Tim Kurkoski
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I know, I know. The “should” means “are you ready to deal with potential problems caused by this technology”. Using delivery codecs like MPEG-2 and -4 for editing have their share of headaches, and when possible I avoid advising people attempt to edit with them. There are good tools out there for doing it, but Premiere is not necessarily one of them, though it’s success actually depends more on the way the file was encoded and the which decoders are on the system, rather than the application’s behavior. I’m sure in a few years editing MPEG-4 will be a lot smoother, but at the present time there are too many variables for you to hang a reliable workflow off of without spending a lot of money for the type of tools (and the engineers) the broadcast industry is using.
From a delivery perspective, of course, I agree that MPEG-4 is becoming a very popular and useful format. I’ve been encoding things down to MPEG-4 and H.264 for viewing on my iPod, and the quality is great.
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Aanarav’s right. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
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1. Click on the Disc tab in the Project panel. Then in the Properties panel you can set the default audio and subtitle options.
2. You’re probably just going to want to make your still image longer so the blip doesn’t happen so often. Also, be aware that some DVD players may not do this as noticeably. It’s very noticeable during Encore’s preview, but that’s only a simulation and real players (newer ones, anyway) are usually better behaved.
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Before you imported the image, did you have the “Default scale to frame size” option turned on in the preferences?
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The best books I have ever seen are the Creating Motion Graphics series by Chris and Trish Meyer.
But that’s only an opinion. There are other books out there, from good writers, that other folks may be able to recommend. The Adobe Classroom In A Book series is pretty good, though it’s more of a lesson-based approach. Given that you’re just starting out with AE, that may be a good thing.
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I’m not sure, cause I haven’t tried this, but I think in some editing programs you can set the chapter points, and the gops will be created around them for precise placement, but my understanding of this might be off.
That’s true for Premiere Pro. If you put a timeline marker where you want a chapter, and then put a name into the Chapter field of the marker’s properties, when you export the file as an MPEG, Premiere Pro will put GOP headers at the markers, and will also include an .XMPSES file in the same directory that tells Encore to automatically place chapter markers at that point.
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The manuals are also on the install discs in PDF format.
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The only easy way to do this is to use the Automate to Sequence (aka Automate to Timeline, aka Slideshow) function. With that you have to let Premiere add your clips to the timeline at the same time it places the transitions, you can not use it to add transitions to clips already on the timeline.
Otherwise there’s no automatic way. You could use keyboard shortcuts. Page Down is next cut, CTRL+D is place the default transition.
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What format/settings are you trying to export to, what format is your source footage in, and how are you playing it back?
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We need more information. Your computer specifications, for a start- processor type and speed, amount of RAM, number and type of hard drives, available space on the drives, video card model and amount of video RAM, any capture cards that we should know about, etc., etc., etc.
Second, what’s your project like? What type of footage are you working with, what effects and transformations are you applying, what are your project settings, etc., etc., etc.