[Jeff Pulera]

I can provide a very easy fix for this – use the FILL LEFT or FILL RIGHT audio effect on the problem audio clips. This will copy one channel over to the other, replacing the “bad side” of the stereo clip that was out of phase and cancelling the other channel. Works a charm!

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[Jeff Pulera]

I’ll add my two cents worth here.

A lot of the time when someone is having troubles with Premiere forgetting where clips are, or maybe playing audio that doesn’t match the clip, it does come down to an organizational issue as Dave had mentioned.

Here’s the deal – if your original clips are coming from camera memory cards (SD cards, etc.), the way you handle that media and import into Premiere can be critical. You will notice that the SD card might have lot of folders and you might have to dig down a bit to locate the actual video clips. If you ONLY copy the video clip files themselves to the computer hard drive, that can be the start of the issues. Don’t do that.

The preferred workflow is this – create a NEW FOLDER on your media hard drive and name accordingly like “Card_1” or whatever. Now COPY the ENTIRE CONTENTS of SD card into that folder. That means EVERYTHING, even all the empty folders you might think are useless. Just SELECT ALL and COPY and PASTE.

Make a NEW FOLDER uniquely for each card you copy. And once you copy over a card, immediately back up that folder to another hard drive, that is just common sense to protect your precious video clips.

Now, in Premiere, do NOT use “File > Import” to bring in the clips, rather use Media Browser in Premiere. There can be metadata in the folder structure from the SD cards that is very important to help Premiere to keep things straight with the clips.

Using this workflow, I have never encountered all these weird clip issues I see posted about so often on the forums.

Also – a LOT of folks seem to store media/projects in USER folders in Windows. Don’t. Use a dedicated media hard drive (not C: drive) and create your OWN folders for each project you work on. There was a version of Premiere last year that had a glitch and it was actually deleting peoples video clips right off the hard drive! Would never had happened if people did not store things in DEFAULT folder locations. Was something to do with clearing of the Media Cache which is normally harmless, but in that case went further and whacked actual source video clips (because they were in a common location). Just sloppy organization.

This won’t help current situation, but please try this method moving forward, will make life easier

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What are the resolutions of the logo graphic and the video clip?

If for example the video is 1920×1080 and logo is 400×400, the logo is not going to look good blown up that much, just isn’t

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Do NOT get a XEON for Premiere, you want a Core i7 or Core i9 for best performance, and of course a suitable GPU compatible with hardware acceleration in Premiere and 32GB RAM (16GB minimum, but 32GB is better especially if editing 4K).

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Thomas,

The source you are working with is Cinema 4K at the 4096×2160 resolution, and that is not a 16:9 aspect. The more common “consumer” 4K found on camcorders and TV displays is known as UHD and is 3840×2160. That is 16:9 and will perfectly scale to HD at 1920×1080 with no cropping/borders. In any case, as Dave said, don’t try to invent your own non-standard video size at export, no good can come of it.

Try this. Save a COPY of the current Premiere project, and work on the COPY in case something goes sideways with what I am suggesting. Create a New Sequence at UHD resolution, should be a preset for that.

In original 4K sequence, Select All > Copy and then go to new UHD sequence and Paste.

This will replicate the original edits in a new UHD sequence. A small portion of the original image will be cropped due to smaller dimensions of UHD frame but should not pose an issue. Assuming what you now see in Program Monitor window looks correct (no black border), export as 1920×1080 HD and all is well.

If you do more of these projects in the future, edit the 4K clips in the UHD sequence to start with.

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Some users have reported that they will actually encode and upload Apple ProRes, which is a HUGE file of course, but then when YouTube converts it, it comes out better than if it started as a compressed .mp4 file

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But how did you encode, what did you upload to them to begin with? Please share screen shot of Export Settings used (which will also show us the Source settings as well).

Everything is a factor

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I’ve never heard such a thing. If a clip on a lower track is completely 100% obscured, no transparency from clips above, those hidden clips should have absolutely no bearing on render time and it seems a waste of time to have to go in and hide the hidden clips. I’ve worked on multi-cam, multi-layer long-form edits for many years and exports have always been fast.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Open a NEW PROJECT.

Import clips.

Make sure to let Conforming FINISH completely before attempting to play timeline at all (seen at lower right of screen).

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What kind of drive, USB 3.0 connected to USB 3.0 port? USB 2.0 will fall on its face with HD footage.

What type of footage, format and codec?

Yeah, there is something off if you don’t have a waveform in timeline all of the time.

Which Premiere version?

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