[Ann Bens]

A/B editing in the timeline went out with Premiere Pro.
When dubble clicking on a transition in the timeline it opens in the project window, this is simular to a/b editing.

[Ann Bens]

Copied from a forum, can’t remember which one:

If your MPEG file contains AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio then Mitch411 said:

If you’ve got Encore CS3 installed , copy the file ad2ac3dec.dll from
the Encore CS3 directory and paste it into the PPro CS3 root directory
. Once you restart CS3, you’ll be able to import the file with the
audio. This means if you’ve already have a project with the files
imported, you’ll need to remove the files from the project and
then re-import them, or just start over with a new project.

Eddie, you’re right. PPro doesn’t import files with an AC3
extension, but it did import ac3 audio embedded in mpeg files
from DVD camcorders. The ad2mcac3dec.dll that was included in
2.0 allowed those ac3 files to import as stereo (but not 5.1).
It looks like that functionality was removed or broken in
Premiere Pro CS3, but the functionality still exists in Encore CS3.
You can copy the file over from Enc to PPro and get the
functionality back. You may end up breaking something else, but
it does work to allow the AC3 audio stream in the mpeg file to import.

[Ann Bens]

I am not sure but this might have something to do with the matrox codec the Matrox 2000 usses

[Ann Bens]

Tried it myself.

[Ann Bens]

I know programs are generally not downwards compatible. What i meant is it does work for CS3 and Pro 2 but not for Pro 2 and 1.5.

[Ann Bens]

Pro 2 and CS3 are very much the same.
Pro 2 is very different from Pro 1.5.

[Ann Bens]

You need Soundbooth. Premiere is unable to do this for you.

[Ann Bens]

This dvd is just great, looking forward to part 2.
Keep up the good work.
Ann from Holland

[Ann Bens]

AE will only see 4 GB of RAM on a 64 bits machine.
3 GB is max for a 32 bits machine.

[Ann Bens]

When using a camera as converter the vob files are being recorded as avi. No loss here, but when you want to make a dvd from these avi files you have to convert them back to mpeg and there you have your quality loss.
Even better is to edit the vob files in native mpeg using the Mainconcept plug in. This makes things a lot easier. This plug-in even uses smart-rendering. Have a look at Premiere Elements, very good for importing straight from dvd and the Mainconcept plug-in is a lot cheaper.
If you ever want to edit from a dvd that contains ac3-audio just install the ‘ac3-filter’ codec and you will be able to hear the audio.