I've never made a video using a single still, so I never thought about this: See "Optimize Stills or Expand Stills" here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/mediaencoder/cs/using/WS81733643-B4A6-45c5-ABD7-D5A90EB388FC.html I wonder if this would reduce file size on such an avi export? You couldn't apply any effects, etc. ... View more

Select the "timeline" and you will see an "end action" in the properties.  Set it to "last menu".  You'll be good to go. Follow one of the help links and find a tutorial or two.  they will help you a lot at this stage. Burn that disk! ... View more

I'm all for getting projects out the door! I think the errors could be fixed, but sometimes they can be too resistent. ... View more

I assume you still have a problem somewhere.  I am not certain, but I think the warning will disappear when the problem does.  If you are absolutely certain that you have no chapters off, I don't know what is at issue in a "trim" being adjusted. You can, of course, ignore the warning and see what you end up with.  In some cases, a chapter being moved slightly will not matter.  I would try tracking this down, and not just leave it, however. ... View more

FLV is a supported filetype, but it is a container, and relies on codecs installed on your machine. Since CS4 is working, the flv codec in this file must be one of those that premiere is looking for a particular location for the codec. I don't know the solution, but here's the help file that says flv is supported and relies on multiple codecs. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSd79b3ca3b623cac97fa024001235833a568-8000.html I am still on CS3, and I agree with Harm's recommendation of converting. ... View more

Thanks for the link.  To keep the bottom line here as well, the other thread contains this response on 4/29/09 from John Cornicello, who put digest on a wish list above.  John says, "I just checked in with Jive about email digests. Here is my question and their repsonse:" Instead of just individual email notifications, are email digests available in Jive Clearspace? I seem to recall that they were in Jive Forums. But I have not seen this option in Clearspace. Curious... Thanks! John Hey John, Unfortunately, nothing like this exists in Clearspace. I believe they were removed from the codebase when Clearspace was being built for technical reasons. John, is that the bottom line?  A pretty lame reason for not adding digests back to their system. ... View more

laszloacs wrote: From all the comments I've gathered here and a number of other threads; it appears this email digests functionality is simply not going to happen.  Part of the problem, apparently, was in the adoption of the ClearSpace platform where the digest function was removed - at least that's what I've been led to believe from the plethora of conversations we've had. Can you point us to the comments that say this is not going to happen?  An early post in this thread, John added it to a wish list. ... View more

ilex, for a workaround, set the folder you are sending your premire stuff to for "arrange by" subject, but DO NOT group.  This is still inadequate, but I can skim through and have most topics make better sense.  Some do not sort by date, and the first post does not (no "re" in front of it).  If you can improve this, let me know. I agree - we need digests as a tool.  It is much faster to skim a half day digest (by forum), then it is to skim 200 separate emails that cannot be sorted adequately. As stated in other places, Jive should use current standards for tracking which email (i.e. topic/post) as person is responding to, and not turn the subject line into a unique identifier that defeats regular grouping by conversation/subject.  I do not, in hindsight, blame Adobe for not understanding how this would become a problem (we couldn't really test this effectively), but Jive lets Adobe down with this poor method. For those of you who weren't tracking this in the "forum on forums" about the changes ahead of time, the judgment call was made that the recent adobe forums were not sustainable.  The staff member who delivered the news had very good credibility among supporters and critics alike, and I saw no reason to argue his conclusion.  (That's John above who pu digests on the wish list.)  The problems in a previous forum change were huge problems that truly rendered the forums unusable.  I do not like several of the problems in the current forums, but I don't see anything that will result in a roll back to the previous version given the stakes as I understand them. I do not recommend discussing this here; go to those forums and read till you've seen about every possible point several times.  Then decide where to weigh in! ... View more

