[Jon Barrie]

If probably can edit MPEG files that are stereo audio, not 5.1, not Dolby Digital Stereo. I’m not sure of the specific limits of the MPEG editing format/s but it remember it wasn’t able to handle all the audio formats that DVD’s could be coming in. Hope the converters work a treat.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Hi Amit,
If you have selected the sequence in the timeline panel and hit the space bar it will play the program monitor because the timeline is the active panel and that is connected to the program monitor.
If you select the Multi-cam window and see that it is the highlighted panel (floating panel) and hit space bar it should play there and not in the program monitor.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Hi Mel, I just did a test with CS4 and I don’t have the problem you are having. I know your using CS3, but from memory the Multi-cam limit is 4 to MC edit, but that’s just looking at the 1st 4 tracks so the other tracks (5+6 or more) can be there, they just won’t be editable. I tested (CS4) having 4 tracks, 5 and 6 tracks and each time the nested sequence was able to be Multi-cam enabled and only showed the limit of tracks 1-4 to edit in the MC window.
If you can’t select the sequence in the project panel that has nothing to do with Multi-cam, any sequence is scene as a sequence not a multi-cam just because it has multi-ple tracks used.
I’d try to test the scenario with a single clip stacked up to 6 tracks over itself and try to use that in a new seq, then enable it for MC.
You may need to provide a screen shot of the problem you’re having if this doesn’t resolve with a positive testing and then negative results for the actual edit you want to make.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

From memory PPro1.5 was not very good at handling MPG files.
What I used to do was convert the MPG or VOB files into an Uncompressed or DV format to edit in PPro.
There are plenty of freeware DVDtoAvi converters out there.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Uncompressed is the only way to not lose any quality. The codec you are rendering to from AE is not one I’m familiar with. But when editing in PPro the sequence will be rendering to the set format you chose the sequence from in the presets or set manually by yourself. Unless the sequence was setup as an uncompressed sequence you are losing some quality.
There are varying quality loses with each codec type – HDV is heavily compressed compared to DV, but then you might not notice the difference so much by eye. H.264 with the settings ramped up high can look stunningly close to the original picture.
Best to keep the backups as digital files on a large hard drive you can put away and then pull out when you want to use it again. Best practice would have you back it up on a hard drive that has RAID 1 setup.
Tape can be glitchy and heads on machines can make problems appear on tapes that are fine, but then add gunk from the heads to make the tape dirty and then you’ll never get the ingest properly. Broadcast quality is not even uncompressed, it’s got a 2:1 quality loss, but you’ll never notice it by eye.
Hope this helps.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

So you are saying that you can’t select the icon of the sequence in the project panel at all?

That sounds like something has gone wrong with the project, try starting a new project and importing the old one, then setting up the multi-cam edit.

Hope this helps.

– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

You need to add the multiclip sequence (sync’d multi layered timeline) into a new sequence (nesting) then right click on the nested clip and activate the multi-cam function of the nest.
Then open up the multi-cam window to edit the multi-cam in the second sequence where the cuts – when you click on different angles in the multi-cam window while playing it all back, appear and indicate which camera angle (track no).
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

It sounds like the results of a mismatched frame rate. Be sure the frame rates of the original footage, sequence timeline and exports match.

– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

PPro 1.5 is kinda a while ago now….

Best bet would be 1 of 2 options.
– use the scale property to scale it back down to fit the edges of your frame.
– Export the H.264 file from the source monitor out to the same preset of the project you are working in.

Keep in mind that DV is not true widescreen it’s anamorphic.

Let us know how you go.

– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

The results you’ve explained are what happens when a video card driver isn’t working properly. AE may use it ok, but ppro won’t.
Post your video card details and the driver version you’re using.
Do a search on that card and PProCS4 you may get a hit on the driver version you’ll need.
Otherwise…
Make sure your video card has the most up to date driver from either the laptop maker or the video card maker. If so then you’ll need to roll it back to an older version. Vista maybe the cause for the driver conflict as your laptop model seems a little older that Vista…. quite a bit older.
– JB

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