Chris Knight
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The solution is to upgrade to CS5. Adobe never fixed the bug in CS4, so I ended up (at the time) importing the clips into an editing program called Edius, and exported separate WAV files for Premiere to work with. I’d suggest something similar – download a trial of CS5 (or Edius, Vegas, etc.), then export WAV files of all your audio.
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Not quite the same, but trimming in the timeline with “alt ,” and “alt .” moves a selected clip forwards or backwards one frame at a time. Holding down the shift key jumps clips 5 frames. Those two keys make sense, when you look at your keyboard. Again, not really a slip/slide function, but it has its uses.
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You can expand (or magnify) the track view in the timeline, by dragging the entire track down (in the left column, drag underneath the name of the track, “Audio 2” for instance). This way, keyframing can be as large as you want it to be (and you can work on several tracks in this expanded view by hitting the tilde (~) key) – this saves scrolling up and down. Hit the tilde key again to return to a normal view.
In addition, you can right-click any audio clip and select Audio Gain. In this pop-up window, you can normalize levels, adjust dB levels numerically, etc. Like other Adobe applications, you can either click and type new values, or drag the existing value left or right.
As for the dual-mono->stereo fix, you need to specify this before dragging the cip to the timeline. Select it in the project window, go to Clip->Modify->Audio channels.
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If you’re in a pinch, Tint is pretty close to Photo Filter…just reduce the amount to meet your needs (and if you need the exact shade of orange/blue/whatever from Photoshop, you can just use the eyedropper to find out the color values).
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FYI, When I’m not using the Kona – and as Tim suggested – I use a DVI output to a plasma screen, and the quality is pretty much on par with the SDI signal (certainly good enough for client viewing). The Kona goes SDI->VTR->Blackmagic converter->HDMI->plasma, and – other than a slight gamma shift, the two are pretty close. I really only need the Kona for VTR I/O.
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There was a period, about two years ago, when AJA didn’t even respond to emails or phone calls (CS4 had just been released). It was very odd, because when I first got an AJA LHe (back in 2006, when Windows cards were called Xena), they returned my calls within 5 minutes, had beta drivers out weekly, etc. Since I got everything working as well as I can in CS5, I’m not changing a thing until I know the company starts caring more about their Windows customers.
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My Kona 3, running in 5.0 (I won’t upgrade until I’ve seen it work properly in 5.5) isn’t affected much by CUDA (if at all) in the timeline, but I mainly use it for outputting already-edited broadcast spots, and I generally have 7 or 8 graphics tracks (phone numbers, etc.) going (requiring rendering anyway, so CUDA is pointless in that respect). However, it does make a difference when outputting the timeline to an h.264 file.
Overall, I prefer to edit outside of the AJA-verse, because it just feels more sluggish (it was much smoother in CS3, and barely ever worked in CS4). If 5.5 fixes this, I’ll revisit that opinion.
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If the images are named sequentially (001, 002, 003, etc.), then you should definitely be clicking the numbered stills checkbox. Otherwise, each still will come in at a set duration (i think the default length is 5 seconds). It could be that the file names are not sequential, so Premiere is having a not-so-nice time with it. If that’s the case do this:
1. Before importing, go to Preferences (General), and change the Still Image Default Duration to 1 frame (default is 150).
2. Import your images (uncheck numbered stills).
3. Select them, in the order that you want them in the timeline.
4. Go to the Project menu, and select Automate to Sequence. Click OK.
5. Your sequence of still images should now be playing normally. -
You can use older Adobe software alongside newer (I’ve had CS3, 4 and 5 all running on the same machine), but you’ll lose a bit of functionality in newer versions (for instance, Dynamic Link will not function between Premiere CS5.5 and After Effects CS3).
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I always recommend Samsung’s 1TB F3 drive. I’ve bought over 100 of them in the last two years, and only one was DOA. Crazy fast in a RAID0 config, and still very fast by itself.