[Jeff Pulera]

Finding the clips to link them into project is half the battle – if you want to physically move the project AND assets, then you need to go to Project > Project Manager, and this will repackage the whole works into a new, consolidated folder.

The default option of “New Trimmed” keeps only the media actually used in the project, if you want ALL clips, untrimmed, then select “Collect Files and Copy”.

I have not used this feature myself – I recommend reading the Adobe HELP file on the subject so you understand the process and get it right

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Mark,

This is making more sense now – so you want to be able to “turn in your homework”, is that about right?

Technically, if the source files you used exist on the PC at school, you should be able to just take your Premiere project file to school and point it to those original files when it asks you where they are, and you should be able to open your “edited” version at school.

The cuts and effects you had applied would all be intact. Not sure about titles or any “new” media created during editing, but as far as original clips, you’d be good to go. Is this something that might work for you?

Otherwise, as Eddie pointed out, you can package up the entire project to include all parts to move it to another system

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Eddie and Mark,

I do this all the time, and it makes sense to me, as we all have different needs and workflows. After completing a wedding and making a DVD or Blu-ray for the client, I like to keep a copy of the finished video in the best quality I can, but I don’t care for the time, tape expense, and wear on camera that an Export to Tape entails (not to mention having to recapture later). Much easier and faster to dump the movie to an external drive for “archiving”.

I use the Matrox RT.X2 hardware with CS3, so I just use Export Movie and write a single AVI clip to an external hard drive. I can Import this movie later and cut parts for demos, export for web or whatever. I have no need for original clips and project data, I just want the movie itself.

For corporate work that may require changes/additions later, then of course saving the project does make sense. Apples and oranges.

Exporting an AVI may not be so simple for you, using CS3 alone. HDV is captured using an .mpeg extension in Premiere. It is basically “raw” HDV video, it has not been transcoded to anything else, but you can’t export directly to the .mpeg file.

There IS a way to export back to “HDV” natively, figured out by a friend over at the Matrox forum. It MAY be that you can rename this file with the .mpeg extension and use it in Premiere, you’d have to test it and see. Here it is, contributed by “Taky” :

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“After I finish editing an HDV project in premiere, I always want to output the exact same mpeg file type that HDV uses. You can’t export in File->Export->Movie, or File-Export->Adobe Media Encoder. there isn’t a settings for the HDV format MPEG-2 file. Now I found out how.

(1) When you are done with your editing on the timeline, no need to do any export. Just connect your HDV camcorder, loaded a blank tape.

(2) From the timeline, hit File->Export->Export to Tape. Hit “Render and Record”

(3) It will take forever to render your output to your camcorder. Go take a nap or watch TV.

(4) It will start recording to your camcorder. You can hit Cancel at that point if you don’t want to export a copy to tape. It will go back to the previous dialog box for “Render and Record”, DON’T hit “Done” before you finish the next step

(5) Go to your “Video Capture” scratch disk location which you specificed under Edit->Preferences->scratch Disks. Locate a file called “HDVExport.hdv2″. Rename this file to .mpeg or mpg.

Now you can cancel the export to tape function. Adobe will try to delete the HDVExport.hdv2 file but you already renamed that file. Premiere also insertd 10 blank seconds in front of the video clip. You can use any lossless mpeg editor (e.g. womble editor) to get trim out that 10 seconds.

That’s it! you will obtain the MPEG file that is the exact HDV format adobe transcoded.”
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I hope you find this helpful

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Quote – “I am also finding the Color Correction in FCP is causing trails and blurs, and I don’t think it’s the LSD.”

Hi Andrew,

I Googled “effects of LSD”, and that might indeed be the problem –

“The experience…most commonly consists of visual disturbances such as seeing false motion on the edges of the field of vision, bright or colored flashes, and halos or trails attached to moving objects.”

Unless you meant “LCD”, then never mind

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Xaris,

I saw in your other posting that you are referring to STILL images with the cropping issue, correct? Are these stills computer screen grabs or Power Point frames or something? I would guess that is the reason you must scale them down to fit in video safe area. Am I on the right track?

Otherwise there should not be a reason to shrink them, in all the history of TV, the edges have been cut off and subject is not normally on the edge of the image so this is irrelevant

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Xaris,

When using stills in Premiere, I found the best results are obtained by making the image the exact size of my project, i.e. 720×480 for NTSC, change for PAL, HDV, etc.

Also, I avoid JPEGs and use BMP, TIF, TGA, formats that are not compressed.

Using the correct size image and NOT using scale will maintain the integrity of the still image better.

Don’t expect the stills to look the same on DVD at 72dpi as they did in the original 300dpi glory on the PC screen, NTSC or PAL cannot reproduce computer-quality RGB images.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Rachel,

A LOT of older software just doesn’t work with VISTA, that would be my first guess, as Premiere 6.0 is like…7 years old or better

Maybe you can pick up a copy of Premiere Elements cheap?

Jeff Pulera

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Bryan,

Something else you might try is to create a NEW project, then Import the original project into it, this helps often with corrupted projects

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Brandon,

Adobe “Conforms” the audio in a project, creating new high resolution audio files to work with behind the scenes. I believe if you recreated those audio files it may solve the sync issue.

I think the files are in the “Media Cache” folder associated with your project. With Premiere closed, try renaming that folder (something like “xMediaCache”, you can always change it back), then launch the problem project. It should rebuild the audio clips.

Hope this helps

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

https://vimeo.com/help/compression

Jeff Pulera
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