Jon Barrie
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I have been an NLE editor for over 10 years now and have always used shortcut keys. I have made it the highest priority to learn them as it makes for massive increases in editing speed and efficiency.
I find using the keyboard shortcut keys – with a proper knowledge of them – allows me to shuttle and jog fine without the need for a wheel. Holding the K key while tapping the J key will jog 1 frame at a time in reverse, while holding K while tapping L will jog 1 frame in forward. Holding down K and J or L will shuttle slowly. Releasing K will shuttle at 1x speed in the direction last used (J back L forward) re-tapping J or L speeds up the shuttle direction, tapping it to the other (from J to L or vice versa) will pull down the speed of the shuttle direction until it hits 1x speed then continuing to tap will continue the shuttle speed increase in that direction, J or L. It’s very fast responding and just as efficient (more so for me) as a wheel. Technically the wheel is bound by the same shortcuts all rolled into the wheel.
Shuttle Jog wheels always felt way too… Pre-2000 for me.
That’s my 2c.
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Hi Marty,
How did you bring the video clip into the computer? Was a video file on the camera or a small memory card? or was it captured into the computer with a firewire cable as DV video?
If it was already a playable video file from a memory card or on the camera as an AVI type file then chances are it is a heavily compressed file type with an AVI extension. AVI and MOV are simply wrappers for many types of compression/decompression types (AKA codecs). DV is the most commonly seen codec in an AVI wrapper for PC, but on the Mac DV codec is in the MOV wrapper.
Enough theory 🙂 I’d like to offer that you could be experiencing issues with the decompressing part of the AVI file as that can use up heaps of system resources. Converting your current AVI file to a DV based codec Microsoft AVI or Quicktime MOV is the most likely happy medium for quality and file size.
Uncompressed is great quality maintenance but large file size. Its possible you selected the export settings Format “Uncompressed Microsoft AVI” – which would give you what are likely seeing. Try Selecting Format “Microsoft AVI” and see which of the “DV” presets best match your project. NTSC is 30fps (29.97fps), PAL is 25fps, and there is the 24p which is really NTSC too. 🙂
There is the Widescreen and non-widescreen presets there too, with DV and Standard Defiinition (SD) there is not difference in the frame dimension for 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 Standard so just be aware of which one you choose to match your project needs.
– Good Luck, JB
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How about as a work around you copy the audio from the multicam sequence and paste it in sync under the multicam enabled nest.
Not sure why it’s behaving this way, but at least you can get back to work. 🙂
BTW, a two cam I tend to edit this way anyway, so I can see audio waveform “cues” for making edits.
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I usually render out to Uncompressed as a Master File which is usually faster to export than to H.264 on its own then use the Master to export to H.264 and watch that sucker encode super fast!
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Have you tried to start a new project and import the “corrupted” project into the new one? That’s usually the fail safe process here.
Let us know.
– JB 🙂
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can you provide us with a screen capture (image) of what your PPro screen looks like? I am not sure I understand the problem you are having. ripple is not a button in ppro source monitor, but there is a ripple tool. so…. please upload and embed a screen grab of your screen.
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are you sure you have set the capture setting to HDV and not DV…
like these pics:
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I think what you are seeing the the effect of a 60% rate from an interlaced source video file.
Try doing it at 50% and see the difference.
Frame blending won’t really help too much here i think.
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I have a feeling that the sequence you copied to has not got the work area set to fit the length of your edit.
Rendering a timeline is dependent on the work area setting. so if it is set to a small area that doesn’t require rendering then nothing will happen.
to reset the work area bar you can hit the “/” key to bring the edited sequence to the full view of the entire sequence and then double click on the top of the time marked area (where the time is shown in lines and the work area bar lives) to see the work area bar jump out the full length of the edit.
Doing this process in a zoom will set the in and out points of the work area bar the view of the zoom only.
You can manually set the in and out points with alt+] and alt+[ keyboard shortcuts based on the position of the playhead.
Cheers, Hope this is what you needed.
JB
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