Sylvia Porter
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From what I’m understanding, you don’t want every fifth frame to have no motion.
In motion, on Mac, from what I understand “Optical Flow Retiming” does what you are looking for.
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I’d suggest finding some 7D footage somewhere and trying it. Get a trial of Premiere CS5… Because my specs are similar and it plays very well with my lappy, just need to render it. Sequence>Render Entire Work Area
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I absolutely can’t say I blame you. I’d have swept everything off my desk, through the window, and out onto the fire escape by now.
For what it’s worth…which may be nothing at this point…I skipped CS4. I have Win 7 64 bit, and I played around with CS4 for a few days and it did seem…I don’t know…unresponsive, a bit unstable. So I just took it off my machine and continued working in CS3.
I tried CS5 just for Ultra, because I had an fine-haired keying deal that I wanted to do without having to patch it all together, and I found that all-around CS5 is much more snappy and stable….for me.
Sorry I couldn’t be of help.
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I keep a few different versions of quicktime around just for such situations, so I can uninstall one and reinstall another.
Currently I have CS5 and 7.6.6, and no problems. I never had CS4. But with CS3 I had to change quicktime versions a couple of times to get them to work well together.
I’m not saying it is quicktime, but the possibility exists.
You may have seen this, but if you haven’t it might help.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/388635
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It will depend on what you have available to you. You can download all sorts of different tools to do this type of thing, but if you have Adobe Media Encoder you can use that to convert to Microsoft AVI or quicktime. Basically just select none for your codec in the video tab (with QT you might also try PNG or animation for smaller file sizes). What you want is a result that is all keyframes. Your files will be very large.
I am hoping that you didn’t actually shoot in an mpeg format…which it seems you may have. If so, you can still convert, but you will have already lost quite a bit. But it should…should…solve the sync problem.
I’d suggest reading up on all of this kind of stuff. It actually is quite interesting if you’re into it, and it will help immensely in understanding your tools.
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You probably just need to render at least some part of the timeline to see it playback smoothly. Adjust the work area bar and with the timeline selected hit enter.
You have to remember the panasonic software is designed specifically for that format footage, or vise-versa.
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You might try checking which version of Quicktime you have, and see if it corresponds to your version of the Adobe software that you’re using.
Check the system requirements for your Adobe software.
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Dustin,
Here’s a silly little thing about that “scale to frame size” feature. All of the clips you import into your project (not timeline) after you select that get scaled. Any you import prior to that won’t get scaled automatically unless you remove them and re-import them.
As a workaround, I suggest a keyboard shortcut of your choosing.
The shortcut is in ‘clip’ > ‘video options’ under edit>keyboard customization. Obviously, select the clip and use your shortcut.
The good news is you can select multiple clips and invoke the command.
Previous edit point and next edit point work only on tracks that are selected…ie, highlighted on the left side of the timeline. I also have keyboard shortcuts set up for selecting my video tracks.
Holding shift and selecting a track selects all tracks.
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Are you using a Mac or Windows?
Using a mac I would like to think that you had time machine running.
Using Windows I would like to think that you had a system restore point somewhere during your project.
Because it sounds like some part of the configuration of things changed more than a corrupted file.
But you might try recovering versions of the files before the event. If you’re in Win 7 look up previous versions…this has been a life saver.
On mac, time machine should provide you with a file prior to that.
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Yeah, that little thumbnail clip is meant for help in referencing your video clip in the project window. Using that you can change the clip thumbnail (or Poster Frame) by clicking the little camera next to it while you are on a particular frame.
Using the source monitor is probably the best way. in the source you can set in and out points, set clip markers, shuffle and jog, insert and overlay the clips, view all sorts of image graphs, view audio waveform, and more…and in CS5 you can also create a still by clicking the camera button.
You can also drag video and audio, or only video or audio from the source monitor to the timeline. This is extremely cool.
Definitely spend some time getting to know the source monitor, if you want to learn the capacities of Premiere.