[Tim Kolb]

[Melina Kolb] “He gave me a folder with .mov files in it. When I try importing them into Premiere (full version), it says “codec missing or unavailable”.”

If the files are “.mov”, FCP has rewrapped them. They are now only compatible with FCP (or, a machine with FCP installed as well as Adobe…which would be a Mac of course) unless you install something like calibrated Software’s “XD” product.

Hopefully the source footage from the camera is still available as that would the best option.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

You’ll need to access the video settings tab to change the video settings of course…

But if you pick “QuickTime” and then pick ProRes…at HD resolution, you’ll be set.

The QuickTime exporter defaults to the DV encoder…you need to pick what you want if you want something different.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I’d first check out the Quadro drivers…it sounds like some of the symptoms may point that way. Are they up to date?

I’m curious if you allocated more RAM to that application? With 24GB on board, you should be able to throw 16GB at PPro without a problem.

Also, I’d check the Adobe applications to make sure they’re updated if it’s not something you’ve been doing regularly.

Otherwise…it’s software like any other software. Occasionally it has some sort of odd defect that can be dispelled by simply re-installing the applications.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Erin Culton] “I tried telling it to match my sequence settings but the sequence is set to mpeg and I don’t want an mpeg.”

Then…don’t choose match settings.

Choose QuickTime>ProRes, as long as:
1. …you’re on a Mac, and:

2. …own an Apple product that has the ProRes encoder in it like a version of FCP or even Motion.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I’m not sure exactly what you’re attempting to do…

On an extended display, you can drag the program panel and set it to 100% size to get a pixel-for-pixel look.

Or…you can send the video to a display fullscreen by using the playback settings menu and specify an external display.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

I think I probably should have eased up a bit and simply implied that FUBAR was simply not a legitimate assessment until you’ve eliminated “operator error or inexperience” from the equation. In moments of frustration, I’ve made the same jump…nobody is immune to it.

First off, the help is truly pretty useful in a thumbnail sort of way…in situations like you were experiencing, using help can often get you over the obstacle so you can keep on working.

As far as books are concerned, Adobe’s Classrrom in a Book series are what the certified training is typically based on, so you could start there… There are also a number of tutorial sources out there.

Andrew Devis has done many tutorials on the nuts and bolts of PPro here at the cow…you may want to even start there while you’re waiting for your book to ship.

PPro is a good program…it’s just a different machine. It takes some time to become comfortable after a change from one complex system to a very different complex system.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Erik,

I’m not following this…

PPro imports PSDs as collapsed layers, independent layers in a sequence, or any layer you pick…drop it on the sequence…edit in Photoshop…it’s extremely straightforward.

To do an animation like you speak of, I’d simply place the layers that had to be animated in a stack and animate them on the timeline.

Otherwise you could certainly make a nested sequence with the keyframes in it and then use that…if there was some piece of consistent lower third art for the whole piece, I’d do the animation once and simply layer it with the different text layers as appropriate.

Not sure what you mean about the instant codec playback…is that sarcastic? My Lenovo W520 has a similar i7 to yours I think (hyperthreading to eight threads), but I have 16 GB of RAM and a Quadro 2000… I play XDcamEX, AVCHD, DSLR, and RED R3D files back. What format are you having a problem with?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Rue Dwyer] “Does she need Quicktime? Is there a more elegant
solution?”

…you’ve got PPro confused with FCP.

PPro just loads XDcamHD/EX and edits it. Send the camera files.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

Unfortunately those of us using PPro on Windows end up scratching our heads on some of this stuff…

I have no idea what might be going on with some of these codec issues…I use ProRes on my Windows PPro system and it seems OK.

I have no clue where the assertion comes from that FCP handled PSD files better than PPro…that is patently absurd.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Tim Kolb]

[Jake McCurdy] ” I just don’t think PrP is quite ‘professional’ enough for me. I don;t understand how they can get After Effects so right and PrP so wrong. Pr was the first editor I used back in 92-93′ when I was in middle school. How can the simplest things still be screwed up almost 20 years later?”

Um…I think you’ve got a pretty good crop of assumptions going there… I see a lot of people coming to PPro and assuming the fact it’s not FCP is a bug…it isn’t.

A quad core CPU isn’t exactly a power house these days (my laptop has 16 GB RAM and a hyperthreaded i7 Quad), but this wouldn’t be an issue caused by CPUs, plentiful or not…it could be a GPU issue though… what kind of display card you have installed?

Adobe does a lot to adapt to ancient, 32 bit QuickTime. Do non-QT codecs have an issue? FCP 7 is still 32 bit, so QT works fine in that.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor