage into AE, slow it down and then edit in Premiere, or do you do the editing in AE.
Because I'm much slower in AE so, want to know if I practice will it make it faster or it's just the way it is?

so capture setting should be 25p with widescreen 720x576 1.422 is the way ?

and there shouldnt be any manual setting like 960x576 ... is it ?

alkim.

check out www.goldwave.com there is a free trial download, that is limited by the amount of actions per session. I believe it has a mechanize filter and some others that may do what you want.

boggy editing
 

I edit with Premiere 1.5 on both a laptop and a desktop and keep all my files on a Lacie 250gig external. Since I switch back and forth between computers I set my preview files and conformed audio files to Same As Project, so everything is on the external. Because I've rendered then changed then rendered a lot, I thought I could save some space by deleting all my preview files and doing an almost final render. However, ever since I did that both my desktop and laptop are boggy, like it takes a second to catch up every time I click to do anything, which is really annoying. I'm almost done, but has anyone experienced this who knows a cure? What if I just stick to my desktop and change my Premiere settings to save the preview files and conformed audio to the desktop hard drive and keep all my video files on the external, then let it reconform all audio and rerender it? Think that would help? I may give it a try, but just wanted to see if anyone has been through this.

I happen to use n-Track Studio (http://www.fasoft.com/) for everything that my sound engineer doesn't do (he uses Cubase SX). I like n-Track, even though the interface can be kludgy...