Eric Monroe
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Are you trying to final render your video to the flash drive? If so maybe try rendering it to the hard disk…then transfer the encoded file to the flash drive or cd.
hope this helps
Eric Monroe
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I am really sorry to hear that you have had such a horrible experience…..to the contrary I have had a grerat experience for the most part, I mean I have had a few little things go worng, but I havent had any of the issues you have described….so unfortunately I cant be of much help.
Hope it gets better for you.
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Just curious…….why do you not want the cuts in your audio? When you final render it they won’t be there.
However, you can stop it from happening. Once you setup your nested sequence, click the audio track and pull it down to track 2. From there enable your multicam, open the multicam window and edit as normal.
Ppro’s multicam’er only cuts to video/audio track 1. So by leaving the video on track 1 and dragging the audio to track 2 it will cut the video and not the audio.When you have finished the multicam, simply grab the audio and move it back up to track one.
(I just did it to make sure it works)
Whallah! :o) hope this helps ya.
Eric Monroe
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As far as the spacebar issue….Jon is 100% correct. The spacebar does function in ppro’s multicam window (i work about 8-10 hours a day in it) you do however (as Jon said) need to have the multicam window activated by clicking in it. If you have a slower system, then sometimes after hitting the space bar, you might have to give it a second to start moving….but spacebar, along with the J-K-L keys fully function.
Another cool shortcut is instead of clicking on each of the 4 smaller windows with your mouse to make cuts, you can place your left hand fingers on the 1-2-3-4 keys along the top of your keyboard, and cut to each of the 4 cams respectively. when you multicam for any period of time, you will find this to be much easier to make precision cuts just where you want them. (the number pad does NOT work for this, only the number keys along the top of the keyboard) -
I just edited a 4 camera production 2 hours long in ppro on a little 13″ macbook pro with only 2 gigs of ram, and this thing powered through like a champ with ZERO issues. I even accessed all 130 gigs of raw footage from a firewire 800 external drive. I am thoroughly impressed with the Mac’s ability with CS4.
I authored and burnt 57 discs out of encore, and had ZERO write failures. I have been running CS2 CS3 and CS4 for a few years now as a full time editor and i didnt notice any major differences in the PC to MAC versions of PPRO, or Encore. PPRO on the mac has a few less transitions so I have been told, but is obviously nothing i have missed in my workflow, because I haven’t noticed.
All in all, I will vote with Peter…there has to be something wrong with the machine you are on.
I am about to make the switch to macs because I have been so impressed by how well it runs adobe CS4.
I wouldn’t give up on it just yet……I have been a DIE-HARD PC guy for many moons….and my recent experience on Mac has changed my tune.Good Luck!
Eric Monroe
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I want to thank all of you for posting on this topic. I will def. try CS4’s multicam again when windows 7 releases their “real” version in October. I was just shocked that CS3 ran so smoothly with Win 7 and then CS4 will not. Everything else in CS4 runs beautifully. As for graphics drivers, Nvidia did release a “pre-release” driver for my card to go with Win 7…..however it never crossed my mind that this could indeed be the problem. (thanks Vince) Well we shall see what happens come september. :o)
As for my system……is it in your opinions…..decent enough for what I am doing?
Thanks again guys!!!
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Hey Mike….Thanks for responding, I suppose I should have wrote this into my first post, I ran CS3 on my Vista 64-bit Home premium OS then went to the Windows 7 beta, then finally to Windows 7 RC and had no problems at all……my system didnt even blink. I encountered this issue when i moved to CS4. I did reinstall Vista at one point to see if Win7 was the problem, and the same jumpy multicam issues were happening. I am puzzled.
Any other thoughts?
Thank you again for your help….I greatly appreciate it. I am seriously considering going to the Mac at this point, but it seems to handle things alot smoother with less resources…..what is your opinion there?
Have a great day!
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I could really use some help with this issue……ANYONE?!?
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Marc, I am not sure as to why you would be having quality issues in part of the video and not other parts.
I can however tell you that in adobe encore you can import the .m2v (mpeg2-dvd) into encore and have it treat it as one linked file. I do all of my edits this way….because mpeg2-dvd will carry the chapter markers from premiere’s timeline over into encore.
right click in encore’s project panel
import as “timeline”
select both the audio and video files in the import window at the same time.
click open in the bottom right of the import window (or “ok” cant remember off the top of my head)
encore will import everything into the proj. panel(you will see a total of 3 icons in the proj panel for what you just imported. the video, the audio, and encore makes one for the timeline, double clicking the timeline icon will open that video’s audio and video in the timeline at the bottom automatically)
(also upon importing you should see the video thumbnail in the bottom of the flow chart window waiting for you to connect it to the appropriate part of your menu.)i hope that helps you out, at least a little. As far as the quality issue, I am anxious to see if anyone else has the answer to that one. I have been using mpeg2-dvd for everything that i do for a few years now, and quality has never been an issue. maybe i have been lucky :o)
Eric Monroe
Shadow Studios
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Thanks everyone for your input with my issue. I hooked up to the decklink’s outputs….and it is working great. As far as my audio sound like “tin” i swictched to a different cable and it sounds great….must have just been a bad cable.
All is good….thanks a bunch
Eric