[David Stack]

I’ve got an answer! A co-worker figured out that I had to close After Effects and re-open while holding down Shift+Ctl+Alt to delete the preferences. And it worked! I don’t know how I got into that mess, but I know how to get out. Thanks anyway!

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[David Stack]

Yes, I’m in CS6 and when I toggle back and forth I’m still not seeing seconds. When I’m back to frames that’s all I see.

Here’s a screen print. Again, no matter how I’m zoomed in, I don’t see seconds…

[David Stack]

LOL, Dave you had no idea how much that Africa comment speaks to me. I was born in Nairobi, Kenya and have been back there and Tanzania. And thanks for the quick response!

Back on subject: I’ve done some Googling and searching in forums over this before posting and everything keeps taking me back to Project Settings>Time Display Style options. But no matter what combination I have in TDS (Footage Start Time, Use Feet + Frames, Frame Count, etc.) I still cannot get the seconds to display. What am I missing?

[David Stack]

Nice suggestions, but it didn’t work. I just got around to trying this (changing the deck setting), and it ignores the setting on both the deck and Premiere. No matter what I do it goes to a 5 sec preroll, unless I do a manual edit without using deck control from Premiere.

On the lovely occasions in which I must stop a closed captioned show to make a fix, I’ll either have to start the show over from the beginning, or it looks like I may have to use manual edits and hitting the space bar to play the timeline as the deck approaches the edit point.

[David Stack]

UPDATE:
Alex, I didn’t want to give the good news until I had a few shows successfully played out. I was skeptical, but the autosave WAS the main issue. I’ve had only one show stop, and was unable to get past that point of the show until I rendered out the problem area. For my more complicated edits I’ll have to render out as one file, which I did earlier today.

Thanks!

Now I still would like to figure out why I cannot change the preroll from 5. Regardless of what number I set my preroll in the prefs the deck always uses a 5 sec preroll. I’m trying to get an answer from the Blackmagic/Decklink people. No answer yet. You don’t have any idea do you?

For shows we close caption I have a program that sends the CC signal to the deck through an encoder from another computer. If there’s been any mistake at all in the captioning I have to stop the show. Rather than start the 30 min show from the beginning I use to be able to set my preroll to 15 and that would give my encoder enough time to sync.

[David Stack]

UPDATE:
(Yes, I’m in SD.) I’ve been successful with disabling the autosave and by using your suggestion only for the more complicated shows. I didn’t want to comment too soon until I had a few shows successfully under my belt. Thanks!

[David Stack]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll give that a shot. Although if that were the issue wouldn’t it stop in increments of 10, 15, 20 or however many minutes I have set for autosave? These stops seem to be totally random.

[David Stack]

Thanks for the tip, although if that were the issue wouldn’t it stop in increments of 10, 15, 20 or however many minutes I have set for autosave? These stops seem to be totally random.

[David Stack]

I’ll give it a try. I dislike the idea of having to do that when I hardly ever had trouble like this with my old system with 3GB RAM and PP 2.0. The only reason I upgraded everything was because my old motherboard hit the wall.

[David Stack]

UPDATE: I’m successfully playing out a sequence from another project with deck control, however every few minutes it STOPS. In a 30 minute show it stops randomly about 3 times. It’s frustrating and will be a problem when I’m encoding closed captioning to the tape as well if this keeps up. I haven’t seen any dropouts yet.