P2 Issues

[Angelo Lorenzo]

“Editing modes” are just camera-specific presets for the timeline size and preview codecs. They are malleable and any deviation will become a “custom” edit mode.

If you look closely, the only thing that has changed is that Premiere sensed that your footage was non-drop-frame, while the strict P2 preset assumes drop-frame timecode.

The preview codec and other timeline specifications remain identical so far as I can tell.

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Angelo Lorenzo

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[Peter Tours]

Angelo – the good news is your eagle eye found what my dyslexic eye couldn’t – the subtle difference, which I will take up with my crew. But drat, I guess this does not explain why playback is lousy and Pr crashes a lot. Back to te drawing board, Thanks!

Peter Tours
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Fort Lauderdale, FL

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Peter,

What I’m seeing is that the original sequence preset shows UPPER FIELDS, where the custom preset shows PROGRESSIVE

[Peter Tours]

Thanks, that’s why I posted it, so others can see what I don’t. So we now know it changes NDF to DF and Interlaced to Progressive. Now we need an explanation why? Hello, Abode??

Peter Tours
TnT Video Services, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL

TRI EA5 1974-1977
Convergence ECS1B 1977-1979
Sony BVE 500 1979 – 1984
Datatron Vanguard 1984 – 1993
GVG VPE141 1993 – 1998
Media 100 1995 – 2006
Final Cut Pro 2005 to not too much longer
Adobe Creative Cloud

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Peter,

What struck me from the start was the description of the P2 Sequence that said it was for “1080i – 1080p”. I’ve never seen an Adobe preset COMBINE the two, because they are DIFFERENT and usually each have their own preset. The above preset shows “Upper Field”, so that is obviously then NOT progressive. Therefore when you dropped progressive footage into that sequence, Premiere wanted to change the setting to match the footage, which it did by changing the fields to progressive.

So I feel that the custom preset is correct and should work fine for you then.

Jeff Pulera
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