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I think if I am understanding you correctly, all you need to do is import the entire folder. The stills will be there in a new bin. The Numbered Stills dialog only applies to a numbered sequence of stills. ex. 01_tif,02_tif,03tif… and so on. I am not in front of editor now to double check, but think thats how it works.

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[Vincent Becquiot] ”

I’m sure you are aware of the fact that premiere has had Surround mixing available for several years now right?”

Yes, I know but next to FCPS2 ss mixer panel, it’s needing some attention.

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[RHewitt] ”
We should perhaps drop Avid from this thread. Premier Pro is the competitor that has to challenge the improvements in FC2.”

Yeah,I did not mean to short change Avids current following or capability. I just did not see much at Avid NAB to rave about. I have rebuilt a couple of Symphonies and one DS for clients. I know their capability and media management, but I was pointing out the fact, that the gap is closing. I am seeing clients here abandon it for cheaper solutions.

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Wow Interesting thread. Linux rocks, but…but….but… for all threads above. The real wake up call is FCPS2. Adobe and Avid are kinda sucking hind here. Edius is interesting for news cutters.

Apple has done the elegance thing once again with Surround Sound mixing, Colour, and Motion. (Major upgrades) Granted, the Suround Sound looks better than it actually is, but at least its there.

Adobe is onto something if CS3..or 4 can begin to close the gap with cross platform and mixed media issues as they have with AE, PS, AI, Acrobat etc.. I don’t know if that will happen with Premiere. In the mean time there are things I will miss in CS3, and I am big on Adobe.

Avid… all I can say is the train left the station, and they forgot to buy their ticket. There’s little an FC or CS3 suite, can’t match, or beat.

Forget it if your thinking we can do it on Linux. And if you bloat up Linux it slows also. I keep hoping Apple might just start selling software, and get out of the hardware business. After all there ain’t a whole heck of a lot of difference in the hardware. And Vista can hide where the sun don’t shine.
Sorry – its late, and I think I just want to make some money and retire, and forget about the rest of the story.

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Green fringing is almost always caused by green spill. If you flat light the background, and use good three point lighting on your subject, and maximize the distance between green screen and your subject, that helps eliminate the green fringing. DPs tend to forget about the importance of backlight when up to a green screen, but the lack of it, is a stopper. Also a good keyer like CS3 will ship with – definately helps. However if you can’t wait, try the lighting. 2.0 is capable of a pretty decent key.

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First off, how did you get the audio onto your computer. Was it captured via BM breakout box, or some other way?

Secondly, At what point in the process did you first hear the poping? AE, Audition? or Premiere. Black Magic has settings in AE, and Premiere. If you start a project in AE, and you set it up using the BM defaults for your comp, you must use the same ones in Premiere. Audition just assumes the wave properties of each exported avi, so should not add the popping. I have a hunch that somewhere along the line you might not have selected the same settings in Premiere that you used in AE. You might try to create a new project in Premiere, using the same BM AE settings, and reimport your project.

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Have you tried the mixer panel?

You can get to it under the PPro 2 Window tab – Workspace -Audio Editing setting, which will call up a mixer panel. You can leave everything in default (which would be read enabled over each channel fader) There is a scroll option for each fader. Select write for the track you want to modify. If your computer is capable of keeping up, you can mix in realtime including pans as if you were at a virtual mixer. Works great. It can be destructive when write enabled, So use some previews and sluff stuff to get used to it. Also under edit preferences you may need to set up the timeline to smooth scroll. I am not in front of my editor,so I forget the exact dialog to get you there, but it allows you to visibly watch the timeline continuously during your mix, and you can anticipate your mix accordingly.

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3 Things I can think of.

1. Check under control panel and double-click keyboard icon. There are options for speed etc. Under hardware tab, check to see if your Bella keyboard is being recognized correctly.

2. You might try holding the shift key down the next time you launch Premiere, which will re-create the preference file.(if you haven’t already done so.)

3. It is possible some other hardware device is sharing hardware resources with your keyboard. Not a Premiere problem, but as you can imagine, multi-cam editing is most taxing to your system setup, and why this may be the only time you are seeing issues.

Lastly, it is possible to remap the keyboard, but you would be seeing the same behavior in other applications. If you are not seeing any strange keyboard anomalies in other applications, then the shift key on next launch might fix the problem.

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Did you capture it as DVCPro? If so, you can not export it back out to a Sony DSR-1500 as DVCPro as the deck will not record that format. Just second guessing here, you might try to create a new project with DV settings, and import your trouble project in. You might have to render the timeline, but then try an export to tape.

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Also try Adobe Soundbooth. It has some great noise reduction tools, and you can still download the beta software from Adobe.