Jon Felix
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Transcoded stuff, Shane
Jon Felix
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Thankyou for the reply…. no blue bits .. just red and yellow .. but only on part of the timeline .. other parts have no color bars on top and they still wont play properly. Also of source clips viewed in the source window stutter too.
mmmmmmmmm
Jon Felix
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Hi Tim,
To answer your question …. definitely not! I have never seen that.
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Jon Felix
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Thanks for your input Tim. To answer your question, the preview files were being saved in a folder (that PP created) in the master folder for the project on a raided drive connected by Thunderbolt.
I have tried changing the location for preview files to a folder on my main Mac drive: it did not help.
One possible clue is another odd bug with this software … I always manage to save the project just fine. And I save it before quitting (ie. I do not quit and wait for it to ask me if I want to save first). When I quit – at least half of the time, the software crashes out (rather than quit) with a ‘serious problem’ (or whatever the wording was) error. Maybe this is the problem – although I would have thought that by successfully saving before this happened – the preview files would be safe and findable.
In any case the preview files are lost even when this does NOT happen.
Is there a way of reconnecting the preview files manually (like in FCP)?
Cheers
Jon Felix
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Just found this from Michael Brassert ..
I just asked Adobe about this and they said you must rerender your preview files every time you open PP. I wonder why all of the preview files are saved in folders if you can never link to them. I suppose there is a logical explanation for this but I see it just as a PIA. The more quirks like this I find the more I miss FCP7 and all the simplicity I took for granted.
Quite.
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Jon Felix
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I too am experiencing this. Every time I reopen the project – the audio is missing in just the way described in this thread. I go back to an earlier version of the project – cut and paste the audio back in – but next time I open the project it’s gone again …… very annoying!
Jon Felix
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Thanks for the reply Kevin – but I have to say that split view is not an equivalent to Frame Viewer – which is much more versatile (e.g.. you can have a split between IN and OUT points), and I use for far more purposes than color correction.
Also, alas you taunt me with your mention of the Mercury Playback Engine. Despite patiently waiting for months, Adobe has still not provided support for my 2011 Imacs’ graphics card. I am beginning to think that they never will … probably because it seems to me that Adobe have little interest in supporting Macs now. Very sad. I could love Premiere truly, madly, deeply, but at the moment my old FCP7 is faster.
Jon
Jon Felix
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Hi Angelo,
Tried your workflow but unfortunately each clip in the RCX version of the timeline was about 49 seconds out. ie. it used media around 49 seconds later (exact number varied).
In this test – the transcodes in the Premiere sequence were all made with the latest version of Redcine X. I did not yet want to confuse things by trying to do this with material transcoded two years ago…
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Jon Felix
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HI Alex,
Tried your idea … the problem is that the original R3D’s are spanned – sometimes across 5 files (they were 10 minute takes). When I took the QT version offline n(in the project panel) and then went to Link back to the R3D – I did not know which one to use, and whichever I used, it simply replaced the clip with the R3D file FROM THE FIRST FRAME. It seems to ignore the timecode.
mmmm!
Jon Felix
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That’s fantastic Angelo. Thankyou so much. I will try your workflow on Monday.
I did wonder if spanned files would cause problems with ‘replace with’ in Premiere. When I did a FCP based conform using Color to grade, we had problems because the transcodes had been done with Redcine X and not in FCP, thus breaking that workflow. We had to use a couple of utilities to fix it: an app from Michael Cinquin, and COLOR FIXER to deal with the spanning thing.
Somehow I thought Premiere would not have such problems …
I will play with it in AE as you suggest.
Thanks again for your informed reply.
Jon Felix
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