Could anyone answer my above questions? Thanks

I'm thinking of upgrading to Premiere Pro 1.5 and using it stand-alone, with firewire port only and no capture card. Although it's not listed on Adobe's compatibility list, I'd like to use my Canon GL-1 for DV input and output. Has anybody tried doing this and had success?

Thanks.

Jim

I have tried just about everything. Nothing I can do seems to export the 16:9. It squishes to 4:3 and drives me crazy.

I have tried soo many codecs and nothing seems to work.

Within Premiere there is a Pixel Aspect Ratio which I set at DV/NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2) and I decided to change it back to Square Pixels and manually type in the resolution of the video. It made the video widescreen but with 2 little bars on the top and bottom. Also, I had some animated picture's within my project and because I manually changed the resolution it offset the animation. (It's a car on the ground driving, and it turned into a car flying in the air).

I have searched and searched and most of the topics that are based on this subject are for DVD only. I'm looking for EVERYTHING. Web Video (Quicktime, WMV, DivX, Xvid), DVD Video, Etc. Right now I am mainly trying to get the video on my website.

This is very aggrivating...

Thanks for your time.

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?






No.

What I am saying, is that if you resize an image down to exact NTSC dimensions and resolution: 72ppi, 720x480, then Premiere will not need to render those images. The original images will then be the same exact size as a frame of video.

You have to decide whether that is worth the effort.

You do not want to do this if you have any plans to zoom or pan on your images in Premiere, since you would then want them to be larger than the standard NTSC size.

If you are doing a lot of pictures, and you don't want to wait hours for a timeline of high-res stills to render, then some sort of down-sizing in Photoshop might be worth it. Of course I would never do it one at a time. I'd have to run an automated PS action for that.

Resized or not, pictures are not guarranteed to fill in all the "black" on the frame. As you know, some pictures are taken vertically, and therefore will have more black space on the sides. The "scale clips to project dimensions" option is the best you can do. If you want no black at all in any crcumstance, then you need to zoom in on some of the pictures (like the vertical ones), and therefore want larger pics than 72ppi 720x480.

I am trying to preview footage from my XL2 (shot in 24 p). I have done this many times on my computer which has the following specs:

Athlon 64 3000
1 gig ram

My brothers computer has:

Athlon XP 2800
512 ram

I am not trying to capture, just playback. It will start the playback then freeze for about 10 seconds, and then catch up, freeze again. Anyone had to trouble shoot something like this before?

Rick

I would love to upgrade for $99. But I can only find $199 on Adobe's Website (http://store.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catPremiereUpgrade). Got link?

Looks like they quit offering the $99 for a 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade, and lumped it in with the 6.5 to 1.5 upgrade at double the price (GOUGE!).

My personal opinion: Unless I was absolutely desperate to get the features in 1.5 right now I'd protest with my wallet and refuse to buy a 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade at that price. Even then, I might switch to a competitor. Never mind that I've been using Adobe products for a long time (have spent WAY more money on Adobe in the last 5 years than I have on Microsoft) I just think that this is WRONG.

Maybe we ARE missing something because this just doesn't seem reasonable and not in line with the way they've offered other upgrades. Since I need to ask about another upgrade issue, I'll email Adobe support tomorrow and see what they say, if anything.

You didn't mention the speed and size of the drive you are using.
Are you using a dedicated video drive? If so, how fast is it? If not, are there other programs that may be accesing the drive and competing with Premiere for it?

Hi Jim,

I don't see no reason why the GL1 will not be supported! I've used my XL1 with no problem.

Hopefully a few guys with the GL1 will reply...

Cheers,

Ok I have premier pro 1 and I have tons of 24p footy that I have filmed with my dvx. If I burn this onto a DVD would it loose the 24p "film look"? My last video seemed that had 24p footy didn't turn out as good as it looked as I would play it on my timeline and my TV. By getting premier pro 1.5 cant you capture 24p footy? Would that help a lot, and are there settings to exporting 24p footy to DVD. Also, once I have captured all of my 24p footy to my computer and want to convert it to 24p on my computer if I upgrade is it too late, and will I need to recapture all of my 24p footy?

Could it be that since you shot in frame mode you need to set Premiere to 29.97 progressive?

the 1.5.1 is an HD upgrade, I think.

Rod,

MiniDV and DV-AVI have a very limited colorspace (search on 4:1:1). If you start playing with Gamma, Contrast, and Color Correction beyond very subtle changes, you will quickly uncover the limitations of the color space. Gamma, in particular, can be very unforgiving.

For starters, yes, you are losing quality by color correcting and rendering out to Microsoft DV (DV-AVI). When I do CC, I work only with uncompressed AVIs.

Also, you might look into "deartifacting". That is, restoring some of the lost color information. You would want to deartifact first, then do your color correction.

Josh

This most likley wont help; but if you leave the camera pluged in, it causes pauses in playback. Other then that, reload premiere and try it again; im pretty sure it most likley wont be your hard drive to cause it to pause for 10 seconds; unless all those computer specs were upgrades from an old computer, and the harddrive was never updated as well.

