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It sounds like sync won’t help you here. Lock the audio track with the music only so it never gets affected by any lifts extracts.

If you are cutting a music video the music track doesn’t need to move or trim so… Does that help?

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CS5 won’t run unless you are in a 64-bit OS. It will utilize all of your ram so the 64-bit access to more than 3.5 Gig of RAM will mean yes you will benefit.
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Hi Dave,

What is meant is unless the system has a compatible GFX card for the Hardware GPU acceleration for the Mercury Engine, then it will work in Software mode, which still works very well, but you will most likely require setting the preview playback resolution down to allow for realtime with effects.

It doesn’t matter whether you are on a MacBookPro or a MacPro.

No MacBook Pro’s have compatible GFX cards so if you work on a MBP you will only ever (as of the MacBookPro Apple builds of 6th October 2010) have the Mercury Engine in Software mode available.

Hope that clears up some of the Mercury Confusion. 🙂

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Hi Milton,

The way that PPro uses sequence in out points and lift extract techniques are based on tracks being switched “on” AKA “Active”. If they aren’t active then that track is not affected by the lift or extract. It has it’s advantages having this but I do agree it could be a little simpler to override.

How I use this workflow is to activate and deactivate the video tracks and audio tracks at once by holding shift down while I click on an active or inactive track. This applies the active state to all layers in that section (video or audio) then I highlight the track/s I want only affected in the in out point lift or extract. This way if I want to completely lift or extract completely and I don’t have all the layer active I can do so in a couple of clicks and hit ; or ‘ for lift or extract.

Hope that helps.

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As a rule of thumb working with progressive in an interlaced project is less problematic than interlaced in a progressive project.

What plans do you have with export? Web, blurry? DVD?

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G’day Bill,
When exporting from CS4 it does “function” differently than previous versions.
To export a frame, go to File>export>media…
Inside media encoder settings select a still image setting such as bmp. Set where you want to save and press ok.
The frame will be saved. Then import it manually.

It’s not as efficient as previous versions but it’s there. CS5 is much easier to export a frame. Still doesn’t have the auto add to project tick box. They are looking to add that back ASAP.

For stills in project I tend to add match the frame I want, add it to the timeline as 1 frame (set in out on the frame) before adding. Then I use the rate strecrh tool to pull out the length. The best reason for doing it this way is that the frame holds, but I can update it with another frame if I need to at any other time. I also tick the hold in point frame option as it can be a little buggy when replacing the frame.

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I watched your video and it appears to have been edited in a 4:3 sequence. The 1st shots are not widescreen and it looks like the width of the 4:3 shots determine the width of the wide talking heads.

Can you provide the sequence settings. Select the sequence goto sequence menu, sequence settings.

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Interesting. Could you post your comparison results from a screen grab (print screen+paste)?

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If you want the export to remain as sharp as the original then you will need to export with at least the same frame dimensions (which don’t conform to any TV standard). DV will conform SD TV standards which is either 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL). Both are smaller than the original dimensions of your recording, which will result in downscaling and merging of pixels which can have a softened look.

What are you hoping to use the final product for? TV, DVD, Web?

Upscaling to fit to HD 1280×720 will also make a stretching of the original pixel frame dimensions which again will cause some softening.

The other problem with using a DV preset is that it is not square pixel as any screen recording would be. DV uses anamorphic pixel aspect ratio (PAR) to stretch a 4:3 image out to 16:9 as this is the process 16:9 SDTVs used. HD is square and so is the web.

One option could be to forfeit some of the outer edges of the recording to maintain the pixel for pixel (100%) sharpness in a 16:9 square pixel sequence and export as such. For NTSC SD you will need to make a Custom Seq that holds the dimensions of 864×486.

Any up or down scaling from that will be miles better than working in a DV widescreen (anamorphic) sequence.

Hope this helps 🙂

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I don’t mean to scare you, but is it possible you tapped the esc key after naming the file? If so then your recording is gone. It flushes the file if you hit esc 1 time to stop the recording, then tap it again a 2nd time it flushes it from the system.

I don’t like that you didn’t see it enter the project panel. Can you recapture it?

Another possibility is that the recording was going to a drive that could take the whole recording time and has also become gone from that possibility too.

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