[James Greene]

Glad to hear you got it sorted out Dave. I know how frustrating it can be to encounter these “isolated” glitches. I still can’t get my multi-camera window to function right.

JG

[James Greene]

Unfortunately it may be your installation. I have no issues running with a work space stretched over two monitors. In fact this two monitor set-up loads as my default when I create a new project:

(full view)

(left monitor)

(right monitor)

As you can see, the timeline pane even spans the monitors

[James Greene]

Yes, everything seems to work now.

Sorry, I could have offered a bit more info:

I do (and did) have cookies enabled.
I was attempting to navigate via the “click here to play video tutorial” buttons and I would “click here to skip this sponsored message” (which infinitely brought up another sponsored message).

Thanks for the quick response.
Jim

[James Greene]

Thank you for posting the link Paul,

I have also recently been required to produce SD DVDs from HD content (until now I’ve had a strictly HD, file based workflow) and I am finding that the results of a pure CS5 workflow are unacceptable. Very disappointing for such an expensive software bundle that touts it’s integration/workflow.

Here are the particulars of my workflow in case anyone has suggestions/tweaks to get the best final output. (note: I’m sitting at home so these are from memory and may be a bit off or incomplete.)

Footage: 30 to 45 minute comp @ 1280×720 59.94p 8-bit 4:2:2 YUV
Captured via BlackMagic Multibridge Pro over HD-SDI (produces a .avi that is roughly 100 – 150 GB)
Premiere Pro CS5 sequence based on above footage (drag & dupicate)
Graphics & Titles are laid in and the sequence is sent to Encore via dynamic link
Build is set to autoplay and replay (so no menus or additional assets on disk, just the footage)
Encore setting: Mpeg-2 VBR 2 pass, target 7, max 8, min 4. (not many settings available via dynamic link)

Transcoding takes roughly 20 minutes and the end result is very bad. (Yes, I know that a 30 minute, anamorphic 480p dvd file that is roughly 2GB isn’t going to hold a candle to the original 100GB avi but the output looks decidedly “YouTube” with lots of artifacts and severe text aliasing.

Editing Hardware:
6-core i7 980x @ 3.33GHz (no over-clocking)
12 GB ram (6x2GB)
nVidia gtx480 (not using the Mercury Playback hack – had some stability issues)
3TB disk array for capture & render (Samsung Spinpoints on an Intel controller)
150GB Velociraptor scratch disk
Adobe Production Premium CS5

Camera: Panasonic HPX-300 @ 720p59.97

Thanks to everyone on CC for sharing your expertise!
Jim Greene