The update is now available via AUM, and will be available soon on the Adobe.com updates page. The readme will also be posted at http://www.adobe.com/go/pr_readme_en, but until then, here's the info on the release (multi-lingual readme is also attached):New in this releaseAdditional support for REDCODE (please visit RED support for additional details).Performance improvements to project load time.Improvements to AVCHD support.Performance enhancements for DV/HDV playback.Support for Avid captured DV or IMX footage. (Please see www.adobe.com/go/kb409079 for additional information).Export media to a still format now bypasses the AME render queue.Enabled .VOB extension support.Third-party supportNotable fixesAll clips in last active sequence are no longer redbar when reopening project (#2278647)Boris FX can get the clip dimensions for their filter setup dialog (#2274629)CTRL+M is now the default shortcut for File‐>Export‐>Media (#2277908)A bug that caused green frames in clips with 100% reverse speed applied has been fixed. (#2263918)The last few frames of a time remapped clip are no longer rendered green (#2278907)Adobe Premiere Pro can now open projects created in Adobe Premiere Elements 7. (#2267281)’Scale to Framesize’ on a clip in a sequence of matching frame size and PAR no longer causes the timeline to require rendering. (#2278908)A bug that caused corruption in exported TIFF files has been fixed. (#252497)Several issues with Adobe After Effects Filters and Track Mattes have been fixed. (#1882807,#1876369)Performance improvements have been made to Direct Manipulation (#2260316)AVCHD 720p 30p are now imported correctly. (#2269541)Relinking XDCAM EX clips that have been moved to a new directory is now more intuitive.(#2272122)A bug that caused fields to be reversed when rendering speed change on upper field first footage has been fixed. (#2260314)A user can now copy and paste R3D footage from Adobe After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro. (#1931580)Several issues with effects that use track inputs, when the input track is a still have been fixed. (#2263816)Playback performance of ProRes clips has been improved. (#2261047)Playback performance of h.264 clips has been improved. (#1824690)XDCAM EX clips no longer play one only audio track in the Source panel (#1929452)A playback issue with Panasonic AG‐HMC150 recorded progressive AVCHD clips no longer causes application freeze (#2268148)Blackmagic can now display titler output on external monitor (#2286733)If a mapped drive is defined as the user folder for a roaming profile, Adobe Premiere Pro no longer crashes when attempting to write to the drive (#2291950)Known issuesProgressive 720 Sony AVCHD media files show an interlaced frame rate in Media Browser and Metadata panel.AVCHD 1080p 30 and 25 progressive clips are interpreted as interlaced files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 projects.If the work area end position is greater than the last frame of the last clip in sequence, then entire sequence is exported instead of work area.Setting sequence-marks stops playback if the multi-camera monitor is open.When importing QuickTime clips in AME’s batch queue for export, certain types of metadata (such as timecode) will not be propagated to newly generated clips.

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Premiere Pro CS4 4.1.0 is live

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
May 29, 2009
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The update is now available via AUM, and will be available soon on the Adobe.com updates page. The readme will also be posted at http://www.adobe.com/go/pr_readme_en, but until then, here's the info on the release (multi-lingual readme is also attached):

New in this release

Additional support for REDCODE (please visit RED support for additional details).
Performance improvements to project load time.
Improvements to AVCHD support.
Performance enhancements for DV/HDV playback.
Support for Avid captured DV or IMX footage. (Please see www.adobe.com/go/kb409079 for additional information).
Export media to a still format now bypasses the AME render queue.
Enabled .VOB extension support.
Third-party support

