[Andrew]

Geez Myles it’d be close to 10 years.
Fancy crossing swords with you here!
Thanks very much for your tips.
After posting I did upgrade to 10.9.4 but didn’t do an entire OSX wipe, just the update.
Unfortunately it’s still playing up.
I will contact Red Giant direct as you suggest and hopefully get a work around.
How’s things at CBF? Busy??

[Andrew]

Hey,
Does anyone know if this successfully applies to FCS 2 running FCP 6.0.6 as well?
Thanks
Andrew

[Andrew]

Hey,
Thx for the feedback.
Is there any noticable difference between the interface between running PP on a mac and windows?

Also, which OS offers a more stable platform in your opinion?
Thx
Andrew

[Andrew]

Does Premiere Pro 5.5 work in Mac Lion or any version of Snow Leopard?
I was a little confused to read the below on the Adobe site under system requirements…

“Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance in Adobe Premiere® Pro”

Cheers
Andrew

[Andrew]

Thanks for the reply Jon.
I’ll be using a bunch of different formats – mainly tapeless though, like XDCAM EX.
If it is on tape shot 1080p, will I have ingest problems?

[Andrew]

Thanx for that.
Can I just copy my prores sequence (without first exporting it) into the DVPAL 4:3 timeline?

Regardless, what field dominance and pixel aspect should I be making the DVPAL sequence settings?
The Prores sequence had no field dominance (is progressive) and the pixel aspect ratio is square.
Thanks
Andrew

[Andrew]

BTW, the clip does include graphic/photo overlay in it that doesn’t require the smoothcam. Could that be an issue?

[Andrew]

Nope. That wasn’t it, but this is interesting…

I see what you mean about the mix value. The strange thing is, when I did that on the original clip nothing happened. But when I copied the file to a new timeline to make you a short clip, I could see the mix value change. (That sort of overlay ghosting).
So I went back to my original timeline and reduced the length of it and presto I could see the two mix values. But when I extend the clip back to its original length, I don’t get any smoothcam???
What is this telling me?
That I need to increase my Transition & Rotation Smooth values or something else?

[Andrew]

Maybe I tell you exactly what I did…

I converted the handheld 720P XDCAM to ProRes 422, then brought that in on a ProRes timeline. Adjusted settings to Smoothcam then dropped it on for analysis. Once analysing was complete I renedered the green out to blue and saw no changes.

My Smoothcam settings were:
Auto Scale 1
Transitional Smooth 3
Rotation Smooth 3.5
Scale Smooth 0
Mix 100

I’ve had success with smoothcam using SD DV but none with the XDCAM/ProRes.

[Andrew]

Thanks Russ.
Yeah I tried Compressor under a number of different settings; like exporting from a Proress timeline rather than an EX and vice versa.
Still can’t seem to figure it out.