[David Baud]

I use Preference Manager myself from Digital Rebellion, but I believe you can trash AE preferences when starting the program and holding Cmd + option + shift

Maybe there is some issues with the psd version of your file? you could do a roundtrip with Photoshop (updated) and saving to a new file…

Good luck!

David Baud
Colorist & Finishing Editor
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

Have you tried the usual suspects?
. clear AE preferences
. clear the caches files
. clear the database

David Baud
Colorist & Finishing Editor
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

Yes that folder exists but it is part of the Package Contents of your app, which is hidden from the regular window.

Right click on your app (or CTRL click) Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015.app and select Show Package Contents: that will open a new finder window with access of the folder structure they are talking about.

Good luck in resolving your problem,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

Sorry about your issues David!

So far it’s working here:
MacPro 5,1
OS 10.11.5
GTX Titan X
Decklink SDI 4K

Desktop Video 10.7
CUDA 7.5.30
NVIDIA Driver Manager 346.03.10f02

Adobe CC 2015 latest
PrP 10.3.0
AE 13.8
DaVinci Resolve 12.5

Can you be more specific about your problems and give us your hardware & software configuration?

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

What kind of footage?

I would delete your preview files & caches. Maybe your preferences if that does not fix it. Quit and reboot. Make sure your footage are located on a fast hard drives.

Good luck,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

I would convert 720p to 1080p in Premiere Pro using a CUDA GPU card. This should give you some very good result.

Obviously not seeing your original footage, it will be hard for us to tell if this is “good enough” or “not acceptable”. I would do a test and see if it is acceptable to you watching on a reference monitor.

I would then finish your program in 1080p and make a progressive master. Only then I would make a 1080i version. I usually like to use After Effects for that last part with more control in the output. Going from 1080p to 1080i is actually the best 1080i you can get;-)

HTH,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

I am guessing your computer is PC based? Windows OS? what kind of project do you work on? what kind of frame size/frame rate do you work with?

Unless you are working for project showing in large venues (theater, exhibition hall, etc…) and/or dealing with a lot of VFX and compositing, I think working in uncompressed format might be overkill.

I would recommend you use an intra-frame codec with light compression which will be best for PrP to handle. Depending on your OS, I would recommend Quicktime ProRes on Apple computer, and AVID DNxHD or GOPRO Cineform on PC computer. These codecs give you a wide range of compression options, which you can select depending on your project.

HTH,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

One thing I should add to be completely accurate, is that broadcasters will ask you to deliver a drop frame master @ 29.97fps to compensate overtime for that non integer frame rate.

That means in the process you will add 2 frames for every minute of your non-drop frame program, except for the multiple of 10 min.

For example if your program is 30 min. long in non-drop frame, it will be actually 30 min. 1 sec. 24 frames long in drop frame:
(30 min x 2 frames)-((30 min / 10 min)x 2 frames) = 54 frames = 1 sec 24 frames

HTH

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

First I believe even in Canada, we are talking about a frame rate of 29.97 fps (not 29.978)! (30/1.001)

If you shot @ 23.976 fps, I would cut your documentary at the same frame rate of 23.976 fps.
For delivery to broadcast television requiring 29.97, I would add 2:3 pull-down when creating your master (this was commonly done when telecine film shot at 24 and transferred to NTSC video).

As far as duration goes, your documentary will be exactly the same duration playing at 23.976 fps or at 29.97 fps with 2:3 pull-down.

HTH,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

[Seth Thy] “Should I up convert SD before FCP or is it ok to just scale to HD.
Should I de-interlace SD material before or after Resolve?”

Because you have a mix of footage (4K, HD & SD, progressive & interlace), I would conform everything to HD progressive before your final grading. Even so your FCP sequence is configured to progressive, your SD interlaced clips still retain fields information (maybe difficult to monitor on a computer screen only). Make sure you de-interlace them separately. I would de-interlace before upscale.

HTH

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com