[Daniel Hoover]

Thanks for the response, Tero.

That’s the tricky part, they didn’t give us exact delivery specs to use, so I’d like advice on what file type/format/codec to use here. The most detailed info they required of us was HD 16:9 PAL 1080i 50 Hz 8 bit with split tracks for dialogue and music/effects.

Creating split tracks is no big deal, I’m just curious what filetype/format will satisfy those PAL requirements and keep the dialogue/music elements separated on either 4 tracks or each stereo file mixed-down to a mono file each.

I suggested to the station an H264 30 Mbps file, which would make previewing the video for dubbing purposes much easier than an MXF, and the station agreed that would be acceptable. But H264 doesn’t appear to support the Dual Mono Tracks export option that a Quicktime file would.

[Daniel Hoover]

This might be too late to be of any use for the original poster, but for future Google searchers, I thought I’d share my solution.

I tried to export a Premiere CS6 sequence to Audition CS6 for editing using “Edit > Edit in Adobe Audition > Sequence” in Premiere. After Audition opened with all of my audio tracks from my video project, I pressed play. No sound would play, the playhead cursor didn’t move, however the play button in Audition lit up green like it was trying to play.

This stumped me until I realized that Audition’s audio hardware preferences weren’t set to the proper audio driver. They were set to my default Windows audio driver and not my USB mixer than my speakers are plugged into.

I fixed this in Audition using the “Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware” and choosing a different Default Output.

I hope that is helpful to someone! 🙂

[Daniel Hoover]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response. Regardless whether it’s an mp3 or a WAV, After Effects simply won’t accept a drag-and-drop from iTunes. However, it will accept it from everywhere else for some reason (i.e. the desktop, a folder)

I love using iTunes as a music file browser and organizer so that I don’t have to hunt through layers of folder architecture. I have always used this handy feature between the two programs until I upgraded to Windows 7 and CS5 and now it won’t work. My After Effects is indeed 10.0.1. I’m just not sure how to fix it at this point.

Any other ideas would be appreciated!

[Daniel Hoover]

Good find, Ross!

Brian, yes I have the Blackmagic Intensity capture card, and the video is for the web, not for DVD.

Also, after some close examination, I have found that for some reason, some of the captured footage using the Blackmagic is 720×480 and some is 720×486. But the After Effects project that is featured in the picture posted earlier is a 720×486 project that is using all 720×486 footage.

But this AE project is then embedded into the Premiere project, which is 720×480. This might explain why the Source monitor is nice and sharp (it is previewing the 720×486 AE project), but the Program monitor is somewhat blurry, as it might be rescaling the image to fit within 720×480, and possibly messing with the fields.

I have created a new Premiere sequence, NTSC 720×486 and dropped in the After Effects project, also 720×486. Here you can see that the colors, contrast, and sharpness are much more consistent. Whether that’s a result of the new dimensions, Ross’s new sequence settings, or a combination of both is unclear.

I think we can consider this one solved, thanks again guys!

-Daniel H.

[Daniel Hoover]

Thanks for the responses!

Ross, that’s the frustrating part – the monitors are already both set to highest quality! So I just want to know why they look different.

It could very well have to do with performance, as Bob pointed out. I’ve just never noticed this in previous versions of Premiere and was surprised to see such a difference between the two.

Hopefully you are right and the final video will be higher quality than either monitor. But the problem is I can’t directly compare the final output to the original After Effects project, as the final output must be rendered, and the AE is an unrendered, embedded project. So there’s no way to tell if all of the original AE quality is there.

What do you think – does it result in better quality to embed AE projects in Premiere, or render them out and import the rendered file?

Thanks again,

-Daniel H.

[Daniel Hoover]

I just didn’t know Blackmagic’s output was -10. Makes sense, thanks.

[Daniel Hoover]

I was asking more about a Blackmagic software setting, or possibly something in Windows itself. If no one knows of such a thing, then a mixer might be the way to go. Thanks for the response and the help (although I could have done without the sarcasm/patronization implied in the beginning of your post).

-Daniel Hoover

[Daniel Hoover]

I have an i7 860 with 4 GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit, and CS4 student edition and I noticed the same thing. It’s really bugging me.

However, I have noticed that the zoom bar doesn’t flicker as much/at all if you zoom all the way out, but the timeline cursor’s blue triangle head still goes crazy.

Anyone have any ideas on how to remove the flickering zoom bar when playing the timeline?

[Daniel Hoover]

Dude, Ben you are the MAN!

That worked perfectly! Thanks a million!

-Daniel