[Jeff Pulera]

As far as I know, a motherboard is either made for an Intel processor, or an AMD (Ryzen) processor and they are not interchangeable. So the Ryzen recommendation is suspect.

This is what it says for the Z370A motherboard:

Supports 9th / 8th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® Gold / Celeron® processors for LGA 1151 socket

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Adam,

I’m pretty sure that any automatic chapter mark linkage between Premiere and Encore went away several years ago. What I do is write down the time codes from Premiere timeline where I want the chapters to go. Then in Encore, just manually create my chapter marks at those points.

Please note though – encoding for DVD or Blu-ray uses Long-GOP encoding. This means that several frames – I believe 15 for DVD – will be encoded as a “Group of Pictures” that just save changes from one frame to the next. Disc chapter breaks can only be placed between the GOPs and not in the middle of them. Back when Premiere and Encore were linked, you could mark chapters in Premiere and when you exported, it would force breaks at the desired chapter marks. Not so any more.

So what happens in Encore is that when you try to go to the exact second and frame where you want your chapter mark, and you set that chapter mark, it will likely jump over a few frames before or after where you wanted it to be, since it will seek out the nearest GOP break. So you might want the chapter mark exactly on a scene cut, but it won’t let you place it there (unless you just get lucky). The actual chapter mark will be a few frames before or after the scene cut in the video.

Having the chapter mark hit early is undesirable since when the viewer jumps to that chapter, they will see a “glitch” meaning a few quick frames of previous scene flash on before desired scene, which can look quite jarring. When that happens, I will move the chapter mark to the next GOP break as that usually looks better though slightly late.

I don’t have Encore in front of me right now and haven’t used it in like a year, but when previewing the video using the transport controls, I believe there are frame-forward and frame-back buttons. Hover the mouse over them and it may provide info in a pop-up, saying “ALT for next GOP” or something like that. Meaning hold the ALT key when pressing the frame button, and that then jumps GOP to GOP rather than frame to frame. So that’s how you find the best places to put the chapter marks and you can add them at those points then, hope that makes sense.

That said, having this knowledge can sometime affect how you edit! I did dance recitals which would require up to 40 chapters to separate the dances. Each dance would end with a quick fade to black, then title for next act would fade up from black. What I ran into when trying to add chapters in Encore was that I could not always place the chapter mark in total black – I would catch either part of the fade to black, showing previous scene, or I would catch the white title partially faded up. What I wanted when selecting a chapter on the DVD menu was for the selected title to fade right up from black, but it would not work out that way. Would get the glitched look of hitting early or late! So when editing, I learned to leave AT LEAST 15 frames of total black between each dance segment in Premiere – because the GOPs are 15 frames. By leaving that minimum amount of solid black in the edit, I could be assured that when placing chapters in Encore, the mark would definitely be able to fall somewhere within complete black with no prior scene or next title showing through. Looks MUCH cleaner when jumping chapter to chapter on DVD using NEXT on remote.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Check out Photodex Pro Show Gold software, if you want to do fancy slide shows. Much faster than using an NLE, mostly automated yet you can go back and make edits, but most of the work done for you.

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[Jeff Pulera]

John – excellent point! Definitely something to try to salvage the original stereo. Most of the time when I suggest the FILL solution it’s just for dialogue or whatever and stereo is not important, but I see here it definitely would be!

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I’m not real sharp on the causes (since I’m a video guy, not an audio engineer), just know the easy fix in Premiere, but glad I could help. From what I’ve seen in various forums, a mis-wired mic or converter can do this, for instance XLR-to-Mini plug with wires crossed. Please see links below for more explanation of causes and fixes. The images are helpful to visualize what is happening to create the perceived “silence” when L and R channels cancel each other out.

https://behindthespeakers.com/fix-phase-cancellation/

https://www.soundshockaudio.com/how-to-fix-phase-cancellation/

https://www.waves.com/tips-for-fixing-phase-problems-in-your-mix

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[Jeff Pulera]

It’s a phase inversion issue from mis-wired microphone. The recording on one channel is the opposite (inverted waveform) from the other. When you combine the two channels into a mono signal as phones do, the opposite stereo channels cancel each other out!

In Premiere, apply either FILL LEFT or FILL RIGHT to the stereo audio track. This will copy one channel to the other, so they are both the same rather than inverted. Export new clip. Fixes the issue.

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Thank you for the clarification. A perpetual license is a perpetual license, it does not change to a subscription license at any time.

That said, if you got this CS6 license second-hand, you could have issues getting the software activated to use it on your machine, under your name. Might need to contact Adobe Support then if you encounter issues.

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[Jeff Pulera]

I don’t even understand the question, “can I run with subscription without the subscription”. What?

[Jeff Pulera]

In the immortal words of Shane Ross….” nononononononono.”

I don’t get why you would add the step of going to 1080i then back to 1080p, what in the world for? Just go straight to the 30p (29.97p actually) the client is asking for.

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[Jeff Pulera]

In Export Settings grab you posted, compare the SOURCE and OUTPUT settings – you have a 1080p (1920×1080) source, and you exported as 480i (DV interlaced) and that is why it doesn’t play right. Horrible quality.

The export settings – 1920×1080, 29.97, Progressive, 1.0 pixel aspect ratio – need to match the source. And also use a high-quality intermediate codec, like ProRes or Avid DNxHD.

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