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So just wanted to update on what the solution I ended at for this build. Worked with HP directly, and got quite a good deal on a Z640 -- the specs are: Are the computer configured with one (1) processor? The Z640 can be configured with two (2) processors and are thus a more expensive computer than the Z440. So if you are using one (1) processor you should be looking at the Z440 instead of the more expensive Z640. A Z440 can be speced the way you speced the Z640 but will be cheaper to buy. The only reason to buy the Z840 or the Z640 is if you use two (2) processors. For your configuration i would consider the HP 2.5in HDD/SSD 2-in-1 Optical Bay Bracket: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/mpc/oas/product-detail.html?oid=7427924 ... View more

I manually deleted preferences yesterday by holding the ALT key while starting Premiere... I did this to test and see if it would reset the Cache location... it appeared to have no effect on that setting. That is the expected result. The Cache location is used and shared by more Adobe apps, for example Adobe Media Encoder. So when the Premiere Pro Preferences are cleared it looks for the "global" Cache location and that´s why that setting appears to be unchanged. The same goes when clearing the Preferences for Adobe Media Encoder. The problem with this "auto reset" is that there not seem to be a reliable way to recreate it and that makes it hard to fix. It just happens for no obvious reason and i have never been able to find out what triggers it. I have filed numerous bug reports over the years regardning this very issue. Adobe has never been able to recreate it either. ... View more

This has happened to me for years, iow that the Preferences are deleted automatically. I have not yet figured out if they were deleted when i closed the app or if it happens the next time i open it. No, i don´t have any key pressed down when it happens and no project files or media are deleted. All project can be opened by using Open. I always close Premiere Pro by pressing Ctrl+Q. ... View more

is there a way to zoom in and out using a keyboard shortcut? Yes, use the keyboard shortcuts for Zoom In and Zoom Out. (+ and - on my keyboard.) Is there a way, when zooming in & out - to zoom to the side that I drag, instead of zooming to the center? AFAIK, no there is not. But, you can use the small arrows on the attached image to "Go to Previous Keyframe" and "Go to Next Keyframe" to easily find the keyframes. For some odd reason there are no keyboard shortcut for those two commands in Premiere Pro. That´s very frustrating if you use After Effects and are used to use keyboard commands for navigating through keyframes. ... View more

The problem is that it'll select the whole clip. I want to select just a small portion of it, then delete it easily. Set an In Point, set an Out Pont and use the Extract or the Lift command. All can be done with keyboard shortcuts. This will delete the portion of the clip you selected. Extract will do a ripple delete and Lift will just remove the video/audio. ... View more

I did file a bug report earlier today for my issue. I can reproduce it on several computers with English display language with a Swedish keyboard. ... View more

What keyboard layout do you have, English, German, Swedish, or? With the latest update i have noticed that many keyboard shortcuts have stopped working for me since i use a Swedish keyboard layout. I must manually remap many keyboard shortcuts. (Windows 10) ... View more

Do you know anyone who has actually bought any of the scenarist products recently? No, i don´t. I started to look for Encore alternatives a couple of weeks ago and found Scenarist among other solutions. I was under the impression that Scenarist was EOL and since Rovi bought Sonic Solutions i glare of hope that Encore might get some love after all was filling my room. Maybe Scenarist has been rewritten, i don´t know. ... View more

Here's something in between.  I've used it in the past and actually prefer it to Encore.  It's not cheap, but not Hollywood expensive, either. Blu-Disc Studio - Blu-ray authoring software Yes, i wrote about BDS abowe. I downloaded a trial of the Standard version three weeks ago but found out that it was too limiting. There is no real preview were one can preview video at normal speed with audio: "At the moment there is no real playback function. The only way to preview the project with video is to multiplex the project and start it on the player". A two hour project simply takes to long time to multiplex for a simple preview in a third party player. And since i use motion menues in each project i found out that there is no way to simulate a project before building it when using motion menus, to actually *see* the motion menu in action: "Simulation allows you to see only a menu, without video. Therefore, if you start a movie in the simulation window you will see a black screen.". I have no doubt that the software is good, but no preview and black motion menues is not a good sign year 2017. I could preview timelines in Encore DVD 1.0 year 2003. I want to do a quick preview in Encore just to verify that the navigation is correct and that the correct timelines are played, that the End Actions are correct. I use keyboard shortcuts to execute End Actions so i never watch the whole disc. (End-key for Encore and F1 for BDS.) I noticed in their forum when i tested it that you have the MX version. You had some trouble with motion menues as well, how do you think it works today? What do you think about the software/functionality overall? If it had functional preview, movies at normal speed with audio and motion menues, when simulating without having to multiplex the project i would have bought it probably directly. ... View more

I create great quality Blu-rays when i export 1050p50 to 1080i so Anns advice abowe is spot on. On topic/off topic: Since Rovi seems to have continued to support the Sonic Solutions code since Scenarist is still alive it would be great if Adobe could reach out to Rovi for a continued develepoment of Adobe Encore. We really need an authoring solution that last. Adobe Encore is End Of Life and an OS update can and will break it eventually. Today we have two solutions: Consumer apps with almost no control that are template driven or professional solutions that costs far to much that they probably don´t even want to sell to John Doe. I tried Blue Disc Studio and it seemed ok but has very limited preview options making it kind of unusable in many cases, or at least very hard to work with. Rovi: Scenarist BD Blu-ray Disc Production - Encode and Create Blu-ray Disc Titles - Rovi ... View more

chopin_guy; You can order a Z440/Z640/Z840 without any grapics card installed. If you plan to put in a GTX card there is no need to buy the computer with a Quadro card. You can either buy an off-the-shelf or a Top Config configurated Z Workstation without graphics card. That will save you money and that´s how i buy them. ... View more

