[Jon Barrie]

Have you tried:
unlink the file.
Save and close the project.
Quit Premiere Pro.
Rename the file by adding a _ at the end of the name.
Launch PPro.
OPen the project.
relink the clip with the new name.
Hopefully this will reconform and index the file.
Don’t touch the computer until it’s finished doing the indexing and conforming.
– JB

Jon Barrie
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[Jon Barrie]

Encore won’t support square pixel clips, re-export them out and make sure the PAR setting is correct for DVD (0.9 for 4:3, 1.2 for 16:9 NTSC)
– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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[Jon Barrie]

Hey Mike,

Try:
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/speechtotext/

download the language you want and install it.

Hopefully the languages just need to be reinstalled…

– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

If you are in CS3 open a new project with correct settings then import the project you worked on and copy the original timeline’s contents and paste it into the Correct timeline made when you created the new project.

If you are in CS4, you can make a new sequence in the same project with the correct settings and copy all the contents from the original sequence and paste into the correct one.

– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Hi Sander, GPU is not used during editing or preview rendering. The accelerated export with certain Nvidia cards uses another plugin for the cards on export. It is specifically for H.264 export only.
If you want your system to handle HD better, I’d start by upgrading your RAM from 2Gig (minimum for 1 app open) to the max you can afford and your OS can accept. 32-bit OS only can see 3Gig, 64-bit can go upto 128Gig (limited by motherboards). I’d say 8Gig is about right for HD editing. Hard Drives in a RAID 5 is going to speed read write and having that in a server takes the stress off your Editing machines CPU to run the RAID and the drives so that speeds things up again.
HD seems like such a normal editing format these days but it’s actually stressing DV based machines to a point where the configuration needs to be so much more. My clients are still wanting to go out to DVD so I shoot in HDV and edit in DV. But those out there using Tapeless formats are just going to need a system that runs optimal for HD.
Bottom line, it all comes down to Hard drives read write speeds, separated from the applications (actual drive not partitions), RAM, and CPU. GPU comes into After Effects, but not really Premeire Pro until you export only for H.264 using the Nvidia plugin that certain supported cards can utilize.
1st thing you should do is upgrade your ram and even the OS to Vista 64 or wait a little and get the Win7 64 so you can throw as much ram as you can afford (motherboard can accept) in the machine.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

In a matter of speaking with a highlight on the clip’s repeated portion, yes FCP has this feature and I requested PPro to have something similar, but….

– Jon

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aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

I defrag my media drives becasue I do delete large files and hope to access my new one’s as efficiently as possible. When I’ve deleted a heap of stuff I’ll defrag overnight every month or so.

Video Editing should be the number one reason to defrag because the nature of the file sizes we deal with are going to create massive fragmentation across the drive once media is moved off of it.

JB

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http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Rog,
What are you trying to export to? What is the Format you are exporting to? There are certain formats that have limitations on them for instance DV is limited and can’t be resized. NTSC and PAL have their own sizes but they can’t be changed.
More info about the exporting you are doing and wanting will help us all to find your solution.
– JB

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

A. Apple’s standard import puts out smaller files.
wont’ happen. Apple needs to edit in Quicktime MOV files only. It converts everything that isn’t and that takes file size.

B. Premiere for mac offers on-screen capture preview in HDV, scene auto-detect and faster cropping and saving out, because for me, iMovie/FCP have it beat.
This has been a point of difference for several versions and personally should have been addressed earlier. I have learned that Adobe weren’t given access to the part of OSX that can do the auto-detect properly in PPro. PC can do it, still no screen preview.

Is MPEG-2 really lossless? It seems counterintuitve that it can be original quality and so much smaller. If so, why doesnt mac use it?
MPEG-2 is not lossless, but ingesting the MPEG-2 code from the tape to the same MPEG-2 code on the computer file is not losing any information and it will always be a smaller files size than FCP will give you.

– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

960×720 is native size of P2 recorded MXF files. It is stretched out with a Pixel Aspect Ratio to show it to you as 1280×720. Sony Vegas seems to not show you the true recording information. I guarantee you the recording is not 1280×720. You are just being shown the true clip info.
– JB

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