[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Johnny,

So are you trying to make a slideshow directly in Encore, importing stills? Never tried that, always do my work in Premiere then export MPEG-2 DVD for use in Encore.

First suggestion would be – make all the stills a uniform 720×480 for DVD. If you have odd sizes, maybe that is causing issues, like if image is taller than it is wide? Or just make the slideshow in Premiere to start with, a lot more flexibility with adding effects and music and such.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Isa,

The 7 minutes/20 copies setting will do this:

It will Auto-Save a copy every 7 minutes, with 20 unique copies being saved. This should cover 140 minutes of work, after which the oldest auto-saved copy then gets overwritten with newest save and so on. There will never be more than 20 copies saved at once, and “oldest” copy would not be more than 140 minutes old during any work session (unless you exit Premiere then of course they stop updating).

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Robert,

You are using old, obsolete software with CS4, so it may not even fully support the format you are trying to edit.

That said, using Media Browser with any Premiere version has many benefits. For instance, long recordings of AVCHD may break up the recording into smaller chunks. By using Media Browser to import, Premiere will bring in the pieces as one continuous clip with no gaps in it. Audio is another thing that can benefit from this import method in many cases. This will not happen with “File > Import”.

Honestly, I was not even aware of the “right-click and Import” in Media Browser. I simply dig down through AVCHD folder structure until it starts finding my clips. Then I multi-select the ones I want and drag them to the timeline or Project Bin.

That’s about all I can tell you. If by any means you could get into a newer version of Premiere, I have no doubt that would help the situation. As I recall, CS4 was just a buggy version that was never quite right to start with. Think Windows Vista for instance.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Sometimes Premiere has issues in properly handling certain formats, depending on import method used. Best practice will be to copy ALL contents of SD card to your hard drive (make a New Folder for it). Then in Premiere, import via Media Browser – do not use File > Import.

Media Browser will use metadata included from SD card folders to properly interpret and handle most types of media. If you previously imported only the .mts files alone, that may contribute to the issue you had. If you try again using Media Browser, use a New Project or Premiere may still try to use original files from before and problem will remain.

Hope this helps

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

That was my thought also – can’t you Copy first clip, then Paste Attributes to others for consistency?

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

I have to agree with Dave on this one – take the time and initiative to watch free online tutorials on how to USE Premiere and teach yourself the basics. Too many folks on these forums get Premiere and immediately ask “Show me how to do this”. The point of the forums is for solving PROBLEMS, when people get stuck, not for free training.

That said, I’ll give you a freebie.

Put Game clip on V1 track. Put person clip on V2 above other clip. Use Adobe Motion effect to scale V2 clip down to size and position where you want it. Can also use CROP effect to trim edges of V2 clip.

Have fun

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Until a few months ago, I was still using the i7-2600 processor with Premiere CC. I could edit HD easily, like AVCHD or ProRes. I could also cut Sony 4K XAVC-S footage, surprisingly! Of course adding any effects would then slow that down right away, but I could play it well enough. I had a GTX 470 display card, system was over 5 years old.

SSD is good for boot, and use 7200rpm SATA drives for storage, as they provide large capacity and low price. If you can add TWO of those drives, and configure as RAID 0 (stripe set in Windows) this will double the performance. If your system has USB 3.0, you could look at external storage. There are desktop drives (and RAIDs) meant for video editing, such as those from G-Tech, Glyph, and LaCie. The benefit of external is ease of moving to new system, just plug it in!

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Josh,

Not much useful information in the system dump, other than Processor and RAM and OS.

So which graphics card do you currently have? That would be helpful to know.

As for storage, what are the specs of the second drive? A SATA drive like a WD Black, or Seagate Barracuda is a minimum for video editing (7200rpm, 64mb cache), and also depends on what kind of footage you edit. Is it AVCHD at 25mbps, or ProRes at 200mbps? Or 4K RAW at ??

You might just consider external storage meant for video editing. Such as a desktop RAID with 2 drives in it and USB 3.0 or USB-C connection (the latter is faster if the new PC supports it).

For graphics, consider a GTX 1060 as a good minimum card for Adobe

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Greg,

Not that I’m aware of. What is it that you are trying to accomplish? If you scale an image down or crop in Premiere, you will have black around it in the frame. The frame size is determined by the Sequence settings being used. If you crop the image, then export, it still wants to export at the size determined by Sequence, not the cropped size.

Something you can do is edit clips in a smaller Sequence, for instance edit 1080 clips in a 720p Sequence, then you have some room to zoom and pan without losing quality right away. Still filling the full 16:9 frame though.

Please let us know the situation, what you are trying to do, then it will be a lot easier to suggest a solution and workflow.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Just an FYI next time you need a new video card, for Premiere you get a lot more bang for less buck with a GTX-series gaming card rather than Quadro. Premiere is all about CUDA cores, and GTX cards have tons of them on a budget, like one-third the cost of Quadro. Think GTX 1060 or 1070 for instance.

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Jeff