A similar h.264 codec named TMPGENC AVC is very similar in features and provides just about the same if not better quality with better tweaking of its advanced settings. Thanks for this interesting tip! I have downloaded the trial and it seems to be very good. I noticed that Chapter Markers on Premiere Pro´s timeline carries over to Encore with files exported using TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in AVC for Premiere Pro and since i do Blu-ray authoring this is very good. I have so far noticed two downsides. No Constant Quality when encoding to Blu-ray. No Chapter Markers carries over if i set the Multiplexer to None. Will do more testing. ... View more

CineForm is included in Premiere Pro CC. ... View more

The reason I'm asking about 60p is I've already started shooting in 60p. Then you can continue to shoot at 60p. When you export using the MPEG2-DVD exporter it will export to 60i and your footage will look great. I have done that for years with 50p with DVD's and Blu-ray's with no issues. ... View more

Vandacorp, select the timeline you are working with and go to Sequence > Sequence Settings and uncheck "Composite in Linear Color" and click OK to close the Sequence Settings dialog. I have a feeling that it will solve the problem. ... View more

Good news, the Hard Limiter from Audition is added to the latest update of Premiere Pro. New features summary for the 2017 release of Adobe Premiere Pro CC ... View more

What's the trick to make these titles? Good looking rolling titles in 23.976 fps always look bad if they roll too fast. Making them in AE in any other frame rate will not improve them. Do the titles in 23.976 fps. The nature of 23.976 (low frame rate) is that all movements look more or less blurry, the slower the rolling title the better it will look. There are a script/expression out there for AE to make rolling titles good. Do a Google search and you will find it. More here: newb - smooth scrolling credits in AE ? ... View more

Yes, but what i meant and explained poorly was that the audio file makes the Audio Meters in Premiere Pro do peak while they do not peak in Audition. Peak=The top of the Audio Meters light up the two red squares at the very top and stays there. In Audition one gets the impression that the audio file is safe and never goes abowe 0 dB while Premiere Pro indicates all through the song that the file goes abowe 0 dB. Why does the two meters show different results? Wich one is accurate? I have seen this for a long time in Premiere Pro, that it´s audio meters indicate that files are too hot while they in fact are not according to Audition. If i have files that don´t go abowe 0 dB i do not expect that the Audio Meters indicate that the files are too hot. See the attached image: ... View more

Off topic, in this case, means that the thread's purpose is not to seek technical help. No, this was posted by me as an answer in another separate thread and i did not start a new thread with a post like this. If i hadn´t mentioned anything about the Program Manager for Premiere Pro as a former Apple employee my post wouldn´t have been moved, in this case by another former Apple employee iow Kevin. ... View more

Adobe is no longer intersted in fixing bugs that have been in the application for years, or one can even say that the priority has never been very high on the priority list. Today their main goal is to attract new users, mainly Mac users by adding features from FCP7 or adding new meaningless bling-bling features that are far less needed or wanted than transitions that work and behave correctly. I remember when Creative Cloud became the only licensing option that the programmers/staff screamed halleluja since from then on they could release patches and updates as soon as possible and that they were glad that the old release cycle were gone, iow full version > pach update > .1 update > patch update > .2 update, etc. "Hell yeah, now we can adress issues must faster than before!" Today we know that the release of full versions/patches are exactly the same slow process that it was before so nothing did change. Just look at the issues with the Lumetri panel with it´s mislabeled sliders in CC2017. It did take some time before that one got adressed. AFAIK, Lumetri panel has problems with clipping whites today. Ohh, it will be fixed in the next sometime-to-be-released update. Why isn´t an issue like that fixed now? Another example is After Effects. They dropped the multi processor feature in CC2015 with the good intention to rewrite it. Now we have CC2017 but the code for proper multi core support is not yet finished. Lack of staff, lack of resources, new bling-bling feature more important? The Program Manager for Adobe Premiere Pro is more interested in wearing a straw hat at NAB dancing around on the floor and being the funny crazy guy. He´s not even communicating with the beta testers. Former Program Managers did. Premiere Pro has sadly enough been on a downhill path for some time now and the beta testers input is too often ignored. Today it feels like the old days when i had a Matrox card and had to use workarounds all the time to get things done. I have to work with workarounds in every project today: Ohh, the transition looks bad? As a workaround just go to the sequence settings and un-check the "composite in linear color" and the dissolve will look normal and smooth. Ehh, is this still the case with CC2017? (Yes it is...) They has us as subscribers, so why should they shape up? ... View more

It must be system related. No, it was a known bug in the MainConcept code that took some time to get fixed. Sometimes it happened, sometimes it didn´t. ... View more

Over the years i have noticed that VBR encoding in Adobe applications can be the root of such problems you are describing. When setting the Max bitrate one can often see that the actual bitrate some times go higher that the Max setting, causing problems. I can encode @ 30 Mbps with CBR without isses when i use Encore. For years my encodes are always CBR and it never fails. VBR on the other hand did often fail. ... View more

Sorry, I am so confused with your post, are you saying that exporting to 1080 i (whichever framerate) won't affect the quality and export will look as original, and then saying that I should actually not export a 25fps to 23.976 as it will affect the quality? I am very lost as I'm understanding this as contradictory informations, so I must be missing something. I am saying that if you have 1080p25 you should export to 1080i25, iow 25 fps should be exported to 25 fps. Yes, the quality will be great. But, i don´t get what frame size you are working with. One screenshot says 1280x720 while another says 1920x1080. 720p25 won´t work if going to Blu-ray. Exporting 720p25 to 720p50 will works without issues. Forget everything about exporting to 23.976 in your case. ... View more