[Tim Kolb]

CineForm plays in Windows Media Player and QT Player…QT Players decade-old gamma issue continues to annoy.

CineForm probably has a leg-up on DNxHD for quality, but DNxHD is still widely used…

I use VLC myself and find the inability to play CineForm files pretty irritating, but unfortunately all I can offer is commiseration. I still prefer CineForm to anything else available…on either OS.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

Setting up the comp through dynamic link is a time-saver, but then for adjusting editing timing, etc, your best bet would be to render the clip out and put it over the top of the DL comp on the timeline.

It’s a great convenience, but particularly when handling HD and 4K on systems that are anything less than fire-breathing monsters, the updates can get time-consuming.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

Agreed.

You’re asking a piece of software released in 2007 (Leopard was the contemporary OSX version) to run perfectly with an OS released in 2013.

Even the jump to Mavericks was rough for those using current versions of Premiere Pro…and the jump to Yosemite is something we’re still holding off on at my day job…

If you want to run old software, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with that, but you need to freeze the system in a state that is proven usable. Hopefully you have the older version on disc.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

[Victoria Guzik] “What do you mean by play in media player? “

I mean can you play the old Matrox clips in a media player i.e. QT player, Windows Media Player…VLC…etc. If you can, then you may have the 32 bit codec on your system so you could possibly convert the old media with FFMPEG or something like that to a 64 bit compatible codec.

…and yes, since it’s Matrox media and it won’t play with a Matrox hardware device installed, I would say Matrox would be the people to ask. They may have a 64 bit version of the codec available…or at least some kind of converter.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

The biggest thing to make this process easier would be to be able to rollback an update if it ends up throwing a wrench in the works…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

I would say that the Matrox codec you used in Premiere Pro 6 is apparently not part of your newer Matrox product.

It’s probably a case of a 32 bit codec that 64 bit Premiere Pro CS6 can’t use…

Does the old media play in a media player?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

You probably set up the in/out in the sequence to illustrate the length of the clip?

(Otherwise I see a 3 point edit with an out on the source and in/out on the sequence?)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

I’m intrigued by the question, but it’s kind of a Schrodinger’s Cat kind of question without some detail.

Do you have a Title in the Source Window? From the PPro Title Tool?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

I haven’t heard of a way to force XMP Metadata to link to a different file unless there’s a way it can be done with an actual text edit of the XMP document…you’d probably need to manually retype a new file path in the document in one or more places…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Tim Kolb]

Is the issue that the clips are coming into AE untrimmed?

Can you describe the kind of displacement…(“all over the place” is probably how you feel after editing the material, but there is probably some sort of trackable behavior if you look for it…)

Do you have an in and out point n the Premiere Pro sequence?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR