Hey Stan, that's a great tip, and could be even faster than using FCP.  AME uses Mulitprocessing for exporting better than FCP often does, and you can continue to work in Pr while AME does the exporting. ... View more

If you need to color-correct, you're going to have to export Sequences in FCP, as you can't CC clips unless they're in one.  You can set in/outs on clips, though and export them in FCP.  But, then all you're doing is trimming your shots. Maybe PrCS6 will have the tools you need.  If FCP is the right tool for the job, by all means, use it!  You're welcome, and best of luck with your project. Jim ... View more

Johnny, the way I'd approach this in Pr is to make a separate Sequence in Pr for each of your clips to export.  Pr has a subclip function like FCP does, but you can't export Pr subclips as you can with FCP.  Nor can you make a subclip from a Sequence the way you can in FCP. So, if you have a reason to put all your clips in a single timeline before you export, what I'd suggest is that you duplicate your master sequence fifty times if you have fifty clips, and then go into each one and delete clip 2-50 for the first sequence, 1, and 3-50 for the second, and so on.  Sounds labor intensive, and it would be. If all you're doing is color correction and trimming of individual clips, this may be easier to do in Ae, since you have the suite.  In Ae, you can select your 50 clips and drop them onto the New Comp icon, and it will give you the option of making one Comp with all 50 clips, or 50 separate Comps - and I think this might be your best bet, as Pr doesn't give you this option. You can copy effects settings in one clip and paste to another in both Pr and Ae. In Ae, when you send your first Comp to the Render Queue, you can choose your destination, output module (codec, dimensions, etc.), and every Comp you send thereafter will use the same settings.  And you can make those settings defaults in Ae as well. Ae also uses multiprocessing very efficiently, and you may achieve some speed gains by using Ae over Pr as well.  The exception here may be that if you use CUDA accellerated color correction in Pr (and you have an NVIDIA Quadro 4000 installed), that can give you a speed bump as well.  So, this seems to me a case of no overriding advantage to either method.  Both will get you there.  And maybe a few tests would be in order before you committed to all 50 clips. ... View more

Do you have a suite that includes Adobe Media Encoder, or just Pr? You need AME to do batches.  You'd need to break your material down into Sequences in Pr.  Then, drag your Sequences into AME, select all, choose your export settings, and hit the go button. AME and Pr can use a Work Area setting, as contrasted to the In/Out in FCP. ... View more

I believe 503 is the current CS5 build.  Start by updating your application. Nothing looks amiss in your settings.  Although, if I were making a DVD from HD material (Are you?), I wouldn't use the DV codec.  You can export directly to DVD MPEG2 instead, and avoid a double-transcode. But, that won't solve your skipping / shaking issue necessarily.  Upgrading or trashing your prefs (hold option/alt while launching Pr) may help. ... View more

Ann Bens wrote: Yes you can burn HD to dvd, but i would not go there as a novice to Premiere. I've heard that you can do this, but I don't know anybody who's been successful at it.  Maybe you do. The challenge is to get an HD bit rate to work on a DVD.  I believe around 11Mb/s is the theoretical maximum.  Most people I know report frame-dropping at 8 or 9 Mb/s.  Since a lot of low-end HD is around the 35 Mb/s range, you'd have to "dumb it down" so much to play on a DVD that it would hardly qualify as "HD" any longer, if that term is to have any real meaning. ... View more

videope wrote: Maybe I didn't explain myself correctly. -------------------------------------------------------- When creating a new project I have to specify location, name, etc... PLUS I also have to indicate the capture format No, you don't.  You can hit cancel.  If you've shot on media cards, you have no need to Capture. Secondly, comes the Sequence Settings where there are a bunch of available presets listed such AVCHD, DV-24P, DV-NTSC, DV-PAL and so on... also HDV.... and within each one there are further options for example under HDV:  1080i 25, 1080i 30, 1080p etc.... Which one is the one I should choose? That's already been explained in this thread.  And it's also covered thoroughly in the Pr Help documentation. If understand correctly you are suggesting that I forget this screen and just add my clips and create New Sequence from Clip.  This you say will automatically attach to it the proper preset.  Pardon my ignorance but I can't figure out how it will work.  Will I have a new sequence for each clip? Right.  Have you even tried it yet?  You can select a bunch of clips, and drag them to the New Sequence icon also.  They'll all be added to a new Sequence based on the source clip's settings. Finally, when I mentioned I will burn an HD DVD I meant: a High Definition  DVD and also was considering burning a Standard Definition  DVD and was asking if it would be possible. You're using incorrect terminology.  There is no HD DVD.  There is DVD, and there is Blu-Ray.  The different formats have different names. ... View more

