No problem, man.

The best thing to do is to experiment. Not everyone likes the same approach.
Unfortunately I do not use Premiere, but my guess would be to start out with
the Color Balance filter. It should allow you to shift the hue (color). Change it
till it looks "okay" to you.

Most serious NLE's today have good correction tools that may even include
white balancing tools (or a way to do this with your program. Just do a google
search like this: "Premiere Pro" "white balance")

AVI files from AE 6.5 can't be seen in PPro 1.51
 

The saved DV file is in 4:3 not 16:9 though. Any way to correct that? Also, I presume choosing None in codec results in better quality or less lose in subsequent ediitng or rendering? true?

Btw, I don't have Aspect HD in my PC and wonder if it is possible to render that file in Cineform AVI inside PPro 1.51. I guess not.

MPEG audio gone in PPro 1.51
 

I have PPro 1.51 and have imported m2t files from a JVC HD10U camcoder. After changing the file extension from m2t to mpg, I was able to view and edit the HDV footage. But the audio was gone however, been trying to find out how to correct that though.

Recorder ERROR: Scratch Disk is locked or unavailable
 

One day Premiere is working fine and now I get this error message whenever I try to capture video. I've used two different camcorders and tried a different port through my firewire card. I've looked all around the preferences within Premiere and there is no lock feature for the scratch disk. I've also captured video through a different program. Anyone have any ideas please because I can't find this error message on the internet anywhere! Thank you so much.

Josh Woll
JW Productions

Nevermind about the post. For anyone interested, if this problem ever happens to you it's because my external drive was turned off and the location of where I had the scratch disk folder set on was not being recognized. I changed the location to my C:\ drive and everything works fine. Duh! Thank you

Thanks for letting us know Josh!

Its always the easy ones that give you the most trouble ;-)

Cheers,

No Problemo Ed,

Yeah, you would think after that error message Adobe could have included a short message saying "You should change the location of your scratch disk." Make it a WHOLE lot easier for us!

Best,

Josh

Good Slow Motion?
 

I have PP 1.5 and I have the DVX100A, When I tried to do slow motion, it is very stuttery and not smooth at all. I know that this is video, but even on my older systems the slow motion at least looked smooth. What am I doing wrong? Is it the shooting or the software? Just so you know, I have the Matrox RTX100X.

Thanks !!!!

It really depends on how much you are reducing the speed to. But, if you have After Effects, I would do all (or most) of my slow-motion there using the Time Remapping fuction.

You need to extract the audio from the MPEG first (with something like bbTools)
and load that separately. That should solve your problems.

Ditto using AE. But if you must use Premiere, change the speed in "round" increments of 25%, 50%, 75%, 150%, etc., as opposed to 42.35% or whatever.

It does make a difference.

VHS to computer
 

What is the best way to import VHS so that I can edit in Premiere? Do I need any special hardware?

My current thinking is VHS to TV and record TV with my Camera...but that seems like alot of work...so any input would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Most of the better camcorders have "DV pass-through" which would allow you to connect your VHS deck directly to video inputs on the camera using either RCA plugs (composite video) or S-video. You will probably have to activate an option in the camera's menu for this - see your owners manual.

Just be aware that VHS quality is very poor and it will look way inferior to most DV originated material. Also, if you're trying to get a commercial VHS tape into Premiere the pass-through approach probably won't work. These tapes contain a copy protection signal which the camera will recognize and refuse to transcode.

Now if you camera doesn't have the pass-through feature, there are some relatively inexpensive USB and Firewire boxes that will let you put composite or s-video into the computer. You should find a few of these at the big box stores like CompUSA, or you can buy them online.

I was cutting in a voice clip over a narration error and it errored out w/o a msg probably 15 times within a few minutes. I was gettign to the point that I'd adjust a keyframe and save and just repeating that process. It only happened on that project but it makes me nervous for the future.

Equalizing audio, white balancing, and "clipping" bright areas.
 

I videotaped some interviews and am finding problems during post.

Some people spoke loud and clear, while others were soft and barely audible. Is there an easy way to equalize the audio of all the clips in the sequence?

During the videotaping session, the lighting changed. Is there an easy way to equalize the white balance of all the clips in the sequence?

