[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Alex, I’m running 7.2.2.
And now I see the drag method was working all along—the first shots I dragged had long slow fade-ins from black and so showed up black. My dumbo!
I’ve learned some other things along the way, though, about duplicating in-progress sequences for backup reference instead of the whole project file.
And your tips about subclips.
Thanks again for your responses!

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thank you, Alex, that’s a helpful tool.
Here’s how I’ve found it works. . .
Select a clip in the timeline with in/out, make subclip.
Select a clip in the source monitor and make subclip.
On OK, it automatically makes a subclip in the main project folder, which I can them move to an “Outs” bin.
I’m not finding a way to save the subclip with my in/out points marked.
If I unselect “Restrict Times to Boundaries” it saves the whole clip with no record of my in/out points. I’m not able to add markers to the source clip or the timeline that are saved with the subclip.
If I do select “Restrict Times” it only saves the part of the clip between in/out.
Maybe I’m missing something, but this is indeed a way to save timeline clips to a bin, if not with the marker information.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Use “Track Select” (Shortcut A in CC) to select all tracks downstream of your click. Then move to left or right on timelines. Right to open space, left to abut timeline/clips to left.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

I got a suggestion that worked from another forum. I had to reinstall AE CC (which uninstalled AE CC 2014)which installed AME (which would not open) and then update that with a patch to AME CC 7.2. What a process, but I’m back in business. Nostalgic for software on discs. The Adobe download model has some glitches.
And I’m still paying them!

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

After further investigation, it seems the error message “File Format Not Supported” is returned by PP if I point to a folder during a search that does not contain a media file. Confusing response when trying to search for a media file, but OK if you know what it means.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks Jon. I haven’t moved machines, just copied media file folders to a portable drive so I can edit on the road. Using the “reconnect media” process in PP I get this error immediately.

Now usually I point PP to search a folder that contains the media files instead of the individual files themselves. Maybe there are other files in the folder that PP doesn’t like on this drive. I’ll look into this.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Brian. That’s definitely what I’ll do with future projects. I hear of other pro editors who convert to ProRes before editing in PP. I can see how that could solve issues with the multiple file types that PP offers to work with so seamlessly.
In my case, this is a project I started editing in FCP 5.5, moved to FCP 7 for a fine cut, then imported to PP CC for further editing and finishing. Lots of subclips. I thought about going back to convert the original clips but not sure PP would find them.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Brian, I would love to hear how you would suggest doing this conversion to ProRes. Trevor doesn’t identify what his original files are, unless I understand 23.976fps interlaced.
I had a timeline edited in Apple SD 29.97 and have struggled with the deinterlace/uprez process. RG Frames seemed glitchy and slow for the deinterlace. I uprezed with RG Instant HD and then dropped the file into a progressive timeline, which I have heard throws out half the scan lines and interpolates. But I can still edit, and add titles which seem to be higher rez than in the SD timeline.
But I understand that the uprez and interlace are actually PP effects, not a real conversion, which would be done on AME export.
Would appreciate any knowledge and experience you could share.
Thanks,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

After many trials of closing/reopening PP CC, closing/reopening the project file, shutting down/restarting computer, trying to render individual clips here and there in the timeline, I finally was able to render the timeline into a progressive sequence with Quicktime/ProRes preview files. No idea how this finally worked. Just relentless pursuit of all variables I could think of. Also no idea what PP did to convert to a progressive file. Throw out every other scan line of the interlaced file? Total mystery. It would be nice to know what kind of deinterlacing PP is doing–throwing out scan lines, blending, motion interpolating–who knows? It seems I now have an uprezed progressive PP CC file that I hope will export to a ProRez intermediate master.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

You probably tried uninstalling and redownloading, reinstalling. You can install older versions. I just went through this process with PR CC “2013” version 7.2.2.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City