I did notice on your video that the Source Monitor video Playback Resolution is set to 1/2 and your Program Monitor video Playback Resolution is set to Full. Try switching your Program Monitor to 1/2 resolution and see if that helps. Your Playback Resolution lowers the video resolution to give you a smoother playback. There are some other possibilities to your situation--but test this first. ... View more

Here are some potential things to try (if you haven't already employed these in your workflow): Double-check that your destination drive/location that you are saving to has both Read and Write capabilities (Not sure if you are working with MAC or WIN) Make sure that your projects drive is not corrupted by running a simple Drive Volume Check and Repair program like FIRST AID on a Mac OS. Windows has similar functions by going into Properties > Tools for Drives. If the check finds errors--it will repair them. You could have a corrupt media file that could be causing the issue as well. Sometimes Premiere allows you to import files that may be unstable. There are many guides that have been posted on this forum that show you how to flush the Cache, update or roll back drivers on your OS/video card, etc. They have you go through a series of things to do to prevent bugs and issues that may be causing rendering issues, etc. LAST RESORT - I guess the question is, even though it is crashing every time you save, does it save anything post crash? If it does, you could create a new project and then import your old project into the new one in case your entire project is corrupt (obviously not the issue if this is happening with all your projects). Does your Premiere crash while you are editing? Auto-Save would seem to crash your system as well. You could create a new project and then import one of your backups if this part of your Premiere seems to be working. I have not had this problem myself with Premiere 2018, but please keep up us updated. There may be other ACPs on the forum who have had experienced this and may give their solutions. Good luck! ... View more

You could consider doing a Pro Tools like export. If the offline video editing portion is locked, use AAF (FILE > EXPORT > AAF). AAF is the new OMF. It has a very similar workflow. Here is what to do: Export an AAF Audio only. This will preserve audio in the sequence exactly like an OMF. Choose whether to Embed the Audio which will stuff the clips in the AAF or have SEPARATE AUDIO (usually what I do). Separate Audio will put your audio clips in a folder and also create a separate AAF file for import into Premiere or Pro Tools. Choose whether you want to use AIFF or WAV (I use WAV). Under Render choose to include the entire used audio tracks or Trimmed. I generally choose Trimmed to keep file sizes very low and then usually use 60 to 120 frame handles (these are the ones most requested by the Pro Tools Engineers I work with After Exporting your AAF, output a low quality (480P,720P,1080P) reference video with sound. This should greatly reduce the file size and then you can send FTP, Dropbox, WeTransfer, etc. You could also try Final Cut XML as an alternative. We are use to working with AAF. It really is great! Anyways, good luck with your workflow! ... View more

1. If using the Macbook Pro above, I will need to edit with Pro Res 422 proxies, which can be created through Premiere itself with the Adobe Media Encoder. Correct? This is correct. Prores 422 Proxy, H.264, DNxHD/HR and Cineform all have proxy levels that can be used. When setting up your project through INGEST settings or using the Media Browser in any project--you can turn on "Create Proxies". You would choose your Proxy preset and then tell Premiere where the Proxies should go. Whenever you import your media--the proxies will automatically be transcoded in the background using Media Encoder. It's a fairly painless process. 2. I'd prefer NOT to use proxies if possible to save me drive space and time on-lining, but with the amount of footage I have and in the event that I have to work from the Macbook Pro above would this be a terrible idea? What are the minimum specs I would need on a mac if I worked online? Based on your laptop features and your project--it would be very difficult for you to run this project. You can always run some tests--but everything would edit much faster and smoother if you used proxies. I am guessing by your spec you have a 2.3ghz i7 process. Would that be a quad core? That would definitely help. If its a dual core--it wouldn't work. I actually have edited using a 2.3 quadcore with an Nividia GTX980 and 4k edits very smoothly. My fear is that your video card memory is a little too low. I would recommend 16-32gigs Ram, a compatible video card with at leat 4+ gigs of Memory, SSD drives as your primary drives and at least a 4 core processor. 3. Considering I have 1920 x 1080 QT files along with the 4096 x 2190 MXF files, I believe I should be working in a 1920 x 1080 sequence so as not to lose quality enlarging the QT files. But in the scenario that I am able to work online, would this mean I would still have to work in a 1920 x 1080 sequence and resize all my MXF files to fit into a 1920 x 1080 frame? Will this cause major rendering issues when editing, considering the MXF files are 95% of the entire footage of the project? If you do all your color correction in Premiere--it would be easier when mixing various sizes of footage. Overall, I don't like mixing too many formats and will usually opt for transcoding everything to a single size and frame rate before I begin to edit. This way--I can be absolutely sure my project will be consistent. This of course could take a lot more time. You would create a new set of master media clips and then create proxies from those. FYI--Working in 1080P will produce the best results--though if your 1080p footage is fantastic and most of your media is 4K--I would online everything in 4K. You can always go down later. If most of the media is 1080p and you have a few 4k clips--I would online everything in 1080P. ... View more