Lastly, in some of the segments the Sun is shining on the floor. Is there a simple way to "clip" the brightest areas while not darkening the rest of the image?

Thanks!

ps. I'm using Premiere Pro 1.0

Waveform will not display
 

I am having a problem with my canon xl2 and premiere pro.The waveform is not visible on tracks I have captured to Premiere Pro 1.5 using my canon xl2. The waveform is visable on tracks I have captured using a sony handycam. What settings have I altered that are causing my problems. I have taken video that has been recorded on the canon and placed the tape in the sony and captured it to Premiere Pro but I still have no waveforms visible. I need to be able to view the waveforms in order to sync two videos.

Hi David,

A few silly things to llok out for:

1. is it still conforming the audio? if so it won't display a waveform until its done?

2. Have you zoomed in on the timeline?

3. Have you captured Audio?

This should have nothing to do with the XL2 tape, provided you did record some sound?

Cheers,

If your camera does not support pass-through it may support something else.
Set the camera in VCR mode, connect the analog lines, hit record on the
camera and then play on the VHS. If you see picture on the camera all should
be well.

When done, stop everything. Rewind the tape and then capture the tape to
your computer in the normal way (the signal is now DV).

The only difference with pass-through is that you can do it without going
to tape first (which did not work on the Canon XL1S for example, while my
method above did work).

Otherwise you will need to look into:

1. analog capture cards (some TV cards can do this as well)

2. a DV deck with analog in/out

3. a analog <-> DV convertor like the Canopus ADVC range of products

Can you turn off autoplay after rendering
 

I am using Premiere Pro 1.5 and one thing that I can not stand is when you render a timeline, once it completes the render, it automatically starts playing the timline from the beginning. Is there any way to turn this off. I have searched this forum and the software and can not find anything. Anyone else annoyed with this...is there a way to turn it off? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Hi!

Go to Edit > Preferences > General and unchek "Play work area after rendering previews".

/Roger

uve got different options available.. if ur using prem pro, grab a matrox rtx100.. super smooth @ 37% lower and u start to notice.. however if ur happy to run a competitive program, grab a copy of vegas
on teh clip, just go to properties, select reduce interlace flicker and turn on the force resample.. u can get it down to about 10% (lowest ive tried) and still get super smooth motion.. just add a sharpening filter when ur doing it... oh and u can also supersample it so teh interpolated fields/frames are clean

Thanks Roger,

I swear, I have gone into the edit preferences so many times looking for a setting like that and evidently I have missed it everytime. Just goes to show that you can miss things right in front of your face. I will try it when I get back to my editing computer as I am at work right now. Thanks again....although I am a little embarassed.

Your GL2 supports pass-thru, VCR --> GL2 --> Computer (via Firewire or 1394)
See page 103 of your GL2 instruction manual for details

Premier Pro 1.5 and O/S Support
 

Can anyone confirm if the new Premier Pro 1.5 version is supported by Windows 64 bit O/S? I am now using the 64 bit O/S platform on the Dell 670 Precision Workstation and unfortunately, a rep from the Sony Media Softare website advised me they do not have 64 bit support yet. That just might be what is causing my Vegas 6.0b crashes.

Is Premier Pro 1.5 64 O/S friendly?

PPro 4:4:4 Output ??
 

Hi,

Forgive me if what I write doesn't make complete sense as I am still learning, but I have a few questions I hope people might be able to answer.

I capture all footage in DV via firewire from my camcorder. In PP I will also have other footage types ie. uncrompressed RGB (output from After Effects), and I will also apply some effects to the DV footage, and do some color correction.

At the moment I use a TV to help with the color correction, connected via firewire->camcorder->composite out. I know TV isn't the best, and I am looking at getting a broadcast monitor. The broadcast monitor is going to be a great improvement, however its still not ideal as it will be displaying 2nd generation DV, thus color correction may be off. Ie. Here is an example workflow of what I think is happening when I do a simple color correction in Adobe, and preview via firewire.

