[Greg.ekborg]

I believe the best practice for any video or anything that deals with resolutions, ie print, web etc….

You always wait til the last possible piece of the process to down res.

In other words, with video…if you shoot in 1080, you should edit on your timeline in 1080. Then when exporting to DVD you down res to 480. If you going to web then take the 1080 footage into your compression suite and compress from there from the prestine uncompressed 1080 file.

Thus the results when your DVD player is projected into a large panel tv or a projector on a wall or something like that…the blown up image will still hold up. Don’t waste the nice 1080 footage by down converting into a 480 timeline unless you have to mix 1080 and 480 footage ofcourse.

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

I have always used Export to DVD with the settings of 4mb VBR 2 pass NTSC Progressive using the media encoder dialog box that pops up when exporting to DVD. Thats if you want straight to DVD.

Otherwise…take the AVI file and use Sorenson to squeeze using Mpeg 2 compression and bring that into Encore. Or you can bring the AVI into encore and have Encore do the math and encoding.

Theres tons of ways to skin a cat as they say. Bottomline is that mpeg compression is for that very reason…to take digital files into encoded authorable DVD’s files.

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

Ok, I tried all the normal things and nothing worked ofcourse. I found out that on the network inside this corporate building…there are group policies that have each user on the domain going to a networked “mydocuments” folder. Not locally on the C Drive. So combination of Adobe putting the layout files in mydocuments (strange) and then a network group policy having mydocuments on a shared drive was the issue. We had to get our I.T. dept. to remove all Premiere stations of the group policy.

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

Get this Steven,

I moved the adobe directory to where yours is and the moment I tried to save a workspace, I got a fatal error crash!

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

Hmm…
In C:\Documents and Settings\greg.ekborg

I have Encore.pref files adobeFnt10.lst file and UserCustomPreset_After Effects.vpr files but no \adobe folder and no adobe ppro cs3 files.

What I did find however is this on our network drive….

P:\Adobe\Premiere Pro\3.0\

In there is a layouts folder with two xml files userworkspace1.xml and workspaceconfig.xml

also there is a Archived Layouts folder…and a Styles folder with a workinset.prsl file.

Completely strange huh!

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

Also, if you mean a file in xml under layouts within my documents or where ever ppro saves them…i haven’t seen that. If you know of the location of where the layout files exists on the c drive i would love to troubleshoot that to see if that exists.

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

Heres is what happens in a nutshell; Open a project; Setup panels, save workspace……now while working in this project…the name of my workspace is on the list from the drop down menu of workspaces…but if I was to click on a default workspace, say “Audio” and then click on my saved one, it doesn’t revert back to the layout I set up….also, when I close down the project…ie…shut down ppro all together…and then open that same project up again…then it doesn’t open with last panel layout…like AE or PS does. Also there is no list of my saved spaces…all the default workspace layouts are only on the menu. So i have to spend more time setting up my panels and layout again.

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

Side note: if you didn’t acquire your footage in the same matter as 300 or any hollywood budget film, ie..Uncompessed HD or Film, it won’t matter what you attempt with codec’s, you will not meet anywhere near that level of clarity at that size. Also, when you do compress, whether it be from the timeline directly or using a compression suite software or hardware, you need to start start at the highest level. Do not export a compressed file then compress it again for web.

My method is exporting a Master Uncompressed AVI file then using Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 compression suite to push out any format i need at any size and quality I need or want. Yes that AVI file is absolutey huge, but that in the digital realm is your master.

Hope that helps.

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greg
creativeProducer
netXstudios

[Greg.ekborg]

What I would love is Batch Sequence Exporting. When I have a project with 22 separate sequences, it really is time consuming to have to render one at a time.

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greg.ekborg
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[Greg.ekborg]

simple solution; upgrade to Premiere Pro 2.0 at least and gain a tremendous amount of time and less confusion with Adoby Dynamic Link. Move from Premiere timeline and AE compositions without ever having to export. Now you may have to render depending on the power of your hardware in place, but you will not have to export and lose quality nor get confused on the thousands of options.

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greg.ekborg
editor