Vince Becquiot
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Melissa,
Your CPU at 2GHz should be fine for simple standard def edits. A few other things to consider: Is Premiere really the only thing running at the time of the edit ?
Antivirus can slow things down quite a bet.
Also, if you are editing clips that already have been rendered, Premiere tends to freeze a bit on some computers. But you no longer lose most of your rendered files after that edit, as it used to be in previous versions, which I’m guessing, means quite a bet more backgroung work.
The last things that it doesn’t deal with very well is high rez images, I mean above 2500px x…
Vince
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If you have already imported these particular files, then they likely are corrupted, or being used by another application.
On a side note, when ripping tracks from a cd for editing, avoid using WMA, use the WAV (PCM) option instead.
You will maintain optimal quality, without recompressing (which Windows Media doesn’t do very well), and maximize your compatibility.
Vince
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Greg,
After all this, it may be worth trying a clean install of Premiere, if you haven’t done so yet, even deleting preferences may help.
Is 1.5 installed on the same machine ?
Vince
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That’s common issue if you are limited in ram speed and CPU power.
The workaround, other than a computer upgrade, is a preview monitor.
Vince
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Hector,
I have encountered this issue as well. A simple work around is to cut and paste the words or just the characters from MS Word, or other ALT character friendly applications into Encore.
Cheers,
Vince
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Hi,
You can’t apply an effect to the whole track, but you can do copy and paste attributes for each clip, or simply copy a single effect and paste it in the other clips.
Vince
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I think you may have explained it in the middle of your post, CPU at 100 %;)
But that could also be something else, what CPU(s) are you on (Speed, buffer, etc.)
V.
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> This is becoming a huge issue for me. This is my first assignment with my new employer and I am feeling like a total idiot. In DVD Architect it was just a matter of moving a slider in the optimize menu. Is there anything akin to it in Premiere? That sound you hear is my career dying.
Well, Premiere media encoder is just that, an encoder. It doesn’t, and has no way to know what other content, such as motion menus, aditional videos, etc. you are putting on that DVD, so an auto bit rate feature based on space would pretty much be useless.
Please see my post above, is your issue space, or bit rate calculation ?
If you export uncompressed, then DVD Architect will take care of the rest.
Cheers,
Vince
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Hi there,
Actually, DV export is a bad choice in any situation. It will recompress your footage to DV (That doesn’t do very well with any added graphics or effects), and you definitely want the best quality to start with if you want to fit all that on a single layer DVD.
The best way here would be to export uncompressed, either QuickTime animation, or AVI, and letting Encore, or any DVD authoring software you are using pick the optimal bit rate. But that means a file size around 200+ GB
Hard drives are cheap nowadays, but you don’t have the space, you are left calculating the optimal bit rate, including any motion menus you may have on the DVD.
Here is a link to a bit rate calculator to help you out: https://www.customflix.com/Special/AuthoringNightmares/03/BitBudget.jsp
You can then use the Media Encoder export in Premiere and choose a custom rate to fit it all on that DVD.
Good luck,
Vince
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There isn’t much you can do with PDF other than reading the file in Acrobat. You will not be able to use it in Premiere.
You probably would be better off using a program like Picassa that allows you to export to other formats, if indeed Photoshop Album only allows PDF export.
Vince