Vince Becquiot
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That reminds me of a render I did a while back at the last minute (about 16 hours worth with no time to re-render). Had to replace over 50 of those half black frames with stills from the timeline inside Premiere. Fun times…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I misread, I thought we were talking about Dynamic linking, Petros is indeed correct.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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One solution was to make the comp background black in AE, I guess there are working on that bug.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Gully,
Premiere works differently than FCP, in that it creates native sequences based on the footage you are bringing in. FCP is (was) mostly restricted to converting everything to Prores. Unfortunately, DSLR wasn’t much around in the days of CS3. It also requires quite a bit of processing power, at least a solid i7 CPU to get rid of that red bar. In CS3, you have the option to purchase Cineform which is the equivalent of Prores for Premiere.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I think Greg has the most important comment here. Your first problem is not who owns the footage, but why the client decided to walk away.
Now, they could be out there to screw you, but more often there’s more to the story. You really need to have a meeting with them before any negotiation is done. If they really want the footage, I can’t see them refusing that meeting, and that’s where you’ll get real answers. If they indeed feel like they received an inferior product, (they should be able to show you what they are comparing your work against at the same price point), you should request payment for the work performed, but I would let them have the footage.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Michael,
There’s one more thing (Putting on that Columbo hat), try checking off the write XMP data box in your preferences. That should do the trick.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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That’s madness alright…
The only thing I can think of is to throw all the H.264 in Adobe Media Encoder and convert them to something else. QT Animation if you have a RAID, or something with a smaller bit rate like half quality Motion Jpeg, edit with that as proxies, and replace when you are done with your edit.
My guess is Premiere just doesn’t like the files you are throwing in.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Michael,
Welcome to the Premiere side. CFA and PEK files are audio conform and index files that Premiere creates for the edit. There should only be created once at import and they are required.
If you are seeing it happen constantly, there may be an other issue in play. You could try deleting the media cache folder and let Premiere start over.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Raymond,
I’m surprised that EX3 wrapped in Quicktime by Final Cut even opened in Premiere, I’ve had not such luck. Anyway, always best to use the original EX3 files when available. Otherwise, converting top Prores is a good solution.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Geoffrey,
Yes, you can simply use the Mac display out, make sure it’s in extended (non mirrored mode). Then go tho the playback settings (Contextual menu at top left of the program monitor) and set the playback output to that display. Black magic also makes a Thunderbolt playback unit if you have the latest model.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area