[Ninetto Makavejev]

hi paulhawkridge…

this problem with the 2nd monitor video-overlay output was one that had me ready to throw Premiere out the window… UNTIL

after long threads here and elsewhere on the subject a guy named evanbuston pointed me in the right direction. Here’s the trick: when you start a project Premiere offers you a Pre-set list, DV-PAL, DV-NTSC, etc… etc…
Now after making your initial choice…before you think Premiere knows what you want, and you think you know what you want CLICK ON THE “CUSTOM SETTINGS” tab, then choose PLAYBACK OPTIONS.

There, and only there, you will suddenly see your monitor. Select it, then enter OK OK OK… The hitch here, and I really consider this a Premiere Bug, is if you simply pick the Premiere Pre-Set, your monitor will never show up later in the project as a playback option. ONLY if you follow the steps above do you get the chance to pick the monitor as the output device! These instructions assume you have set up your video-drivers for full-screen overlay as a previous poster mentioned. It works on ALL current cards to my knowledge, not just high-end.

hope this helps,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Dan, your expression formula worked like a charm! Thanks, it saved me from having to set 90 keyframes by hand…
Taught me a thing about the power of numbers too.

hats off 2 ya,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Geeee, Dan thanks… I’ll give it a try.

Up until now, any expression that needed more than me pointing my mouse at it and typing maximum two buttons scared me to death.

But if it will get the computer to count the grains of sand, instead of me, WELL then what’s to fear!

Much appreciated.

regards,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks YikesMike,

yes, if it WAS a simple graph-line it WOULD be a simple pen-job… unfortunately what I am dealing with in a graph-curve reprenting an ENTIRE HOUR of timeline… meaning… that is one hellofa LONG curve to have to draw “manually” with the pen tool… with lots of fine ups-and-downs. If I just could of told the mathematicians who were responsible for producing this curve that they could have given it to me in a different format…

Well it is a strange and beautiful world…

thanks anyway and greetings,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

If you are viewing your material on a progressive display, e.g. Computer Monitor… sometimes things that look like terrible-awfull interlaced artifacts turn out looking just fine when view on a “normal” TV if that is your end source. Also sometimes the software player has an enormous influence on how interlaced footage is displayed.

If you haven’t done it yet, be sure to view your encoded material on the end source it is intended for.

That said, I also have not been too happy with the Adobe Media Encoder when it comes to progressive material: I always use Canopus Procoder for non-interlaced end-product and am much happier with that. You have to look long and hard for the MPEG2 progressive Pre-set in Procoders long list though…

good luck,
ninetto

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Dear BLAST,
hats off to you… your comment was right-on-target! The problem was just as you suspected…and I thought I knew a hell of alot about codecs but this one was new to me…

I converted the avi with a freeware tool from type-1 to type-2 (still not knowing which one I had) and viol

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Hmmmmm this suggestion surprises me… Aren’t Type2-avis the system of having two files, audio + video separately? I always thought this was just an exotic Matrox/Ulead-kind-of-speiciality that normal humans didn’t deal with…

Or are type-2 video files also wrapped like type-1 as one file? How can I tell which type I am dealing with? Neither GSpot nor Procoder is telling me anything in this regard…

So PPro prefers only Type2 Video files?

regards,
ninetto m.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks Dave!

yes there were two versions of this damn XVID-Codec on my machine, that was also one cause for my -and aftereffect’s- headache.

I will certainly follow your advice on using the Animation codec… hope the fields will be interpeted correctly as I have to output the whole thing as interlaced…

best regards,
ninetto m.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

There are two professional tools that do what you want:
LEMONY (which used to be Stream Sub Text)
and, to a lesser degree “Belle Nuit”, which will create the files you need for FCP… not sure about the Premiere support on Belle Nuit.

regards, n.m.

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Thanks much for the info!
With all theses flavors and distant relatives of MPEG it is sometimes hard to see thru the fog (of closed GOPs and thick rows of I-frames…)

greetinz,
n. m.