[Sylvia Porter]

I can certainly understand the frustration. That crap is probably encoding to WMV. It’s a fine format, but it (in my experience can sometimes require a lot of processing time, because there’s a lot of compression happening). The times given for a render are based on the location progress of the rendering engine. So if in the beginning you have clips with little or no effects, the estimate is given based on that. If the render gets to a place where you have a “crap” load of effects, etc., the estimate is given based on that and the render will also bog down and seem like it’s not moving.

Here’s a trick. I love wmv, so I’ve done this a lot with bigger projects. Exporting to other formats can be much faster. So I will find the fastest export to another format and then render that to wmv. This gives me a full quality version of my project and it usually renders faster when the renderer is just processing images and not effects and cut and whatnot.

The other format should be lossless…meaning no compression.

A lossless format would be one that doesn’t allow setting compression and keyframe distances, etc.

Another thing if you’re using CS5 the good news is that you can check ‘use previews’ in the export settings and this can help to save some time.

[Sylvia Porter]

I haven’t seen anything with a default setting…however, if I’m understanding you correctly, you want to render all clips with the same settings….in CS5…and maybe it’s the same in whatever version you are using…

Once you get your batch all queued, you can select all the source rows and then change the output settings for one by clicking on the down arrows (or for all, by opening settings)…either way, this will change them all to the same settings and hopefully will answer your needs.

[Sylvia Porter]

Adam,

If I understand you correctly, you were editing with mpeg. You should not edit with mpeg, it will create problems as you are learning. It is highly compressed, meaning it won’t provide information the editing software needs to create the proper syncing.

Instead convert your mpeg to a format that is lossless. That means that every frame is a keyframe. A keyframe has all the information that the frame should have.

I’ve forgotten exactly, but mpeg I think has only something like 1 of 11 frames that has(ve) the full information.

I hope this helps.

[Sylvia Porter]

Most likely it’s not a problem with Premiere or your OS. As far as I know that camera isn’t made for actually shooting editable video. Meaning using a professional video editing software.

However, if I were very intent on making a video with that, I’d simply stretch the vid out to get that line out of the image.

Just adjust the width of the video and move it to the right, maybe that will help.

[Sylvia Porter]

Vincent is right, editing with WMV isn’t recommended, it’s kind of like walking through a dark room with all the furniture rearranged.

I can’t tell you why they aren’t recognized.

But, in order to keep working with them, find a converter for wmv on the mac. Something that will convert them without compression/quality loss/etc.

I’m not familiar with CS4 on the mac (or CS4 at all, since I skipped it), but if you have Adobe Media Encoder, you may be able to convert them using that excellent tool and keep working with them.

If not, find a friend who can convert them…probably to .mov files.

But do it losslessly, unless you’re not worried about the quality or precision of your edits at all.

[Sylvia Porter]

Here it is in a nutshell:

drag the video to the track where you want it

press and hold shift (locking the video to that track)

still holding shift…drag your cursor below the video line and place your audio in the desired track…and your clip in the desired location.

Release the mouse first.

If you release the shift key first, hit ctrl-z and this time remember to release the mouse first.

[Sylvia Porter]

Great news on this question!

With Premiere Pro you can actually move the video and audio tracks with complete freedom.

The technique is a little complex…seemingly…until you practice it a little. But you can place your audio and video tracks on ANY track you’d like without having to move them separately!

Read “Move clips in a Timeline Panel” at this link:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS8C67B075-9364-4c32-8E47-07F136D1F2BEa.html

[Sylvia Porter]

Hey Josh,

I agree there should be a drag copy feature in Premiere Pro.

I have a workaround however…a little clunky but beats all the selecting tracks stuff.

1. select the clip and [ctrl+c] it (to copy any attributes).
2. dbl click the clip to open the clip in the source monitor
3. drag the clip from the source to the place in the timeline where you’d like it.
4. select the clip and then [ctrl+alt+v] to paste attributes.

If there are no effects added to it (or you don’t want to copy them), you can omit steps 1 and 4. It’s a bit silly, but it works and is certainly better than worrying about the CTI and track selection every time you paste.

[Sylvia Porter]

Also, when I say “put your garbage matte over…” I mean apply it to the images first.

[Sylvia Porter]

Yeah, Paco..I worked on this with another technique last night and within less than ten minutes had a perfect key…and I do mean perfect. Since this is an old post and seems there isn’t much interest I’ll wait to see if I will outline the procedure.