[Tam Perl]

I’d be interested to hear whether anyone has had this problem after upgrading to CS5

Thanks

Tam

[Tam Perl]

I have never found a solution, although after a while I stopped looking — I simply go the After Effects route. If you do find a solution, please DO post it here. Many thanks.

Tam

[Tam Perl]

I never get a red renderbar, and I wish I did. Because most times my playback is not smooth, and I would like to render, but the renderbar is yellow. What version of the software are you running, and on which platform.

[Tam Perl]

Tyler — if you are lamenting the fact that you got this mouse, simply disable the scroll ball in system prefs, and it’s as if you got the more primitive mouse. Except that you always have the option of re-enabling the scroll ball if you change your mind…

Tam

[Tam Perl]

You need to be looking at the SYSTEM prefs.

[Tam Perl]

This is a mouse question, not an AE question, so it really belongs in the mouse forum. However, the mouse preference panel in system prefs will give you control over the buttons and scroll ball.

🙂

Tam

[Tam Perl]

Okay I HAVE now updated (I’ve confirmed in the “about” button — the plug in now states it is 6.0.6.426) but the issue has NOT been resolved. I still can’t assign my background layer….

Tam

[Tam Perl]

I’m using 6.0.3.321 I assume I can download a free update, which I’ll do now and get back to this thread. Thanks for the insight…

Tam

[Tam Perl]

I’m using BCC chroma key and light wrap in Premiere Pro. I’m running PP CS4 on an iMac with Snow Leopard.

Essentially I’m working with two layers: My background is in Video 1 and My Greenscreen footage is video two. I’m trying to tell light wrap to use the material in Video 1 track as the wrap. However, Light Wrap wont use that layer. I try assign it by using the pull down menu for “background” — I see all the layers listed in the menu – but it will not “take” the layer I’m assigning. I’ve tried creating additional and dummy layers — whatever I try, it won’t use the layer I need.

The layer I’m trying to use as a wrap contains a static PSD file.

Any ideas why this is happening???

thanks

Tam

[Tam Perl]

A couple of things worth noting (I’m wary about making generalizations ’cause someone is going to pounce on me and prove I’m technically wrong, but here are some things to mention that have worked for us):

We also started out exporting from Camtasia as uncompressed, for the obvious reason of keeping highest quality. But after some experimentation, we found that going to H264 was just as good, from a practical point of view — meaning, yes there will be some loss of quality thru the compression, but it was not noticeable. Another possible way to go: PhotoJPG at 85 quality. The point here is to avoid those humongous uncompressed files which are hell to play back and costly to archive…

If your ultimate usage is the web, why would you be upsizing? Why are you not creating a Premier Project with your sequence dimensions equal to your final output?

Another thing which was discovered by Stanley, a senior editor in our studio, was that apparently the resizing algorithm in Photoshop works differently from — and better than — Premiere. So if sharpness is critical, that’s when you may want to go the Photoshop route. Down side is that it adds a step to your workflow.

Tam