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Matt Anderson
January 28, 2016 at 11:42 am in reply to: 1080 or 720, MP4 vs AVCHD in Premiere CC…?

Hi Alex,

If they have appeared in your Media Browser window as scrollable icons with preview thumbnails and without audio, perhaps the audio was disengaged at the time of recording?

Depending on how your camera is set up, the only difference would be bit rate … which could affect your quality (ie, if your AVCHD bit rate is higher than your MP4 files).
Matt Anderson
January 28, 2016 at 11:37 am in reply to: How do I resize a layer mask in Premiere?

Hi Bill,

Unfortunately after some investigation, it looks as though numerical alteration of the X and Y axis is not possible.
That said, holding shift while selecting two points does in fact allow you to move those points alone parallel … not perfect but I suppose it is a conciliation.

Shame.
Matt Anderson
January 25, 2016 at 2:02 pm in reply to: How do I resize a layer mask in Premiere?

As far as I understand it Bill, you will have to move the anchor points manually (click and drag).
Unless you can Hold shift, select one point, then while still holding shift, select the other and again, while holding shift, you move the anchor points or perhaps the line between said points.

What I would also suggest if you would rather have a more mathematical method of editing the size and shape of your masks is using the Effects browser.
If for example you want your top left and right anchors to be parallel, then you can adjust the X and Y numbers to coincide with one another, thus creating parallel anchor points on a shape.
Matt Anderson
January 25, 2016 at 1:56 pm in reply to: 1080 or 720, MP4 vs AVCHD in Premiere CC…?

Hi Alex,

The speed at which you edit will depend on the bit rate of your recording format rather than the frame size.
So, 1920 or 720, it doesn’t really matter … you might as well use 1920×1080.
If you are shooting a lot and your PC or Laptop with Premiere isn’t optimised for editing (ie, RAM of about 4GB) then you may want to consider transcoding your RAW footage to a lower bit rate and file type, perhaps H.264 MOV at 10Mbps.

In terms of getting your AVCHD files into Premiere, providing you are using CS7 and above, you will need to import this way:

Open your project, go to your Media Browser, Browse for you footage within Premiere’s Media Browser, and you’ll find that instead of an array of file types and document files, it will have consolidated your files into individual clips … import these using right click and you should have your audio synced to your video.

Hope that helps.
Matt Anderson
January 25, 2016 at 1:48 pm in reply to: Combining several Premier projects into one

Luckily enough (if not a little school boy mischievous) Premiere allows you to open a project, select all, copy all, close project, open a new project and paste your old project into your new one.

Handy. But it does make me feel a little dirty haha
Matt Anderson
November 23, 2015 at 4:00 pm in reply to: How to create new CLIPS from a Sequence given to me by PluralEyes? Has to be a way.

I would have bypassed using Pluraleyes and use the Premiere Pro ‘Merge’ function with your audio source timecodes to sync.

Have you attempted Merge clips to sync your video and audio?
Matt Anderson
November 23, 2015 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Adobe Media Encoder CC 2015 Rendering Bug

The latest Premiere and Encoder patches have fixed the Lumetri bugs.
Matt Anderson
November 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm in reply to: Premiere Pro CC 2015 crash on export

It seems silly but have you tried making the destination a local drive and then used Que to Media Encoder?
Matt Anderson
November 23, 2015 at 3:47 pm in reply to: CC 2015 – No Analogue VO!?

This is still an issue 🙁