[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Have you tried creating a new project and importing the old project into the new one?

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[Wendell Davis] “Thank you. I’m finding out that if the music in this case is Stereo, it requires a stereo track. So A1 – A4 are mono tracks forcing the stereo music to go to A5 as a stereo track. Different than my previous Avid and FCP7 thinking.”

Yes, that is true. However, CS6 also has “standard” audio tracks which will take any kind of audio. Somehow your sequence got set up with 4 mono tracks instead of for standard tracks.

just right click on an audio track and select “Add tracks….”

Add 4 standard tracks, move your audio down to these new tracks and delete the 4 original tracks.

Everything will work as you expect after that.

The not being able to razor the audio is very odd. I agree with Ryan, can we have a Screenshot?

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Oh, and before you ask, Yes, I can edit AVCHD natively on that four year old MBP.

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Well, obviously you have a problem. Premiere should be running swimmingly on an i7 MBP. (I can even run it on my 4 year old MBP. It’s a bit slow, but no beach-balls.)

So If we’re going to help you, we need details. Details, details, details.

Also, please check the activity monitor when Premiere hangs and see what process is hogging the CPU at that moment, it might tell us something.

JM

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[Bob Cole] ” I’m usually making 3-10 minute pieces.”

OH, you had me thinking you were doing hour long pieces.

Prepare for the jump to hyper speed… If you’re expecting render times like compressor you’re going to be nicely surprised.

Unless your video is effects heavy, on a good computer renderes will generally be faster the real time, in my experience. (For example, a 7 minute RED project rendered to MPEG-2 in about 7-8 minutes. This was in CS5 on a PC.)

[Bob Cole] ” What format should I use for the AE renders, or is the integration so tight that I have to look at a different way of working?”

Re-think everything.

FCP was good at what it did, but that required a very specific workflow. Give it anything else, and it choked, or worse. PP’s mentality is take anything you throw at it and render once at the end no-mater what you’re doing, even AE comps. Sometimes there are better ways (such as if you have really really heavy effects usage), but just about everything is aimed at Render once to your final codec. That’s how Adobe expects you to work.

Overall, this is a massive time savings over rendering ALL your footage to ProRes at the start like FCP required.

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Yes and no. No, Premiere doesn’t currently support this. But yes, in the future it will, probably with the next update. Adobe calls this “Smart Rendering”. Support for smart rendering in Adobe media encoder was added with the 6.0.1 update, but with no support in Premiere yet, the feature is %99 useless at the moment.

Also, in it’s current version, only XDCAM in a MXF OP1a wrapper is supported.

Also, if I might ask, what format do you usually deliver to?

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I’m sorry, I’m completely wrong!

Premiere on Windows does indeed support DV50 and DVCPROHD in .MOV files. It doen’t support HDV or XDCAM, but it does support DVCPROHD (All three of these codecs are installed into mac by the Pro Apps, so I figured they’d all be missing on Windows.)

Note, they call it DV50 instead of DVCPRO50. Pretty sure it’s the same thing.

By the way, the reason I’m suggesting DCVPRO50 over 25 is the color sampling. DVCPRO25 (which is exactly the same as DV except with two extra audio channels) is 4.1.1. DVD’s are 4.2.0. The conversion between the two isn’t the greatest.

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DVCPro50 would be a nice codec, just make sure it’s in a P2 file structure or Premiere on a PC can’t read it.

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Mind you, the Motherboard listed in the specs does have exactly slots and ports listed. So as long as they give you what they write, rather then what they show, all’s well.

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Only problem I see is that the specs and the pictures don’t match at all… Not at ALL.

Here’s the specs they list: (Connections actually observed in photos, when different.)

Processing
Socket: Dual 2011
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2600 Family
Form Factor: EATX
Chipset: Intel C602

Expansion Slots:
Slot 1: PCI Express 3.0 x16 (empty, blocked by CPU cooler. A plug bracket would fit.)
Slot 2: PCI Express 3.0 x8 in a x16 size (PCI Express 3.0 x16)
Slot 3: PCI Express 3.0 x16 (Unknown)
Slot 4: PCI Express 3.0 x8 in a x16 size (PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, unknown how many lanes.)
Slot 5: PCI Express 3.0 x16 (PCI Express 3.0 x4)
Slot 6: PCI Express 3.0 x8 in a x16 size (PCI Express 3.0 x8)
Slot 7: PCI Express 3.0 x16 (good old PCI)

Memory:
Type: DDR3 ECC Registered 1600 MHz
Number of Slots: 8 (12)
Max per Slot: 8 GB
Max Supported: 64 GB

Connections:
Rear USB 2.0: 6 (4)
Rear USB 3.0: 2