[Michael Webb]

i think it is due to the RT engine trying to play back in RT. FWIW I’ve had to put a 1 degreee rotation or a 1 pixel blur and FORCE FCP to render the graphic on a couple occasions.

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i’m having a similar problem we record in 48k to use in prem pro. when we import it in it reports and plays back at 44.1

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“In everyday broadcast and professional work, we’re usually not trying to create stereo sound, we’re using two different mono channels to mix location sound, something that has been slow to sink in with Adobe for some reason.”

(BIG)Amen

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as I understand the Mono sub mix track, it works on a track level and not a individual clip level. maybe i’m wrong .. but currently in Prem Pro how would you handle the following situation:

wireless mic recorded on track one and nat sound recorded on track two. while editing you need to switch back and forth between the two tracks and or mix and sweeten each of the two tracks seperatly at various points in the edit process.

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I have to tell you Prem pro needs better media mangement and handle audio channels on the time line better.

when editing on the time line you can’t unlink the stereo tracks if you need to. I shoot a lot of news style work and really have to do most of it in what is now Avid Liquid. If I want to use only one chanel or the other I right click on the audio track and seclect which track is used track one or two or none. If i need to process either track seperatly I “disband” the audio tracks and work with two mono tracks. Righ now in premiere you have to seperate the tracks in the file bin window and then bring each track seperatly to the time line and sync them up to the video. and is a much much slower process.

another feature I love in Liquid is the ability to move and copy tracks. using the up and down arrow and holding the ctl button I can move elements to other tracks, Holding the ctl key and dragging the element creates a duplicate element.

a ctl plus mouse click on a volume key frame also creates a fade up or a fade down.

there would be quite a few more more elegant features such as these that would make Prem Pro a much more efficient application.

I would rather work with premiere since it is more open to IO hardware and codecs and its integration with AE is great but so many of its steps to do and seemingly simple things can be a bit of a chore.

too bad we can’t hot rod our applications like we do cars and pull the parts we like from one and put them into others ……

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Depth of field:

Depth of field in the XL2 and other mini DV cameras have less to do with lens choice than the size of the imaging surface. The size of the imaging surface and the “circle of confusion” is one of the most important factors in creating shallow depth of field. Adapters like the red rock micro and the mini35 both project the image from attached lens to a larger imaging surface and the resulting image is then “sent” to the smaller CCD via some sort of relay lens. In a hyper simplified statement: Smaller imaging surfaces require smaller focal lenghts, smaller focal lengths create smaller apertures which creates smaller circles of confusion which result in deeper depth of fields.

wikipedi has a discussion on this on their web site under “Depth_of_field”

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