Paddy Uglow
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Hi,
Sounds sensible:
It’s common to have the operating system and applications on one disk, your project files on another, and maybe a third as a scratch disk. I’ve got two disks RAIDed together as my projects disk, and “normal” disks for the OS and for scratch/backup.
Though of course, ease of use and ease of BACKUP are sometimes more important than theoretical speed.
I hope that helps
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Ah, it’s not just me then. Also I’ve noticed in preview, if I select another application from the OS X dock, then go back to Encore, the preview will sometimes have “performed end action” on gone black or something. Not good. But I have done a couple of projects and am getting the hang of things.
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Thanks Peter – I eventually found a solution from Adobe: set up a new OS X user, restart with a Safe Boot, then re-install Premiere. It seems to have solved the rendering problem and I can now export to a variety of codecs.
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I’ve done a re-install (in OS 10.5) with a safe boot and a “clean” user. I’ve discovered that my problem occurs in the Preview, but not actually on the DVD. I’ve read elsewhere that the final DVD will be more responsive than the preview, but I didn’t realise that the preview is only a partial preview. Has anyone else found that things don’t work in Preview that do work on the final disc?
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I got on to the Adobe support people: they eventually suggested I create a new user, restart in OS X safe mode (hold down
on startup), and then reinstall just Premiere from the DVDs.
That appears to have fixed the problem: I can now do Quicktime Video Previews, and I can export to various Quicktime codecs, not just DV.
There must’ve been some kind of corruption going on during my original install.
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Thanks Peter,
Your suggestion made me have a *proper* look at the sequence and the original media file, and its as corrupt as [insert your least favourite government figure here]. One of the DV files turns into multicoloured static right at the point where the multicam fails. So I’ve razored that section out of that camera’s sequence, and the multicam window looks like it’ll work again (albeit with only one camera!). And I’m wondering what went wrong with BTV Pro when I captured the original video.
Thanks.
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Thanks for your suggestions. I’m already using Desktop; but if I choose any “Quicktime” codec, including “none” or “uncompressed” instead of the “I frames only”, it locks up when I try to render.
I didn’t understand about the “nested” stuff: I’m sticking with the 720×576 size and cropping off the edges to make 640×360, rather than resizing it, so I’m not sure if exporting using a preset would work.
After being a big fan of Photoshop and Pagemaker, Premiere Pro is failing to impress me so far – there are some great features, but then something bad happens to prevent me getting the footage out right.
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If I go into my sequence settings and choose “I-Frame only MPEG” for the Preview File Format, rather than Quicktime, it will RENDER the video, stills and titles fine. But it still won’t EXPORT them: the Media encoder still freezes up. The DV codec will export, but, of course, it resizes to 720 wide, which I don’t want… The whole point is to end up with a 640×360 movie.
Any suggestions/help/ideas really appreciated. This is driving me mad.
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Sorry – should I be in the “Premiere Pro” forum?
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I think I was relying on FC pro’s “canvas” window… I’ve just done another experiment: did a 768×578 jpeg, saved, then enlarged the canvas in photoshop and resaved. I put them both in FCPro (v 5), sure enough, the big one looked awful. BUT when I exported the movie, they both looked the same as each other.
Hope that helps
– Paddy