Per Arne sandvik
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Vector lines won’t crop like that, you’ll have to make them filled objects.
Highlight all the lines (but not the transparent square on top) and choose object > expand. The lines are now filled objects and can be cropped in pathfinder. Using the method you described.
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As Joseph’s link will tell you, your choice is between H.264 and MPEG-2 compression. H.264 is the most recently updated standard and will give you a better quality/size ratio, but will not look as good as a high-bitrate MPEG-2 encode. If your project has a reasonable length, you should probably go for MPEG-2. Both options will split your project into separate video and audio files.
I can’t tell from your post if your footage is 30p or 30i. As far as I know, 1920*1080 @ 30p is not supported by Blu-ray, so if this is what you’re working with, you might have to convert this to 60i. No idea why this is the case, as 30p and 60i are virtually identical when it comes to bitrate. I haven’t done this myself, so I don’t know how good a job PPro does at converting. If your material is 30i, don’t worry about it.
Be careful when you set the max bitrate (you can define min, target and max). The maximum rate Premiere will let you choose is the maximum the Blu-ray format supports, but I have experienced that a file spikes beyond this. This gave me a heap of trouble in Encore. I now set the max rate to 38 instead of 40.
I treat Encore like a smelly public toilet; Take a deep breath, get in and out as fast as you can. Encore is notoriously fickle and prone to corrupting projects and making some really weird choices. For that reason I avoid sending PPro projects to Encore through Dynamic Link. I prefer to export my PPro projects to Adobe Media Encoder and render out the files before I build a Blu-ray structure. If you get the settings right, Encore doesn’t need to do anything with the files beyond rewrapping them. Export as ISO or BR folder to make sure you have everything in the can before burning.
OK, that’s not a complete workflow, but hopefully it helps.
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If there’s no vector content, there really is no reason to save this as an EPS. TIF supports layers and alpha channel transparency. It can also save losslessly as RGB as well as CMYK.
You can also save as a PDF, but be careful when you export so you don’t apply JPEG compression.
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Try selecting the object and then go to the color window (probably the top one in the righthand menu). There’s a small arrow/list icon in the top right corner of this window. Click it and choose RGB or CMYK, depending on what you want.
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If you have PPro 5.5 or newer, you should have the “film dissolve” transition which uses a linear fade. Try to use this at the end of a clip (or transition into a black video slug). I did a quick test just now, and this seems to have an effect similar to what you’re describing.
Even a cross dissolve should serve you better than dip to black in this case.
You could also try to add a color/light effect to the clip and use keyframes to ramp up the effect while the transition is taking place. A luma curve could help, but you can’t keyframe that. There are workarounds, but let me know if the other transitions work out for you before we consider that. 😉
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I’m wrestling with this a bit on my own these days, and I don’t know if my current plan is going to work. The plan is to carry a 5.1 mix from Premiere Pro through Encore and onto a Blu-Ray without buying a plug-in. If this is what you want to do, let me know and I’ll share my experiences so far.
If you only want to export a file with 5.1 audio, I have successfully done that during my experiments. However, only a few export settings will let you do this.
An option is to buy the SurCode plug-in (or use one of your three free test exports) and export an MPEG2 with 5.1 Dolby Surround.
You can also export as h.264, as this standard uses AAC audio which supports 5.1 (look under audio tab). AAC is however not a Dolby standard, and is also lossy (although not to the same degree as MP3). I have done test exports in h.264 with 5.1 AAC and sucessfully played these on my home theater.
Note that Encore will transcode and downmix 5.1 AAC to stereo if you try to burn a DVD/BR. You need a separate workaround for this, and I think I might have found one. Fingers crossed.
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Why not just use constant power? Exponential fade ramps down (or up) exponentially, so when you place the effect between two clips the total volume level will decrease in the middle.
Personally, I only use exponential fade when transitioning from or to silence, never to transition clips with similar audio levels.
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Have you tried restarting the computer?
Playback in Premiere needs a lot of RAM, and if you’ve been using other applications since your last reboot, you can expect choppiness. Especially flash content on websites (games in particular) are notorious for memory leaks, clogging up your RAM. Ideally applications clean up after themselves when you close them, but that’s not always the case.
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You can, yes, but it’s kind of a tall order if you’re new to the software since you’ll probably have to start wrapping your head around gradient meshes.
Maybe look through these and see if it’s something you want to get into?
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If you’re still looking for an answer, it’s actually really easy if you use the “map art” function.