Probably not what you want to hear, but I edit dialog in Izotope RX10 (Advanced) – in addition to a repair assistant, there are many tools for cleaning up audio – I rather like their “Dialog Isolate” module that has worked wonders.

I believe they have a 7 day free trial, so if you are not getting the results you want, take a look…

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It was part of my Linkedin Learning monthly membership – about $25 per month – you can quit or downgrade to free as needed.

regarding training, a few years ago I took Ashley Kennedy’s on-line class which is part of Linked-in Learning – I highly recommend it.

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/premiere-pro-essential-training-2022-2024

I’ve used mainly Premiere Pro and its earlier versions for over 20 years, and DaVinci Resolve for about a year. Once I got comfortable with Resolve, the editing was easy enough, and less buggy then each new release of Premiere, and it’s nice not to have to pay Adobe monthly. So, my advice would be Resolve over Premiere.

Only thing that keeps me…

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I fully agree with Mad’s suggestion of the Ashley Kennedy course on LinkedIn Learning.

I learned Premiere back in the late 1990s from self teaching and CD based tutorials of the day, but I took a 10 year detour to FCP 7, and when I returned to Premiere a few years ago I found that I needed to refresh my memory, and I spend a couple of days taking…

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sorry for the late reply…vaguely recall a few years back Mercalli did have a Mac version, but it was a stand-alone application, not a plug-in, and it wouldn’t work with the M1 chips when they were released. Things may have changed.

agree that any real helpful suggestion would require seeing exactly what you’re working with, but, lets assume that some of this footage was okay – I might try first to use all of this video that was good, and then have to make a gut decision on each of the unstable shots – with all the flaws is the unstable footage more or less interesting then…

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I’d also suggest transcoding those Zoom files to ProRes before the edit, and see if that makes a difference.

Agreed – I record all of my narration via Audition and import back into Premiere as a wav as well.

I think I did it this way since before Premiere had VO capabilities and saw no need to change my process.

I’m running Premiere (and Resolve) on an even less powerful computer (2021 Mac Mini, 16GB Ram and M1 (not max or pro). I find that it handles 2 or 3 tracks of 4K video quite well.

I notice differences in performance when I use a San Disk SSD Extreme as my editing drive compared to my Samsung T7 SSD – don’t have the specs handy on the drives, but…

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Getting back to your original question on the M1 Mini – I bought one about 18 months ago – 1 TB internal SSD, 16 GB Ram, and I think it cost me about $1200.

I was able to handle 4K edits – using 4K clips in projects that ultimately were delivered in 1080p.
The mini was able to handle Premiere, but render and export times were very slow, and we had…

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Thanks for the advice, I agree fully that my first full edit on Resolve was indeed joyful compared to Premiere…and I replaced Photoshop with Photoshop Elements – it can do almost all of what I need to do. So far so good – haven’t fully gotten into Fusion yet.

There is / was freeware called CN Levelator, which I don’t think has been updated in about 10 years, but I still have it on my PC (Windows 10). You simply right click, and send your source file to Levelator and it evens everything out as the name suggests…afterwards I’ll run my file through Izotope to refine it even further. Results have been…

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Thanks Michael – you’ve reaffirmed my thoughts exactly…once I’m a tad more comfortable with Resolve (just bought the Studio edition) I’ll end the never ending monthly payments.

It looks like there is allot of support out there for Affinity.

Best.

Thanks Ben – recall your name form the old WEVA forums…appreciate the feedback

Thanks for the good advice…I’ve used After Effects, but very sparingly, but there are other Adobe apps that I get with my license that I just don’t use…I’d say that Premiere had been the big one, and I do use Photoshop, but certainly don’t need everything it has to offer.

Once I feel a higher level of proficiency with Resolve I’ll cancel with…

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Hi all – I’m on both PC and Mac so suggestions can be for either or cross-platform.

I expect to walk away from Adobe Creative Suite, as I’ve been working with Resolve 18 and just upgraded to Studio. I’ve put together my first major edit on Resolve and I’m done with paying $60 per month once replacement apps are in place.

