Walter Biscardi
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Definitely sounds like you might be moving the media around or something, maybe accidentally, but if the Preview files simply “disappear” then they have been moved somehow.
What version of Premiere Pro are you running, what’s your main media storage and then finally, check your Project > Scratch Disk and ensure that your Preview Files (Video and Audio) are going where they are supposed to be going.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Not that I know of. The quick and dirty way to change the size would be to simply change the Scale of one and then Apply the Attributes to the rest. That would only work if you’re making them smaller.
We use Photoshop for all our titles here as we’re finding that it’s easier to go back and make changes with many projects than with the Title Tool. We’re using the same workflow I developed for Good Eats back when I was still cutting with FCP. Create batches of lower thirds and titles in a single layered Photoshop file. 15 to 20 layers of titles and then bring that in as a Sequence.
So in your case, I might have 15 to 20 subtitles in one layered Photoshop file.
To change the font in all of them, just click “Edit Original” which will open the file back up in Photoshop. Then I can just change the font and size in all the layers real quick, save it and it will update across Premiere Pro.
But beyond all that I’m hoping someone might chime in with a way to do this with the Title Tool.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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You know honestly I hadn’t even noticed that. Even after 11 years of cutting in FCP, I didn’t even notice that change in the workflow. I guess I like it more than FCP.
No, I honestly don’t know a way to change that. Sorry.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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For sure, you get the BEST realtime playback when the interface is all contained on a single screen. No clue why, but we run dual screens in our shop and Premiere Pro will drop frames constantly when we have the interaface in a dual screen configuration. The editors accept this for the time being since it’s the only way we can edit. This is even true of our 12 core Mac Pro with dual nVidia cards.
When it’s time for client review or full show playback, we switch the Workspace to a single screen Editing preset and then everything plays out fine.
The two biggest concerns for realtime playback are your system config (CPU / RAM / Graphics Card) and the speed of your RAID. Especially the speed of your RAID.
With our configurations we cut everything raw native from the camera. If we have to capture from tape we capture ProRes quicktimes. Hope that helps!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Hmmmm, a headscratcher for sure, we do this all the time.
So you just did an XML from FCP into Premiere Pro? Which version of XML did you use? Sometimes it helps to step back to an older version like XML 2 or 3.
Ensure your audio tracks are unlocked in FCP too.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Rockin, definitely get out and download this puppy!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Right now tape capture is a very touchy subject for us in CS6. We just can’t get it working well at all.
We have AJA Kona boards installed across our entire facility. Both tape capture and tape layback don’t work right now within Premiere Pro.
We have one BlackMagic Decklink Extreme 3D card in our Resolve system and that card can perfectly lay back to tape. Both Assemble and Insert edits. We have NOT tried to capture with it.
We do one of two things when we have to capture tape.
Use FCP 7 for batch captures.
Use our AJA KiPro for individual / full tape captures.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro by Richard Harrington, Robbie Carmen and Jeff Greenberg should be on every editor’s desk if you’re switching to PPro.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Blowing up the footage to 1080 will definitely soften it.
In our shop we edit all 720p natively then use our AJA Kona cards or the AJA KiPro to convert the footage to 1080i for final delivery where necessary. That’s the best way to do it.
Cutting in 720p also gives you cleaner, progressive delivery for the internet.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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[Nate Tam] “When moving a video clip located in track 1 with it’s audio linked and in audio track 1 and 2, the clips dont move together. I’m NOT talking about lateral movement. I want to simply put the video on track 2, and the audio to AUTOMATICALLY move to audio track 3 and 4 (the way FCP does it). It will not for the life of me do it! “
No, Premiere Pro doesn’t work that way. That’s by design and quite honestly now that we’re all used to it at our shop we now prefer it to the way FCP used to work.
Just get used it or make a Feature Request at Adobe’s website.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.