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In the Effects Controls, click the “twirly”, or triangle thingy, by the CROP effect name and this will open the crop controls, and you’ll see Left, Right, Top and Bottom options. This is the same for all effects, you must open the drop down to see all the controls.
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This camera is set by default to downconvert HDV to DV on the 1394 output. Your capture software will have device control, but will not capture HDV video if camera is outputting a DV signal.
Look in the camera menu system (in VTR mode) and set DV CONVT to OFF. Also, set “VCR” to HDV, rather than AUTO or DV.
Note that after changing menu setting in camera, it helps to power off camera, and close capture application. Next, power up camera so computer recognizes it as an HDV camera (not DV), then reopen capture application and try it.
This generally works for Adobe editors on the PC, should work for you as well if the “downconvert” is the issue.
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Hi Kevin,
If you can, install a second internal SATA drive and keep all your video files and projects there; using the C: drive can hurt performance since Windows needs to constantly access the drive.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Corinne,
I answered your other post, but wanted to clarify here the difference between a Project and a Sequence.
A PROJECT is created to have a place to IMPORT all the ASSETS (video audio, graphics, titles) that you will work with, and also a place to do the edits (on sequences). All your assets and sequences are part of the Project, so when you Save the Project, it all stays together.
A SEQUENCE is the timeline (inside the Project) where you assemble the clips together and do the editing. You can have multiple Sequences in a single project. As mentioned, this can be used to break down a large, complex project into smaller, manageable segments.
So you have a single Project, but several Sequences. Maybe you name them INTRO, MAIN, and CREDITS. After you complete editing of these three segments, you create a New Sequence and call it MASTER. This is blank, then one by one, you drag INTRO, MAIN and CREDITS to the Master timeline (each Sequence comes in as a large single clip) and you then have a complete program to lay off to tape, export to DVD, etc.
I think this is what you wanted to do (in other post) but it sounds like you created to separate projects instead, which can still work, but adds to the labor, as you must Import one project into the other and then put the Sequences together.
Hope this is making more sense now
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Hi Corinne,
About Nested Sequences – say you have “Sequence 1” in your project with all your edits in it, and you then add a blank “Sequence 2”. You next go to the project bin and drag Sequence 1 into the Sequence 2 timeline, it will appear as one long clip. This is handy if maybe you want to make everything black and white, or you want to add a timecode window – you add the effect once to the nested sequence as a whole, rather than trying to apply a color correction to every single clip in the sequence.
Or you may have several sequences, different parts of the whole program, that you can string those together when you are done to create the finished project, which it sounds like you were trying to do from two different Premiere projects.
Try this – OPEN the imported sequence how I suggested, by double-clicking it in the project bin (rather than drag and drop). This SHOULD open the Sequence will all the clips and edits intact. Now hit CTRL-A to “Select ALL” (all clips in the timeline should highlight). Now switch to the sequence that you want to append this to. Place the playhead at the end of the existing clips in the sequence, and do CTRL-V to PASTE everything in. You should then see all the parts, as originally edited, added to the existing timeline sequence.
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Corinne,
Can you please explain what you mean by “ribbon”? You may be referring to a “nested sequence” which is what results when you drop one sequence into another – it looks like just one big clip, but if you scrub or play it, you should see and hear the content, you just don’t see all the original separate pieces in the sequence.
We should back up to the beginning and make sure we’re on the same page. What is the workflow, i.e. WHY are you importing one project into another, and exactly what are the steps you are using?
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Hi Corinne,
When you Import a project, you get a single folder in the bin – open it and find your Sequence, typically named “Sequence 1” unless you had changed it. Simply double-click the icon to the left of the “Sequence 1” name and that should open the sequence with all the clips in it. If you click the name, it just offers the chance to rename, so click to left side of it.
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Just checked out the VIO POV 1.5 unit, very cool.
What record settings did you use? For NTSC video, you’d want the 720×480 30fps setting. I hope the “30fps” means 29.97, which is the actual standard for video in the US (Europe uses PAL video at 25fps).
Whichever mode you recorded in, make sure the frame size and frame rate matches in the Premiere Project Settings, and check that the proper Divx codec is installed, might be on a CD that came with the camera.
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What type of footage are you working with? AVCHD is very processor-intensive and can be an issue even on workstations, it may be that the laptop is not up to par for this task
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Create a black video clip –
File > New > Black Video
While holding CTRL key, drag this new black clip down to beginning of timeline to insert with ripple. Again holding CTRL, grab right end of black clip and drag out to desired length. If you mess anything up, just UNDO and try again
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