James Brady
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What version of Premiere/After Effects are you using? You may be able to simply copy/paste the clips from your Premiere Timeline directly into an After Effects timeline–skipping the render step–yet retaining all of your Premiere edits.
James Brady
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Yep, that’s a decent size. 1280×720 10-bit 4:2:2 “uncompressed” video (with whatever file extension) is about 9Gb/min. I’d have expected a 45Gb file!
James Brady
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Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Mike,
I second those gripes and would like to add:4. Media Encoder should allow items in the cue to be “unchecked” so that the render will skip them without having to delete the entire line item and lose all of its settings.
5. I would also like to be able to save versions of the cue. Rather than having all of your render history pile up in one place, it would be nice to save each cue along with its respective project/client.
I think all of these issues exist because Media Encoder is in its infancy. It will be nice to see this tool develop in the forthcoming versions. Basically, if Adobe uses After Effects’ render queue as a template–it would make a lot of people happy.
James Brady
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Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Are you running any other software at the time? And are you using a particular video card for playback?
I ask because After Effects CS4 doesn’t like to let go control of our Blackmagic video card while it’s running–whether it’s minimized or not.James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Rich,
Let’s see if I can address everything:CS4 is markedly improved over CS3 in interface, ease of use and functionality. I can’t speak specific to Kona, but in general, I would recommend the upgrade.
Regarding audio: AIFF, WAV & MP3 are all accepted by Premiere CS3.
No need to convert image files. Premiere will handle any size images the same as it handles images that match the timeline’s frame aspect.
As for video clips, you can convert them if you want immediate realtime playback upon import, but if you’re going to have mixed media formats in the same timeline, add any title overlays, effects, etc., renders will need to be built for realtime playback regardless of the video file’s native format. That said, I’d say skip a step and simply bring it all in as-is.
One note on video though: If you import a clip that is whose format is not native to the type of sequence (timeline) in which you’re working, you’ll want to make sure that the clip is vertically centered with respect to its native number of scan lines. For example: Video imported and placed on a 720×480 timeline will automatically center vertically to the timeline’s native center pixel of 240. If you import and place a 720×486 clip on a 720×486 timeline, you will need to adjust the clip’s vertical center line to 243. You won’t notice any difference on your desktop monitor, but an interlaced monitor will show you why this matters.
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Much easier than constructing a frame with ‘write-on’. Thanks, Eddie.
James Brady
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Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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So far so good here. I have the same indexing problem (have to re-build preview files that should still be there), but otherwise so far so good.
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Well, just to update for anyone else following this thread:
I’m still troubleshooting, but further research indicates that if the pins on the 6-pin side of a 4 to 6-pin cable get cross-connected, the cable can send power back down the pipe where it shouldn’t be.
Another, more likely possibility, is that the port itself has withsood a physical jolt, or years of wear that finally have disconnected it just enough from the board to stop working.
Either way, it seems that the next logical step is to open some cases and have a look around.
James Brady
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El Paso, Texas
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[gary adcock] “FW carries power”
It was my understanding that only the 6-pin configuration carried power… which is why all 4-pin devices have their own separate power supply. All of the problem devices described above are 4-pin devices. Could their 4-pin ports be affected by power coming through the 6-pin connector on the other end of the cable?!? (i.e., from the computer, from the FS-100).
James Brady
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Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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[gary adcock] “FW carries power also and if you are sloppy about the connection yes you can fry the port.”
This is a grim prospect.
Does this mean the device must necessarily be turned off before its firewire cable is removed? …and is this to include shutting down the workstation on the other end of the FW cable as well?
[gary adcock] “Ok
how are you testing this stuff?”We have tested video capture from every device on each of four different NLEs with the same result. In fact, video capture and deck control aside, the workstations don’t even recognize that a FW device has been plugged in.
I’m starting to suspect your power-down theory.