[Zahoor Sakharkar]

No there isn’t in PPro (at lease cs5 which I work with). It’ s a feature in edius which I use but miss in PPro. The only workflow I came up with (when making templates or repeating something many times on multiple clips) was to use an automation tool , look for the image of CTI and select the clip under the playhead with a clip, lengthy process I know but the only way. Maybe I should request a feature request to adobe

[Zahoor Sakharkar]

wow that’s an ingenious solution and to further add to this if you have several tracks with gaps in them
a) create a transparent video as suggested spanning the entire timeline above your video tracks
b)Select all clips (with gaps) on one of your track using the track selection tool, then change to the normal select tool
c)Move those clips up into the transparent video and then back on their original track without moving them horizontally.
d) Repeat the process above with the clips on all the other tracks.
e)Then select the entire transparent video track and Shift+delete to close all gaps

ps you also get the gaps if you use trim tail/head to CTI – which is available in edius as standard trimming tool via keyboard keys N and M but the feature needs to be enabled through keyboard customisation in premiere (my shortcuts are M and N). If you haven’t tried it give it a try as I find it invaluable in speed editing

[Zahoor Sakharkar]

Apologie for the premature post.
Further tests on real world clips reveal the following.

If you work with PAL (50i settings) – this would be true for 60i I guess:
1) DO NOT use progressive as it causes too much stuttering
2) Create your SD premiere project as DV PAL (Lower field first)if you work with 50i clips
3) Export to media encoder with lower field first preset.
4) Burn as usual in encore.

So going back to the original post-
1) simply create an SD project
2) Copy and paste the HD clips in the SD timeline
3) Export mpeg2 dvd files in media encode
4) Burn in encore

REPEAT DO NOT mess around with progressive if you work with interlaced

[Zahoor Sakharkar]

I can confirm that is my workflow too. Using my own tests of Hd test images and saturated movies.
Will add this too.

1)Copying and pasting the clips from HD timeline to SD yields better results than simply dropping the HD sequence into SD timeline.
2) Max render quality and Max depth do not signicantly affect the resolution. I leave them off.
3) Choose progressive output (as interlaced lowers the resolution)
4) VBR or CBR is upto you and doesn’t affect the resolution.
5) Quality has to be on 5 as all the other settings lower the resolution.

[Zahoor Sakharkar]

a bit late for the reply.
For texture memory problems (insufficient texture memory available) adobe have a wonderful section on after effects and openGL issues. I solved my problem recently by disabling all processing in nvidia drivers such as antialiasing, anistropic ? filtring etc. Switch all these features off ( in manage 3d settings)mode if you are not gaming. For dual monitor ensure compatibility mode selected. This brought back 128 mb of texture memory (boris needs at least 32 mb of memory to work from what I understand). Previously the texture was zero and was causing edius 6.5 trial to crash in 3D mode (no crashes in 2D mode though strange)

[Zahoor Sakharkar]

Ok I had the same issues with cs5 being sluggish on a multicam sequence. The original was a 2 hd camera sequence (with files converted to mpeg2 using adobe media encoder to reduce overhead). Must say the original sequence played back and scrubbed without any effort. The problem was premiere was taking a long time to play back (or scrub) after hitting play in the nested multicam sequence – sometimes up to 4 seconds but then scrubbing was really fast.
As I didn’t need to hear the audio after lining up I simply disabled audio on the audio track. Made the eye disappear. Hey Presto scrubbing was back to normal. I realise this is counterproductive but if you don’t need to hear the audio, try disabling it.

[Zahoor Sakharkar]

premiere cs5 does not recognise timecode for avchd files unless I am missing something