Hi Mads,

I appreciate the reply. I am using an NVME Raid card to store the footage, so I don’t think there’s a bottleneck there. I haven’t tried editing on an Intel platform, but was told by the folks that shoot the video that nothing on the PC side can edit this footage and they’ve found that only the newer Macs can do it. That sounds fishy to me…

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I was given a spec project by a client and they like my work, so now I’m going to be getting these projects regularly, but I’d love some advice on improving my workflow to make this tenable.

I’m given several hours of footage from multiple Canon R5’s in 8K, 10-bit 4:2:2 HEVC in Clog3, and I need to edit it all down to YouTube length (<20…

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The best transcription engines (the ones that rely on AI rather than traditional speech recognition) are extremely computationally expensive. OpenAI’s Whisper is one of the best and it’s open source, but it’s heavy and slow, slower than realtime, especially on consumer hardware. You could run it yourself and let it do your transcriptions, but it’s…

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Thanks Ty for the reply and the info.

My camera is the Canon R5 and has a stereo unbalanced 3.5mm jack. Likewise if I use the Rode Wireless Go II it also has a stereo unbalanced 3.5mm jack.

I’d like to pick up a Sanken COS-11D based on a recommendation from a friend, so I suppose I just need to know if I need to get the Sennheiser-compatible 3.5mm…

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I’ve been having so much fun and been so productive with Stable Diffusion. It really makes a great starting board for larger creative works.

Here’s what I got when I typed in “creative cow.”

Hi all,

I’m trying to figure out what kind of interface I need to get for a lavalier to fit into a “standard” 3.5mm jack, like on a DSLR camera or a Rode Wireless Go II.

The two standards out there seem to be Sony and Sennheiser, the difference being that the ring and tip signals are reversed.

Does that even make a difference other than phase?

Thanks…

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No. I’m suggesting the OP can render two mp4 files, one with the content, and the other one with an animated grayscale matte representing the alpha values in the first video.

Depending on what the purpose of your video is, you can render an MP4 of your video and then render an additional MP4 with your alpha channel only. These two files often result in a smaller total size than rendering a pure video + alpha channel and get similar results, provided you’re sending this to an editor who will recombine the two into…

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Thanks for your insights. After consulting with a few other professionals in the industry, it seems Media Silo is the one most places use, but it costs hundreds of dollars a month and is really more for a shop and not a one-man-band.

Adobe doesn’t seem to make anything that does this. Does anyone have any suggestions for software to search and…

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Thanks for the replies, out of curiosity, if you don’t rename the files from the camera, how do you search for footage months, years later?

What I find is with the higher quality codecs like ProRes 422HQ I can punch/zoom in closer on certain events and it still looks good in it’s delivered quality, despite not technically having the resolution in the source footage to do so.

An issue I ran into early with high-data-rate formats like this is that you need huge amounts of space to store…

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I suppose this isn’t technically a Premiere-specific question, more of a workflow question within the Adobe/Premiere ecosystem.

After a day of shooting I end up with a bunch of serialized filenames from my camera (ie files like MVI1050.MP4).

Obviously I’d like more descriptive filenames than that both for this project and in the future, I can search…

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Thanks for the reply, however it’s not media that’s specifically offline, in my case it is mogrts that haven’t loaded in yet or something. I use mogrts for lower thirds or other elements but in some recent renders when they’re on screen and I’m watching back my render I see a big yellow “MEDIA PENDING” screen without having received any warning…

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I understand Premiere needs time to load everything, but is there a way to check that everything is loaded prior to rendering to avoid getting “Media Pending” in your output files?

My project is four hours long so screening the whole thing before rendering after making one tiny change is not really feasible. Is there any setting or checklist? Like…

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Does anyone know any way, even via macro, to Ctrl-Z/Undo without losing everything I have selected in the timeline? It’s driving me nuts having to reselect everything.

The parts you’ll want, unfortunately, are currently unattainable. There’s a massive demand for the latest-gen components and unless you’re willing to pay scalper prices on eBay, you’re best off waiting 3 months.

I would recommend a system with a Ryzen 9 5900X or 5950X CPU. At least 32GB of ram (3600 MHz or higher with CL16 or lower), 64 is even…

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Hi all,

Looking for the best way to archive my projects. When I start a new project, I create a folder for it and import all my footage and assets. This folder is also where I hold files that Premiere can’t import, things like Word Docs, the RAW still images from my camera, the project files for the music I created for the video, the final render…

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Thank you for the detailed reply! That’s incredibly interesting!

Incidentally, since my original post this morning I learned the first graphic is called an “Over The Shoulder” or OTS.

Still didn’t find out what the bar on the edge is called though.

Interesting concept! Would the fact that the layer’s visibility is off change the result of sourceRectAtTime? I’ll have to experiment with this. Thanks for the idea!

I’ve been trying to learn the official names of all these graphic elements used in broadcast. The word “chyron” was a revelation to me, still not sure why it’s called that, or why half of people call it a “lower third” instead (I get WHY it’s called a lower third but why do some people use one word vs another?). “Crawl” seemed fairly obvious.

But…

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Thank you both for the replies.

I ended up finding an old script that apparently was used prior to the existence of sourceRectAtTime that physically scans for pixels to return an accurate sourceRect even when the characters have an opacity of 0. It renders slow as hell but it works.

Just a quick update, my script works properly (using sourceRectAtTime) if I use a different animator, like a scale animator. Just not opacity, which is really the effect I was going for. Is there any hope?

Hi all,

I’m trying to dynamically size a shape layer as a background for a text layer.

However I want this text layer to type itself out word-by-word, so I’m using an opacity animator on the layer.

But it seems as if the .SourceRectAtTime function is returning the full size of the text layer even before the words have appeared via the animator. I…

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Thanks for the replies,

The source files need to be renamed because right now they’re all VID_0001.mp4 format and not only does that conflict with other filenames from the same project but I need to share these with other editors so descriptive filenames are required.

In terms of renaming from the OS, I’m fine with that, but I need to screen the…

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Hi all,

Let me start by saying I know that doing this in Bridge would be a better workflow. Unfortunately Bridge crashes when generating previews for my video files. So I’m stuck doing it in Premiere, which is the only application that can play my files at all (not even VLC!).

I’d like to rename my video files from the default camera names to…

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Found the solution for anyone wondering, or who comes upon this same problem via Google in the future.
Add a new video layer to the top of your project. To that layer, add the effect Mask Generator->Alpha Mask. Drag the effect before Composite at the top to make it apply to the composite of the layers in the project below. Render as normal and… Read more

Because an AVI isn’t, strictly speaking, a “Windows video file.” An AVI is just a container, and any video format can fit inside it. Your AVI file is using a format that Windows and Vegas don’t have inbuilt support for.
Your best bet without installing codec packs (which can sometimes gum up the works on your PC) is to download a tool like… Read more

Hi all,
I have a large project with lots of transparency. In addition to the RGB render, I also need to render a separate file of just the alpha channel as an animated grayscale matte for use in a different software suite. What’s the best way to do this?
Thanks!