Dont quote me; but every single cam ive ever used to hook up to many different versions of premiere have worked. As long as the computer pics it up, premiere will. So dont worry it will work.

It's definitely not a hard drive issue. I'm not capturing, just previewing. It works fine on my computer, but on my brother's comp, it doesn't. Same exact settings. Wierd

Premiere 1 does not offer any 24p settings, you will need to update to 1.5. premire 1.5 will reconized the capture footage from premiere 1 if its 24p. Premiere 1.5 somtimes has a bug in it, that does not allow you to capture from your camera, but you can still use P1 to capture your raw footage, then import it into a premiere 24p project.

My GL1 works perfectly with Premiere Pro 1.5, and originally I was using it with just a six dollar Firewire PCI card.

Jeremiah

Been using my GL-1 with premiere since 6.0, no probs. I do think it's pretty silly that the GL-1 is the camera thet have on the box of the software (at least for 6.5) but it's not selectable as an option when you input your camera model. I guess that shows Premiere's former non-pro status, cause all the cameras on the drop-down are consumer models.

J-Rod

I have an mp4 file that I need to work with in premiere but, as of now premiere says it is unsupported. Is there any way around this?

I'm trying to capture footage shot with a monochrome (vidicon) camera, recorded on VHS, using Premiere 6.5. For some reason, it will not capture. With the exact same setup (analog to firewire converter), I can put any "regular" VHS tape in and it captures fine, but just doesn't seem to "see" the monochrome footage. Anyone have any idea why?

hmm do you have a new quicktime installed?

Hi,

Been trying to do the same here...with no luck at all.
The only solution (not the perfect one) seems to be encoding .MP4's to DV AVI's.
Maybe someone knows of a plugin that allows MP4 in premiere?
For me this is a one-off situation...but for someone that does this often there must be a better solution.

Thanks,

Paulo

just another consideration...

you should also remember that dv is displayed at a .9 pixel aspect ratio on a computer screen. i always size/crop my photos to 720x540, then squish them down vertically to 720x480. everything will look "fatter" on the computer screen, but will display properly when kicked back out to video.

I'm running a Canopus system with a Raptor RT2 Max and Premier Pro 1.5 on a 2.8g HT-P4 with 2 gigs of ram.

I'm in the process of editing a project that was shot in both 16:9 and 4:3 and just found that my settings for Premier Pro 1.5 with the Raptor RT2 Max choke (run out of buffer) on the 4:3 side when the project is 16:9 or run out of buffer on the 16:9 footage when imported to a 4:3 project. Basically realtime playback is lost. My goal was to do a 4:3 project for native mode 4:3 and then the 16:9 would letterbox when imported.

I guess the issue is, what do I need to do in order to get realtime from both formats when working in the 4:3 project and editing the 16:9 footage.

The only workaround I've found is to edit each footage in it's native format as it's own project and them import them into the 4:3 for some final cuts and transitions between them, then the only issue will be a render time.

Any ideas?

MIGUEL

Post Extr

It may be the sync signal on the tape has issues. Is the VHS the original or was it duped from some other "older" source tape. Vidicon cameras go way back and there were 1/4", 1/2" and 1" reel to reel tape formats that created tapes of marginal sync stability with lots of tearing, pedestal too low and overmodulated whites, etc. Dubbing from them without correcting these problems only compounded the problem in the dupes.

I would try feeding the tape through a time base corrector, if you can get hold of one, to see if replacing the distorted sync with new, stable sync will correct the problem.

You can also try dubbing the VHS tapes onto a DV deck first. If they record to DV tape then use the firewire output to get them into your computer.

Write back with what you can find out.

BTW: I don't think this would have any affect but, those B&W tapes will not have any color burst and this may be confusing the A to D converter you are using and it is closing down somehow. A TBC will add burst to the B&W signal!

Wrigley has a tutorial on making a picture montage using Photoshop 7 to make a PS layer. It's called the "Photo wall montage". I am new to Photo shop 7. I have Premiere Pro 1.5 and have access through a friend to Photoshop 7. I am working on a wedding and would like to use this idea for it. Could anyone give me step by step instructions on how to custruct the PS file that is refered to. I've searched but cannot find a tutorial for making the PS file. Here is the link for the tutorial.
[URL=http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tut_premierepro.htm
Thanks ahead of time.
Harry

hmm do you have a new quicktime installed?


I do have quicktime installed... I can use .mov files, just not mp4

Hi all,

I've just installed Premiere Pro on my new PC. It installs all ok but when I go to start the program up it loads partially then says:

"Adobe Premiere Pro could not load any audio drivers. Please reinstall Adobe Premiere Pro & start again"

Does anyone know how to overcome this? Is it because I have a new PC & have no audio drivers yet?

Any help will be greatly appreciated....

Hey guys, i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on why i cant open mpeg2 files in premiere. it says invalid audio format, format not supported. dv avi and avi files and WM are fine, but i cant reopen files i have compiled with encore (ac3) nor mpeg files that i made with premeire seems to be just mpeg and ac3 adio files??

