Michael Krupnick
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Make the Ps document at the largest anticipated size with an alpha channel. It should then scale smoothly without artifacts when imported.
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I had a similar problem with Pr CS5. Clips wouldn’t play as sources or on timeline. Finally traced the issue to a USB conflict because I use the original HK Soundsticks as my audio monitors. HK connects to USB for sound routing and when I launched Pr, the transport controls didn’t reassign to USB — faulty latch. In prefs>Audio Hardware, I selected internal output, and I swapped the monitors for the tinny little internal speaker. Transport became active again. Then i went back and reselected the Soundstick monitors and got 100% functionality again. I have to do that every time I launch Pr with this setup. But just once and everything is fine for the rest of the session.
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For linking seamlessly, set all caches and drives to a folder ON THE MEDIA DRIVE in project prefs Use the system drive as backup for the project. Then you can exchange the minimum amount of data to maximum use. Works very well for any sharing enterprise.
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It became particularly confusing when Panasonic debuted the HVX200. That 3-CCD sensor samples at 60 FRAMES per second and down-converts from there for all the different format outputs. It doesn’t help that most manuals are scant and poorly translated.
As to your last remark, I think we, as customers, DO have the right to tell manufacturers what they must do to get our support. Without sales, they have nothing. The new arrogance we see from them regarding their disdain for the customer is a direct result of complacency. Apple and Adobe get away with it because the current target customers are not as insistent as we were in demanding what they want. It has led to a proliferation of product that is not as good (in my opinion) as the old-school paradigm which placed the customers’ desires above the immediate profit or convenience of the corporation. Apple’s record-breaking revenue vis-a-vis the iPhone demonstrates that their new aggressive attitude seems to work. It is in fact the inverse of innovation. A gold phone that isn’t as reliable a core product as its predecessors is actually a step BACKWARD.
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Bruce, output a flattened file of each spot and use those as your sources. This is a demo, not a Ridley Scott movie. It’s a simple edit if you make it an honest compilation of spots. If your work is good, that should be quite adequate.
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Try selecting ONBOARD OUTPUT in Pr prefs and see if monitoring resumes without AJA. Then re-select the AJA output and see if that works. You may have to do this little “prayer” for every relaunch of Pr since it seems there is a conflict in the audio preferences which unlatches the output.
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Apparently this is a fairly common issue on Intel Macs equipped with Harmon-Kardon Soundsticks I audio monitors. The speakers work fine on all other apps. But it appears PrCS5.5 has some sort of USB driver conflict with the monitors (which are connected via USB), especially under OS10.7. In my case, it occurred on every launch of Pr. HK makes no new drivers for the first generation of their SS product. It seems there is some latch in Pr preferences that is not reset but the issue can be temporarily remedied by manually resetting the AUDIO HARDWARE parameter to BUILT-IN OUTPUT (Apple default). The timeline resumes activity, playing audio through the tinny Mac speaker. I was able to manually toggle the hardware back to SS and get full function back for the duration of the session. I have to do this quick reset upon a new launch after quitting Pr. Try this before going through the laborious and possibly futile routine of reinstalling PR or the OS.
MaK
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Sorry, Kevin; again, nope. I mentioned in the first post that I’d loaded an FCP project from the same drive with no issue. Not the media drive, it’s Pr for sure. This is a dual-boot 8-core MP, and FCP is on Snow Leopard, while Pr is on a separate Lion disc. Adobe Ps CS5 runs fine on both OSs.
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No, Kevin. What happens is Pr launches but won’t play a sequence or clip. At all. I can scrub and see the video, but there is no audio. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled from disc, in addition to the earlier measures above. This renders Pr useless as an NLE. And before it comes up, I don’t have the funds for CS6; I just want to run the one I’ve already paid for.
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You hadn’t mentioned animated text. But the same idea applies in Ae, except that the output includes the text as a layer in Ae. I assume that’s where you’re animating. Just save & lock your first project as the template, then work from a duplicate of that for each custom version. You output the dupe composite for Pr.