I apologize for responding in the wrong thread, but I am finding that I simply cannot take the time to process the current structure of the forums. After deleting the almost 400 Premiere and  Encore emails from about 2 days (almost all unread), I found today that the structure of the emails changed so that the content of the message is first (shows up nicely in Outlook reading pane), the link to the item is still convenient, and much of the unnecessary stuff is gone.  A step in the right direction. I'm sure the subject line is a bigger problem to fix, since it is being used to track, but I have still not found a way to avoid lots of separate groups.  I just found (should have thought of it before), that if I don't group them at all, just list the messages and then sort by subject, I get a passable list.  However, the unique code per item is not always in the correct (time) order. ... View more

johnrellis wrote: The drop down box solution isn't effective in this case.  ... The default should be to search the forum you are in at the time, with the option to then search all..  this implementation is very user unfriendly. Ditto.  I hope the priority for fixing this is set very high. Ditto. (Default should be current forum with subforums, checkbox option for all forums, and link option for advanced.) Ditto to not user friendly and high priority. I will also say that the small box and user unfriendly sort order for selecting forum in the "more options" search is what adds to the frustration of this poor initial implementation.  The visible box is small so it is hard to scroll quickly/scan it, and the organization is like the old adobe forums list - an odd assortment of alphabetizing by "Adobe Premiere" and "Encore" etc. (I don't really recall the examples.) The alpha listing on the main forum page in the "Product, Player, and Reader" forums is a great improvement and what I'd like to see here - meaningful alpha and drop down with enough vertical size to scan quickly.  But that single list is only that area, and does not include this general forum, etc. I wonder if separate forum/subforum selections is needed to make it easier to scan as well.  The main forum page selection is only forums (correctly so), but a search needs to go to the subforum level.  (And yes, that raises the sub-subforum level issue.)  But putting subforums in the same list with forums invites more complexity than many users are going to be comfortable with. ... View more

I agree with the need to make email subjects user friendly.  I was happy in the old system with digests as a way to determine what I had reviewed, and I think I cou ld be happy with email.  However, the subject line prevents grouping the posts by thread. The 2 or 3 attempts I have made to post via email reply have bounced with a 553 error from a jive server.  It makes me wonder if there is more wrong with their email interface. During the pre and trial phase, I looked at Jive a bit; I wonder if they are so focused on the facilitating community interaction (i.e. a corporate communication environment) that they do not understand the real life problems of more disconnected users trying to interface via the email options?  Or is there new code to the Adobe options that needs troubleshooting? ... View more

I am trying top find a work flow that works.  My old one was digests, and I am perfectly willing to give them up, but the subject line indexing for email makes that unusable as a way to review lots of posts and the on line forum itself is slow for me. (I still think the javascript constant activity is a problem.  I tried to customize the "my view" to add forums, and if that option is selected, my P4 sticks at 100% doing something in internet explorer for minutes at a time with navigation frozen.) The navigation options make going from forum to forum difficult.  I have a been a regular contributor in the Encore forums, but try checking each of those forums when you have no idea what is in each one without selecting it.  Even book marking each one to make it somewhat easier is timeconsuming.  The bottom line for me has been that I have used all my time trying to find a way to work with the system.  So far I am still looking. Also, email replies to the forums/discussions I've subscribed to are bouncing.  It appears to be an adobe address, but it is a jive server that is reporting a 553 error. ... View more

omg, they've turned to discussing religion! We do not know how many users are visiting these forums. Most adobe forums posters are not here posting, even if they visit, because these "what's coming forums" are not asking for input. They promise "information about." Most probably take a look and are then willing to wait and see. Also, frankly, if I were not someone who is willing to post every now and then, I sure wouldn't get my feet wet in this "new forums" group of absurdly rancorous forums. ... View more

I have not dealt with the slideshow version of the pgc error. Some users reported finding bad pix to improve it, but only in some cases. Search these forums for slideshow. However, the "aspect ratio not supported" message does not ring a bell. ... View more

What is the time=xx:xx:xx:xy? 2 or 3 frames from the end of the timeline? Or some other number? There are 3 different pgc errors that I put in the category of "false" errors. These are probably not "false" errors, but they defy resolving for those who have them. One is in menus, another timelines, and the third slideshows. If yours is a timeline error that is not the last few frames, it is probably a "real" error due to some asset problem. I had one similar asset to the one you are describing, that I could use to create this error from some parts of the asset and not others. But another user did not get the error when he used the clip that consistently would create the error for me. Your situation is different in that you are saying that multiple assets reliably produce the error as long as they are ame exports. I pay attention to this, and there is only one other CS4 user who raised the issue of this error, but it was not clear to me that it was one of the pgc errors seen with CS3. ... View more

