[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Ordell,

What are your computer specs? GPU-acceleration enabled? Source footage type? Exporting to? There are many variables affecting export speeds, but it typically shouldn’t take more than a few minutes unless you have really out of date hardware or something. Using any third-party effects? I know personally for instance that Red Giant DeNoiser II takes forever…love the results though!

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Lillian,

More recent versions of Premiere have a small “camera” icon below the Program Monitor window. Click that to grab a still from current frame in video timeline.

Regarding the YouTube question, haven’t done an upload there in some time. Do they allow for a “thumbnail upload”? This would be the display image for the video.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Victor,

I would agree that it doesn’t seem like one should need handles for Dip to Black, but we don’t control how this stuff is programmed 😉

A few slightly more cumbersome work-arounds:

1) Put a Black Video clip above cut and add dissolves to both ends.

2) Same as above, but use Opacity sliders

3) Just use Opacity sliders on actual clips to fade down/fade up

And you are correct that a 2-second transition would need 30 frames on each side, I was just using the standard 1-second transition as an example.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Alex,

Make sure to install the latest Premiere updates, I believe it is version 5.5.2, as updates often fix bugs and generally improve stability. RAM is a big one though.

[Jeff Pulera]

You don’t have any “handles” on the clips. If a clip has a little triangle in the upper corner, that means it is the very beginning, or very end of the clip. When you TRIM some frames from the clip, the triangle goes away.

The old-school method of applying a transition meant that you would physically overlap the ends of two clips, for the duration that you wanted the transition to last. Maybe this will help you to visualize. Because the clips are butted together (which is how CS6 works), and you have a triangle, there is no material available to “overlap”.

If you have two “raw”, untrimmed clips on the timeline, butted together, and you want to add say a 1-second transition between them, then you should trim 15 frames from end of first clip, and 15 frames from beginning of second clip. Now you have “room” to place a 30 frame transition. In your video, I see the transition applied with diagonal lines running through it – this tells you there are no overlap frames. Trim the clip ends and it will work. Please review the HELP files for TRANSITION

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A couple of processes on your list jumped out at me, the “Veoh_Giraffic” ones. Google that name, here is one of the things I found –

Is Veoh_Giraffic.exe using too much CPU or memory ? It’s probably your file has been infected with a virus.

I would get rid of this first off and see if that helps

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[Jeff Pulera]

Easy. Use Adobe Motion’s Position setting, with keyframes. Create the effect template and SAVE it, then you can apply to each title. Just manually slide the exit keyframe over on each one to get the correct end timing depending on length of clip. How do keyframes work? Just read the HELP

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

I should point out that a new display card is not in itself a solution to all performance issues – your render time seems excessive in any event. Do you have a dedicated video drive for your media? There are many factors affecting performance, the GPU being just one piece of the puzzle. You do have a Core i7 which is a good start.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

Premiere runs a lot faster with the GU acceleration ON. Unfortunately, your GT 330 does not work with Mercury GPU acceleration. Adobe has several cards that they officially support, but many others with at least 1GB of memory will also work with a minor “hack” and these can be a good choice if on a tight budget.

The list of Adobe-approved cards is here –
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.edu.html

For info on using other cards, check here –

https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Model?

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