Whenever you create a new Project, Pr first asks you to choose the path for your project, and to give it a name.  Enter that info.  Then it asks you to select a sequence setting.  Hit cancel.  Then you'll get a fresh project with no sequences.  Import your footage, and do as Harm suggested: New Sequence from Clip.  That takes most of the guesswork out of which sequence setting to use. However, there are some bugs in Pr that will choose the wrong format with certain footage types.  At least, this is true for Mac CS5.5.  So, it doesn't hurt to check your Sequence Settings after you've done the Create New Sequence from Clip. Notwithstanding that... If you ever want to know whether your 29.97 footage is interlaced, there are a few methods to determine it.  One is to make a sequence with a frame rate of 59.94.  Put a "29.97" clip with some action in it.  Step through your clip one frame at a time (use left or right arrow key).  If the footage changes on every step, your footage is interlaced.  If it changes every other step, it's progressive.  Another way is to view your footage in the Source tab, and turn on Display Both Fields.  Look for some action in your video.  If you see a comb-filter look (jagged venetion blinds would be one way to describe it), then your footage is interlaced. As Harm mentioned there is no HD DVD.  It's Blu-Ray for HD video, which you can make, and you can also make a SD DVD, in Encore from the same Sequence in Pr. ... View more

I'm not sure if this will add much to the discussion.  But, I learned around CS3 when I was having problems that the Adobe uninstaller left over 30 files on my system drive.  I used EasyFind to search for "adobe," which found the files left by the uninstaller.  I deleted them, using EasyFind's Destroy function.  They were packages, boms, receipts, preferences, etc.  Only then can you really do a "clean" install.  Apparently, this did no harm to my system, as I eventually got CS3 up and running again. ... View more

Thanks.  I'm guessing that for a lot of big corporations I'm dealing with are on old OS builds of Windows.  Probably not Windows 7, probably not Vista. Here's a typical export setting I use: The irony here is that one of my clients who can't view mp4s is a high-tech provider of cloud services and internet devices. ... View more

Seems like it ought to.  But, I keep getting mail from my clients saying, "I can't open this."  My movies have the mp4 extension.  What can I tell them to get them to play? ... View more

I prefer to make H.264 for client reviews, but a lot of clients can't or won't figure out how to play them, and insist on WMV.  Being on Mac, I export ProRes from Pr, and then use QT Pro to make the WMVs.  There is a gamma shift using this process.  The MP4 looks like the original, is a far superior looking codec at lower bit rates than WMV. I suggest that clients install the free cross-platform VLC player, which is the Swiss Army Knife of media players.  But, a lot of corporate IT departments won't let them install any software. I look at the extra transcoding steps as a revenue generating opportunity. ... View more

Corrupt media has been known (to me) to crash FCP, Ae, Pr, and Avid MC.  If all is well with different footage, that may implicate your media as the problem. ... View more

May be corrupt media, then.  Try moving your media to a different location, and moving it back, a few clips at a time. ... View more

Sounds like your project may be corrupt.  Do you have a previous rev in your Auto-Save folder?  That might be your only hope. I recently had Pr project corruption when my RAID5 suffered a parity drive failure.  My project was on the RAID.  I couldn't open them, or import into a new project.  Had to re-edit a day's worth of work from a previous auto-save on my backup drive.  Good luck.  Do a Save As often from now on. ... View more

Hi and thanks again, Shooternz.  I'm a Mac owner, but I do work freelance on Windows systems, and have associates who are on Windows.  So, no I downloaded the Mac version.  I was a little behind on my research, and after Googling, it appears that there are a few options now for making ProRes on Windows.  Among them appears to be a Telestream product called Vantage. BTW, one of the great advantages of ProRes over DNxHD, esp. for compositing apps, is that there aren't any frame size or rate restrictions on ProRes, as there are with DNxHD, which is quite persnickety about them.  DNx won't let you make pre-renders that are 10x1000 at 8 FPS, for example, but ProRes has no problems with that kind of thing. ... View more

Shooterns...  Thanks for the heads-up about 5DtoRGB.  I downloaded it, and the Read Me file states:  "Apple ProRes codecs must be installed in order to output files in ProRes format."  Sounds to me that rules out creating ProRes from a Windows system.  But, if you've done this, and know otherwise, I'd love to be able to pass this intelligence on to some of my colleagues. ... View more

Take a look at Motion JPEG2000, while you're at it. ... View more

I tried that, David.  Didn't help.  But, thanks for the advice. ... View more

I have found an alternative to XML Wrench for Mac:  Text Wrangler.  I opened a damaged Pr project file with it.  There is definitely some garbage text in there that doesn't look anything like the rest of the text, which is organized and fits a pattern.  I have no clue how to edit it to get back in business.  I tried deleting the garbage text and doing a Save As, but the new file still wouldn't open in Pr.  I clearly don't know what I'm doing in an XML editor. However, there was some text I could read in the file that is causing me some eyebrow raising.... "AJA."  It just so happens that I upgraded my AJA LHi Control Panel software to version 10.0 last week.  This coincides with my project corruption.  So, I wonder if installing that update has anything to do with this issue. I'm still on 10.6.8, and the 10.0 AJA software update seems to be specifically created for Lion (10.7.x) compatibility. If anybody can fix my corrupted project, I'll be happy to buy  you a nice gift on Amazon, and have it shipped to you. ... View more

I appreciate your effort, but I already had found that page earlier today, and XML Wrench appears to be for Windows.  I still have one project to re-edit; should take me a couple of hours, which would probably be faster than learning to edit XML code anyway.  But again, thanks for your reply. ... View more