[Craig Howard]

Try changing your playback setting to Compatible (not GPU Accelerated).

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Premiere Pro 2.0

[Craig Howard]

I think he wants to apply “random” transitions. (Like a slideshow)

It is not a feature of PremPro (luckily).

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Premiere Pro 2.0

[Craig Howard]

“Fill left or Fill Right” does not actually create a true stereo track.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Premiere Pro 2.0

[Craig Howard]

Not possible with PremPro (no batch export)

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Craig Howard]

Put your long source clip into a new project and place it in the Source Window.

Mark In and Out Points (“I” and “O”) and make a subclip (there is a shortcut key “CTRL-T” I think from memory). Use a naming protocol that suits the clip.

Do this for each clip ( 16 in your case). The subclips end up in the Project Window. Put the them all on the timeline.

Go to Project Manager in the menu bar and follow the instructions (very straight forward and simple). It will create a new trimmed project and at the same time create a unique clip (with handles if you choose)from all the subclips and put them in a folder of your choice. The source media you have not “used” (sub clipped) will not be available to that project.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Craig Howard]

Convert in and out points to subclips then use Project Manger to convert them to “unique” avis.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Craig Howard]

One of the problems you are having is caused by the fact you are editing with the razor tool in the timeline. Wrong tool in the wrong place for the job.

If you edit from the source monitor and make your cut point decision there, it is easy to see if you have enough frames either side for any overlap.

Learn to use In and Out Points (“I” & “O”) and Insert / Overlay commands.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Craig Howard]

If you do not understand the need for a “cushion” (ie overlap) you still do not understand what or how a transition works.

Basically , make an edit point in your clip with the knowledge that you have enough head or tail overlap to cover your transition. The edit point is the same frame as if you were making a cut so that makes it easy.

Once you get used to the single track editing and transitions you will discover it is much simpler and offers more options than what you were previously used to. (eg Start at Cut, End at Cut, Center on Cut etc)

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Craig Howard]

Transitions are simple.

One clip (a series of images) overlaps another clip. One clip fades out while the other clip fades in. As they fade ,the opacity (transparency) changes so allowing the other image to “show through”.

Endeth the lesson 🙂

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Craig Howard]

Hope fully you are not using the DVX monitor to make your exposure (judgements).

You need to do a little test. Expose some camera bars and then a white object with your Camera using 80% zebras. Capture it into prem then take a look at it using the waveform monitor. The white object should be sitting at 80%. You will also learn a lot if you take a look at the bars on the waveform also.

You can adjust the brightness/contrast in the DVX LCD monitor BTW but still be cautious about using it as sole judge of exposure (levels).

As a note: checkout ‘DVRack’ – field monitor software.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)