Recapture the footage ?

Rolling Titles in small box - Premiere 6.5
 

I'm trying to create a rolling title in a small box over a graphic with video running behind it all. No problem with rolling text, but I can't seem to bound it into a box. It starts on inside but extends to the bottom of the page AND rolls off the top. I want it contained in the box. Also can't seem to find the Window, Window Optons, Title Window Options menu choice that the help screens talk about. Anyone have any suggestions? TIA

Do you mean that when you put it on the timeline the clip only looks like it's about 3 minutes long, or after the first few minutes the clip is just black?

I can't think of what this could be.. try recapturing part of it. That's weird that it plays in WiMP though, hmm..

Brian,

- I used the Premiere Capture window set to DV devices, and DV template

Bruce,

- That would be my last resort!!!

Alex,

- When the clip is on the timeline it just displays the first 3min - No black just a straight cut.

The premiere properties says its a 3min clip but also says its 12GB!!! something strange happening.

Cheers Guys,
All the best,

Ed

Apply the transform filter effect found under the distort folder to the title. Then resize and place where needed.

All the best,

Ed

Is it possible that the duration of the clip is defaulting to a set length? I have created several short promotion videos set to music and i frequently alter the duration and speed of clips to fit the music. Could it be that an option has been set so that footage over a certain duration is truncated to a more manageable size?

Have you tried grabbing the right hand edge of the clip and extending it to see if the remaining footage is there?

Does that make any sense at all?

Regards

Nick

Nick,

I don't think that I have set the clips to default duration because they are all different and odd numbers. Besides when I imported in another video clip, that one worked fine - It only seems to be on the 3 clips I captured recently.

Tried grabbing the right hand edge but it would not let me go any further.

Cheers Nick for your suggestions,

Ed

How much storage is left on the drive? It sounds like you are using NTFS, so that would be correct.

Good thinking Nathan,

Its an 80GB Maxtor 7200RPM drive. It had about 25GB free, by the end of capturing it left about 4.5GB

I have not tried freeing up more space- will try tonight when I get back from work.

If that don't work I will re-install Premiere

Any more suggestions,

All the best,

Ed

Ed,

Thanks much, I'll give that a shot today.

Try recapturing like 10 minutes of the video and see what happens.

I am not sure if freeing or defragging will do. Some NLEs get a little fussy about defragging in the middle of a project. Rendering might help prevent that.

I tried to recapture 10mins and for some reason the machine fell over - however I do not believe thats the issue. And freed up some space on the HD.

I am running a DV500+ capture card and so thought OK lets see whether they will play in DV tools. And blow and behold they all played correctly in there all saying the correct size - not a problem.

So I created a Premiere storyboard in DV tools of what I had created. Closed DV tools and opened Premiere, imported the storyboard and still Premiere thinks they are only a couple of minutes each - Man this is getting annoying.

I also tried un-installing and re-installing Premiere but that did not work.

Anything else?

Cheers again,

Ed

Here is a really wierd possibillity...if you are using a pc.. I don't think it will be the answer. but worth a try. sometimes windows gets confused as to the size of the hard drive as reported by the hard drive to the program.
Try running scandisk and see if it says that windows is reporting the wrong size for the drive. if it is, then use the option to repair that error. I have had this happen on a few machines when I know that there is enough room but a program says there is not... Do not let scandisk repair the errors automatically, otherwise you will never know what the error was, if there was one...
Roy

"faster" NLE software than Adobe Premiere 6.x?
 

when you preview something on premiere it seems to take forever even for a small 5MB file. the workflow just seems to hectic. i've played around with it but haven't had a chance to edit an entire 30min-40min short. but just from playing around with 5MB file Prem 6.x is just so slow. i hope Prem "Pro" is truly re-written from scratch =). i've used apple's "Final Cut Pro" when you drag clips around, manipulate them, preview, etc. it just seems so much faster. 2bad i can't get that for the PC. what's the 'fastest' NLE software on PC?

I can't offer a whole lotta insight, but I will say that I recently tried Vegas 4, and I'm VERY impressed with it over Premiere. Specifically, the workflow. It’ll take some getting used to... but I'm going 100% Vegas.

Download the Scenalyser capture program (there is a demo version at www.Scenalyser.com) and see if you can view the entire clip. Although this will not solve your problem I guess it will indicate if there is something wrong with the capture and the saving of the files to the disk.

Scrolling credits in Premiere
 

whats the easiest way to make scrolling credits in premiere? i can' figure this one out..

thanks,
ryan

Use the title designer File> New> Title.

Depending on what version you have will depend on how you go about creating them in Title designer.

V6 or V6.5?

All the best,

Ed

Hans thanks for the suggestion,

I have done the same sort of thing you are talking about but used DV Tools - created by Pinnacle and comes with the DV500+ capture card. They all worked in that program!!!

Thanks,

Ed

i have 6.0

so i make the title.. use the rolling title tool.. and thenwhen i put it in.. it'll work out the motion?

thanks..

I have never used the scrolling tools in Premiere, but have had good results using individual cards, and use the motion settings. I start with the card at the bottom of the screen, and finish with it at the top. Then the next one, and so on. It works fine, and I have found it easier.

No - You will have to right click on your text in the rolling box and then I think its rolling options and possibly there you type in the duration of the credits.

I have not used V6 for a long time 6.5 title designer is completely different

All the best,

Ed

i got it worked out.. thanks everyone..

