[Mark Whittle]

Me either. I just wasted two days having my system drive reformatted and everything re-installed in a vain attempt to get Encore working.

I haven’t re-installed Toast in case that was conflicting, but that was my only way to get a Blu-ray done.

I managed a regular dvd yesterday but I just had a crash then while working on a Blu-ray (h.264). Encore CS2 on PC was great but CS4 is useless.

Does anyone have success with this on a Mac?

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Are you on Windows or OS X?
I am having no end of trouble with Encore CS4 on snow leopard and I’m so behind in my work it is crazy. Tried logging on with a new account, deleting preferences, removing suspicious fonts.

I suspect the fault is related to my optical drive, which sometimes won’t mount a disk when inserted and then won’t eject or respond until rebooted. Or it could be the Adobe CS4 update that broke it again. I resorted to uninstalling/reinstalling CS4 and this seemed to work for a while, then the update came along again and I let it go ahead (idiot).
Apple support aren’t interested as there is 3rd party s/w involved.
(Adobe & Toast)

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Thanks Jeff. I went to the path user/documents/Adobe etc but there is no folder for Encore in there.

Cheers.

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Thanks Jeff. Both of those settings were selected already.

Is there a prefs file or two I can delete to see if that helps?

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Yes I have names on all chapter markers, and yes, they are all Encore markers.

I have the same problem with another project with over 20 chapters. I just tried exporting a short segment as an MPEG2 file to see if the chapter data works that way, but no luck.

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Me too.

Very frustrating. Maybe if we knew what file it refers to we’d be half way to fixing it.

All I did was change the subpicture highlights as they were not appearing on the disk, but fine on preview. Now the menu won’t build!

I have spent all day on this simple project with three menus!

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Hi Niki,

I’m no expert but I’d guess that the codec is the issue.

I’m pretty sure ProRes codecs are exclusively FCP.

Cheers,

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

To save rendering, why not capture the vision as DV, getting the camera to do hardware conversion in real time?

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

Sara, yes as far as weddings go I wack ’em all on the timeline at once but first I make bins labelled something like “Before”, “Ceremony”, “Photos”, “Reception” and other bins for graphics and music.

I used to make a bin for highlights but now I just write “HL” in the clip’s description field in the project window if that clip has a highlight in it. Other clips I will identify similarly such as “opening shot” “best man” or whatever.

I customize the project window a fair bit, making the icons medium or large and turning off labels, media start, media end etc and moving the desciption field to the top of the list so it is right next to the clip name. (I think its called edit columns from the menu that pops up from the little triangle with a circle round it in the top right of the project window) I like the video & audio usage fields to be visable as well so I can tell if a clip has been used in the timeline and how many times.

I sometimes change a clip’s poster frame to show the bit of the clip I want as a highlight.

The advantage of putting everything on the timeline is it tells you your duration at any given time so you know how ruthless you may need to be. I allow about a minute for an intro sequence and 4 mins for highlights. Like you I make new sequences for these.

I don’t use the razor tool that much; I prefer to ripple edit (with the V tool, alt drag) or using a ShuttlePro controller I have set a key to perform a cut to the whole timeline (Ctrl+k) then I right click the bit I want to chuck and select ripple delete.

I find I use a lot of audio transitions (Ctrl+shift+D) to smooth the cuts.

My best asset is my Premiere keyboard which has all the shortcut keys on it as it is so much faster with shortcuts and it saves me having to try to remember them all.

As far as whether to capture the entire tape or just bits, I find it much faster and less stressfull to your tape transport if you select scene detect and grab everything on the tape, especially for weddings when you pretty much want all of it any way.

If you had a job where you shot hundreds of takes and you only want the one, or you needed to make a batch capture list for repeatable frame accurate capture later, say in another edit suite, then you would approach capturing differently, but for weddings, and the vast majority of my other work, I grab the lot.

For some jobs I shoot to a Firestore which bypasses capturing and saves a heap of time, but for a wedding it is too heavy and finicky, except for the actual ceremony and the speeches.

Cheers,

Mark W.

[Mark Whittle]

I am using the full Production Studio Premium with the RTX100 and find it behaves itself O.K. so far.

I’m grateful to Matrox for writing new software for each incarnation of Premiere since version 6 when the RTX100 came out and making it available for free.

Mark W.