Notable fixes

All clips in last active sequence are no longer redbar when reopening project (#2278647)
Boris FX can get the clip dimensions for their filter setup dialog (#2274629)
CTRL+M is now the default shortcut for File‐>Export‐>Media (#2277908)
A bug that caused green frames in clips with 100% reverse speed applied has been fixed. (#2263918)
The last few frames of a time remapped clip are no longer rendered green (#2278907)
Adobe Premiere Pro can now open projects created in Adobe Premiere Elements 7. (#2267281)
’Scale to Framesize’ on a clip in a sequence of matching frame size and PAR no longer causes the timeline to require rendering. (#2278908)
A bug that caused corruption in exported TIFF files has been fixed. (#252497)
Several issues with Adobe After Effects Filters and Track Mattes have been fixed. (#1882807,
#1876369)
Performance improvements have been made to Direct Manipulation (#2260316)
AVCHD 720p 30p are now imported correctly. (#2269541)
Relinking XDCAM EX clips that have been moved to a new directory is now more intuitive.
(#2272122)
A bug that caused fields to be reversed when rendering speed change on upper field first footage has been fixed. (#2260314)
A user can now copy and paste R3D footage from Adobe After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro. (#1931580)
Several issues with effects that use track inputs, when the input track is a still have been fixed. (#2263816)
Playback performance of ProRes clips has been improved. (#2261047)
Playback performance of h.264 clips has been improved. (#1824690)
XDCAM EX clips no longer play one only audio track in the Source panel (#1929452)
A playback issue with Panasonic AG‐HMC150 recorded progressive AVCHD clips no longer causes application freeze (#2268148)
Blackmagic can now display titler output on external monitor (#2286733)
If a mapped drive is defined as the user folder for a roaming profile, Adobe Premiere Pro no longer crashes when attempting to write to the drive (#2291950)

Known issues

Progressive 720 Sony AVCHD media files show an interlaced frame rate in Media Browser and Metadata panel.
AVCHD 1080p 30 and 25 progressive clips are interpreted as interlaced files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 projects.
If the work area end position is greater than the last frame of the last clip in sequence, then entire sequence is exported instead of work area.
Setting sequence-marks stops playback if the multi-camera monitor is open.
When importing QuickTime clips in AME’s batch queue for export, certain types of metadata (such as timecode) will not be propagated to newly generated clips.

Adobe_Premiere_Pro_CS4_4-1-0_Read_Me.pdf

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Patrick Ford

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Problem with importing AVCHD files with the new 4.1.0 Doesn't recognize them as being supported by Premiere Pro 4.1. I thought 4.1 was going to make AVCHD files better. Now i can't use them at all. I sent adobe a message through their portal yesterday morning at 7:30 and no response yet. Any ideas?

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bysea

Known Participant

Are you on a paid version - not trial? Assuming yes.

Also, make sure you have quicktime installed as well (the free version should work). That cleared up a few issues for me reccognizing h.264-based files.

The other thing I did was install Cineform Prospect HD Trial - never opened the file, but installed necessary codec for some legacy projects I had using HDV files. Give it a try - won't cost you anything (except all your valuable time trying work around this fun mess).

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BrothersCorral

Participant

This new update took away MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 support.

I was working on a project for a client but he he gave me .m2v and .ac3 files. I loaded them up into Premiere Pro CS4 and edited the files perfectly. After the update, I opened my project file and now everything is offline. If I try importing .m2v, .ac3, or .VOB files, Premiere Pro rejects them and gives me an error message of "file not supported".

Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks!

PS, I'm editing on an Intel-Mac Pro.

sandersfbc

Known Participant

Yes! I'm having the same problem. Most of my footage is in MPEG format, and none of it works anymore!

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Xoomtell

Participant

Hi

Yes - the update seems to have solved a lot of issues. For me it is now possible to edit AVCHD 720P 50 on my Q6700. BUT - not in Vista 64 Business - only in XP. In Vista 64 the preview still stops every 5 secind and is making trouble all the time. And the Autotmatic qulity is to bad. In XP I can edit in High Quality - even a 2 GB file imports lightening fast - and plays back smooth and with no problems - but the very same file in Vista 64 is not working - only in draft mode - very bad. Why is Vista 64 making all this trouble despite it can use all 8 GB RAM against XPs 3 GB limit? I´m chocked.

Morten

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bysea

Known Participant

I'm having the same issue - on Vista x-64 Ultimate SP1. Have you tried SP2 yet? Not sure if that solves any issues.

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TradeWind

Inspiring

Vista Ultimate x64 here, and yes, the SP2 update solves a lot of problems for me.

Sheri_CodianaAuthor

Known Participant

The updates are now available on Adobe.com:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform=Windows

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform=Macintosh

Web help has posted as well:

English:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/

French:

http://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/PremierePro/4.0/

German:

http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/PremierePro/4.0/

Japanese:

http://help.adobe.com/ja_JP/PremierePro/4.0/

Italian:

http://help.adobe.com/it_IT/PremierePro/4.0/

Spanish:

http://help.adobe.com/es_ES/PremierePro/4.0/

Korean:

http://help.adobe.com/ko_KR/PremierePro/4.0/

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don_solomon-z3JEFz

Participating Frequently

The up date shows as a 30+ meg file for the 4.1 update. How can that be right? And, even so, when you try to download it says that it cannot be found on the server.

Wil Renczes

Adobe Employee

The size reported at the link is wrong - if you actually download the update, it's 110 Megs (at least the win version).

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Steve_J_Price

Participant

I have just installed the 4.1 update. I was hoping that AVCHD playback had been improved but this does not appear to be the case (movement is still blocky). I had also noticed a bug in the histogram display of the video (adjust) levels filter - basically, the graph does not show the full range of levels in the clip and seems to be incorrectly scaled (i.e. all points too close to the baseline). I am using Windows Vista (64 bit) on a quad core PC. By the way, the size of the update file was 'only' 174MB - I hope that's correct.

Eric Addison

Participating Frequently

Steve J Price wrote:
I have just installed the 4.1 update. I was hoping that AVCHD playback had been improved but this does not appear to be the case (movement is still blocky).

It's playing a lot smoother for me...

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bysea

Known Participant

Was it a full 1080p clip? My 5D Mark II clips are still stuttering/blocky playback for me as well. I'm on a i7, 12 Gb's RAM, high-end editing machine...

MTS files from my Canon Vid camera (Vixia HF S10) have some timeline artifacting (average bit rate, 1440x1080). Mmmm.... not sure if this is all "normal" or I should move on to some other editors at this point.

tclark513

Known Participant

Thanks Thrill Media,

Did you try the "Time Warp" Filter or the Time Remapping feature?

The "Time Warp" filter had the issue.

Thanks again!

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Thrill Media

Inspiring

Time warp. I didn't even know it was there as I generally use remapping. But I saw that you said filter so I took a look!

Curtis

tclark513

Known Participant

Thrill Media wrote:
Time warp. I didn't even know it was there as I generally use remapping. But I saw that you said filter so I took a look!
Curtis

Thanks Curtis,

That is great news. You should play around with it. It gives stellar results!!

Colin Brougham

Participating Frequently

Had some problems getting the updates to install, on both of my machines (Vista x64, Business on one, Ultimate on the other). On both machines--including the one that I didn't mess with yesterday by installing the rogue update--I received "stopped responding" messages for both processcoordinationserver.exe and dynamiclinkmanager.exe. When this happens, the entire PPro installation gets borked, with only about 1/4 of the files showing up in the PPro folder. I was able to get the updates installed by uninstalling PPro (through the Control Panel applet), reinstalling PPro from the original install discs, and then checking for updates. The updates downloaded and installed OK at this time, though I haven't really had a chance to make sure everything works as it should.

I am a little bewildered why this happened on the system that I didn't muck around with. Perhaps it was because I initiated the AUM from AME, and those processes hadn't unloaded, or something? They weren't showing up in the Processes panel of the Task Manager, though. I'm a little disheartened by this, as I now feel that I'm going to have start over on BOTH of my systems. Hmm...

Anyway, thought I'd throw this bit of info out there, just in case anyone else comes up against the issue. Good luck, all...

Sheri_CodianaAuthor

Known Participant

Looks like there were a couple of hiccups with network nodes last night but it's been resolved. We'll look into it again this morning to make sure we don't see any issues.

Sheri

Colin Brougham

Participating Frequently

This happened on two systems since 9am EST, if that matters. But are you suggesting that perhaps the update packages were faultily delivered, instead of my install being messed up somehow? Just curious, as I'm going to refresh both systems from the ground up, anyway...

ADDENDUM: Both systems seem to be working OK now, after doing the uninstall/reinstall/update dance.

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Thrill Media

Inspiring

Just a couple of tests that seem good.

I tried the HMC-150 footage that I had problems with before and they played back smooth. They hiccupped on a 1 second dissolve between clips but otherwise played fine. As the clip I used was a short downloaded clip, I would be interested to see how this plays in a real project, anyone?

Editing from DVD works great. Not something I would generally do but I thought it was a cool idea.

So far everything else seems to be working as expected for me.

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Oops, I had to add these for Hunt.

tclark513

Known Participant

Can someone test the timewarp filter for me? In that past version it would turn the video clip black.

I would test it but I am in the middle of a project and do not want to update until it is finished.

Thanks!

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Thrill Media

Inspiring

TC,

I just tested it, I am not sure I remember what your issues are. I keyframed speed from 100% to 14% and opacity from 100% to 50% and it works as expected. Hope that's good news for you!

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