I also use the DV500 and Premiere. I really can offer no ideas as to why this happened, but I think I CAN offer a solution to let you use that captured footage.

If the full clips open in Windows Media Player, They will probably open just fine in Quicktime Player as well. You will need Quicktime Player Pro ($30 license from Apple) in order to export.

Open the smallest of the clips, verify that it opens properly, then export from Quicktime Pro as an Quicktime DV codec movie. Make certain that your field and audio settings are identical to your original clip. You might also try breaking up the clip so that no individual file is over 2 (or is it 1?)GB (I've forgotten all the GB limitations with NT,2000, NTFS, Maxtor device drivers, Premiere presets - oh, my head hurts!). Verify that Premiere will now recognize the file using Quicktime DV project presets. You can edit as normal, but maybe without the DV500 live monitor preview.

I'm pretty sure that QT Pro will not re-render the DV data, but will just file-copy it, changing the Pinnacle.avi wrapper to a QT .mov wrapper for the same DV data. That way, it should be a relatively quick conversion. You might even be able to use QT Pro to then convert the files BACK to Pinnacle .avi's. Only problem here is you will have to free room on your HD in order to process the 9 and 12GB monster files.

Scott,

Not a bad idea to try and convert the clips and see whether Premiere will accept it that way. I won't purcahse Quicktime pro yet, I think I have something that might do the job.
NTFS format does not have a limit on file size, so it should not matter - I'm running XP Pro SP1

Cheers,

Ed

Scott - I think you hit the nail on the head!!!

I had an extremely old version of Studio DV - After it stopped complaining that it was not Win XP compliant. I managed to get it running.

I opened up the smallest clip first and to my luck studio DV recognised it and enabled me to play, most importantly it enabled me to export out as an AVI DV which Premiere seemed to like.

That means that Premiere got a little confused while capturing the footage.

Cheers people,

Ed Smith

Well I'm coming into this topic late but, in case anyone else has the problem, I experienced this as well and all it took to fix it was to download the latest update from Adobe.

Although I wish I'd done it straight off as I first thought that the capture programs method of splitting it into clips was causing corrupt captures and I recaptured everything as one huge file for each tape.

Meaning too large to backup on dvd, which may well cause me a problem in the future...

Jay.

Jason, cheers for the comments - Glad that somebody else has had the same sort of problem.

Yu say that you updated Premiere, was that from V6-6.02. I use Premiere 6.5 and as far as I can see I can only wait until Pro comes out.

Thanks,

Ed

Oh okay, yep I was working with 6.0 when I updated so that means it may not have been the same problem if you are using 6.5.

Unless it was a specific fix that I downloaded but as far as I remember it wasn't, just a general update. The only thing that makes me say that is that I had a very similar problem with After Effects (I was using an even earlier version, the new one is on it's way!) and I remember seeing many people having the same problem with AE and Adobe saying it was fixed in the update, which it was. But I was the only person I could find there who was having the problem in Premiere also, which is why I had thought it was my capture method.

Not sure then if you are using 6.5. It's not like they would have removed a fix along the way.

Did you search the Adobe site to see if you could find any other cases of this? It's been a while since I've been there.

Jay.

DVD authorin...
 

Ok great info there.......Wat Im able to do now is..it seems ...that I can ..take svcd into dv architech..make chapter by throwing it on screen..and it burns and i can read it with power dv.....but when I use the encoder in prem..and all the dvd settings (stanard)........when I take that to architech ...and try to throw it on a chapter...the outline box turns red ..and it dont show on screen...in architech....im just downin TMPGEnc now to try it out
will get back with results ..thanks for the help ...Alan

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sorry forgot Doh!@#!....also...I am useing 720x480 is NTSC DVD/ Video resolution not 720x420...this is wat will not throw onto DVD architech..screen.....

Can you please post the following information:

1. operating system you are using

2. hardware you are using [including any DV boards]

3. the EXACT error message [copy it letter by letter!]

4. what you have done to get to this error [what are you doing exactly in Premiere]

That should not be a problem you can actually "see". That could
only hurt performance.

Do you see these problems also when you just render the timeline
to a file and import that file?

Anyone have the street release date of Premiere Pro+AE6?
 

eh?

Okay, let us walk down a list.

1) if you play back the 16:9 original footage that you recorded on the original tapes with the original camera does the TV see it as widescreen?

2) how did you playback your footage to your TV? On a DVD?

3) What kind of TV do you have?

Keep in mind that a 16:9 TV needs a SIGNAL to know it is a
16:9 stream. Both in MPEG2 encoding and DVD authoring you
need to specify that the footage is widescreen/anamorphic/16:9
so that the right flags are set and the DVD player knows that
the footage is anamorphic and emits the correct signal.

Also make sure if you have a widescreen TV that the DVD player
is correctly setup to know this [otherwise it will convert it to 4:3
with black bars].

Premiere Pro, late this month- AE6 available NOW!

Two questions:

1) what hardware are you using?

2) what operating system?

What do you mean that the workflow is slow?

You simply capture - The capture automatically appears in the bin - You then import this onto the timeline, edit - Export out

How slow is slow? Normally these things are quite hardware intensive.

Answer Robs questions, to begin with.

All the best,

Ed

I know what you mean. Preview performance is extremely slow in Premiere.

Use Vegas for faster editing.