Tim Kurkoski
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I’ve had this problem before on Mac OS 10.4. The problem was Spotlight. I had to go into the System Prefs and stop it from scanning the folder I was exporting to.
In System Prefs, click on Spotlight. Click the Privacy tab, then click the Add (+) button. Choose your folder.
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Try taking out the OpenGL3D plug-in from the Plug-ins\Standard\Extensions folder. If that works, upgrade your video card drivers, put the plug-in back, and see if it still works.
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What you describe sound like what happens if the “High Quality” option is not set for the file. When it is set, I see no appreciable difference in DV files played in QT Player or the WM player.
Well, I’ll be jiggered. You learn something new every day. Thanks, Dave!
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Yep, nesting the sequence is the solution in 1.5. You don’t have to do that in Premiere Pro 2.0, though. Adobe changed the rendering order so that the track matte effect is calculated after the motion is applied.
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First try restoring the backup copy of the LiveTrace_AI.jsx file you made. You did make a backup, right? Make sure it works with that, though you can only process 10 files at a time until you edit the script.
If that works, follow the directions to edit the script again. My guess is that you left a typo in it.
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Go into the Project Settings > General, hit playback settings, and you can control there where and how Premiere previews the timeline.
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You don’t need to do anything special. The files that Photoshop (and most applications for that matter) creates on either OS are compatible with the program on both OS’s.
Your friend probably just needs a little more education about cross-platform compatibility.
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H.264 is, to my understanding, a subset of MPEG-4. You need to specifically tell QT Pro that you want to use H.264 vs. MPEG-4.
Also, the QT Player on Windows does an absolutley AWFUL job of decoding DV codec AVI files. It introduces a lot of artifacts, like heavy JPEG decompression. So using DV AVI files is not a good basis for a test. An uncompressed AVI file would be better.
For my part, I like both WMV and H.264. H.264 needs an awful long time to encode, but it can get relatively smaller file sizes than plain MPEG-4 (probably also WMV, which is another MPEG-4 variant) at the same quality. But since WMV has a dedicated player app, it has more built-in support for streaming and multiple streams, etc.
Oh, one small correction to my last post in this thread. I said that Premiere can’t do anything but I-frames for temporal compression codecs, but what I left out was that only applies to QuickTime codecs.
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Do you by any chance keep your DV camera or converter connected to your computer? The Playback settings in Premiere can be set to only play through the DV device, so you might want to check that out.
Otherwise it sounds like it might be time to reset Premiere’s preferences, or to reinstall it.
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https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/newfeatures.html
If you’re going to spend the money, just get 7.0. No reason to look backwards here.