[Ht Davis]

Pulldown is for 24p to 30p. You want to do a pullup effect. A pulldown stretches 24p to 30p or 60i.
Try Twixtor, try Motion, try After effects. What you want is a REVERSE TELECINE effect. While it will most likely drop your video to 24p first, you can always do a pulldown to get back to your 30p, while retaining the motion feel.

[Ht Davis]

…Will you ever return to this project? Will anybody else ever work on it? If either is yes, work the short name, then the tags. IF both are no, then it’s just a pragmatic thing you can overlook for now. If you have a few clips, the name is superfluous. IF you have a lot of them or several camera angles you’re clipping, it’s nice to be able to go by name and picture for comparison.

Short rule:
A. More than 3 cameras, start with the name of the clip then tag the notes (basic logging techniques can be done by an intern or camera holder who was shooting on that day)
B. Multiple locations (beach to city, or separated by logical travel), start with the name

Long Rule:
A. Actual footage longer that 2 hours (combining the camera footage end to end), start with the name
B. Actual footage spanning more than 5 clips, start with the name (this is when your video comes from amateurs with their little family handicams or iphones and they clip through vacation).

[Ht Davis]

“If you place your source and preview files on the same drive, you may have playback issues.”

For me this falls into the NO SHINOLA category. Here’s why:

You are trying to playback a mix of separate video files from the same drive. Basically, you are loading your original video in the source monitor, so it’s being called up and is being added to a read operation for the drive. But you are also trying to read another video file from the drive (your previews). The playback on the preview is probably 10mbps, the full, another 10-50, and the hard drive can only multi-read at about 10-20. You are overtaxing the drive.

Also, run error checking on the drive…
Place your cache internal to your system, (leave it at the default)
Capture is for live capture or iLink system captures, always keep audio and video together for previews. It just works better.

My setup:
Originals are placed in a disk image (look it up) on a roughly 2tb esata RAID (4 drives 750each) on my mobile (2008 mbp) and my proxies (I transcode a full fomat and a proxy) go onto that as well. All original video is on the RAID. I remove the transcodes if I don’t think i’ll need them. I rar split and burn the disk image to a set of discs for a backup.
Previews go on another esata raid with my project and all the files related (still images, other project files etc, of a smaller nature). Both are read separately, and at speeds of 300mbps easy. Since I use proxies, the read is easier for “Original” video and since I don’t drop res on my previews, I see great quality playback. I also get great backups, and can continue a project or “throwback” a project fairly easily. My clients like that.

[Ht Davis]

Is this a single drive enclosure?

If so… …That may be the problem. USB 2 is limited to 480mbps max and rarely goes above 50 in most enclosures. USB3, while rated at 1.5-5gbps rarely goes above 300mbps on quad core machines with HDD’s (it’s a limit of processing more than the bandwidth). Most HDD’s cannot handle much more than 300mbps because of their mechanical nature. RAID is a technology of combining the speeds of several drives (as well as the space), and they are better to use for video editing than a single drive external for a multitude of reasons. 2 cheaper, smaller space drives can be faster than one bigger drive since the data is written in stripes (across both drives, alternating packets) and twice the data can move in the same amount of time. This also results in fewer writes to each drive, extending the life of the plates. They can reach data rates of 800mbps to 1.3gbps with 2 drives set up to stripe. More drives allows more speed, and more space.
Remember also, with HDD’s your spin is a big part of your speed. 5400 to 7200 is a pretty big jump in speed. But reading an original is what happens in rendering. Using a raid with 2 5400rpm drives (cheaper drives) is better than using a single 7200 at the same space of the combined 2, for speed reasons. Put your originals on their own RAID and you’ll be able to read them faster as well. Reads are usually 12-100mbps for most usb HDD’s. FOr RAID, the device will transfer much faster to several drives. 400mbps-1.5gbps depending on your interface (usb3 will max at about 1.3gbps with 4 drive raid at 5400rpm on each drive; at least that’s been my experience on some newer towers with windows, and 1.2 with mac 8cores).

