[Angelo Lorenzo]

https://forums.adobe.com/message/4182045#4182045 According to Todd’s first response, the answer appears to be no. The post also references https://aescripts.com/pt_opensesame/ but that is only for After Effects.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It might be possible.

I know when moving between CS5 and CS5.5 Premiere forces me to resave a copy of the project file for that specific version. This includes going backwards from CS5.5 to CS5 (recognizes everything no problem, although I wonder if it would throw a fit if I added the new film-like dissolve)

CS5 can handle it, my only concern would be bouncing backwards to the CS4 machine.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It depends on how bright your cellphone screen is. If it’s relatively bright and youre shooting indoors then you can sometimes balance the exposure of the screen to the scene.

If you have after effects you should also have Mocha, which is a planar motion tracking program. Pop it open and look at the help file; the help file describes most of Mocha’s functionality in terms of motion tracking the screen of a cellphone.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

When exporting any movie into a delivery format, you have to ask yourself how will people be watching the film?

Will it get burned to DVD?
Are you going to upload it to Vimeo/Youtube?
Do you just want to render out to a high quality format so you can archive your video and revisit it later?

I would suggest, if you just want to watch it or upload it to YouTube or Vimeo, try the following:

Container: Quicktime
Video Codec: h.264
Quality: 100%
Keyframe: Enable and set to 8
Limit datarate: enable… my suggestions for a good quality tradeoff are 4000kbps (standard definition), 8000kbps (for 720p) and 15,000kbps (for 1080p) and you can adjust those to taste.
Audio Coded: AAC

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You’ve basically described a piece of software Adobe is working on called “Prelude” https://nofilmschool.com/2012/02/adobe-sneak-peak-video-application-prelude/

From experience, I think your approach is slightly flawed. It’s an uphill battle with any client to get them to add software or change their workflow to accommodate someone they have hired. It’s especially gear grinding if they have a strict IT department.

I would say you have two choices:

Adobe Premiere Elements (I’m not wholly familiar with its ability to edit metadata or how compatible its projects are with CS). The learning curve for non-editors I’m sure is huge.

Quicktime Player. You can use the left and right arrows to kind of shuttle (or ctrl+arrow to play forwards and backwards) and it can also display timecode https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/qt_timecode_display_gary.html

There may actually be a program to do what you need, and if so then I’m not aware of it.

I feel like doing it in Quicktime means someone can spend a day watching footage and marking down timecode without a headache.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Clip metadata is stored in the project, the chain keeps it synced with the corresponding XMP metadata field in the file itself (thus making the info portable with the media file).

Explained here: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WSA903689B-6014-4582-9696-053BB968E16C.html

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Could possibly be a bad ingest. Premiere conforms all audio to a media cache for editing.

In Premiere, go to Edit > Preferences > Media and look at the first folder listed under “Media Cache Files” and clear this folder out. All cache files will be forced to regenerate when the projects are re-open.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Yes, there is a way to change your color picker values.

Locate your info panel (if you don’t see it go to Window>Info, ctrl+2 is the windows shortcut). In the upper right hand corner of the panel you have your panel menu. Select this and you will be given the option to see your color readouts as 8bit, 10bit, and 16bit. Change this as appropriate and it will also change how the Color Picker represents color as well.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

When in doubt, use the HEX value and proof it on a different system (tv or otherwise).

It sounds, though, like you aren’t wholly familiar with color management within AE so I suggest you look through https://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/aftereffects/articles/aftcs3ip_colrmanage/aecolor_management.pdf

I preempt this by saying I don’t know how much you know about color management in general, so I’m going to assume the worst and explain everything worth looking at in this situation.

You’re working with three color spaces and how they store or display color

Source – This is the color space defined by whatever created your video or graphics. Chances are you’ll be working with a mix of mostly Rec 709 (HD digital video standard) and sRBG(graphics, or whatever other flavor like ProPhoto, Adobe1998 and so on).

Working Space – After Effects, with color management turned on, will allow you to pick a working space. This does a initial conversion of all your sources into one working space.

Rec 709 and sRGB share a lot of the same gamut space, except sRGB is 2.2 where Rec 709 is 2.4. On a computer screen they should behave nearly the same, but on a calibrated Rec 709 video monitor you may see the slightest gamma shift.

Display Space – Now you mentioned you changed your monitor profile. Are you doing this in Mac’s monitor preferences? If so, remove all profiles. You’re applying work space profiles to an output device and that won’t lead to the most accurate look. You should be applying a calibrated profile (produced by something like a Pantone Huey, Spyder Pro, or other calibration device). This display profile is used to compensate any color shifts or deficiencies with your monitor. You don’t really need this step if someone else will proof your stuff, but if your monitor is off at least you know that the PDF and After Effects are, comparatively, the same.

I would say, though, that PDFs are also color managed. Try bringing it into after effects (should work just fine) and comparing the swatches 1:1.

Beyond that, it may be some exotic setting that isn’t coming to mind. You aren’t applying an adjustment layer or effect that you’re not aware of that’s shifting the color for instance?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Have you turned color management off completely? Or at the least, gone to View > Simulate Output > and set it to none/off?

Why would you need to change color profiles on your monitor? Are you referencing a brand book or Pantone chip; did they give you an on-screen reference like a pdf brand/logo chart?