Premiere Pro v7.0 Problem with dissolves
 

hi all,

Captured about 30mins of footage into premiere. Cut it down to approx 5 mins. Theres about 15 cuts on the timeline. On some of the cuts whenever I put a cross dissolve in there, there is a problem with the dissolve. Basically during the dissolve, there is a frame from another part of the timeline which magically appears in the dissolve! In other words, it dissolves from A to B but just before the centre of the dissolve there is this frame from another part of the timeline.... wierd...

Anyone have any ideas?

Is this Premiere Pro 1.0 or 1.5? Did you update the version to the latest patch?
From what I understand (I'm not using Premiere, however) is that 1.5 solved
a lot of problems with 1.0 (I could be wrong on that).

You must have enough of handels of a clip to avoid this problem. Read more about About clip handles and transitions in PPro help.

/Roger

Christopher,

Thanks Christopher. I checked it out and it is not the same. I continued on into the support section for awhile, and nothing yet. Will continue on into it later.

thanks-Mike

External Monitor
 

I currently monitor premiere with my XL1s trhough the firewire and thought maybe I should get a dedicated card. I read posts on this site that I should get a card with an analogue out that works with premiere pro 1.5. Is there somewhere a list of all the cards that work, or will any graphics card with an analogue out work. All cards suggested such as matrox canopus etc seem to be capture cards, does the card need to have capture ability for premiere to recognise it. Maybe we could set up a list of what everyone uses to get our own compatability list going

Thanks in advance

Andy

Hi Andrew,

I would not use a Graphis card for out put to TV.

There are only 2 ways to do it.

1. Buy a capture card like the Matrox RTx series or Canopus line of products. (there are other manufacturers as well). Also remember that these cards are also Hardware accelerator cards. They will speed up the time of rendering and exporting, but are picky about other hardware in your PC (Will be expensive)

2. Use your firewire port and use the analogue pass-thru on your camcorder (not so expensive).

Hope this helps a little,

I bought a Canopus ADV110 for video capture from my VHS/VCR and got a bonus of being able to run video out my computer firewire into my TV. I think that that is money well spent. (wife is still thinking about it.) The nice thing about the ADV110 is it requires no power if you have a 6 pin firewire connection.

So when I'm doing title placement and such, I just plug it into my tele. It works for that purpose fine.

Hope this helps.

Steven Davis.

Disk full errors in Premiere - i have tons of space left!!
 

i'm trying to export a file from premiere and eventhough i have a lot of space on the external HD that is the source of the file and is being outputed to, after 9 min of export i get a disk full error!
i tried exporting to the c:\ drive same error
what is going on?

what file system are you using

10 bucks says fat32`

uhu
i have a new external HD that i can probably format to ntfs would that solve the damn prob
it is really frostrading and b/c of one file i haven't even start editing the proj that is due tom night

I've heard about a patch that increses the max filesize for fat32

Yeah go up to NTFS on your external, really shouldn't take to long.

If you have a lot of space and a program like partition magic you could just make your freespace into a ntfs drive.

You can convert FAT32 to NTFS without having to format. Google search for "FAT32 to NTFS conversion".
http://www.ntfs.com/quest3.htm

You may have to run "chkdsk /f" on your external drive first.

Your problem may also be something else.

Has to be a file size limitation due to FAT32. 2nd hardware remove and replace diagnosis would be to quickly dump in a secondary slave HDrive on your ide cable that currently feeds your cd rom ... this will get your project rendered for tomorrow... you can do without your second dvd/cd-rom for one night...

Also, since nobody mentioned it I suppose I will: When you attempt a second export to a location and file that are the same as the previous attempt, old versions of premiere would not allow this unless you shut down Premiere and re-started ...

This is a known bug in Premiere Pro. If you do a search on the Adobe web site for "green screen stills" you will see several discussions. It appears to be some sort of memory leak. Adobe is well aware of the problem, but to the best of my knowledge has not made a patch available.

In addition to the previous suggestions, some solutions that I have found that work:
1. Import the photos at a lower resolution. I have only encountered the problem when using high resolution photos. I usually batch reformat the photos in Photoshop, then import them at no more than ~1200 x 1000.
2. Place a black matte as video above the photos, then set the matte opacity to 0%
3. Change the photo slightly using the effects control window. Something as simple as changing the opacity from 100% to 99%, changing the position from 360 to 359, etc. will force the editor to re-render the sequence.
4. Use short sequences of photos/transitions/effects and export them to AVI. Then combine the short sequences into one long sequence.

Good luck,
Barry Oppenheim

what do i selcet when encoding?
 

i want the highest quality. but i also want others to be able to download it in a timely fashion....

any suggestions?

btw. 7.0