[Ht Davis]

The reason I’d go through all that encoding is to troubleshoot.
By encoding it properly to an intermediate set of formats, You can identify where the problems are. WIth a proxy in an intermediate, you should play back quickly, but have great quality. If you don’t, we know it’s something in your configuration. Then we check your rendering configs. Start by turning off the more advanced rendering architectures, then turn them back on one at a time, rendering a small work area each time ( 30s would do) and checking for lag times. With a compressed format, the renders take longer because they have to be decompressed, edited, and recompressed. WIth an intermediate format, there’s a lot less “Guessing” in the algorithm, and it’s shorter. My comp is a dinosaur, so any speed bump I can get is gravy. I rent studios to render and farm it when I can on the output side. But rendering previews I do on my own machine. Quality you never sacrifice… …resolution, maybe. Drop out a proxy at a lower resolution and interpret that to your sequence, then try again. But check your specs and configs. Some newer tech and software haven’t been playing well as of late, and you may have fallen prey to those bugs.

[Ht Davis]

If I had the $$$ I would.

[Ht Davis]

Have you tried exporting to another program format?
IE, export for FCP7 xml? Export to ODF?

Relinking the media isn’t a big issue… …Just inconvenient as hell. I get that. But to crash the program, there would have to be a fault in the file somewhere…

Wait.

Check your media files for audio WAV’s or other PCM’s. IF there are any nonstandard file-sizes (4gb max for many audio only formats, 2gb for some), Premiere won’t play well with it. The same is true for any nonstandard transport stream files (more than 4gb is a no-no).
Also, check the drive for errors. Any read errors will jam up your premiere. Make sure the drive is formatted the same as your system (permissions issues can occur with some cache files). Make sure any cacheing in premiere is set to be on your main drive, preferably in the default location (this has caused issues for me in plenty of situations). Also don’t allow it to place cache copies next to originals if the originals reside on a non-file-system match (ie, if the external drive doesn’t match your OS file-system).
Make sure any effects or plugs from Avid match those in premiere or are removed completely. Make sure your audio is 48-96k audio and that none of it (in it’s own file) is greater than 4gb.

[Ht Davis]

24kbps? DOn’t you mean MBPS?

That’s not a big compression ratio in MBPS.
In KBPS… …HOLY CRAP! That’s a lot of compression for a 720 video!

What are you using the Video for? This will determine a lot about your export.

EG

Blu-ray max MBPS is 40 for standard Blu-ray, and 50 for AVCHD (which is almost no compression for 720 and a huge file).
DVD is Mpeg2 and 15 max. FOr Bluray5\9 the h.264 is 15 max, but you should set no more than 12.
Youtube…
This one varies. How much quality do you want? How much do you really need? At 720, a 7mbps is great, and loads quickly. Think about it… Net speeds are 10-20mbps for a broadband connection on a budget. IF your video takes that, there’s no room for other website data or throughput, so it will buffer… …and buffer… Set your video below that threshold by a good amount. Especially since budget internet is in FAMILY (split up connections on a router) homes (Ie shared bandwidth).
For 1080 7-15 is the max I would go.

[Ht Davis]

1. You need to orient the images before importing them (can be automated with photoshop).
2. can be done on a perclip basis in premiere with keyframe effects (just use the rotate under the position heading)
3. Same as 2 in after effects

I would go with option one. You’ve already imported the images… …so I would automate the open, rotate, save, close in an action. Then I would go through and find all the images that need rotating in premiere, then close premiere. Find the files and put a copy in a folder on the desktop (the copy needs to have the same name as the original, very important). Now run the action on the folder. The images should rotate and save with the same name as before. Drop them onto the images folder where the original sits, and replace the original. Open premiere and let it update it’s files.

[Ht Davis]

HD to sd… …Pulldown only needed when the frame rates don’t match.

Just for those taking notes, I use AME to output 2 files, an mpg2 video only, and an mpg2 compatible audio for encore (when I’m going to sd or Just DVD). I chose a VBR setting though. It allows the file to shrink more without losing quality, and I can fit more onto a disc. Constant bit rates can be a bit sharp in some areas and not as sharp in others. It can look tacky.