[Jan Ozer]

Great thread. I just encountered this problem on the Mac in CS 5.5. I had CD audio captured from the sound board on track 1 in the “sync” sequence, with four tracks of video with audio (multicam limited to four total A/V tracks).

To get around the “rendering required files” error, all I did was delete all the camera audio tracks in the “sync” sequence, leaving the CD-audio which was the only one I was using any way. Seems to have fixed the problem. I was six minutes in with dozens of camera switches, so having to unlink and delete each video in the “multicam edit” sequence would have been very tedious.

Thanks for the discussion; i would have been SOL if I hadn’t seen it. Lots of work to go; hopefully Premiere Pro will remain stable. I had visions of having to go to FCPX which would have meant recapturing all my source footage.

Best.

Jan

[Jan Ozer]

Have you tried building an ISO file (blu-ray disc image)?

I had the same issues as you, then tried producing an ISO file, which worked, and burned the blu-ray disc from the ISO file on a Windows computer.

Jan Ozer

[Jan Ozer]

Thanks for all of your input. Shoot is tonight; last night i went down and played with the spots. looks like blue or red really cut the glare nicely letting alot more detail through. i’m going to white balance all cameras in the spots and hope i don’t spend the next three weeks color correcting.

Thanks again for all of your help; i’ll let you know how it goes.

Jan Ozer

[Jan Ozer]

Very good feedback all, thanks. To clarify:

– the spots are spreadable, and I have them spread across the stage already (sorry I didn’t make this clear).

– I need to noodle on the suggestions. I may try the flood light idea and lose the spots, but the lead singer is (as usual) in the middle of the stage where the side floods would be weakest.

Not sure that this is relevant, but i’ll be shooting with at least three cameras, including two HDV (the HDR-FX1 and new Canon XHG1). The FX1 has worked well in other stage productions in HDV mode, so i don’t think that’s a factor.

Great reminder that it’s better to be too dark than too bright. Riding the iris gets wearing, but it may be the only way.

So: One more question – should I shoot with zebra striping enabled (I guess that’s the only way to ride the iris)? If yes, should I set them at 70 (for skin tones), 100 (to show clipping) or 95 (to warn of clipping)? Any other thoughts? I usually run them at 100, but recently heard some recommendations to try at 70.

Jan