[Jon Barrie]

Yep it sounds like the Standard DV project timeline was selected, if the program monitor is 4×3 or more square than wide you’ll need to make a new sequence with the widescreen setting. Go back to the oringal edit and select all clips that have been edited. Go into the new widescreen timeline and paste. All the edits will come in correct.
If the shape of the clips is not widescreen, select the clips in the project panel and right click. select from the list “interpret footage”. In here make sure the pixel aspect ratio is set to the correct widescreen setting. Then select OK. This will correct the edited clips that may have looked 4×3 and will now be 16×9.
I think that will cover all options to help you get back on track. 🙂
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

You need to make sure the timeline has the orange highlight around it, then go to File>Export>Media…
That will export the highlighted timeline (edited project).
What may have been happening is a clip was selected in the project panel or the source monitor was highlighted when going to export which would have exported just the highlighted/selected clip and not the timeline.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

You need to do a complete back up, where you copy and paste everything of this project onto a new drive. Working off external harddrives is not ideal, but done a lot.
Exporting just the final movie can be done to any format you want. But if you want to maintain highest quality, then you should do it to an uncompressed format, it will eat up heaps of HDD space. P2 is probably a good size/quality ratio option though.
But before exporting I’d highly recommend you did a back up of the whole project, resources, project files, etc. Because there is no way of knowing if the drive will “die” while exporting, corrupt your original project file and then you’re really in trouble.
– JB
Good Luck.

Jon Barrie
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[Jon Barrie]

Hi Mark,
The issue you describe sounds like an interlacing issue. Premiere Pro 1.5 is not just old it’s not the best version either.
I understand you want to move to Apple, but your comments about windows crashing when trying to print and not finding a printer are just wrong. What version of windows are you using? XP has been around a long time and has been as stable as Mac OSX for some time. But this is not the point of your post.
If you know After Effects, why don’t you use it for your titles if you are not getting the results you want in PPro1.5?
There will be some simple reason for the text doing what it’s doing, but you are using a very old version of PPro and none of us here remember the can’s and can’ts of the app.
Try AE.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

In the case that you have got the HD files first I would probably send the large originals to AME via the Add button in AME and set the export to DV (NTSC wide?) – when all are in and set to DV export I’d hit Start Queue.
Then in PPro I’d make a new Seq in DV NTSC (wide i’m assuming). Go back to the original edit you made in previous seq select all edits, go to new DV seq and paste. Then in the Project panel I’d select all the clips (HDV ones) and right click to select the unlink.
Keep them on the hard drive, DO NOT DELETE THEM!
Now the clips are offline, Select them one at a time and this time right click and select replace footage… find the corresponding DV clips for each once the BG rendering from AME is finished. The DV seq should allow you to keep your editing in “DV world” and be as fast as you remember.

When your edit is done, select all the edited clips in the DV timeline and paste them into the correct HD/HDV one, then go and repeat the unlink and replace footage… to reconnect the HD clips, all the edits should stay in place.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

I’ve cut projects in DV (captured in DV, recorded in HDV) and then at the end offlined the clips and recaptured the HDV recording, that’ll speed up a slow system editing, but it means you capture in RT twice.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

AVCHD and AVC-I are different formats. currently the 4.1 update doesn’t support AVC-I without a third party plug-in, but if you wait AVC-I support is coming shortly.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

The playhead is what moves along the timeline as it is in playmode. when you stop playback the playhead or Current Time Indicator (CTI) stops on a frame. That red line is the CTI/Playhead. Using the mouse to grab and move it left or right is called scrubbing, forcing it to move manually and not in a playback mode (rewind/fwd). Through the clip just means manually moving the CTI left and right over the clip = CTI passing through the clip.
– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

Sequence>Delete Render Files
Scrub = move playhead through the clip

My suggestion is that the render files are kinda interfering with the updating process. By dumping (deleting them) the system looks only at the clean original and not the rendered file it made for it before. (separate files)

I suggest the scrubbing as this will also help the system refresh what it is looking (not always necessary, but it can help it wake up).

Hope this works for you.

TIFF Files are large so maybe there is something in that not refreshing fast enough too?

– JB

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[Jon Barrie]

CS4 has AME as a seperate App and that can act as a Batch Exporter. By adding a water mark you will require some kind of edit.
I’d make a template for the watermark on track 2 and make the length way too long. Keep this as a template.
Duplicate the template seq open it and add the MPEG media to it. chop off the too long watermark.
Export (Ctl+M or Cmd+M) Setup the FLV settings here. OK it goes to AME.
Repeat the Template seq Duplicate, add next MPEG media, chop off water mark ending to length of MPEG, hit Ctl+M (PC) or Cmd+M (Mac), settings are there, don’t need to set them again. Just Hit OK or Enter, it will go to AME. Once you’ve repeated this process to all your MPEG clips hit Start Queue on AME – Or once you think you have a bit of a list hit the Start Queue and keep sending stuff to AME while it’s rendering.

I don’t know of another way to do it with Adobe products or any other product – the Watermark is the bottle neck. If you were just converting to FLV then that would be just using AME and add with settings for FLV set the first time on one add, then just adding all selected and the FLV settings will automatically be added to each added MPEG. The watermark is the killer. But AME does work in the BG while you keep editing. Hope this helps.

– JB

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