[John Baum]

Thanks for the replies.

[John Baum]

Actually, I was hoping there was something similar to AE’s roving key frames to help smooth things out, or perhaps a way to interact directly with the motion path, also like AE.
Well, at least there’s no rendering.

[John Baum]

I’m guessing that the footage from AE was rendered progressively as that is the default behavior. When you render out of AE switch it to field(upper or lower, whatever your Premiere project footage is).

[John Baum]

I was able to get it to work by attaching a RS422 cable and synching from that.
Out of curiousity, is there an alternate way?

[John Baum]

Well, choosing a format seems to be less of an issue since I’m having trouble capturing anything.
I first tried the firewire connection and I got deck control but am not capturing anything, which doesn’t make any sense.It just says “can’t activate recorder” in the capure window.
So I tried SDI and after a little fiddlin around was eventually able to capture. But after I closed Premiere and re-opened the same project I can’t get deck control through SDI. It always comes up in “camera mode” which allows me to record on the fly by hitting play on the deck, then the record button on the capture window. Not ideal.
I’m assuming there may be settings on the deck I am missing?

[John Baum]

I think I found the culprit.
Under preferences, mutiprocessing –
If I uncheck the box that says “render multiple frames simultaneously” the problem goes away.
I unchecked and re-checked this box 6 times, purging the cache and re-rendering each time and it consistently made the problem go away.
I am using a dual quadcore Boxx system. I can send you the specifics if you need.

[John Baum]

The fact is I didn’t question it at all until, as I mentioned, a salesman from editshare, who said he used to be an Avid tech, said it might not work.
I couldn’t think of a reason it wouldn’t but well, when it comes to Avid, you never know.

[John Baum]

That was my thinking as well. But someone said they would test it out for me. If anyone else has any wisdom or first hand experiance, good or bad, about the videohub I’d love to hear it.

[John Baum]

nevermind..it seems the default output for the XENA preview is 1920×1080 so AE was trying to scale everything to this size for playback.

[John Baum]

Sony sells a noise reduction plugin that works with soundforge and Vegas. Or if you have the production suite a similar tool is part of Audition.
Basically you find a section of audio that has only the background noise and sample it. The plugin then attempts to remove only the frequencies it had sampled as “noise”.
It usually works pretty well with things like air conditioners. But apply it sparingly or your audio gets an aliased “processed” sound to it.
Another technique is to use one or several “notch” filters. These allow you to boost or cut a very narrow frequency range. Often used to remove 60Hz “hum”.