I’m looking for…

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You could export your audio to 2 wav files, checking off “export each channel as a separate file”

Then create 2 mono tracks in your sequence and import the 2 files created above and place them there accordingly.

Hi all – I’m probably missing something very simple, but I’m just not figuring out what I may be doing wrong. This is after exporting my final timeline to an h264 movie file

I’m editing a wedding, long form: audio used is a mix of camera sound and audio recorded directly from the bands mixer to an SD card in a Roland R05. The band’s audio is a…

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My experience with IT Departments is that if they feel a computer is fast enough for MS Office, it’s fast enough for editing video…for the most part they’re of a different mindset and not focused on video work.

I’m getting these errors more frequently with each new release it seems…it only seems to be an issue on rendering within the timeline for me, luckily I’m still able to export these sequences with all the effects. Sometimes I find it’s less frustrating to export a sequence to an mp4 file and proof it as a finished product then to try to…

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I do this all the time…let’s say it’s a presentation where I have a main camera and two remotes – in an auditorium. My method may be more tedious then others, but it works for me.

I create my sequence in Premiere with the source footage I intend to use as my main shot on track #3, next most on track 2, and least on track one. Then I send to…

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I’ve been shooting weddings for over 30 years now, and I’d say that for the last 8, I’ve been shooting with a combination of traditional camcorders and DSLRs – DSLRS for the “eye candy” parts of the day such as preps, photo sessions, and camcorders for everything else.

My DSLRs have primarily been Lumix – GH4, G85, S1…I would describe my feelings…

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I recently bought a new Mac with an M1 chip as a 3rd system, and with the initial install of Creative Cloud, I believe that Premiere 2022 was the only option.

Since I also edit on a PC laptop when away from home, which was running Premiere 2019, and I needed to work on a project I began in Premiere 2022 on this laptop..since projects can’t be…

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I tend to resist new versions until there is a compelling reason to update to the new release, but always choose the option not to uninstall the previous version.

There is just never a time (excepting the lack of work in mid 2020 due to Covid) when all my projects are complete – always something’s in the loop.

In my work flow- which is primarily corporate or personal events, it’s rarely necessary once a project is finished to access the footage again – but, all of my footage and project files are saved off-line, and I can re-import and reopen if needed.

I think when I do need to revisit older work, it’s more the final, or almost final masters I’m…

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I don’t rename on ingest, but do so once within my Premiere project bin if necessary, and even then the original file name will be kept – for example MV11050 might become MV11050talk1.

For my Sony camcorders, which label everything C001 etc, whether it’s different cameras or different cards same camera, it’s a must to rename, but within a project only.

I bought a new Mac Mini with the M1 chip a few weeks ago as a secondary edit system to go along with my Puget Sound PC (2016) and Mac Pro from 2010 (which is basically obsolete).

So far I’m very pleased – with Premiere, I’m finding renders and exports in some cases to be faster then my PC, and that has 64GB of ram. The negatives are that some of…

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It’s time to leave CS3 behind – I know it’s tempting to stay with what you know, and of course, you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription fee, but unless you’re still producing VHS and DVD, it’s time to move on. Maybe FCP at a one time fee, or Resolve which is free are worth looking at.

For myself I’m using Premiere 2019 on my older Windows…

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PS: My final export is 1080P – 9GB file

Hi Ashley

I set my new Mac Mini M1 up yesterday and redid an edit of a project I did last week on my PC, and overall I’m very impressed. Although it’s on some levels apples to oranges, here are my set-ups, and impressions.

The Mac:

M1 16GB Ram, 1 TB Hard Drive, external Samsung SSD connected via bus-powerd hub.

The PC: Puget Systems (2016)

64 GB Ram…

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I actually have one on order – should be here sometime late today – assuming no issues setting up and downloading all the apps, hopefully I’ll do some testing this week-end.

Most of my footage is 4K, cameras are Lumix S1, GH4, UX 90 and will be using a 2TB external SSD for my media files.

If you do have a phantom track, possibly go in to Sequence > Settings > Delete Tracks > Delete Empty Tracks (for both audio and video)

I’d presume a phantom track has no audio or video or it would not be phantom?

