[Terry Hahin]

Hi Vince,
thanks for your quick response. I tried it out with no luck. Erasing the Media cache files didn’t change the situation.

I tried exporting with AME, inspired by Mahmud’s post, and found the export to not have the audio either. Very strange, since the source clip definitely has audio in it, and the codec (HDV captured to MPG via PPro) is obviously something that PPro can handle.

If you have any other suggestions on why PPro would cut out audio / misinterpret a clip I’d be curious to hear it. At this point I’m gonna try just recapturing the damn thing.

Thanks everybody.

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

Hello Vince,
I noticed you have been helpful in the past to people with audio playback issues so I thought I might ask you. I think I might have the same issue that maybe I cut off conforming while it was happening…thus resulting in a clip that plays back only partial audio.

Don’t do that…obvious answer.

But how does one “re-conform” the audio again? It doesn’t even work if I open a brand new project, then re-import that clip. PP CS4 just seems to know the clip and refuses to let go of it’s bad conform files.

I’ve tried cleaning the media cache with no luck. Any suggestions?

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

hi Tim,
were you ever able to solve this issue. I am having very similar problems…it’s difficult to pinpoint what triggers this issue. It’s not a codec thing…as the result happens to me to some clips and not other…despite the fact that they were captured the same way from identical source material.

I have been having this issue on the HDV capture…resulting in a .mpg file and on MP3’s that are imported. It’s obviously some sort of irritating bug…any results on your end?>

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

Hi Rob,
I’ve only experienced this with AE. I have the whole creative suite and have only encountered it with AE. For me, the problem was my driver for Nvidia gfx card. Updating it did the trick.

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

Hi,
I have the same bug. It’s not a user error…have been using After Effects for years and know how to copy text from somewhere else and paste it into After effects text tool.

No matter hwat the source, even other adobe products, I am unable to copy text and then paste it into the adobe text tool. Very frustrating.

Have read some expressions that seem to address this, ubt it’s a bug that Adobe seems to be disregarding which some people other than me are experiencing.

Running AE CS4
Windows Vista machine.

Anyone got any solutions that address the issue? no silly workarounds please. thanks in advance

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

hi Todd,
I am having similar problems with the AME. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. I have discovered that Quicktime files with strange Pixel Aspect Ratios often crash the AME.

The AME is slower, sluggish, prone to crash, and unreliable in terms of quality. My current problem is that when exporting out of Premiere, I am getting what looks like typical DV compression on uncompressed clips. This didn’t use to happen with CS3 Premiere, but now it seems like Premiere is rendering my elements to DV first, and then rendering whatever parameters I have set in AME. Not good when you want an uncompressed Quicktime or AVI file. Not good at all.

So to answer your question, if you have CS3 disks it wouldn’t hurt to go back to them. I have spent a great deal of time trying to deal with the AME. I have spent a great deal of time on the Adobe forums, and on the phone with Adobe, and frankly they don’t have much to offer either.

If you figure out some magical way to export out of Premiere without the AME in CS4, I’d love to here it. My next thing is I’m gonna try exporting Premiere Sequences out of AE, see if that solves some of these quality loss issues I’m having.

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

hi Mike,
thanks for you input. Sorry about my very slow response, had a project and didn’t have the time to deal with this anymore.

I was receiving crashes when doing uncompressed exports from AE, and then importing that into the AME. No dynamic link. I found out that it had to do with Pixel Aspect Ration metadata on the Quicktime (animation codec) file. My project was a 16×9 AE comp. Something about the pixel aspect ratios just screw up AME.

But I’m still experiencing problems with the AME, but new ones now. It is sluggish, finicky, and unfortunately completely necessary for a CS$ Video package user. Very frustrating.

Anyway, thanks for you time.

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

It’s in the material properties of each individual layer. Each layer can be either affected or unaffected by lights or shadows.

Cheers

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

Hi Jeff, thanks for the response. As of right now no HD work is in the pipeline, but I’m trying to set myself up so that in the future I’ll have a motherboard / processor setup that will work.

For I/O issues I would probably go with a Blackmagic card as that’s what I’ve worked with in the past using FCP. The Dcklink HD extreme at 995 is in my price range.

For media storage I would use some sort of Raid setup. I have seen both fibre channel and gigabit ethernet used recently for large storage space.

My goal is to buy a motherboard that will be able able to accommodate these things in the future as I upgrade. Thanks for the recommendation on the SuperMicro motherboards. Will Check out.

Terry Hahin

Designer and Editor
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[Terry Hahin]

Hello everyone,
thanks for all your input on this.

In terms of monitor, no I am not viewing it from a moniotr. Have viewed the same 10 bit material previously and had no problems. The 10bit material actually works flawlessly on its own, it’s only when I am trying to COMBINE the material with DV NTSC material that this problem occurs. Each type of material works fine independantly of themselves, but when combinie together on a timline and encoded into an MPG2 something goes sour.

In terms of Compressor I have tried it many times for this particular situation, with all field settings correct, resulting almost always in worse results than either QT conversion or DVDSP’s internal encoding. If you check out the DVDSP board on the cow it is covered in people having compressor related problems, and so I have found it to be wise to avoid it when working with anything beyond DV NTSC material.

Although I have had no problems in the past with this material, I guess I must bring in my moniotr to the FCP station I am doing this on.

Thanks again for all the suggestions,
Terry