[Martin Frericks]

I figured it out, in case anyone is interested:

1. First use the Render and export to Soundbooth option in Premiere
2. Then use File -> Export to export both channels to different files
3. Open one of the newly created files, select the whole content, copy it to the clipboard.
4. Then open the other file and instead of pasting it use the Paste & Mix option. You can then select at which amplitudes you want to mix both files.
5. Then overwrite the original stereo file that came from Premiere with Save As and then choosing to save as stereo instead of mono.
6. Back in Premiere the altered file should reload automatically.

God, I hate Soundbooth. Imagine you have to do all that with 10 hours of footage from a trade show… I thought it was supposed to make things easier for people who don’t want to get too much into audio. In Audition you can just press F11 and be done with it.

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KYAM Studios – Media Production, Marketing and Web Programming from Aachen, Germany
http://www.kyam.de

[Martin Frericks]

I had a CPU utilization of around 65% before I made the changes. I didn’t check the hard drive. I’ll do that tomorrow at work. My graphics card is an NVIDIA 8800 GTS with 640MB.

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KYAM Studios – Media Production, Marketing and Web Programming from Aachen, Germany
http://www.kyam.de

[Martin Frericks]

I was able to solve the problem by making several changes to my system. First I overclocked my CPU to 4×2,75Ghz (from 4×2,4Ghz), also I reinstalled the driver for my graphic card. And I moved all the footage and the temp folders for my project to a different hard drive. It seems run smoothly for about 20 seconds now. After that the playback gets a little jumpy again, but this time it’s tolerable 🙂

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KYAM Studios – Media Production, Marketing and Web Programming from Aachen, Germany
http://www.kyam.de

[Martin Frericks]

The render bar doesn’t show during the jumpy playback, no. Another thing that might be worth mentioning is that the audio plays back just fine and the time code ins the upper left corner of the sequence window also runs very smoothly. Only the image in the preview window makes trouble.

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KYAM Studios – Media Production, Marketing and Web Programming from Aachen, Germany
http://www.kyam.de

[Martin Frericks]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing that. Definitely worth another try.

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KYAM Studios – Media Production, Marketing and Web Programming from Aachen, Germany
http://www.kyam.de

[Martin Frericks]

I have exactly the same problem. I’m using Adobe CS4 and the 35Mbit/s material from the PMW-EX1 plays back extremely jumpy. The 25Mbit/s material from the camera plays back fine.

The videos also play back fine in VLC player and the playback in Sony Vegas 9 is also fine. This seems to be a Premiere related problem, not hardware related.

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KYAM Studios – Media Production, Marketing and Web Programming from Aachen, Germany
http://www.kyam.de

[Martin Frericks]

a good question 🙂 basically they’re looking for people who are willing to financially support the local theatre of my city. the correct german word would be -f

[Martin Frericks]

i suggest taking a look into css and div-layers instead of tables. div layers are layers in html that can hold any kind of content and are designed by using css. this way you can place the layer exactly where you want it to appear in the browser window, without having to create complicated table structures…

[Martin Frericks]

i have no experience with golive, but let me show you how i do this in css. i’m sure you can apply the idea to golive, too.

in css it would look like this:

#centeredlayer {
position: absolute;
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -250px;
margin-top: -250px;
}

then in your html-file include a div-layer like this:

yourcontentgoeshere

what this does is create a layer 500px wide and 500px high. the css tells the html-file to first position the upper left corner of the layer to the exact center of your browser-window (top and left set to 50%) then it moves the box back up and to the left 250 pixels, which is half of the layers height and width (margin-top and margin-left -250px).

this way your layer always stays in the center of the screen. should work fine in all kinds of browsers.

greetings,
tommy

[Martin Frericks]

actually that’s a really good idea. don’t think they’ll really know what to do with a cd full of html files, but i could send them printouts and then get their “approval” on the phone.

thanks for the quick response,
tommy