[Michael Duff]

thanks for the reply dave. Good idea to try motion tracking … my only thought with this is that orient along path would not work. I think that considering it is just a one off animation I might do it manually … I was just thinking there might have been a simple effect or expression that I was missing…

thanks!

[Michael Duff]

I have the Intuos 4 Medium and it works perfectly. I think way back in CS6 I had the crazy audio level thing … but certainly since CC it works 100%.

I travel a lot so the medium is just right … if I was at a permanent work station I’d go for a large as I also use it for AE and PS.

Cheers,
Michael

https://www.duff.tv
https://www.gmbfilms.com

[Michael Duff]

ok thanks … shame, I was hoping this was the magic fix! Actually I can live with the graphics glitches … but my machine does crash a lot when running PP… especially if I’m pushing it with 4k or something render heavy. Maybe this could be linked to the card getting hot and crashing…? M machine does qualify for the repair so I guess I may as well get it done… but I might not rush to it.

So, I guess a downgrade to Mavericks is on the cards. Such a pain though as I stuck it out on yosemite for a few weeks and quite like it (apart from the crashing).

Thanks again for the advice

[Michael Duff]

Has anyone had this repair done on their MBP Retina mid-2012?

MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

I have zero problems when running Mavericks but with Yosemite I get all the graphics glitches, constant crashing, black screen in premiere, etc etc.

So I’m wondering if anyone with a mid-2012 MBP Retina has had this repair done and if they can comment on whether it fixes the issues? I live in West Africa with no Apple stores so it will be quite a mission for me to get the laptop to London to do this repair.

Thanks!

Michael
https://www.duff.tv
https://www.gmbfilms.com

[Michael Duff]

great. super easy! and doing this I won’t lose any temporal resolution right? each rendered half frame will be taken from one of the full 50p frames?

[Michael Duff]

no idea what you mean by that. 25 frames per second (PAL) is either interlaced (50 half fields) or progressive (25 whole fields)

yes, but 50i has a greater temporal resolution than 25p. ie You are capturing more moments in time per second so it is often regarded as a better format for sports or fast action shooting.

I’ve shot in 1080i50 and I just want to be sure that premiere isn’t destroying the original fields when I scale down to 576i. So regardless of whether it is uncompressed, h264 or any other codec I was just trying to find out about if the fields are retained.

I’ve since done a few tests and as far as I can tell the fields do remain intact.

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia
http://www.bearcage.com.au

[Michael Duff]

Hi,
Thanks for the response.

Playback is set to upper field first to match source footage (XDCAM 1080i50 35mbs) .

I’m not exporting to DVD. Just exporting either uncompressed or high bitrate h264. I just am not sure if I export it with a frame size of 720×576 and set fields to upper field first, is this a true resizing of the footage keeping all the interlacing intact. Or is it de-interlacing to do the scale, and then re-interlacing on the output?

Basically, I don’t want to lose the temporal resolution that I get from 50 fields/sec

thanks!

[Michael Duff]

Hey Mike,
Did you ever find a solution to this? It is also driving me crazy … i just did a big edit with lots of speed adjustments and now I can’t work with it at all in AE!

Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia
http://www.bearcage.com.au

[Michael Duff]

thanks for the reply … will definitely request that …

the shortcut is a bit of a help, but not really speeding things up that much and doesn’t work with more than 9 tracks.

seems like such an obvious thing! I have a really big project with numerous layers and edits and it takes forever switching layers on and off just to blade them! I must say, as my first real edit in PP after coming from FCP its been a very slow and frustrating experience .. but I’m sure in time …

thanks for the help

[Michael Duff]

I’ve just come across this annoying problem as well … very frustrating as I like to shoot at 1920 and work in 1280 to give a bit more flexibility over framing … I’ll also put this in as a feature request ..

anyways, what I wanted to ask is if we use “scale to frame size” and then upscale in the motion tab (to say 110%) .. are we losing quality? or is PP smart enough to do the calculations for us?

cheers