As listed above: For WIN PC: Right-click and choose INSTALL for any number of fonts. For MAC: Double-Click and choose INSTALL to install the font. Most Adobe apps should immediately update the fonts within the application unless you are in the middle of editing type. Usually its better if you go to the standard Move/Select tool and then back to editing type. Occasionally a font will not load correctly--so you must restart the application. Other issues can come down to font type. OTF (Opentype) and TrueType are most likely the most popular formats. ... View more

Meg is correct. Scaling the footage does work extremely well but will cut the top and bottom of your footage off. If you wish to not lose any of your frame--import your 16mm footage into Media Encoder. In your Export Settings under the Source tab--activate the Crop Function and then use the Left, Top, Right, Bottom Pixel adjustments or the Crop Proportions drop down menu to "cut" off the pillar boxing. The beautiful thing about using this method is that you can batch crop and unlimited number of files at the same time. Hope this helps! ... View more

I'm actually working with this right now. One possible work around is to: Import  Final Cut XML into Premiere 2017 Save Project Open in in Premiere 2018 (it will force you to save as New Project) I know this sucks but it should be very quick. You can install multiple versions of Premiere in the Creative Cloud app. Ill test this. ... View more

Just like what Kevin said--After Effects and Photoshop and/or Illustrator would be the killer combo to get what you want done. While there are a few of those things that you can "cheat" in Premiere--it could be painful and tedious at best. Overall you are looking at learning Motion Gaphics and Kinetic Type according to the video you listed. Depending on the time you wish to invest in getting those types of effects would determine methods you would use within each of those programs. Learning everything from scratch is fantastic--however, if you don't really have the time--with a basic understanding of After Effects and Premiere--you can also invest in 3rd Party plugins and templates that can dramatically speed up. Once again, something like your highlighter effects could be done in Premiere animating basic shapes and text simply by: Create or import your text/pdf. Place in Timeline Above your text layer, animate a semi-transparent yellow rectangle using a mask or Linear wipe effect across the text you want to highlight Nest your text layer and the highlight layer together and then animated using scale to zoom both elements in together Once again, this is messy and it is not without its issues. After Effects would be the perfect tool to do this type of animated.Good luck ... View more

As Chuck said, viewing at 100% can determine if lines are really there. What might be happening is that those white lines are really there--but when you export a hires JPEG--however you are viewing it--it might not be showing you a super detailed representation of what is actually there (this can also be how your monitor is configured versus how Photoshop is configured. In addition to this, I also know that Select and Mask can fail at times to really clear up some detail depending on the type of selection you are performing. Its a wonderful way of selecting--but not always the cleanest.  To clean up your lines--just Select Your Layer Mask that was created and try to use black (RGB,0,0,0) brush to brush out the white lines. If this works--you'll have your answer--the lines were a product of a bad selection. Please report back and tell us if any of this worked! Happy to help you out further! ... View more

As Dave has said, editing before entering into the full Photoshop interface only works with Raw Camera Media. You were in Camera Raw. If you want to edit a non-Raw photo in using the same tool--open your photo in Photoshop and then go to FILTER > CAMERA RAW FILTER... ... View more

You specs all look great. I've seen something similar with corrupted codecs and/or problems with video card drivers. The fact that your GPU acceleration is causing "freezing" on frames is highly suspect. I would probably start but making sure your video card drivers are up to date. If there is still a problem--you could roll back your drivers to an earlier version as well. Drivers seems to be a major issue. Your export should not be taking that long. Could you give us more information about your operating system and what camera format and file formats you are using? Thank you. ... View more

Something very similar happened to me about a year ago. Unfortunately, there is no way to confirm that this is your issue as well but I will explain my issue. I was editing when a blackout happened. When the lights came on--the video I was editing was experience sync issues and had some issues playing back when everything was playing correctly before. In my case, the blackout corrupted some of my video drivers and some system files. I actually did a clean re-install of my video drivers and things worked better--but still not perfect. I actually ended up doing a clean install which fixed everything. So, here is a list to possible try: Clean Database Cache in your Preference (though you've probably already tried this) Corrupted cache can cause this issue. Try disabling GPU Acceleration. See if this helps. If it doesn't--re-enable. Sometimes turning the GPU Acceleration off and then back on can help some issues like this. (Probably have already tried this) Re-install Premiere as you did before--but this time use the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool for complete removal: Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems Re-install video card drivers (Last Option) Re-Install entire OS, app and drivers. Good luck! ... View more