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Easily done in PPro and A/E
Export a frame and open in photoshop.
Select the area you want to isolate for the effect. Alt + backspace to fill black. Invert the selection. Fill that area white. Now you have a matte. Back to PPro ... Duplicate the clip in the timeline. Place the photoshop matte in track 3. The upper clip (track2) will have track matte applied to it. Un-eyeball track 3. Apply whatever effect you want to track 2 and only the revealed space based upon the track matte will have the effect applied. The above is for locked down scenes. For more complex work with motion mattes, you are best to play in A/E. Lots of patience for that. YWA! |
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I haunt the Adobe forum from time to time and I can feel the desperation in the words of the people who post their hardware/software conflict problems. In this particular case, I had the same problem and could not sleep because of it (literally). I awoke at 0300 hours and worked on the problem and searched the Adobe forums and read every post and solution until I found one that worked. So I like to pass it on to anybody who has this issue which is simply solved. Now that you are here, I seem to be having a problem with the Adobe Audition 1.5 software. When I first started using it, I could rip individual music tracks from CDs for use in Adobe Premiere 1.5. However, now all of a sudden, when I try to rip individual music tracks, the software recognizes my drive but tells me it does not recognize any music with the .cda extension (which is cd music!) So now why, all of a sudden, can I not rip/import tracks from my Sony DVD burner? By the way, if you click the links on my fist post you cannot get onto the Adobe site unless you are a registered user so here is a cut and paste of my post: <<You need to remove then re-install Premiere Pro so it recognizes the new drive. The following paragraph cut and pasted from the Adobe site explains why: <<18. Reinstall Adobe Premiere Pro. DVD driver entries can be accidentally deleted or become misprioritized in the Windows registry, resulting in errors. Removing and reinstalling Adobe Premiere Pro can replace a deleted DVD driver entry or change the priority of a DVD driver entry in the Windows registry.>> I did what it said and now my DVD burner works great.>> |
Very cool! Thank you so much!
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Gradual Loss of A/V sync in PPro
In Adobe Premiere Pro, I am gradually losing lip-sync even after rendering. If I stop and start again in the same place, the lip-sync is restored, but is lost again in around a minute. Can anyone come up with a solution?
Thanks in advance, Mike Wham Edit: The computer Fujitsu N series Laptop, with a 1.86ghz Pentium M processor, ATI Mobility Radeon X300, 1.00 gb ddr ram. It runs windows XP service pack 2 home edition. |
What Video Card to use with PPro
I was wondering if this card
(ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT 100-714200 All-In-Wonder Radeon X800XT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3) was good to use with Premiere Pro. I currently have ATL 9600. Works great but I could use a faster one. HAs anyone had experience with this card? From all reports it appears to be a great card. Just wanting to get all your Ideas. Thanks Harry |
Harry,
What type problems are you having with the ATI 9600? I have one running with Pro1 in a Dell Optiplex, 2.8 Pentium IV, w/1 GB ram for about 3 months now and everything has been working flawlessly. Rendering times seem to be reasonable. Of course I am not running any other programs in the background so I think this has had a positive effect. Regards, Mark |
What Video Card to use with PPro
Hi Mark
Actually I'm not having any problems with the 9600. I 've had it for about 1 1/2 years. Like you I have 1 Gig of Ram 1.8 mhz board and render times are ok. Nothing blazing but that's ok. It is a solid card.I also like to Flight Sim alot. It's there that I have alittle problem. Things that are aggravating like changing views it hesitates somewhat. anyway as for PPRO 1.5 it does, I guess, as advertised. Just putting feelers out to see if anyone has had experience with the x800. Thank you very much for your reply. I appreciate it. Harry |
I do not think you'll get any faster render times with a new video card. I believe encoding DV is mainly a CPU operation. I dont have experience with the X800 but im sure it is a fast card, but only get it if you need more 3D performance. Get it for flight sim not for Premiere. Premiere is 2D, and I do not imagine it to be extremely demanding from your GPU. I, too, have an ATI9600 and even it doesnt seem to make 2d apps run any faster than a budget nvidia fx5200.
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Hi Noah
I guess I should save my money untill it comes down abit more. $300 is a chunk of change. I can put up with a little stutter with my Fltsim until then. I appreciate your input. Take Care Harry |
Try a MATROX Parhelia.
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No need to go back to Photoshop.
