Tim Kolb
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Have you tried to purge the previews and re-render and try it again?
it sounds like something might be screwy with the previews themselves…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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What are the sequence settings you’re using for this material? It is 23.976 frames/sec yes?
That rounding you see in the nomenclature (23.967>23.98) has to do with a limitation of the digits that can be represented in the project panel…it doesn’t do anything to the clip.
How are you making the trims that end up being off?
When you double click on the clip that’s placed on the sequence, do the in and out points still sit where you put them?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Actually, the help menu is typically quite helpful…
The audio in Premiere Pro is more sophisticated and there are several base functions to be aware of…
First, if the audio track is set to “track keyframes” the clip will not move or be able to be manipulated as the track is looking for track-based manipulation. You probably need to switch the tracks where you can’t move/manipulate the audio clips to “clip keyframes”.
Second, the “A1, A2” etc., indicators on the left are for editors who are typically keyboard driven…they indicate where the tracks are in the sequence that will accommodate the audio/video properties of the clip that is queued in the source panel. If you have stereo audio in the source panel and only mono tracks in your sequence, there will be no indicators present and when you drop the audio on the sequence, it will create compatible (stereo) audio tracks on the bottom and place the clip there.
The reason you may not be able to move the indicators is that you are likely attempting to move them to audio tracks that are not compatible with the audio in the source panel.
Clip-based operations are dealt with as effects and volume is controlled from the effect controls panel or the handles on the clip itself. The track based manipulation is done with the track keyframes activated, or with the audio mixer.
So basically, no, the audio track is not what is FUBAR…
(Why does this assumption that Adobe software is supposed to require no study or learning to operate come from?…particularly when both Final Cut Training and Avid Training are thought of as necessities to become skilled with those tools?)
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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What kind of files are you working with?
You said you have the issue with AVI files with an alpha channel…are you referring to source files or the designated preview render format?
I need the exact media type and sequence setting as I’d like to experiment and see if I can reproduce it myself as I’m not sure I’ve run into this one yet…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Well…it IS HD…people don’t count pixels, they look at sharpness.
The bottom line is that someone with camera A can say “you need to set detail at zero” but if you use camera B, that exact setting may not produce the results you’re after.
Everyone’s content is different
Everyone’s visual expectations are different
Everyone’s equipment is different
Therefore: No advice should be accepted and implemented without testing to verify you achieve what you want with your gear to produce your content vs using someone else’s settings from their gear that they like for their content…
So…whether some sharpening is good, or how much…is something you need to decide through some tests.
…and yes, down-scale to 720p will help markedly. I would recommend you take the 1080 footage and just edit it on a 720p timeline (scale to 67%) and see for yourself. Additional measures may not be necessary.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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When deciding how you’re going to run camera settings, it’s always best to test extensively before running with a paying job as you are very limited in what you can do to compensate for over-detail, or lack thereof in camera footage.
I’d be cautious with any “sharpening” in post… You can increase contrast to help the feeling of sharpness, but any Photoshop or Photoshop-like sharpening will likely cause results that change so much from frame to frame that you’ll end up with a lot of pattern noise for a little sharpness boost.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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PPro does make an audio conform for these files and where you have these files targeted to a drive that may be full or if there is any sort of a drive permissions issue, those files can’t be written completely.
Obviously when you make a ProRes conversion, the file is pre-converted, so that would not show the same issue.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Ann Bens] “I think it blends the fields now as to throwing away one field and interpolate.
But that wont matter as both fields are the same.”They are from the same instant in time, but you’d still be tossing frame resolution by simply interpolating fields instead of utilizing both fields.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Kyle MacDonnell] “Adobe also says that you need a monitor that will run at 1280×900. I have a Samsung SyncMaster 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz. (Which doesn’t list 1280 x 900). Will my monitor run at that resolution with the GeForce GTX 285?”
The 285 will fill two 30″ displays with no problem.
The Adobe resolution spec is a minimum…more is great…less will not allow the entire UI to be visible.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Also…what is the original frame size and the target frame size?
If that math is weird, it could definitely cause issues with such a small, lightweight font.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor