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FCP to PPro Switcher. Assistance required
Posted this in the basics forum last week and got zilch response so thought i’d try here. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
I’m an FCP guy who has recently landed a job working on PPro. I’ve never really used PPro but work with AE quite a lot and thought i’d be able to muddle my way through..and i can. It’s nice to see the inbuilt FCP keyboard shortcuts which makes life easier. Although no SHFT-Z Fit to Window?! Anyone know the keyboard shortcut for this in PPro? Anyway, I digress. What i am finding difficult is the constant crashing and certain codecs not being recognised. Here’s my set-up.
imac 3Ghz
4GB Ram
2 x internal drives 500gig on both
OSX 10.6.5
CS4 Premiere 4.1.2I want to know a couple of things. When installing FCP the program also installs every professional codec I could dream of. I am editing XDCAM-EX footage in an MP.4 wrapper. This works fine. However, if I import some EX footage in a .MOV wrapper it won’t recognise it and it crashes. It’s a mac, it has QT, but it doesn’t have the QT XDCAM-EX codec. Am i right? I import an AIFF 48Khz, it crashes, not recognised. Once again, it’s a mac, but PPro can’t read AIFFs? Bizarre.
All these work within PPro on my MBP with FCP and PPro installed. I’m presuming because FCP is installed. If I’m having reliability issues in FCP then i trash prefs, i repair disk permissions, i copy and paste a sequence into a new project…..is this the same for PPro? Any quick fixes would be greatly appreciated.
Yours
Dan
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To get timeline to fit view hit / key. Move the CTI (playhead) Tap / again to go back to the same zoom level at the new timeline point.
AIFF should import fine on PC or Mac. Try cleaning your media cache from the preferences. Then allow all the conforming to occur again before editing. May need to relaunch PPro. 😉
XDCAM footage can be edited from the native recorded folder structure. Gain access to the clips via media browser panel.
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> CS4 Premiere 4.1.2
That could be part of your problem.
The current version of Premiere Pro CS4 is 4.2.1, so you don’t seem to have the most recent update.
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Sorry. That’s actually my bad. I got the numbers mixed up. I think it’s an IT issue. This computer is networked through an X-Serve and i believe it to be a permissions problem as whenever i try to set scratch disks i’m getting a disk is write-protected message. This is causing PPro to behave very weird. I can’t expect anyone here to solve network issues but thanks for the responses anyway….and the fit to window short cut.
Dan
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One final thing, which I almost forgot. My media encoder has stopped working, probably down to the same network issue. Is there any other way of getting work out of PPro without using Media encoder or laying off to tape?
Thanks
Dan
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> My media encoder has stopped working, probably down to the same network issue. Is there any other way of getting work out of PPro without using Media encoder or laying off to tape?
Adobe Media Encoder is used for any formats that require rendering and encoding of frames. Here’s a page that lists the export formats that don’t involve encoding and therefore don’t go through Adobe Media Encoder:
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Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
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ACTUALLY, the correct shortcut key to “fit to window” in Premiere Pro is a BACKSLASH (), NOT a forward slash (/).
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