1. Duplicate your clip and place it on a track higher 2. Apply the garbage matte filter (4, 8 or 16 point) to the second clip 3. Make sure that the garbage matte includes the sky only. 4. Apply effects to the sky as needed. - Aanarav Sareen, ACE Adobe Certified Expert, Premiere Pro |
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I guess so ... but show me a clip with perfectly polygonic sky that has exactly 4 or 8 selection points that allow the creator to precisely key the sky against say a stand of trees. Or perhaps a few buildings... Impossible. Photoshop is the essential tool for this effect. |
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waht your wanting is something claled a "region Filter" which many Canopus would be used to using.
basically it does exactly what u want it to do to either a specific colour, colour range, or selected area. 2 ways u can get this happenin in premiere is to get a Storm2 card, install the plugs and a plugin called "storm effects" and run the canopus driver plugins and hope that they dont fall over... or u can grab a copy of Edius Pro 3 and run that on ur premiere system and do it in software... u can find cheap s/h edius packages on ebay |
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Hi Ryan, I just came across your post 6 months later. I was looking for the same. I just found a software developer that makes a program that will pull single frames from your video. You can download a free trial. the final product will only cost you $30.00. Go to http://www.frame-shots.com |
Hi Ryan and Co
I do just as Sheila says, very quick and easy....and from my FX1 I get pretty nice stills for a video camera... a couple of points... 1) I find it better to de-interlace the shot in Photoshop Filter> Video > de-interlace... It sort of snaps the shot sharper by removing the aliasing and interpolating a new field in its place... 2) As it shoots 16.9 I have to stretch the shot out to the right proportions using the image resize... Hope this helps Gareth |
Hi Mike,
Lipsync can be associated with disk bandwidth/ general performance. How much space do you have left on your media drive/ how much is used up? What sort of Harddrive is it? What speed does it run at? You also need to meet the recommened system spec here: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs.html Just a few things to look into... Cheers, |
FWIW I have similar symptoms regarding the drifting out of A-V sync. I'm my case, it is related to the latency/delay caused by using a M-audio USB Audiophile. When I use the PC's soundcard there is no problem.
Regards, Ken W. |
Problem burning DVD from Premiere Standard
Question: I have made a movie using Premiere Standard, but when I encode and burn it using MyDVD 4.5, the footage temporary freeze's after each "Black video" clip. It also begins at the first image rather than the begining of the video.
I'm new to this so any advice would be great. I also tried burning it with Honestech with the same result. Petr. |
In Premiere Pro, go to Project>Project Settings>Video Rendering. Uncheck "Optimize Stills." Then re-export your avi and encode/burn your DVD.
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Thank you for the replies. My computer meets or exceeds the system requirements. It have 1gb DDR ram, 1.8ghz processor, 781mhz front side bus, and 131gb of hard disk space. The hardrive is a 300gb Maxtor one-touch and it is 7200 rpm. It is connected via usb 2.0, which I believe has a speed around 480 mbps. Fortunately, when I export the video to tape, it says "render audio before export?", and I do. From there it works fine. However, it is still a big anoyance because it makes it difficult to tell if the narration and music are in the right places.
Thanks, Mike |
don't know if it's relevant, but some people believe that you should always put a black leader onto the beginning of the dvd, at least 3 seconds long? do it within premiere, then have premiere do the encoding to mpeg2... make it all one long clip, you should then be able to import the mpeg2 to your dvd encoding app and assign chapter breaks to it there.
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Need RAID Advice w/ PPro 105
Need an honest, down to earth assessment from seasoned PPro 1.5 users concerning Premierer Pro 1.5 and a RAID 0 setup.
Question #1: Is the speed increase with RAID 0 worth the chance of losing everything if a hard drive crashes? I am using five, internal 250 gig hard drives for data only. Should I just use the scratch disk feature in Premiere Pro 1.5 and use a separate hard drive for vidcaps/audcaps vid previews/audpreviews conformed audio? Question #2: If I decide to use RAID 0, how does that affect the way I set up scratch disks? |
RE Question #1: No, in my opinion. The more hard drives you throw into a RAID 0, the greater the odds of a failure. At one time I had a RAID 0 setup for video editing, and lost files when one of the drives went south (since the data is striped across two or more hard drives, you lose everything when one fails). Since then I've stayed away from RAID 0. DV doesn't need the speed increase. I'm not sure that HDV does, either.
Of course, you should really have a backup solution in place for your video projects, regardless of whether or not you are using RAID 0. I finally implemented one myself (it took me long enough!). RE Question #2: Your OS will see the RAIDed drives as a single hard drive, so there won't be anything special you will need to do in Premiere Pro. |
Thank you, Christopher, for this response and the one from the Editing on the PC thread.
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Thanks, I will give it a try.
What is currently the best software for authoring and burning, for a reasonable price? Somethiíng that works well with Premiere? Cheers Petr |
I actually use RAID 0 and non-raid. All SATA of course.
Anyways, my original raw footage is on a 500GB Hitachi SATA II drive. My export scratch disks, and previews on a RAID 0 two 250GB Sata Drives. While my audio conforms on a a Single 80GB 10K Sata Drive. So in this case, I have never had a problem and if they raid goes south, all is not lost as the original footage is on the non-raid. For me it's a huge difference in rendering because of the RAID 0 vs. Rendering to a non-raid scratch disk. Pent D 3.2Ghz 2GB DDR2-667 OS Drive: 2x74GB Raptors (Raid 0) Media: 500GB Hitachi SATA II Render/Export: 2x250GB (RAID 0) Audio Drive: 80GB 10K SATA drive (Audition and Premiere Use) |
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My 3 systems have 3 different types..
Matrox P650 AGP GeForce 6800 PCI-E GeForce GTX-7800 PCI-E (It doubles as my gaming system..) :) |
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Although, after it conforms I have also selected edit original again and then just closed audition after it opened and the new one appeared in the timeline. |
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Avid allows you to do draft as well. However, with Premeire it's not possible or at least I haven't figured it out and am stuck with you have to render the Magic Bullet effects before they are barable to watch..:) Your other option is use After Effects with MB and then set you render to Draft and that works much better..:) |
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Trapcode's is much better than the one in AE anyways, in my opinion.. I use it all the time..
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I have noticed after dropping 4 or more audio effects you need to render it for them to sound as you planned. For example, I dropped a reverb as effect 4 and didn't notice the reverb effect until I rendered.. But it could have been a fluke..
Anyways, Audition is what I use for any of that anyways.. |
i use nero for burning the finished dvd... and reeldvd for simple authoring, it's been largely bulletproof and very compatible... it's too old to recommend these days, tho... once you create the mpeg2 and it's associated ac3 audio file, try downloading the 30-day trial of dvd lab pro... spend time reading their forum first, so you'll know what you are getting into.
in this day and age, you should be capable of creating good web video, and you absolutely must be able to create quality dvd's... the latter means that you'll need to understand the basic workflow: 1)edit the video 2)create a dvd-compatible mpeg2 file 3)create a dolby ac3 audio file 4)create a dvd menu 5)import all of the above into a dvd authoring application, where you'll set the chapter breaks to match the menu you created. for the last couple of years, the trend has been to mish-mash it all into one application, which results in a situation where newbies don't understand what encoding is, what is required to do it right, where it's being done, what app is actually doing it, etc... but you can also get tremendous value for the $$ with some do-it-all packages. |
are you saying that the scenes are not being shot in chronological order? you are having to shoot scene a, scene b, scene a, scene b, etc., instead of scene a, scene a, scene b, scene b, etc?
even with scene recognition, there is no way for the software to recognize scenes and place them together... it can only break 'em up chronologically as a function of when they were shot, so the date and timecode won't help you there... unless you were indeed swapping tapes as you jumped from scene a to scene b?? ummm... in that case there should be a date and time stamp on each clip that's included with the captured dv avi... i'd guess that you'd need a way for the editing program to list 'em by that data? i'm shooting from the hip here, lol! |
I originally asked why it renders audio tracks that have NO filters applied. After more thought, I believe it renders unfiltered audio tracks if they are stacked, slightly or mostly overlap, have any band adjustments, etc. even though no filter is applied.
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Premiere Pro doesn't include an AC3 encoder (well, except for the trial version of the Surcode encoder). If he goes with DVD-Lab he would need to use something like BeSweet to encode his audio to AC3, since DVD-Lab does not transcode video and audio to the required DVD formats.
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Well than that's a good question.. It doesn't on mine.. It only renders if I A. Lock the Track or B. Apply more than 4 effects. Not to be confused with conforming audio of course..
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I do lock the tracks when I finalize a project. Maybe that is it. I know that when I unlock a locked video track that has already been rendered, it loses the render and I have to re-render it. If you catch it, you can just undo to restore the render without re-rendering.
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