As I recollect from my DVD workflow on Mac – maybe 2008 or so, you’d create a Disc Image file in Encore or DVD Studio Pro, and possibly used Toast to burn it to disc.

I think Toast had some very basic authoring functions, but, not positive on that.

There never was a direct way to create a DVD from the timeline – at least not that I was aware of…and Encore is long since discontinued as are most DVD authoring programs these days.

Apple, Adobe etc have all but killed DVD production for us…too bad, as some of our clients still want them.

I’ve used the elgato device Christoper mentions for some old family 8MM tapes I came across – it works just fine, with RCA inputs

….there’s also this one which is a bit more versatile – but you’ll have to find a used one as it’s not an active…

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I vaguely remember my old workflow now, but in those days I was using FCP 7…I seem to recall that when capturing DV clips, that I had to run them through a third party program called “ClipWrap” which converted the files into something FCP could handle.

If it’s still available, maybe you can download a trial.

Since you’ve captured with iMovie, are they also limited to 10 seconds within iMovie?

I haven’t even looked at iMovie in about 10 years, and no longer work on a Mac, but is there a reason you can’t capture the clips via Premiere instead?

I don’t know if this answers your questions – but you could do things like apply an effect, change in and out points in the source window, then create a bin within your project to place such clips – just drag them there within the project panel.

But – I do think placing the clips on the timeline allows you to do more in one place, and for me,…

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whenever I’ve had similar issues, it was usually something simple, like I had the wrong output device selected in preferences, so, as Eric suggested, check there first…otherwise make sure you haven’t muted the track unintentionally.

Can you hear the audio through your headphone out?

Depends on how you define “inexpensive” but there is Envato / VideoHive and Rocketstock among many others I’m sure.

You’ll find a greater selection of After Effects templates if you’d like to dabble with that.

Sorry about your problem – sounds extremely frustrating.

What we do is back up our original camera files in three places..when the project is finished we purge 2 of the 2 back-ups, but keep #3 indefinitely – partially because of issues like what you’re describing – but mostly becasue a client may want a revision someday.

If by any chance you have a…

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Hi Leon

I don’t know if my workflow is any better then yours, but we use Plural Eyes for just about every project we do – from wedding films to conferences as we record our main sound usually from digital audio recorders, and use camera audio as a guide.

I start my projects in Premiere, and generally stay in Premiere, essentially using Plural Eyes…

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If this is something you do frequently, take a look at Plural Eyes:
https://www.redgiant.com/products/pluraleyes/

I’ve used it for years, typically to replace camera audio with recordings from audio recorders, or house audio recorded at a presentation or event.

As far as cuts – bring in the better audio and sync it up before you start your edit -…

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Hi Karen – Like you – primarily self taught beginning back in the early 2000’s, but taking a six year detour to FCP and stayed there until 2014 – a couple of years after FCP 7 was discontinued.

FCPX was foreign to me, and I quickly found that Premiere was much closer to FCP7, and my own workflow, so I switched back to it, and also back to a…

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I know it’s not what you want to do, but I think you’re best bet would be to simply create these conditions with your own cameras, and capture what your viewfinder sees into your computer, then either record it or create stills to demonstrate your point.

It might be much faster then searching whatever stock libraries might have – you may not find…

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Hi – I picked up an inexpensive USB capture devices a few months ago becasue I found a box of old Hi 8MM tapes – I used the RCA out from an old Sony camcorder (mid 1990s vintage) to USB in…results were okay.

I didn’t try to use camera mode. only playback.

Take a look at Puget workstations – we’re talking way more in the way of price then Best Buy, HP or Dell, (but less then Apple). In my case, paid about $5500 for a system late in 2016 that is still going strong.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-143

My situation is a little different because, although most of my footage is shot 4K, frequently I will have some 1080p footage as well, and since at this stage I’m delivering in 1080p, my sequences are all 1080p.

I will select all the 4K footage in the sequence, and click “set to frame size” so that it’s all visible in the program window, and if I…

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Does the speakers drop if you play it outside of Premiere?…I might try to export it as a wav file, then play it though a media player, iTunes, Audition etc to see if the behavior is unique to your timeline within Premiere or in your overall output.