[Pravin Chottera]

Hi Buck,

Thanks so much for the info. I’m new to Premiere (I’m coming off of years of Final Cut), so I thank you for bearing with me!

The problem is that I can’t seem to find the “General” tab. I can’t select the “Settings” tab until I select one of the presets. I’m clearly doing something wrong – I just can’t figure out what.

I’ve attached some screen shots, so hopefully that helps.

And thanks again for all the instruction!

[Pravin Chottera]

Hi Itmar,

That is what I tried first, but it still seemed to lag terribly. Creating a proxy in AE was the only way I found to have smooth playback without having to render in PP which – according to other forums – is much slower than PP.

Thanks!

[Pravin Chottera]

Thank you Alex. I am still wrapping my head around the CS workflow, but your words, along with Tom’s and Angelo’s, have been very helpful.

I did some digging around the Adobe forums and have settled into this workflow:

I finish my comp in AE and then render a proxy – I made one at 1/4 resolution, which took about two minutes. Then having activated the proxy, I then dragged and dropped my comp into PP.

This gave me the smooth playback I needed to sync my audio. I laid out my audio track in PP, and then went back into AE and disabled the proxy. This disabled the proxy in PP as well.

I am currently testing to see what happens if I go back into AE, make an adjustment to my comp, re-render a proxy, and then go back into PP.

I’ll post what I find here.

If anyone has any thoughts on that workflow, I’d really like to hear them.

And thanks again for your help everyone!

[Pravin Chottera]

Or is there a way to adjust my preview setting in PP like I can in AE?

[Pravin Chottera]

Hmmm… that’s what I was afraid of. That is how I would work when I went from AE to Final Cut, so I was hoping the AE to PP workflow would be a bit more streamlined.

Just out of curiosity, what would be the ideal way to solve this problem? Would having a graphics card with GPU acceleration allow me playback in real-time without having to render a video file?

I thought the point of the CS workflow is to allow me to drop a comp into PP, edit the comp in a sequence, make changes in AE, and then seamlessly go back into PP and continue editing.

Am I asking for too much? Or do I not have the right hardware?

[Pravin Chottera]

Hi Tom – I’m sorry I wasn’t clearer about how I got to this point.

I’m new to Premiere, so I may not have arrived here in the proper way, but these are the steps I took:

I started in AE with a 1920×1080 HDTV 29.97 composition. I don’t have any “footage” per say, only animated images I created in PS. I also have some AIFF files in my comp that are turned off because I wanted to edit the audio in PP. Nothing captured from a camera and nothing captured from a screen capture program. Images only.

Then I dragged my main composition from AE into the project panel of PP. Then I dragged the composition from the project panel into the New Item icon, and it created a new sequence which I am guessing are the same as the AE comp.

In this new sequence, I see my AE comp with a yellow bar on top. Now when I play it back (by hitting the space bar) it will play about ten frames and then lag so much I can’t even tell what’s going on.

Angelo suggested I preview render before I play back, which I did, but which resulted in a four and a half hour render.

Again, I’m new to PP and the CS workflow, so I’m sure I haven’t set something up correctly, so any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

And please let me know if you need any more info to diagnose the problem.

Thanks again for your help!

[Pravin Chottera]

Sorry – 1 minute and 36 seconds.

[Pravin Chottera]

And now my preview render is up to 4+ hours…

[Pravin Chottera]

Angelo – Thanks so much for your response!

It’s a shame about the Nvidia graphics card. The rest of the internet seems to be giving me conflicting reports about how much GPU acceleration really makes a difference when it comes to real time playback.

The only issue I have with Premiere is that when I Preview Render Entire Work Area, it takes upwards of an hour to render the whole 1:36 timeline. Whereas in After Effects I can just set the quality way down and skip frames if I want a quick preview render.

It doesn’t seem like I can do that in PP.

And so when I go back to AE and make a small change, I have to re-render the whole timeline in PP, which is really killing my workflow.

Any suggestions? And thanks again for your help!

[Pravin Chottera]

Very weird. I tried converting to WAV, but to no avail.

It turns out that what worked yesterday is changing my Audio Hardware and Audio Output Mapping in my Preferences to “Built-In Input/Built-In Output”. That seemed to fix the problem, although half way through the day, the problem returned. When I went back into my Preferences to change it, I saw that it had somehow changed to “Built-In Output” and the “Built-In Input/Built-In Output” option had disappeared!!

After a few hours of grumbling I went back into my Preferences, saw that the “Built-In Input/Built-In Output” option had reappeared!!!!

I changed it to that and the problem seems to be fixed for now. I hope it lasts.

I’m going to do some fiddling around next week and may repost if I find out anything.

Thanks for your help Walter!