[Danny Nieder]

This seems like a great workflow to keep things inside AE nice and organized. There is another piece of the puzzle I would like input on, please. Once going back to the PPro timeline from AE, I will have the original clip on V1 with the original file name (something like MVI_XXXX.mov, unless I have already renamed it on the timeline) and the copied clip above it on V2 with the new DL name (such as Project Name Linked Comp XX)

First, am I missing a way for this DL clip to automatically take on the new AE comp name I gave it? If there is no way, is there a danger of renaming this new DL clip to the same name I gave it over in AE on both the timeline and in the bin?

I like how AE can be organized, but if you roundtrip 50-100 clips (or more) it seems like your PPro bin and timeline will get cluttered with a lot of “Project Name Linked Comp XX” clips. Any insight? I’m always in fear of making a wrong move and upsetting the DLs so they are no longer functioning. It seems tempermental.

Thanks for the help!

[Danny Nieder]

I have the LHi as well. I was **terribly** frustrated with 5.5 for a long time. (FCP Switcher) I was editing H.264 footage from a 5D and never getting good performance. Crashes, lags, stutters, all the bad stuff. I finally threw in the towel and started to transcode my footage to ProRes, and I’m back in business. I know that takes away a big plus of working with Premiere – the ability to avoid transcoding – but it just wasn’t working. What kind of footage are you editing with?

MacPro 4,1 Quad Core
32GB RAM
GTX 285
Aja Lhi
Software RAID

[Danny Nieder]

All I can add is a “me too.” I just discovered this today. Anyone know of a hidden “gotcha” that can be toggled to make this work right?

Thanks.

[Danny Nieder]

I just started to notice a problem after updating to 5.5.1 that I tentatively attribute to the Kona drivers – (I have an LHi) Hitting a CUDA accelerated effect in the timeline causes Premiere to crash while editing H.264 (Haven’t tested other file types) Playback stops, I can still move the playhead around, but nothing else functions. My only option is a force-quit. I don’t know enough yet to blame this on the Kona drivers, but this only happens in an AJA sequence. I downloaded the latest Beta drivers, and it doesn’t seem to be happening. (But I may need more testing)

Just my $.02

[Danny Nieder]

The H.264 files from your camera are very CPU intensive to playback in realtime. A Macbook will not be able to do this – even my MacPro Octo-core with 32GB of RAM has trouble keeping up with H.264 in realtime sometimes. You have a few options – you can try to preview at quarter-resolution while you are editing and do the render when you are happy with the edit, or transcode the H.264 footage into something that could playback in better real-time – maybe ProRes will work better for you. Unfortunately, the Macbook doesn’t have a lot of firepower for editing.

[Danny Nieder]

I just did a test and it worked for me. But, I guess I just am missing something – and maybe you can take a second to kindly explain. Here is the workflow that got me into trouble:
I set the Audio preferences in PPro to “Default Track Format: Mono.” That way, whenever I bring any footage or audio files into PPro, even if they are stereo files, it turns them into mono tracks. Coming from FCP, this makes my life easier and makes editing more comfortable with all mono tracks in the timeline.. (Maybe this is the part of the workflow that you will say – “don’t do that.”)
So, in the timeline, when I am merging a clip, I will have ch. 1 camera audio, ch. 2 camera audio, ch. 3 Lav (from the Zoom) and ch. 4 boom (also from Zoom) I sync the clips. I delete the 2 camera tracks and move the Zoom tracks into Ch.1 & ch. 2. Then, I merge the clips and get the new merged clip in my project panel. Finally, I drop that clip into my main sequence timeline (Also, all mono tracks) and edit away with perfect audio. When I quit and restart PPro, the ch.2 audio waveform (The boom audio from the Zoom) flashes, and then drops away to zero. It is gone – can’t recover it until I go through the whole process again.

So, can you please tell me why this is a feature and not a bug? If I am staying in a mono world from import all the way through, why does this need to happen? I appreciate any insight you can give, and I can also do a screencast of this if I wasn’t clear. Thanks for your help!

[Danny Nieder]

Thanks Vince – I didn’t see the emphasized “Before” in a previous post. Does still seem like a bug, but glad there is a workaround.

[Danny Nieder]

A guess – is this happening when you are clicking on a clip that has a GPU accelerated effect applied to it? (Such as a simple dissolve, for example) This just started to happen to me, and I get the same symptoms you are describing.

[Danny Nieder]

I just discovered this yesterday – unfortunately losing about 5 hours of work. I am working with wav files coming out of a Zoom recorder, and for some reason, I can’t modify those audio channels and make them into stereo. (option is greyed out) This is looking like a serious bug, and will post about it over on the Adobe Forums and submit a bug report.

[Danny Nieder]

Did you install the AJA Premiere CS5.5 plugin as well as the AJA driver? Maybe that is why you aren’t seeing the AJA sequences in Premiere. Check the driver download page – you need both to run smoothly.