[Bill Dingli]

I have surveyed many desperate posts about ADOBE PREMIERE and ENCODER producing unusable BLOATED FILE SIZE. It is now 17 Jul 2015 and I’m using the ADOBE CC suite all updated to 2015. Here are the facts. In all cases I matched source as best as I could using H264 codec and NO enhancements except one movie length reduction. All files were .MOV.

(1) Orig movie 352×288 length 3m50 secs 65.5 megabytes cut to 352×288 length 1m 53secs –PremPro after import/export bloats it to 81.3 MB and Encoder “helps out” at 81.7MB.
(2) After Effects generated movie (item A) 1920×1080 length 5m 6secs 8.35 GB (after saved to .MOV) which was imported to PremPro -no alterations of any kind with exactly matched sources and Prem Pro exported same resolution/length at 408.3MB as MP4 (using my MacBook Pro late 2011 with 16 GB ram standard video cards.)

(3) Item A was loaded into You Tube at 1920×1080 and original 8.35GB and downloaded back. Clip converter downloaded a good quality 1920×1080 file with same attributes from You tube at 94.6 MB.and Savefrom.net downloaded it as a 1280×720 file at 78.2 MB.
(4) Item A from Youtube at 94.6 MB was reloaded into PremPro and with no changes whatsoever was exported back to a .MP4 and bloated to 410.2 MB.

TWO THINGS:
1. Guys when you have your final movie, if the bloating is killing you, upload to Youtube (free) and download again using Clipconverter if you want 1920 resolution. Saveform.net does a good job but limited to 1280. I find the quality more than satisfactory (have a look at some of the latest 1920×1080 You Tube rock videos on a big screen) and you save the agony of searching for multiple methods to reduce a file in Premiere Pro.

2. ADOBE WE HAVE A PROBLEM ! Firstly we urgently need test cases in your help manual that show how a movie from another source can be edited in PPro (assume same resolution and length) and for it to be exported without tear-jerking bloat. This detailed information would be very helpful.

Secondly, if YOU TUBE can do such a great job in compression, maintain high quality and ask for no parameter setting from an inexperienced user, why can’t Adobe match You Tube and offer this alternative as an “Express Button” in Premiere Pro and Encoder ? When it comes to encoding quality for size, ADOBE, supposedly the professional tool, lags far behind YOU TUBE. Why should I have to go to YOU TUBE to compress my Adobe 50 minute movie to MP4 to fit onto a DVD ?

[Bill Dingli]

ADOBE this is a glitch in your After Effects software ! ITS NOW April 2015 and you still haven’t fixed it. Here’s what happens to me and the antidote.

I make sure AE Preview panel is set at 25 fps. I import an MP3 from Logic X at 44,100KHZ. I have AE’s File>Project Settings at 48,000 KHZ (because it doesn’t matter whether it is 44,100KHZ or 48,00KHZ GLITCH WILL HAPPEN FIRST TIME THROUGH whether you match to 44,100 or 48,000.

WHEN first run preview is done, pitch is wrong. OK. REBOOT (I’m Apple). Thereafter my system and AE gives me no more pain. Believe me, I run the 44,100KHZ file on File>Projects settings at 48,000 and pitch is now correct from now on.

Of course 15 fps will lower the pitch so I suspect it’s allied to fps rather than KHZ.

ADOBE PLEASE FIX IT – It causes great frustration and time wasting.

[Bill Dingli]

After many trials I found the process of how DUIK Copy/Paste works in After Effects. (Google DUIK for free download – but consider making a donation). Here is the solution.

PROBLEM: I have a character built in Photoshop, and imported as a composition of layers (images) into After Effects. In AE the character blinks, rolls his eyes, sings (moving mouth) and dances, waving arms and legs. These actions are semi-automated using slider, point and DUIK IK Controllers. This generates 45 layers (for each part of his body components -eg Thigh-Leg-Foot = 3 layers) and some 500 plus keyframes to set up a dance routine over 0-15 seconds. The character needs to repeat his dance routine several times during his song and dance act. AE can only copy keyframes horizontally, i.e. across one layer at a time. How do I repeat all these keyframes in bulk (i.e. make multiple brackets of 15 seconds of multi-layer keyframes along the timeline) with DUIK Copy/Paste?

SOLUTION:
Lasso and select all the keyframes. DUIK does Copy and it does paste BUT as it copies the positions of what you selected, it pastes directly over the existing keyframes thus overwriting them and it appears to you nothing has happened. So First drag the original bracket of 500 keyframes say, from position 0-15 seconds, to where you want the repetition to start, say 20-35 seconds. DUIK COPY to snapshot the keyframes at 20-35 seconds. Drag these original keyframes back to their 0-15 second position. Now you can DUIK PASTE to see a cascade of copied keyframes populating the layers at the 20-35 second position in the Timeline. To do this in a different pre-comp first use AE copy/paste to set up the layers in the new pre-comp, then DUIK PASTE to populate the Pre-comp with the 500 keyframes.