George,
That makes a lot of sense. This VHS was a transfer of the ancient Cartrivision format. So maybe it's either bad sync pulses, or lack of color burst, or both, preventing the converter from recognizing the signal. I'll try both your suggestions of recording to DV tape first, or using a TBC if I can find one.
Thanks!

All,

I just picked up a PPro project I had been working on a few months ago... now all of the moving graphics and titles are showing up interlaced. I figure I must have thrown a global switch somewhere. It wasn't this way when I worked on it before.

For the clip, the Field Options -> Processing Options = "none", but changing it to "always deinterlace" doesn't seem to make a difference.

Any suggestions on what may have changed?

Thanks in advanced.

Do you mean you are seeing a combing effect in the program monitor? Are the clips from another program like After Effects, or were they animated in Premiere Pro?

Premiere Pro doesn't support AC3 audio for importing/editing.

If at all possible one should go back and use the source footage instead of using MPEG-2 for editing, as MPEG-2 has been through quite a bit of compression.

I do have quicktime installed... I can use .mov files, just not mp4

That's because QuickTime 7, the first QuickTime to use h.264 MPEG-4 files, isn't available on the PC yet (although a beta version was released, what, two weeks ago?).

These are just titles that I created in PPro and I'm moving with keyframes in PPro, and the same is happening with a Photoshop mask I am using.

Here is what a frame is looking like in the monitor:
http://www.integralarts.com/barry/interlace.jpg

In this the title is moving in from the right.

Any ideas?

Guys,

I have been adding default transitions on a sequence, too easy.However, all of a sudden, can not add transition using the cntrl d menthod. I click on sequence tab and the add video transition in greyed out, can not do. Please help me understand why that would grey out so I can not activate, making me have to manually add every transition. In the end I cut and paste to new sequence to fix it but may happen again ......any ideas would be FANTASTIC MATES.

Your Aussie battler

Basically 3 things need to happen for this to work correctly:

1. the project settings must have the correct pixel aspect ratio for 16:9 NTSC

2. the footage must be detected as being 16:9 (I don't know how to set or check this in Premiere)

3. when outputting to something other than DVD (MPEG-2) or DV AVI you need to output at 1.0 pixel aspect ratio AT THE CORRECT RESOLUTION (multiply 720 by the pixel aspect ratio number to get the correct horizontal resolution).

Does this PC have audio inputs/outputs? If so, can you play back audio files
with something like Windows Media Player?

If you answered no to any of those questions you need to fix and/or get
your audio system first. This seems to be required by Premiere.
(you will need it to edit your movie anyway).

Hi Rob!

It can be so simple that you have another track targeted. If you want to add a transition with Ctrl+D on Video 1 you must have Video 1 targeted. If Video 2 is targeted no transition will be placed on Video 1 using Ctrl+D. The same goes for audio transitions regarding targeted tracks.

/Roger

I copied all of my VHS and Hi-8 tapes to DVD a while back. I would like to import these DVDs into Premiere Pro for editing. Can someone tell me what tools I need to do this and where to get them? I thought it would be a simple thing to import from DVD.

thanks

Thanks for the frame grab. Next question: Do you see the same effect on a television monitor? I'm not surprised you'd see that effect on the computer monitor, as it is progressive scan and the combing effect happens if both video fields are played at the same time. But if it plays okay on a TV monitor, then everything is okay.

Hi Janice! You'll find a lot of suggestions on how to do this task in this thread: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=45511

the problem is that your footage will most likely end up being automatically re-encoded a couple of times, which wrecks the picture quality... a lot of people out here just don't understand that.

in short, archiving video footage onto dvd(aka mpeg2) is never a good idea if there is the slightest chance that you'll have to re-use it again.

if this is a commerical venture, you could take a look at the mainconcept mpeg2 plugin that claims to avoid re-encoding... it's expensive, and maybe a bit buggy.

What verison of prem pro?
What are your project settings?
Did you open a microsoft DV widescreen project or 24P?
What are the Interpret video results when you right click on the clips in the bin?

Hi Roger,

I have been targeting the timeline. Eg,I will even click on the clip I want to add the transition too and the timeline scrubber is sitting between the two clips like always, very confusing. Have you any other reasons why this silly problem may be occuring. Thanks so far

Target the desired track. Hit 0 enter to return the timeline bar to the start. Hit page down button to begin your journey across the timeline of the sequence. If there are multiple edits on many tracks, be sure you are on the edit of the track you need. Control-D. Done. Best to modify your own set of shortcuts and assign the default transition to an "F" key. This way when you have an hour of 2 camera content, you can blaze through at the end and sequentially hit page up then F10 as an example to effortlessly bomb your way through the many edits without your left hand getting sore.

Ahhhh ok, i was under the impression if i converted my footage (at my leisure) then i could edit it without encoding it all again :) (would take up less room)

i thought maybe i had a problem. :) thanks

Thank you Jimmy. I was targeting the actual footage on the track, targeting the track works better, unreal. Thanks everyone. Always the little things

George,
I got ahold of a TBC and that did the trick. Even with the TBC, some parts were not stable, so the sync signal must be really bad in spots. Anyhow, all that could be transferred is on DVD now.
Thanks again.