• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Only DV DVCPRO native timeline? Every other format preview only?

  Posted by Mike Hunt on November 25, 2011 at 3:43 pm

  New to premier pro and I cant get my head around this, but it seems like no matter what kind of sequence you create — except basically dv and dvcpro. You can never actually see your footage, only Iframe previews of it?

  So you have to export it to actually see what you have done, everything else is just a preview? Is this a correct understanding of how PP works?

  Mike Hunt replied 14 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  November 25, 2011 at 5:09 pm

  This is not true.

  Drop a clip onto the “new sequence” icon on the bottom of you project and it will match the footage.
  Should playback fine.

  What type of footage do you work with?
  Do you have an I/O card as well?

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Mike Hunt

  November 25, 2011 at 6:01 pm

  No No, playback is fine it’s actually fantastic, that’s not the issue, what’s interesting here is how the program actually works, that’s what I’m trying to figure out.

  Right now I have a canon 24p 1080 clip playing, on four different time lines…

  exdcam 24p
  exdcam 29.97i
  Ntsc
  and the “correct” canon time line 24p 1080

  Now playback is exactly the same on all the time lines, because I just realized PP do not actually import the clips it simply reference them to the original clip.

  So looking at the clip in Ntsc mode you only see a small portion of the clip, but you can re-frame it and so on because the whole clip is still there.

  Now my questions is what am I looking at in these four time lines?
  Is it always the original clip, or is it a preview version of it?
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  Steve Brame

  November 25, 2011 at 9:51 pm

  You are seeing the original, unless you render the timeline. At that point you see the render clip.

  Steve Brame
  creative illusions Productions
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  Jeff Pulera

  November 26, 2011 at 4:22 pm

  Hi Mike,

  It sounds like you came from FCP, where clips all had to be transcoded when importing. The nice part of Premiere is that you don’t have to, you can work with most any format natively!

  Regarding seeing part of the clip in NTSC – you need to go into Preferences > General and mark the checkbox for “Scale to Frame Size”. Note this does NOT affect clips already importe – in that case, just right-click clip on timeline and manually set Scale to Frame from the drop down.

  I hope this resolves your issue, as I’m not totally clear on the entire problem you are having.

  Thanks

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers
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  Mike Hunt

  November 26, 2011 at 4:58 pm

  Thanks everyone.

  I had no problem, I’m just trying to figure out how the program actually functions.

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