Tim Kurkoski
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This may be a side effect of what order you’re doing things in.
When you apply a transition on still images, Premiere needs to generate extra frames beyond what you see on the timeline to fill out the transition duration. The problem with this is that if you have created keyframes to animate one or more properties and effects, those keyframes don’t get moved to compensate.
On the other hand, if you place your transitions first, then animate, you’ll be able to work the keyframes into the transition.
Of course, you can always change the keyframes after placing the transition. Select the clip, go to the Effect Controls window. (I’m assuming you’re using a version Premiere Pro. If not, please specify which version of Premiere you are using.) In the pop-out menu, the triangle in the upper-right, deselect Pin To Clip. Now, in the little mini-timeline to the right of the effect properties (there’s an option that shows/hides that, too) you can see your clip and the keyframes, and you can scroll back and forth to see the ends of the clip and you can move the keyframes to adjust for the transition.
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If Jacob Rosenberg has published a new version of his Premiere Pro Studio Techniques book, I’d highly recommend that. His PP 1.5 book was excellent.
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Two very important questions:
1. What type of video file are you using? Not all video files are created equal. Not all are good for editing, and the format alone can cause this type of problem. Premiere may not be compatible with the file.
2. What are your computer specs? A slow (or overtaxed) computer could obviously cause this; video editing is an intensive task. Processor type and speed, amount of RAM, number of hard drives, their total capacity and available space, video card and amount of memory on it… and anything else you want to add.
Oh, and what version of Premiere are you using?
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There’s many ways. I think some versions of Premiere have a “Black and White” effect. You can always apply the Hue and Saturation effect and drop the saturation to zero.
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Oh, you mean a video capture card. Yes, Matrox makes a couple of cards that will speed up rendering when you use their built-in effects. But consider whether or not you really need such a card. They’re expensive, and Premiere can handle a resonable amount of effects for real-time playback on a fast computer. You may be better off putting the money into a faster overall computer than a specific card.
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Well, define “play” for me. Are you pressing space bar, enter, or hitting the play button in the monitor? Does a new project work?
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Yeah, it looks like you can’t make a slice from a Layer Set/Layer Group.
If all of your layers are the same size, just pick one of them (or if there’s one that’s larger and fits over all the others) and use the layer-based slice command.
Otherwise you can duplicate the group, flatten it, make your slice off that and hide the duped layer. Or just make the slice manually. It’s up to you.
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There are a couple of methods that I have used that may help.
The method I use these days is to create a layer mask and then use the brush tool to paint out what I don’t want (or sometimes it’s easier to fill the mask with black and paint in what I want with white). Because masks don’t delete pixels, they simply mask them out, you can continually adjust the mask just by painting with black or white. But make sure you’re painting on the mask and not the layer itself. You can zoom in/out as necessary to get the level of detail you want.
The other method is simply to first create a rough marquee while zoomed out. Then you can zoom in, and by holding down the Shift and Alt keys, you can add and subtract from the marquee. Do one section at a time, move and zoom around as you need.
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What are your aperture, F-stop, and blur settings on? Those will definitely affect the depth of field result that you get.
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You can get audio when you scrub by holding down the CTRL key. But regular playback of audio still requires that you RAM preview or Audio preview.
Remember that AE and Premiere Pro play back video and audio very differently. AE is not a real time program, Premiere is. Don’t expect your workflow to be the same in both applications. Use the tools for their strengths (e.g., AE isn’t a great program for editing audio).