Ahh I see -  she sent me a screenshot - she had her screen cut off at the bottom so the Open button wasn't visible.   ... View more

Ahh I see - she had another row of buttons below her screen.  Thanks!   ... View more

Just use the 'Open' button What Open button are you referring to?  The Open option in the right-click popup for the NEF file in Windows File Explorer?   If you do that it opens in Camera Raw as I described above with no apparent way to save it as a TIFF to be consumer by Photoshop Elements.   ... View more

Bridge or any alternate image viewer like XnView, IrfanView or what have you might be worth a try. So are you saying there's no actual way to do it inside Photoshop?     I'd hate to have to go out and install some third-party tool, especially after all the work of dowloading and testing/auditioning all the above tools to see if they can do it, to just do this one thing that I only need to do once in a while.        Exporting or editing EXIF data seems like a perfectly reasonable thing for a tool like Photoshop to do so there must be a way to do it with Photoshop itself. ... View more

Yes, but the Nvidia page I reference is about installing a different driver.   Also, the Adobe page wants you to uninstall the Nvidia driver (step 2) BEFORE selecting and downloading the new driver (steps 3-8), which is different from the instructions on the Nvidia page I referenced.     Should we follow the Adobe instructions or the Nvidia ones, and what are the pros and cons?   Also, how does your PC talk to your monitor or know what your resolution (etc) settings are if you uninstall the driver?   I assume Windows must have some sort of generic default drivers, but which one knows your monitor and resolution settings? ... View more

Yes, Kevin made specific suggestions for improvement whereas you just said, your setup is inadequate, too bad.   So Kevin did a good job, and with a helpful attitude.   Two things I still don't have are: 1. Expectations for how much better I could make it if I threw a lot of money at it.   Suppose I built a dedicated PC just for video editing with the fastest Quick-sync-capable CPUs on the market; fastest memory bus bandwidth, best GPU with the optimum driver, separate SSD for scratch disk; etc, etc - one of those computers so powerful that when you turn it on all the lights in the neighborhood go dim - how much better will it get?  Can I get a green render bar instead or red for the whole preview panel or will all those compute ponies just take it to yellow?   2.  As an engineer, I'm used to doing a systems analysis before trying to optimize a system.    My experience is mostly in network engineering where we have a whole host of tools (both software and hardware) to see where bottlenecks are before trying to tweak stuff.   So I was hoping to get some suggestions for tools and measurements to see where things are getting clogged up for Premiere Pro, to see where I'll get the biggest bang for the buck.     A third thing I'm still unclear on is how much of the performance is system issues, and how much is due to arcane details of Premiere Pro that could change with the next update.    If I build an $9000 dedicated video editing PC and manage to triple the performance I don't want to come in the next morning after Creative Cloud push-feeds the next update and have that go away because it was all dependent on just one quirk in the previous version of Premiere Pro.  I want to focus on things that are less sensitive to Adobe changes. ... View more

Thanks!   I'll try these and report on my results!  If they make a significant difference I'll marke this as the correct answer, but it may take a few days to get back on this. ... View more

What is de codec of your footage?   I have a whole bunch of different cameras I use - two Nikon 800-series DSLRs; a Z7 (and next month a new Z6 II!), a GoPro, a cellphone, and a Canon XA-20.   In addition to that I also sometimes shoot with an Atomos Ninja, taking 10-bit output through a LUT.   So the sw that generates the files are all over the map.     So I don't want to try to optimize for a specific one.   The footage in the video I'm editing at the moment was from a mix of D810 shot at 60 fps and Z7 shot at 120 fps; some of it was .mp4 files and some of it was .mov files. ... View more

Exactly.  This should not have been marked the correct answer.  Because the question was not "what's wrong with the current setup"; it was what can I do to improve it, and how much of an improvement can I expect?   The only person who should be allowed to mark something as the correct answer should be the original poster!      As I said earlier, I'm perfectly willing to build/buy a more powerful PC but I need to know what specific features or attributes would be needed to get a substantial improvement, and how much of an improvement I could expect.    To do that would probably require a way to see where the bottlenecks are,   The allegedly "correct" answer didn't address any of those.   I want to stick to the Intel Xeon line because it supports ECC which is required for other tasks this PC does, but if a higher Xeon processor has architecural features that would result in a dramatic speedup, I'm happy to pay for that.   What I don't want to do is pay thou$ands for a different CPU or motherboard only to get a 20-30% speeedup because of memory-bus bandwidth limits or SSD read-speed limits, or cache-conflict because the scratch disk uses the same SSD as the raw data files, etc, etc.   So I need to know where I'll get the biggest bang for the buck and how big a bang it will be.   And as Basil1891 points out, my current setup is not exactly chopped liver, so it's not unreasonable to expect better performance than we're getting. ... View more

I didn't understand anything he was talking about at the 1:40 and beyond point, but the fact that he mentioned "crop filter" suggests that he's barking up the wrong tree, since no cropping should be necessary as long as I don't mind letterboxes or black bars.   Also, you said, "You can drop the images in a 1280 X 720 sequence and pan and crop the images." 1280x720 is the wrong ratio.   8256x5504 is 1.5:1, 1280x720 is 1.777:1.   So I would need 1080X720 or 1620x1080. both of which are oddball ratios that will require some sort of black bars or letterboxing.   But how do I force Premiere Pro to scale to those ratios?    BTW I don't see why either cropping or panning should be necessary, since I don't want to lose any content.  I'd rather have the black bars. ... View more

That was it.  Thanks! ... View more

AHa!  That was it.  I had it set to 1/2.  When I set it to full the difference went away.  Thanks.   ... View more

I'm not a new user.  And I always used to be able to edit messages in the past.    ... "magic formula" for what? ... View more

I'm sorry; I don't understand your answer.    Are you saying that the standard workflow between Premiere Pro and AE  is to do it on a clip-by-clip basis?   I think that would be pretty cumbersome on a non-trivial project.   The example I attached has only 5 clips, but a typical Premiere Pro project has dozens or more clips, and I've had projects, e.g., with lots of quick cuts and edits, with over a hundred clips.   Or you can send your clip over to AE like the way you did it, but likely not for the whole timeline at once. So if I just select one clip and "replace with AfterEffect Composition" it replaces it in Premiere Pro with an After Effects "Linked Composition" which does not appear to be a Premiere Pro clip anymore, e.g., it doesn't seem to have my transitions.     So it still sounds like I should complete my Premiere Pro editing first before involving AE.    So I'm still trying to get clarified on the typical workflow between PP and AE.   Or for something like this am I just better off buying a third-party noise-reduction tool? ... View more

When I tried using the lastest CC verion of both tools, it literally REPLACED (hence "replace" with After Effects) the clips in my PP timeline with one solid pink "clip" (I'm not an AE expert so I don't know what they call that), which meant I couldn't do any more editing in Premiere Pro.   Since the OP wanted to do simultaneous editing, this doesn't seem to address his question. ... View more