1. DV Footage(4:2:0 YUV)->
2. Uncompressed via DV Codec to 4:4:4 YUV (Adobe's native env)->
3. Apply Correction in YUV Space->
4. Render uncompressed 4:4:4(YUV)->
5. Compress via DV Codec 4:2:0 YUV->
6. Firewire transfer->
7. Uncompress via Camcorder DVCodec (4:2:0 YUV)->
8. Output via composite

Is there anyway to take the output of stage 4 and output that directly to a broadcast monitor?

Can someone confirm to me also that PP uses 4:4:4 YUV as it's native environment?

Thanks

Robert

If you're mastering on mini-DV, you might as well preview your video via firewire with DV compression. It's going to end up that way anyways.

2- Your computer monitor shows "4:4:4" RGB (not YUV).

3- DV compression generally doesn't affect color accuracy at all. It does affect color 'resolution'- some things may look a little chunky, or colors on motion may be off.

I can't tell the difference between 2nd and 1st generation DV compression.

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the reply.

I will be mastering to at a minimum DVD/MPEG2.

Your correct saying my computer monitor is 4:4:4 RGB, but before it reaches the monitor PP has done all it's calculations in 4:4:4 YUV. A color space transformation is done to RGB is done for the computer monitor. It's well known the differences between a broadcast monitor a computer monitor ie. color gamut's and color spaces. So ideally I want to do my color correction on a broadcast monitor. I dont' want to do my color correction on broadcast monitor where the material has gone through ->

4:4:4 YUV -> DV Compression to 4:2:0 YUV->Firewire xfer->Camcorder DV Uncompress->YUV Composite

The virtue of the DV Compression/Uncompression and subsampling reduces the color noticibily. Because I will be editing in a 4:4:4 YUV environment, it would be good to be able to see that as an output.

I have found one place that sells a card that may help my troubles @ http://www.bluefish444.com. Are there any other options?

Cheers

Robert

It's not specifically listed here: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs.html

I thought I saw it on an ad in DV Magazine.

Thanks
 

Thanks to those who responded. I understand and will check the manuals on the camera...

Thanks again

info on current-time indicator
 

In the time line, attached to the top right of my current time indicator, is a gray bar of (currently) 28 frames. This off-sets my insert point. When I insert a new clip, it splits the previous clip and puts 28 frames to the right of the new clip.

I know this is confusing, but can anyone tell me what this bar is, and how to get rid of it?

Dan

how to hook up monitor to use with premiere pro
 

i've done a search and apparently i'm not doing a good job...anyway
...i'm running a radeon 9800 dual monitor graphics card and premire 1.5
how do i hook up an external monitor for playback to my system....i cant seem to figure it out....
thanx

Chris,

I just did this the other weekend with the 100A on a new short I am working on. These were my settings:

Scene File 6 but turn off 24pa (so 60i)
Shutter 120
Bring it into a 24pA timeline and slow the footage down to 40%

Hope that helps!

New Version
 

I'm very interested in buying Premier Pro. But I'm not sure if a new version will come a couple month later. I know that the 1.5 version is about a year old.
My question is, Does anybody knows when the next version will be release?

Nope. None of us knows, and any insiders who might know can't and won't say. Just guesses. My guess is this autumn, shortly after the anticipated next crop of HD camcorders hits the street.

Burn To DVD From Timeline?
 

Is that true? I won't have to open the finished product in another application to make a DVD?

Yes, PPro can transcode and burn direct to writeable DVD using Adobe Media Encoder, which is the shared applet included with PPro, Encore, and the Adobe Video Collection that does the actual transcoding.

However, there are no menu creation options or anything like that from PPro. Just straight to DVD...pop the burned DVD in your player and it'll play through beginning to end. Since I use Encore, I haven't really used that feature of PPro for a while, but it would be good for burning preview test discs for drafts of a project, or to experiment with different transcoding settings. If you want to make nice DVDs to share with others, you'd still need a separate DVD authoring application.

Other applications while capturing video
 

I have a dual-screen setup for my system. Is there a way to use other applications (internet, word, etc.) while capturing without premier stopping the capturing process? It happened once before, but I don't know how I did it. Thank you.

Josh Woll

I would be cautious about using other programs, while doing video. One time, I ended up with the sound of Star Trek doors opening in the middle of a client's video.