[Jon Barrie]

Can’t say I’ve seen this problem personally, but another work around would be to use the 4:3 clips on one track and the 16:9 clips on another. Then when you want to cross-dissolve use the effect as usual to the top most track and leave enough clip under the cross dissolve for it to appear as a cross dissolve.

If you have 4:3 clips in a 16:9 project I would use the 16:9 above the 4:3 clips. This would allow the cross dissolve effect to work properly as the pillar boxing of 4:3 in a 16:9 is alpha and not actually black which would make the dissolve work only over the 4:3 space of video and not the sides if using the 4:3 footage above the 16:9.

Hope I didn’t confuse you with the description. Just keep the 16:9 footage on top of the 4:3 footage. 🙂

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

[Jon Barrie]

As your signal seems to have lost an entire third of it’s colour spectrum I’d say you’ll be hard pressed to fix it perfectly, but your best approach is with hue.

– jon barrie

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

[Jon Barrie]

This is not normal. I would guess you have accidentally ticked the blur option at the encoder settings. That will kill your render times.

If this isn’t the case what kind of effects do you have in the project?

– jon

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

[Jon Barrie]

Try connecting the camera as hdv without a tape in record mode so it’s a live stream to ppro capture window.

Is it possible ur tape is dv and not hdv?

– Jon Barrie

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

[Jon Barrie]

The Old-skool way of cutting multicam before a feature was introduce or that worked well, was to have all the angles stacked into 1 sequence and work with the shots in a PIP so as you move along the timeline you see the shot you want and cut the shot to the length you want it and disable the trimmed bits, then at the end you would remove the scale/position from the PIP of each layer.
It aint pretty but that’s one of the old ways of doing it that still is valid nowadays for MC without the MC feature. I know some editors that don’t like the lag of MC features and prefer to cut this way.
– Jon Barrie

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

[Jon Barrie]

It appears ur Gfx card driver is not correct. Ppro 2 req a different Gfx driver than cs4. Some 4 years apart in release time. Lots of card have had to fall by the wayside. Ur card might be too old for correct drivers too. New card…
– jb

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

[Jon Barrie]

Ur mbp is not gutsy enough for HD multicam. And the main hdd is not the place to have media. Ext drive 7200rpm speed minimum. Raid 0 or 5 for HD material.

Best work around is to use convert to material to dv clips. Add the original clips to ame solo app. Do the dv convert there and add them to your project and the HD timeline you are wanting to work from with the scale to frame setting on the clips.

Make ur edit with the dv clips then when u r done replace the dv clips in the stacked timeline (nested for the mc edit) with the full res clips.

-JB

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

[Jon Barrie]

Richard,

All you need to do is export the H.264 file and change the extension from mp4 to mov. That’s it.

The client/s probably don’t even need to have a .MOV extension anyway.

– Jon Barrie

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

[Jon Barrie]

Sadly this is the way it is. I know it’s frustrating, but I have resorted to using my Presets from PPro launch to AME and when it hits the list of AME I reopen the settings and save them again.

Hopefully fixed in CS5. 🙂

– Jon

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

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Richard,

I too have experienced this phenomenon, but there is a solution.

The bitrate is locked into the Quicktime Format so don’t try to use that one. Use the H.264 Format instead. The bitrate is also limited here by the “Level” settings under the video tab.

If you change from H.264 DV high quality the level is set to 3.1 if you change to a preset for AppleiPod Video Small the level setting is on 1.3 there is a limit on the max bitrate possible.

It took some playing around to find the right setting level amount to work on specific frame size and bitrates but once i found them I saved the presets.

So long as you are using the correct level setting you can adjust the bitrate and it will stick.

– Jon Barrie 😉

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