Chris Evans
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It’s likely you’ve tried these things, but if you haven’t give them a try. Run an anti-virus, MalwareBytes, CCleaner, defragment your Hard drives, make sure all your drivers are up to date, and check your temperatures are within range. I doubt it’s any of those, but just rule them out, sometimes it’s easy to jump over something simple.
Just a couple questions. What kind of hard drive setup do you have and where do you put your footage, programs, and project files? How much free space do you have? How big are the projects you usually do? Does project size seem to make any difference on the crashes? Are you updated to the absolute latest version? You said you have Premiere CS6, does that crash too? I only ask these because there the questions I’d ask myself.
I have a coworker who had a similar problem where it just crashed almost ever time he tried to export. According to his research, I think other people were experiencing something similar. I believe an update solved his problem, but that might not solve yours. Definitely submit a bug report to Adobe and talk to their support if you haven’t yet and don’t be afraid to be a little aggressive when they tell you it’s something you’ve already ruled out, just don’t be mean.
If you don’t think it’s any of those things, I’d start replacing things in your computer one by one and seeing if that helps. Start with the GPU since it’s the easiest, then the RAM, then the CPU, then finally your hard drives.
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It’s the result of aliasing. You’ll just have to change the mask expansion on one of the masks by a pixel or two.
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I’m a firm believer that it you learn Avid, you’ll edit faster than premiere of fcpx. The problem is that you really have to learn it well and it takes longer to learn. Also, it’s only the editing that’s faster bringing in footage is the same speed if not slower. It’s been a while since I used it myself, but I’d say it’s better if you’re doing long projects and you take the time to learn it. Plus it’s good at some other things too that others mentioned.
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Where did you get this footage? I’d just transcode it and see if that helps. Whatever codec you want.
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It sounds like you want it to look as if it’s getting closer to the camera as it moves across instead of just getting bigger. It’s less of a physics thing and more of a visual thing and how look like they move closer to the camera. You are correct though, if it’s supposed to be bigger because it’s closer to the camera, then it should also be seem to be moving faster.
The quick solution is just to make it 3d and have it start far away from the camera and move closer and to the right until it’s basically just to the right of the camera off screen. You could also right click on the position and scale keyframes, go to Keyframe Assisstant>Exponential Scale.
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Did you test it only on plasma screens? Most TV’s are not Plasma, they’re LED screens, is that what you mean?
There are likely features on the TV you could turn off to fix this issue, but if you’re gonna play it on many TV’s or other people will then that wouldn’t really help. I’d suggest putting just a 99% black background behind those moments that give you trouble, then the TV’s are trying to display true black. Maybe just add an adjustment layer over those sections that raise the black by the tiniest bit. Not guaranteed to help, but it’s worth a shot. Make sure there’s a black background as well, don’t just leave it blank with nothing under it.
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Unfortunately, you cannot buy Premiere Pro CC. I believe you can pay by the year if you’d rather do that though. I understand the hesitation in effectively renting software instead of buying it, but it’s the only option we’ve got. FCP 7 and CS6 are both pretty old at this point and will only become more and more outdated as time goes on. I think it’s worth the investment to go for CC, but you may want to consider FCP X if you dont’ want to pay monthly, it’s cheaper anyway and it’s good. Premiere and FCP X are both good and when you take the time to learn one, you’ll use it just fine. Compare the pros and cons and pick one, there will be things you don’t like and things you do, but you’ll work in either one just fine.
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Is is jerky because playback isn’t smooth? Try lowering the quality in the bottom of the preview window. Is it jerky because the footage somehow looks different? Try checking your interpret footage settings and sequence settings.
I can’t really help more unless I know why it’s jerky. Got any more details?
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Warp Stabilize them both completely, but don’t crop them, just move position, scale, and rotation. Then match them up and add movement back manually (if you want the movement). Whatever you do, you’ve gonna be cutting off the edges somehow, but this way lets you adapt those edges to the needs of the moment, moment by moment.
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If the first one has no movement, you could use the Warp Stabilizer set pretty high to eliminate it. Or you could track the motion of the second one and apply it to a null that the first is parented to so you can adjust the position manually if you need to.