[Marcin Grabos]

You can use adjustment layer with magnify effect.

[Marcin Grabos]

Not sure this will help, but you’re not alone 🙂 It’s the worst “improvement” in CS6 and as far as I know is unchangeable.

[Marcin Grabos]

I’ve just recorded screen with sound using Microsoft Video 1 codec in 36 fps and wav, imported it to PProCS6 and everything is perfect in 36p sequence. Maybe you’ve installed codeck pack like k-lite which is messing with premiere’s a/v libraries. The easiest thing to do is to convert video from client to another format.

[Marcin Grabos]

Tim, are you sure, that youtube doesn’t transcode videos which are “inside” specification boundaries?
I have uploaded arround 100 vids to YT, and after upload is done I always see processing bar.
My quick test done with one 30 sec source video, 2 different transcoding via PPro CS6:
– first upload: youtube HD 720p25 6 Mbps preset – youtube processing step: 40 sec
– second upload: custom HD 720p25 20 Mbps preset – youtube processing step: 42 sec

YT is providing 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, so they downscaling anyway, and I really doubt that they do it during online playback, which means that they transcoding at least all res down of the original one. But if they converting few times, they’re very likely do it for original as well for compatibility purposes.
One thing more. When you try to play uploaded HD video just few seconds after upload is done, you can see, that (sometimes) are available only 240/360 and you have to wait some time (seconds, minutes, sometimes even hours) for HD resolutions to appear.
Then, jf they transcode all uploads, is definitely better to upload video with higher bitrate (for high quality HD video in h264 something 20-40 Mbps), because is better source for further YT conversion.

And to make it simple, my point is like this: as YT conversion is quite good, I feel safer to provide high quality 20-40 Mbps uploads, because in the worst case YT will transcode to the same average quality provided with PPro youtube presets (720p25 = 5 Mbps, 1080p25 = 8 Mbps), but if they do transcoding for all, I win 🙂

by the way have a look here https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
I see I’m outdated, haven’t seen this one yet:
“High quality uploads for creators with enterprise quality internet connections
1080p 50,000 kbps
720p 30,000 kbps”

[Marcin Grabos]

You can do it even with just one extra copy of the footage. Download Simple Mask filter (free stuff from Creative Impatience), place copy of footage on the track above and add Simple Mask (for first mask composite mode must be as “create”), duplicate it as many times as you need (every other mask must be in composite mode “add”), do keyframe’ing and tweaking and add some blur.

[Marcin Grabos]

Maybe you’re not seeing accidentally added keyframe very close to those which you put for panning.
Or why not clean motion property of this clip by removing all keyframes and just recreate panning?

[Marcin Grabos]

You can easily cut it with free plugin Creative Impatience Simple Mask.

[Marcin Grabos]

For uncompressed output larger than 1920×1080 from Premiere use Format: avi and Video codec: none.

[Marcin Grabos]

Perhaps is not best solution to solve the problem, but if you under time pressure, you could download trial of Premiere CS6, and export/import FCP xml project (importing CC project to CS6 probably won’t work).

[Marcin Grabos]

Search option in Keyboard shortcuts menu could make things easier.