What is your exact error? On your various tests, you are creating a brand new project for each test? When you imported the m2v (to test the xmpses effect), how did you separate it from the xmpses file? (Copied/moved the m2v to another directory; deleted the xmpses file?) ... View more

John pointed out at the time that he had asked exactly that. He's obviously learned lots of lessons, but it is a complex system. Best laid plans and all that. ... View more

Also at John's one level back: look again at "what are the changes." http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b7c4fe I'm not bothered by this, but I do think we are talking about a done deal with some continuing work on tweaks. I have not gone back to John's posts, but he was not promising lots of input, and I don't think he said anything that contradicts the faqs. ... View more

The format/structure of the forums is only one element in the big picture of resources for adobe apps. And different apps use different strategies. I liked the livedoc options to make the help files a better resource. But there have been few updates to the Premiere Pro livedocs, perhaps in part because Premiere has an effective Wikia that is used for the purpose of a user friendly resource/archive. (Also, Adobe stops updates to previous versions, even though many, many users continue to use them.) I like the idea of options that connect to the forums, but individual forums will make their own resources. ... View more

I follow the arguments, but I can only understand the INTENSITY of the concerns about how users are identified as emotional. It is true that these forums are unusual today in the very small amount of identification that is done in posts. But that data is available in a profile if the user chooses. And what is the difference in whether a very brief tag (as signature line or left column) appears in the post or by rollover or by click-to-profile. That is really not a bandwidth issue; and I do believe the left column should have a preference for being turned off. Official Adobe status (employee, forum moderator/host, community expert) are logical bits of information. The arguments against them simply because some users believe that people's advice should speak for itself, is not going to convince many of us. I don't find it pretentious any more than someone who states how many years they've been posting. The new user has very little data; why not provide them something. Many other tags are also appropriate, including the actual ACE (Adobe Certified Expert). ... View more

While OT from use of moderators, it illustrates why moderators are needed.... Ha, ha! And I'm too lazy to find a better thread for the turn this one has taken. I'll follow your lead.... I'm not arguing for a merge; there's no need that I see to change the current culture of each forum. But I'll share this example: a non-Adobe AE list I track has no subforums. Mac/PC, plugins (lots of esoteric), all versions, etc. But it is a forum of almost all pros, and it is rare to have a post that is not properly titled, including OT etc. Their (lack of) organization works just fine, and the content would be diminished if they had a Mac and a PC list. The PPro forums reorganized when CS4 came on line, and the arguments for and against various subforum options approached the intensity of this thread (well, maybe approach is too strong a word for the rancor in this thread). This discussion of mac vs pc etc reminds me that the software used for the forums, while important, may be less important that some of the other decisions (pc vs mac vs no separation; version of the application in the forum; and content area). For the new user who is/will be confused by any choices and the inevitable overlap, good search options are more important than multiple forums. But some Adobe forums have different needs from other Adobe forums. But we've all seen applications (usually standalone) that have large numbers of subforums and sub-subforums, but do they really add enough to make it worth the trouble? I realized in an excursion to the jive site, that, while I can turn off the indenting, I would not be able to turn off the ability of posters to split the thread into sub threads. I've become very linear in dealing with these forums. Yes, I can adapt, but that could be one of the most significant changes in dealing with content. ... View more

Would someone please post #245 in a new thread in a photoshop forum, and post a link here to that thread? While it has some relevance here, I would like to hear a more technical explanation that is not really suited to this topic. You do not, of course, resample when simply changing dpi, but I am prepared to learn something. The main variable that would change the size is the quality of a jpg. I'd like a link to that thread because I don't track the PS forums. That said, Ann, given your history of helping users on these forums, I just don't get your intensity. So I visited and looked up some of your posts. Very professional and helpful (very much in line with your post #249 here, which came in while I was composing this). I'm not a PS newbie, but I learned a couple things. So I do hope that the new forum format is something you can settle into, and that you can get back to helping us users that seek assistance. ... View more