[Steve Brame]

I guess I just don’t get it. I’ll still not be able to got to the referenced timecode on my editing timeline. I’ll have to jump to it on my locked reference timeline, then try to locate the same spot on the edit timeline, which could get pretty convoluted on a long program. Since we cut a lot of interviews we may have, say, 25 clips on a timeline. If we get a review that starts with swapping clip 5 and clip 2, then swap clip 12 with clip 21, then cut clip 6. At this point there would be no way to use the original sequence to find anything in the edit version.

I’ve just tried all of these suggested methods, and it really seems that operating backwards is the quickest and easiest way, at least for me. I think I’m just having trouble accepting that I actually came up with a workable solution on my own.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Actually, if I was reading from a paper change list, it might even be better to number the markers, then note the markers on the actual change list.

Unfortunately, I’m really getting into CS Review, and it’s not possible to make reference to markers it in, so the problem still exists in that scenario – if I change a clip or two, then click ‘Go to Comment’ to jump the CTI to the timecode relative to the another comment, it doesn’t work because the timecode has been altered.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Thanks Vince,

As luck would have it, I happen to have a sequence open that I just received a review (via CS Review), and I thought I’d give that a shot. I always duplicate a sequence before doing any review edits like this, and I’d tried to use the original as a TC reference, basically the same as you mentioned, just not placing the original sequence in the same timeline as the working version, but the concept is the same. Unfortunately, though I still have a good reference for the timecodes mentioned in the review, they lie within the original, not the timeline I’m editing, so the sync loss still occurs. For me, having the 2 sequences open in the same timeline, I get a little confused as to which one I’m actually looking at at any given moment, since I have to hide the original in order to see the working one below. But then again, I’m getting old…

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Absolutely correct! We did such testing for a little over 6 months before we stopped using Neoscene on our CS5 PC. I wouldn’t label our editor a ‘muscle machine’, and it seems to handle AVCHD media quite easily. Just like anything, you can either put your money into a system up front to prepare it for what you need it to do, or you put money into it after the fact to get it to do what you need it to do. And in our business, transcoding time IS money.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

I’ll say that we have all but stopped using Neoscene since we installed CS5. We primarily used it to transcode AVCHD footage, and CS5 handles that file type easily on our machine.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Unfortunately…no, save for increasing the Scale of the clip til the door is out of frame, but you’ll take a hit in image quality. This may or may not be an issue, especially depending on the final output frame size.

Of course, if you also have After Effects, you could rotoscope out the door frame.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Your setting are fine. You’re watching in 360P. Click the ‘360P’ on the bar and choose ‘720P’.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Might be posted on the wrong forum, as I really doubt that it’s Premiere’s encoding that is the issue. You may get more help on the Flash forum.

However, if the video plays well in Adobe Media Player, but fails to play well via the Flash Player via your browser, I’d suspect the Flash player. Mind you, Adobe Media Player, and Flash Player(which plays videos embedded in web pages), are two separate programs.

What happens when you view the video from your web server?

[Øivind Jensen] “no user will wait the 10-15 minutes it takes to download”

They shouldn’t have to. The days of waiting for videos to fully download before playing are long gone. If you’re playing them from a web, or HTTP server, you’ll be using ‘progressive download’, the same as YouTube.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Thanks Tim. I guess I was mistaken in exactly what CUDA acceleration affected. I was under the impression that it accelerated previews as well as encoding(which is actually what is going on in preview generation). Wasn’t aware that it only accelerated specific effects.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Steve Brame]

Some more info would be handy, like

what settings you used to encode the FLV
what version of Flash player you have
what is your internet speed
are you playing from a commercial web server – or your own

My initial WAG would be that you encoded to a variable rate file, which will dynamically alternate between resolutions depending on ‘current’ bandwidth. Be advised that your supposed internet connection speed has NOTHING to do with your current bandwidth. If you are experiencing a slow connection, the file will play the lower resolution version of the video automatically. If the video is ‘choppy’, I’ll assume you to mean that it is intermittently stopping as the buffer empties and refills. This is a classic symptom of low bandwidth.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions