Me, too!  At home.  If tomorrow I had to set up a department with 10 or more designers managing numerous projects that use different fonts sets, I'd switch to Universal Type Client (budget permitting, of course). -Warren ... View more

Have you considered adding another workstation? ... View more

Sounds like your skill set in AE has improved to the point that you need a faster computer.  Congratulations! (I mean that in all seriousness.) Have you learned how to render Comp Proxies?  Once you get the results that you're looking for with Timeworn, you can pre-render that footage as a Comp Proxy, saving time as you work on other components of your work in AE. -Warren ... View more

Hi Steven: You can reinstall AME CC2015 or AME CC2014 and run it concurrently with AME CC2017.  It's a little tricky to find in Creative Cloud Desktop, but you should see "Previous Versions" and be able to find your way from there.  I'm not sure how or why, but yes, both the Match Source - High bitrate" and "Match Source - Medium bitrate" presets in AME CC2017 yield smaller files and lower bit rates even though the setting summaries match.  With 1080p source to 1080p output, I've found the the CC2017 encodes Medium bitrate encodes to be about 3/4 rather than half (but, I haven't tried converting to 720p via a modified version of the preset). I'm curious, what is it about your workflow that requires matching bit rates? -Warren ... View more

Hi shadow7eddy: How render heavy is the Comp that's being sent to Media Encoder?  For example, is it a 1920x1080 Comp with just a few layers that have keyframes for Transform properties only or is it a 3840x2160 Comp with Roto Brush & Refine Edge applied, or a complex Particle Playground applied, or some heavy color correction applied, or with a 3rd party plug-in like Neat Video applied, or are lots of 3D layers enabled with ray-tracing?  You know, anything that slows render times down? -Warren ... View more

Plan C: Render what Vegas supports for compositing: a "mask" movie for the Parent Compositing Track and a "show through" movie for the Child Compositing Track.  As I'm sure you're aware, this is a RGB only movie and a Alpha only movie in AE speak. (I know you're looking to have one file for picture, sound and alpha; but requires QuickTime.) It's covered on page 384 of the Vegas user manual. Here's a link to the full Vegas user manual if you or your Vegas editor need it: http://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/manuals/vegaspro13.0_manual_enu.pdf ... View more

Mariano, you are correct.  The Animation CODEC is 2:1 compression. ... View more

Hi Rory: Here are the troubleshooting steps that I would take: Frame Size: Try exporting at 1920x1080 instead of 1920x816. Fonts: Take a look at font(s) that you're using for a corrupt font.  (Although, a corrupt font would likely show signs of trouble before you export.) Format: Try is to export to a format that does not compress between the frames (like QuickTime using the Cineform CODEC).  If that exports from start to finish, then use the resulting .mov file as the source in Media Encoder to create your H.265 encode. Older version of Premiere Pro: If you're under a tight deadline, you could re-install a prior version of Premiere Pro to create just the end credit roll as a stand alone video file that you can then import into your current project. -Warren ... View more

Glad to see something like this!  I've really been missing doing this with Final Cut Pro classic's Media Manager for awhile now. ... View more

I think that you may have answered your own question. Where does the MP4 file originate from? ... View more

You'll want to contact Adobe support for this.  Usually the CODEC installs after a short wait and is available immediately. -Warren ... View more

There are a lot of options, but... If you're on a Windows machine, Cineform set to 4 should give you pretty good results. If you're on a Mac, Apple ProRes 422 (LT). ... View more

Can you vendor deliver an SRT file?  That's what I've always used. If not, you can probably reformat the XML to SRT.  (You'd want to download a sample SRT file and conform your XML to match.) ... View more

Sounds like you have source footage in your Sequence that does not hold up to H264 encoding. Some compression types are good for editing (like Apple ProRes 422, Cineform, Avid DNxHD) and some are not.  H264 files are very much like JPEG still images.  There's compression loss in the file to begin with.  If the amount of compression is very low, the image quality can be very good; however, the compression is still there.  If a lot of compression is applied, the image quality will be fairly low.  Creating second, third and fourth generation files will look progressively worse. It sounds like you care about image quality (as we all should).  You want to switch to a CODEC where the 2nd generation file is visually indistinguishable form the original and has a high PSNR (peak signal noise ratio). -Warren ... View more

Telestream Switch is a pretty good replacement for QuickTime Player. Media player with inspection and correction - Request Free Trial - Telestream Switch If the free player doesn't meet your needs, there's a pro version. It's available for both Mac and Windows and supports many of the CODECs previously supported by QuickTime without QuickTime being installed. ... View more

