[Terence Kearns]

Are you gonna tell us which lens you have?

[Terence Kearns]

And always roll tape with a backup camera. That’s what my 500D is for. flash cards aren’t really reliable enough for “mission critical” applications (like one-time only shoots).

[Terence Kearns]

Did you try to RTFM?

https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en-GB&guide=1728585&page=guide.cs

[Terence Kearns]

Sorry to be so full of complaints, but it’s also very irritating that the timeline does not get focus when even if you use keyboard shortcuts to do something in it (for example using arrow keys with modifiers to navigate the timeline).

Again, it seems you have to use your mouse.

the tab key doesn’t seem to work.

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks for the tip, but I decided to go back to Sony Vegas in the end. I did complete an entire project using the trial version of Premiere Pro, so it was reasonably well tested. I was having too many issues with Premiere Pro and I found the approach to editing to be slow and cumbersome by comparison. Vegas does everything I need it to do and it is orders of magnitude faster to cut and edit on the timeline not simply because I have more experience with it, but because it’s just more efficient. Less tool switching, less clicking, less need for keyboard shortcuts.

[Terence Kearns]

“As an alternative, you can use scripting extensions, f.eg. – Voice Over”

This definitely looks like it will do the job. Would be good if I could just purchase this tool at a cheaper price. I can look at the rest of the Vegasaur suite, but that will take some time which I don’t have right now.

Thanks for the solution. Much appreciated.

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks everyone.

Mike, you’ve given me some good leads to chase up on with that thread. I already have a couple of good VST compressors with side-chain functionality. I’ll see if I can get one of those methods described, to be a viable workflow. The idea is that once I nail it, then I can keep using it. If it was just for a one-off project, then I would just use track automation. But I want to get something that will work well, and work reliably long-term. Would have been lovely if Sony implemented Re-Wire the way they did in Acid. I can easily access free/cheap DAWs (music software) which can host the audio without having to go through an error-prone export/import process.

If I can sort something out, I’ll post a video tutorial or something.

maybe track/channel architecture and rewire should be on the requested features list.

Thanks again.

[Terence Kearns]

In all cases, the sequences were originally created in ppro cs6.

I have read the entire thread at
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/478332

and the conclusion was that you could fix the problem simply by using Microsoft AVI as the preview codec for all your sequences. This didn’t work for everyone, and I can confirm that this will not fix it. Some people say that the trial version (which I am using) will not have all the codecs installed. HOWEVER, I ran some experiements using only the P2 DVCPRO codecs. The proj files are only interchangeable between my iMac and my Windows PC when I select DVCpro 50 as the codec (standard def). Anything else will cause that error to manifest on the system trying to open the project file when the other system created the sequence. IE, if I add a seq on the PC, the mac won’t open it. If I add a sequence [even with the exact same spec] using the mac, then the PC won’t open it…. doesn’t matter if the codecs chosen are identical (ie. dvcproHD).

Of course all my stuff is HD, so simply using an SD codec is not acceptable. I would like to find a solution before settling on CS6 when the trial ends. I’ll be coming over from Sony Vegas if it works out. Vegas is still a better tool IMO, but it doesn’t run on the mac.

[Terence Kearns]

Still have not solved this problem.

The latest is that I have tried exporting a final cut XML file from a project on the mac (CS6) and importing that project XML file on the PC. It produced exactly the same error.

[Terence Kearns]

Just as an update.Getting the footage back from AE was a consideration as well. After trying a few different things, a PNG image sequence was the best for quality. Also AfterEffects has a handy feature where it will only render missing frames, so if the rendering process is interrupted, it picks up where it left off. Also, if I needed to re-edit part of a comp, all I need do is delete the relevent frames.

On the Vegas side of things, I imported the images into a dedicated .veg project file and dropped the .veg image sequence into my main timeline. Everytime I updated the PNGs with a new After-effects render, my vegas timeline was automatically updated WITHOUT the need to render a proxy/intermediate file internally. It worked brilliantly. I think I’m only ever going to use image sequences on the output side of AfterEffects.