Jon Barrie
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This is indeed odd. A restart should get it going correctly if its not happy. What you can do in the mean time, as annoying as it is, select all the clips in the timeline. Then right click over one of them and select the scale to frame option in the list. It will apply to all selected clips. If you have 4×3 clips in a 4×3 timeline they are not visually affected. 😉
Then keep working. did you add the clip to the timeline after the setting was ticked. If you already have clips inside a timeline they will not be updated. Only the newly added to timeline clips will have the function active.
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It’s unclear what you want to output in. If you want to keep the entire output for 4×3 playback, which is what I assume you will be doing, you can edit the 16×9 media in a 4×3 Seq with the scale to frame function. it will force fit the widescreen to be the exact proportions required to fit perfectly with letterboxing. This feature can be switched on to apply to any media added to timeline be default in the Preferences>General tab.
This will also mean that if you needed to make a full 16×9 version of the project and that media you can start a new project in 16×9 and import the project with the letterboxed 16×9 media. Then when opened in 16×9 project it will fit the new shape of the project making the scale to frame fit the widescreen project perfectly.
Don’t actually scale the motion properties having the function on means you can animate it and paste animation from a 4×3 media file and it will work the same as if the scaled to frame media was actually still 100% in scale when it has been shrunk to fit. Look at the motion properties, it still says its 100%.
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I’m going to make a magic guess. The camera or VTR is connected and switched on while working with PPro. The lag in response has everything to do with the VTRs delay. Switch off the VTR and you should get instant response from PPro.
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Hi Gene,
FCP has compressor.Adobe Media Encoder is now a stand alone app in CS4. It runs in the BG so you can keep editing in PPro or AE while it’s rendering out the queue. You can keep adding to the queue while its still rendering. You can monitor the renders. Far superior to the FCS Compressor.
Read up on your current info before you start slagging.
You are right on one thing. All production people should be happy with the tools they have if they work.
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I’m disappointed with the “multi-effects” I thought for example, that I would be able to apply a transition to multiple pictures (50 or so) in one step…..
It will in CS4. You can add default transitions to all selected clips.
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Shar,
I know that clients bring DVDs, I run my own small production co and freelance for several others. I and all the others I do work for are constantly ‘educating’ clients that DVD is for watching not for editing. We all charge them for the conversion time. I’ve done work with MPEG files that came from the Prod co that made the Volvo TVCs. They refused to give us the high quality video so they deliberately gave us 320×180 MPEG files. Do you think that company did that because they threw out the DigiBeta tapes or didn’t have the originals on the computer anymore? It’s because they know its a bogus format and they were cut that we produced something with their original client that they said would cost $500,000 to do when I cut it at full rate and it came to $3,500.
It’s a sad fact that non video professionals think about video naively, some people think you can edit YouTube video and then put it on TV and it looks as good as TV because your watching it on a TV not the computer screen.
Some VOB files don’t import with the MPG ext because of the audio format. if its a simple dolby stereo it should work. If its surround or DTS it won’t. So I usually convert the audio seperately. DVD is not consistent esp with VBR. It’s not professional format and should stay out of any and all Professional apps.
As for FCP importing VOB files. I have version 6 on hand and it can bring it in. It will only see the vision. There is no audio no matter what you do with it. FCP is even less a help if there is no audio support at all. The frame accuracy of stopping and cutting is completely unreliable so FCP won’t help you either.
I don’t even think Avid supports VOB files properly or even at all.
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Did I say I was from Oklahoma? I’m from Australia, down-under.
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Hey Randall,
Can you supply the media properties and the project settings. If you are working with a DV project and matching DV media there should be no rendering required in a nested sequence set to multicam. Unless there are effects on them. But that should be done in the later stages after the edit is locked in.
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Hey Joe,
Axio will probably be causing some problem here. I have never heard of this issue in Adobe only projects.
To import the corrupted project start a new project using the presets panel that match the corrupted one’s.
Import…find the project file of the corrupted one, that’s it. It should import the entire project, all the files/sequenes and anything you’ve done to them.
This will all be in a folder which is named the same as the imported project file. Inside this folder is all the media and the sequences. Find the sequences you need and double click them. They should open up tabbed in the timemline panel.– Jon Barrie 😉
PS: If there is still a problem do the same import with the autosave project files to see if they come in with all your sequences (esp. the mutlicam sequences).
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Hi Shar,
I’m not sure what type of video production you work in, but VOB is an unstable format to edit. I don’t blame PPro for not importing it in it’s native format. If you make the ext from VOB to MPG you can bring it in, but it still has the long GOP that makes frame accurate editing and playback unstable. It’s a playback format. DVD quality is so lossy it’s rediculous to use it in an edit if the original HDV/DV tape or files are available.
i don’t know anyone that uses DVD formated video as the backups. They either have tapes and the project files with all the recapturable information as offline file references or have the whole project with all media and other project files from PS or AE etc on a hard drive for storage with a spreedsheet to find relative project with the stored drive/s.
If you really want to work with VOB files then get Premiere Elements, no need to change the file extension. Most Editors use Elements to convert consumer formats in to stable DV files.CS4 is geared to the future, look ahead my friend the video world has evolved. DVD is still around, but the web and downloadable content to play on TVs with HDD or computers to TVs is the future. I highly doubt BluRay will even be a legitimate format in the next 3-5 years as a downloadable version will work the same as a Disc, cost less to distribute, better on the green footprint of manufacturing, be more desirable for viewers, the list goes on.
DVD was great, never for editing, but it’s had its time why would a professional product want to go backwards. FCP used to bring in VOB files, badly I might add, but it doesn’t like anything if its not a QT.mov file.
Buy some Ext HDDs and do backup storage on them, list its contents and stop burning DVDs other than a master disc for duplication/client copies.
– Jon Barrie
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