When Adobe first launched Creative Cloud, they offered a discount on the subscription so that it came to $29.99 a month for your 1st year if you owned a prior version of the software.  While that ended a long time ago, you could call Adobe and ask if they'll still extend that pricing to you at (855) 375-7186. Premiere Pro is available by itself for $19.99. If you're a student, there's a very good discount (a community college class counts). -Warren ... View more

josephc74343123  wrote I am still not working with sequences,  My needs are incredibly modest, and up until the last update they were met.              Hi Joseph: Which application did you think you were updating?  Premiere Pro has always, in every version to date, set the frame size (a.k.a. video dimensions) at the Sequence level and not at the Project level.  Furthermore, without a Sequence you do not have a Timeline. josephc74343123  wrote Why would I continue to pay *substantially* more for a product that only results in more headaches and not an improved workflow or result? No one would expect you to.  While I can't speak for everyone who contributes to the Premiere Pro forums, I think it's safe to say that everyone that contributes to it would want you to be using the software that best suits your needs. -Warren ... View more

The HP z840 supports four 128GB RAM chips.  It costs a small fortune, but one could have said workstation with 512GB of RAM. ... View more

What format is the audio file in currently?  It's probably MP3 or AAC.  Try converting it to WAV or AIF (16 bit, Stereo, 48kHz) in QuickTime Player classic or Adobe Audition.  Then check the resulting file.  If it holds up to that conversion, the resulting AIF or WAV should work as expected in PR. -Warren ... View more

It depends on what you transcode to and at what settings. First generation Apple ProRes 422 will perfectly preserve the quality (be it good or bad) of the original file.  That is, the resulting file will be no better nor worse. If you're producing video for broadcast, you'll want to go with Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) or Apple ProRes 422.  If you're making videos for social media, you'll want to consider going with Apple ProRes 422 (LT) to save on storage space requirements. An example of transcoding that will cause a loss in quality would be transcoding to H264 at a low bit rate.  The compression generation loss would be immediately apparent in the resulting file. Anyone interested in Apple ProRes and quality preservation should read the following white paper: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf -Warren ... View more

This sounds more like system performance than software performance. Unless, of course, you have 512GB of RAM and high capacity SSD RAID0 media storage inside a HP z840 (or similar) workstation.  Then, maybe, it's Premiere. ... View more

Preview a movie in full-screen mode Click the Play Full Screen button in the upper-right corner of the application. The preview pane fills the screen, and playback starts automatically. In your screen shot, it's immediately to the right of the "Save" button (the icon looks like a blue computer screen). For more on previewing movies in PR Elements: Adobe Premiere Elements Help | Previewing movies -Warren ... View more

Heya Hoodoo! Take a deep breath and let it out slowly.  Then, go to this page: Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Essential Graphics Panel Then scroll down to "Using Premiere Pro Titler to create graphics". You may be pleasantly surprised by the new Type Tool. Of course, the old Title panels are still there. -Warren ... View more

There's a Blackmagic Design product that handles routing the video preview from the monitor at the workstation to a group monitor via the Blackmagic Design video routing software, but I'm forgetting the product name.  I'll see if I can track the name down.  I used at the Advanced Digital Services department at Directv, but that no longer exists since the merger with AT&T.  Of course, it also means having the BmD hardware as well. -Warren ... View more

As long as you're using a version of AE that supports Shapes, lluísm offers a great tip. Over the decades, I've found it helpful to go back to Illustrator and export to a layered Photoshop file when AI source footage does not behave as expected in AE.  Depending how far along you are in animated, you can import the layered PS as a Comp or replace each AI layer with its corresponding PS layer.  Of course, Continuously Rasterize will no longer work if you're using that.  If you happen to be scaling an AI layer to 500%, you'll have to scale that artwork in AI 500% and save that as a PS files as well (which will then be 100% on the AE side). Prior to exporting to PS, you'll probably want to release your AI objects and sub-layers to layers and then promote them to the root level of the document (which you might already be doing). To export a layered AI to a layered PS file: Choose File > Export  > Export As > Format: Photoshop (psd).  Set the Color Model to RGB (if using an older version of AI, you'll have to continued in CMYK and convert to RGB in PS before importing in to AE) and the Resolution to Screen (72 ppi) with Write Layers checked. -Warren ... View more

To quickly remove the audio on the Premiere side, turn off Linked Selection, select just the audio clip boundary in your Timeline and delete it.  If Linked Selection is on, you can hold option (Mac) or alt (Windows) to temporarily turn it off (that is, you'll be able to select just the audio). -Warren ... View more