[Tim Kolb]

I suppose this does depend on how you use the machine and what formats you work with…not everyone edits RED R3D footage.

You can use one GPU with Media Encoder while the other one is working for Premiere Pro with the current version…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

If you use a version of PPro that’s pre-CC, the GPUs won’t be utilized.

As of version CC, any GPU that satisfies minimum requirements is utilized…and the new CoffeeCanPros have GPU in spades…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Ann Bens] “…there was a time where you could move the clip in the timeline without dragging the mask with it.”

Yes, but I can’t remember what version that would have been either. It seems to me that this method came around the time of multiple sequences/settings in one project.

If you really consider what a ‘track’ matte should do vs a ‘traveling’ matte (usually extracted from foreground footage) vs just a plain ‘matte’…it sort of makes sense the way it’s set up even though this method isn’t the way all manufacturers approach it.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

The track matte is designed to work this way… A matte that “tracks” the movement of its source clip. Many people don’t get the intent of the design until I show them 6 clips that all need to be matted in the same shape, all 6 clips can use the same matte and be positioned individually on the screen…because the matte “tracks” the clip position in each case.

You can use the transform effect to “slide” the video around in the matte, but as Ann notes, the anchor point and position values both need to be animated together, or the “slide” of the video will be accompanied by a proportional offset in the matte position. Also, you need to position the transform effect ON TOP of the track matte effect in the effects list (in the Effect Controls panel) to make it work.

I think most of us who have used Premiere Pro for a while just nest the video clip in its own sequence and do the motion there, assigning the track matte to the nested sequence.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

If you run into the issue again, try opening an existing project. If it comes up with an unsupported sequence setting, it’s a good bet that the software has reverted to trial mode.

This can happen if you use external USB drives and swap them frequently.

Adobe has a fix:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unable-login-creative-cloud-248.html

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Issue in the video itself, or the entire UI?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

So…you have ‘Save media cache files next to originals when possible’ checked in the preferences of the original machine and the destination machine, and the destination machine overwrites those files when the project is transferred?

Is ‘Write XMP upon import’ checked on both machines?

Are there specific file formats you’re seeing this happen with?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

So you’re basically asking about regenerating those files for the same media used in different projects?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Are you on Mac or Windows?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Michael Williams] “perhaps I will go back to my old process of transcoding pre-edit in the future.”

I can certainly understand that sentiment, though something is definitely wonky in this scenario (not implying it’s your fault, just that this isn’t really a common issue)…

If you start a new CC project and use the Media Browser to import a file you know is one of the oddly behaving spanned clips, what happens then?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor