Vincent Rosati
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Try…
Select All, than Object/Path/Outline Stroke.
You should now be able to Direct Select the fills and Select/Same/Fill Color.Vince
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Select the object than Object/Expand, before saving.
Vince
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Maybe you could use Effect/Stylize/Add Arrowheads.
Or, drag the brush back onto the artboard than put it back in the Brush Palette and create a new Scatter Brush. You’ll likely have to mess with the settings to get it to work right, probably the Spacing parameter.
Or, put the Arrow that is in the artboard into the Swatch Palette and name it, than also drag it to the Brush Palette to create a Pattern Brush. It will default to making the shape a Side Tile, so…
You will have to create a swatch to add it for the Side Tile, it can just be a shape with no fill or stroke, name this swatch. Back in the Pattern Brush settings, click on Side Tile and set it to the blank object you just created, than click in the End Tile and set it to the Arrowhead swatch you just created.If this isn’t clear, just let me know.
Vince
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It’s probably a codec issue. Open the WAV in an audio app or QT Pro or something and export it as a Windows PCM WAV.
Ideally, you should match audio files to your project settings – 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, whatever.Vince
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Hey Jim,
If you get a chance, let us know your solution/setup/settings.Vince
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I don’t think I ever used A/B editing, but I do recall seeing a number threads addressing similar issues. Search the archives of this forum or the Pro forum.
Vince
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Al –
As I recall, at least in PP1.5 AME is installed when you use it for the first time, it’s a free download. Premiere does install with some basic Main Concept components. Main Concept MPEG Pro is a purchased plugin. Pro allows for much more control over the encoding process. If you make DVDs it’s arguably a must-have plugin.Sviatoslav –
Although I haven’t tested opening a P7 project in PP CS3, I’ve never had an issue opening older Premiere projects in newer versions.
If you simply want to export a high quality file that will be transcoded at a later time, you should use video Compressor: None or Uncompressed and the audio should be PCM WAV.
The file will be huge, but it’s the best quality.Vince
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Amazing question, you’ve really done some homework. 🙂
Generally, MOV is for Mac and AVI is for PC. A nice feature of the QuickTime MOV container (Mac or PC) is in the functionality of QuickTime Pro, in that you can trim clips and do some other simple editing functions prior to editing.If your goal is to export a file that can be added to a DVD-Video project as an independent track you should export as MPEG-2 DVD with either Adobe Media Encoder or Main Concept MPEG Pro.
Assuming you’re in an NTSC region, you should use 29.97FPS, 720×480. Also, if your video is NTSC interlaced, it should be encoded as interlaced, probably with lower fields first.
If your video is fullscreen, use a 4×3 preset, if it’s widescreen use a 16:9 preset.
Also, choose a preset that is VBR 2-pass.In the Adobe Media Encoder presets it doesn’t matter which quality setting you choose as you can adjust this after the preset is chosen in the video settings. Just boost the quality slider to it’s maximum.
Next, a nice high VBR bitrate setting would be Max 8000 / Target 6000/ Min 3825.Use PCM audio for maximum compatibility.
Finally, I prefer to enable DVD Multiplexing as this creates a single MPG file, instead of two files – an audio only file and a video only file (although there is a benefit in doing this, ask whoever is authoring the DVD what they prefer. If you do not Multiplex, this would allow the person who is authoring the DVD to level the audio to match the rest of the program).
Vince
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I’m not sure about any scripting functionality in Premiere, but basically, within any project you will want to create a new Sequence (Timeline) for each movie file you wish to output.
So it sounds like you’d need about 30 Sequences.
You can use the Export Work Area feature to achieve your desired results, but that’s more of a special circumstance function.Perhaps all you need is a sort of batch processing application. Maybe AVS Video Converter might be a better solution for this project. Under it’s Edit feature you can set all of your In/Out points than set it to split-batch export based on time or file size to numerous formats, including WMV.
Vince
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I’ve had better results doing titles in After Effects, and saving as Uncompressed AVI, Straight (Unmatted) Color with an Alpha Channel.
To make Premiere titles look better I like to add Video Effect/Blur set to zero or at it’s lowest settings. This forces Premiere to render the text as an effect.Since you’re using DV footage, unless you’re doing more advanced post-processing, you should only need to export the project once to your target final format – MPEG-2 for DVD or to a desktop delivery format.
It sounds like you’ve done a sort of preliminary sorting by exporting desired cut clips. This is probably an unnecessary exercise.
With Premiere you could have went straight to a rough cut, than used the Trim Project feature under Project on the main menu, to trim your DV clips. Note, this doesn’t work with MPEG clips.
This trims your clips to the desired length and resaves them unrendered as new clips. It is a nice tool.But, if you do need to export clips they should be exported as Uncompressed AVI or Compressor: None.
Just some ideas
Vince