[Terence Kearns]

I’m experiencing exactly the same problem. Premiere CS6. The sequence in question is a series of PNG images. The original project was created on windows 8 and the computer attempting to open it is Lion (iMac).

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks Jeff, the source is AVCHD, but it’s edited and has filters applied so it’s a re-compress scenario anyways. Are you saying there is an advantage to use the same codec for output as what was used to capture even though there is recompression?

Being in a hurry, I ended up doing a limited simple trial with 3 formats and playing them side by side in AE. I ended up using MXF preset I create earlier as that produced the best result without tweaking. Dunno if I made the “right” choice, but we’ll see how it goes with CPU utilisation I guess. My machine’s not that quick.

[Terence Kearns]

That is a great tip. I never thought of that.

I tried it out just then. Only fly in the ointment is that it also “ADDED” effects from the effects chain to the target events.

Here’s what I did:
I selected an event which had the pan/crop attribute I wanted. So happened that this event also had a “Brightness and Contrast” filter applied (event level). I copied the event.
I pasted the event attribtes to clips which already had the same “Brightness and Contrast” filter applied. It resulted in them having the desired pan/crop, but it also stacked an additional instance of the “Brightness and Contrast” filter in the effects chain.

Obviously in this situation, I could work around it by dragging all those events with the same “Brightness and Contrast” settings to a separate track and apply the effect at a track level, but I would have to maintain duplicate track level effects since Vegas doesn’t have adjustment layers (as will be introduced into Premiere Pro CS6).

Thanks for the tip though.

[Terence Kearns]

Hi Eric,

what sort of stuff do you attribute that 3K to 15K budget? Is it all software? what sort of software are we talking about? I assume you class Adobe Encore as “prosumer”.

Do I have to learn much scripting to do Blu-ray professionally? what sort of tools allow me to get that kind of access to the project’s internals? I’m currently checking out https://mediachance.com/dvdlab/Helppro/vts.htm in the domain of DVD authoring. This level of control appeals to me.

Re: your other comment “DVD has no future to speak of”. Would you agree that it has a ‘present’ which will take a while to die off?

Here in Australia, the video rental stores stock about 5% of it’s titles in Blu-ray. The rest is all DVD.

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks Eric, I appreciate your considerable input.

Yes, Encore does seem to have it’s fair share of frustrated users if you examine enough forum threads on various sites.

I think I am leaning towards DVD Lab Pro at this point because
1) Customers still seem to be asking for DVDs according to my local contacts
2) It seems to get good reports and it’s the right price.
3) It seems to allow you to script things once you become advanced enough to need it (I have a programming background anyway).

[Terence Kearns]

Cool. As long as it’s not just me going mad then.

Thanks again for the tips.

[Terence Kearns]

Big thanks Jim.

Although the diagnosis doesn’t look good for me.

Also, that program (gs.exe) produces a bunch of serious warning my comodo (my security software). Amongst other things, it tries to install hooks all over the place. Still, when you’re desparate…

I posted the output of the repair log here
https://terencekearns.com/logfile.html

[Terence Kearns]

TS Doctor says “PMT invalid or Missing

Any ideas on how I can fix this file?

[Terence Kearns]

Thanks Mark. Very helpful tip indeed. A massive timesaver.

Seems to be working okay now. Previously, the Vegas GUI would bo whiter and I would get the “waiting” cursor.

Those big projects with the VEG files on the timeline seem to be loading in a timely fashion now.

Cheers.

[Terence Kearns]

Not trying to be facetious, but does anyone experienced actually find the use of a joystick productive to their editing?