[Anne Mortensen]

Thanks Erik for your help. Yes, it did the trick. I chose to render it out at H264 and it works.

Thank you!

[Anne Mortensen]

yes, the footage is in prores 422 (I’m pretty sure). I’ll render it out with the new settings and let you know how it goes….see you in 20

[Anne Mortensen]

Thanks Erik, I tested this out. First off, yes, the raw footage plays back just fine in QT, in PremierPro and also when I import it into AE (prior to do any edits). When I do a RAM preview (realtime) AFTER the edits, it plays at the correct speed.

It’s when I export it that the render is in slow motion.

I double checked the settings when rendering out. I’ve attached the render options here:

VERY strange.

Any ideas?

[Anne Mortensen]

Yeah, I might be pushing it a bit with this one, but thanks for the advice. It went quite bright, but since the talent was very dark skinned, his face didn’t get blown out – only his white T-shirt and the set.

I can tell you, I never want to use a daylight studio again!!

I’ll give it a go with the keyframe option and see how it goes 🙂

thanks!!!

[Anne Mortensen]

I’m not using any plugins at all! I was about to purchase some for ease of use, but decided against it at the last minute because PPro hasn’t yet proven it can handle even the basics yet.

I just want something reliable, and not to have these hair splitting moments of whether it will render or not.

I had an Adobe tech person look over my machine as well to ensure it can handle PPro, and he gave it the go ahead. So, my conclusion is there are bugs that need fixing ASAP!

So, what did you do in the end?

[Anne Mortensen]

I know this is thread is a bit old, but am wondering if this was ever resolved?

I recently started working with Premier Pro, and I’m find that it renders out just fine as well, until it comes to one clip it decides it doesn’t like and then it just stops.

Then, if that’s not bad enough, sometimes when I try to render just the effects in the work area the play head automatically starts playing!!!
So, I have to render the whole workspace, and then I’m back to square one.

I noticed it started to happen as soon as I applied a matte to a clip. So, I deleted the matte from the timeline and from the clip files, but still no dice.

I also rebooted just in case…and still no rendering possible.

It’s very frustrating not to be able to rely on your software, particularly when you have a project underway.

Any advice is welcome!

Thanks!

[Anne Mortensen]

Oh, by the way – each shot had the same background colour gray. But because it was all shot in a daylight studio and on different days and times of day, and that’s what’s caused the differences in hues of the background.

Thank goodness for after effects!!!

[Anne Mortensen]

Hi Adam,

I tried this approach tonight, playing around with layering different videos with each other to see what would best match. At the moment, the grays are too different to layer with each other.

Eventually, I’m going to have to get all of them very similar in colour and scale – work I will be doing in after effects this week.

If I can’t recall how to work the garbage matte approach my assistant did with the Philip clip, I will do this approach as it should work after my colour work – particularly with that extra bit of feather at the edge.

Fortunately, I have only 4 clips that need that this gap-fill kind of fix, so I can experiment with the best option.

Thank you!

Anne

[Anne Mortensen]

Hi Joe,

I know it’s taken a while for me to get back with some results, but your way of doing it works. What I did is elongate the black video slightly longer than the clips to fade off and added the dip to black and it all faded out at the same time!

It’s brilliant, and seems to be the easiest way to fix the gaps.

Now, all I have to do is remember how that 4 point garbage matte was constructed in the first place!!!

This particular Philip piece had all three sides showing black gaps. Hence the original clip was duplicated 3 times and all were stacked on top of each other. Then, a 4 point matte was applied to each one to cover a particular side – top, left, right. Then the fade to black transitions were applied to each track – all 4 (the 3 dups and the original). That’s as far as I got.

So, with your suggestion added, it finally all stacks up.

Anyway, here’s the screenshot of the edit on the timeline that worked to fade out the whole scene similtaneously on the Philip clips:

Thank you!!

[Anne Mortensen]

Oh, and this is the black gap I’ve been talking about. As I move the subject downwards to match all the others in scale and position, this sort of black gap is the consequence: