[Tim Kolb]

I don’t know much about any Thunderbolt issues that might arise from your configuration, but while your system RAM should be good, your display card doesn’t have enough RAM to run GPU accelerated (CUDA, not OpenGL on an NVIDIA card). You may be able to hack it and get Premiere Pro to try to use that card, but especially running a couple displays, I would think it would become problematic.

I believe 768 MB is the minimum spec for GPU acceleration for Mercury, but as with RAM, I’d recommend going above the minimum. I have a 2GB Quadro in my laptop.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I wonder if trashing the preferences might help?

It definitely sounds as if the application has become a bit wonky based on what you’re saying you’ve done to troubleshoot.

Re-installing just Premiere Pro may be something you want to try if that doesn’t work.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Dennis Tzeng] “If you’re on the Mac it works natively. If on the PC you have to convert Nanoflash footage with a free file convertor program. However it doesn’t take very long.”

Well…yes, if you wrapped all the media as .mov perhaps, but the Nanoflash will use mxf or mpg wrappers as well-user switchable. It’s been a bit since I used mine so I can’t recall which I used, but they didn’t need to be re-wrapped for at least the last couple versions of PPro on Windows…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Jeff Pulera] “is there any quality difference in using Motion < Scale versus “Scale to Frame” function?”

I realize I didn’t answer your direct question…using the “Scale to Framesize” feature does re-rasterize the media to the new size, so, yes, it would result in a quality loss, or at least some lost flexibility versus just bringing the media in and scaling it manually.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I have found that cleaning the cache works pretty well…maybe there are specific circumstances that change that.

But more importantly I was clarifying that what Ninetto was saying was not what you were saying in item 3…two different things.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I think we need to know what media you’re referring to…

There are certainly media types that Premiere Pro will read that are not QuickTime-friendly.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Wendell…did you set up your audio handling preferences?

You do know that a standard track can take mono or stereo…

You know you can create a sequence preset with a set mixture of tracks if for some reason you need mono instead of a standard track for camera audio and you can then have standard, or adaptive tracks as well. A sequence can have any/all audio source track types.

Your camera media can come in a a 2 mono track and you can still use your music bed in stereo, and simply adjust the volume on the whole clip.

Premiere Pro is pretty flexible on the audio side…but it doesn’t work like FCP did.

While I understand the desire not to use a mouse, the actual audio capabilities and flexibility inside of Premiere Pro have been very strong for some time…even when many didn’t give it much of a look because the sequence editing tools had some catching up to do.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Are you creating the sequence from the media itself?

Maybe if you create a solid sequence with the correct settings (it sounds like 29.97 fps) and then go into your project panel and right click on the weird video clips…go to “modify” and under interpret, force the clip to play at 29.97.

Then the black clip you make when working in that sequence should play nice…and export properly.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Tom Daigon] “3. As ninetto said, delete media cache files.
4. Delete preview files

Make sure PrP is closed when you do steps 3 & 4.”

I think he meant “Clean” the Media cache…in preferences. Obviously you’ll need the application open to do that…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

CS6 needs nothing additional to read XDcamHD MXF files…you may want the software to transfer the camera media, but that’s a different function.

What sort of MXF files are these? (It’s not mentioned whether the footage is from a Sony or Panasonic camera…or a Canon, etc)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor