All the same, I'm inclined to believe it's not AFS. Once you post your settings, Jeff Bellune might be able (willing?) to attempt to replicate; I know he's using Squeeze 7 and AFS. ... View more

Yep... and appears it might not be a bug but a borked install on my part. D'oh! I think it's because I did not uninstall the old version prior to installing the new one. ... View more

Is this from an earlier interation that isn't present in our version? Correct. When DMFS first was being reworked, it was basically just a straight-up 64-bit port of the original 32-bit version--nothing fancy. In later revisions, the frameserver became more tightly integrated with the Premiere Pro interface--at some point, it was not longer DMFS and became AFS (Advanced Frameserver). The version of the FS we're using is actually quite removed from the original; another coder took on the task of porting DMFS, and he didn't make any of the cool additions and optimizations that we have access to. That rather plain-jane port is going to be the new "official" DMFS; what we have, arguably, is much better. That said, I think some new bugs have made their way in--I'm not able to serve a YUY2 or UYVY stream. ... View more

Hmm... no problems here with any of the variations I've tried (again, on 6.5). Once you can get back to the machine, post all the particulars--source sequence, colorspace mode of AFS, encoding settings in Squeeze, and anything else that might be relevant. I ain't callin' you no liar Just can't repeat this, myself... ... View more

I'll try to replicate; I only have Squeeze 6.5, but if it's AFS, it should be there, too. Can you give me the particulars on your WMV export settings? ... View more

That's got to be a problem with Squeeze, then. I've encoded dozens of files with the frameserver to various applications, almost always with resizing, and had no issues--I always get the output size I specify. Check your settings in Squeeze, and also try an intermediate file; might be a bug of some sort in Squeeze. ... View more

Searching the Help file would have been a good start: Titler (keyboard shortcuts) Result Windows Mac OS Insert copyright symbol Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C Command+Option+Shift+C (Character map and the Unicode shortcuts work, too.) ... View more

Maybe... but this was a bug, not a matter of practice or performance. ... View more

Hopefully Steve won't mind me mentioning, but I sent him a project file and some images that were triggering the crash, and it seems that he had cornered the issue. Without going into specifics--mainly because I don't know any specifics--this appears to be related to large images that, when displayed using hardware MPE and CUDA acceleration, fill up the memory of the GPU and eventually crash the software. The workaround, beyond not using hardware MPE, is to resize your images. Can you pinpoint the part of your project that causes the problem? If it's with an image file, you might try resizing it in Photoshop or similar; lowering the DPI and changing the frame size will help this. If it's with a video clip, that might be a different issue altogether and you should probably report the issue with as much detail as possible. ... View more

Did you try what I posted above? ... View more

How would you like to raise blacks on a transparent video? Then how would explain Adjustment Layers in AE and PS? Those are both transparent layers to which you can apply effects and change the values of pixels in layers below. OP: the fact is that there simply isn't a feature like Adjustment Layers in Premiere right now. Certain effects work on transparent video or black video with a proper blending mode applied, but not like you're seeking. A good feature request, though: Adobe Feature Request/Bug Report Form ... View more

This is the difference: The icon is different, and the Type will be "Windows Batch File." If you can't see extensions, in an Explorer window go to Tools > Folder Options, click on the View tab, and clear the checkbox that says "Hide extensions for known file types." You can use a converter, if you want, but the process I'm outlining doesn't actually transcode the files the way a converter will. All it does is rewrap the AVC/AAC streams in a container/codec combo that Premiere is able to use. There will be no quality loss, unlike using a converter. ... View more

Download MediaInfo, and use it to analyze each file. Set the View mode to "Text" and then copy and paste the results here. If all the files are from the same source, just the results of one of them is enough. ... View more

Nope, still waiting. I'll rattle the cage of our overseas compatriot... ... View more

Yep... seen it before Download VLC Media Player and install it. In the folder containing your AVI files, create a new text document called "avi2mp4.bat" (without the quote marks). Be sure it has the .BAT extension. Paste the following into the batch file: @ECHO OFF for %%a in (*.avi) do "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc" -I dummy "%%a" --sout=#:file{dst="%%~na".mp4} vlc://quit If VLC is installed in the Program Files folder and not the Program Files (x86) folder, remove the " (x86)" from this line, and save the file. To run the batch, simply double-click it, or you can drag and drop AVI files onto it, and they will be rewrapped as MP4s with the same filename as the original. If you use the drag and drop approach, you can save this file anywhere on your hard drive, and any files dropped onto it will be converted and placed in the same folder as the original. That's it; the MP4s will (should, anyway) import into Premiere without any further workarounds. ... View more

Please see the link in my post above. ... View more

I called Adobe support and they said to download the h.264 codec. However, they said they're not authorized to help me download it and I can't find it anywhere. First of all, I'm hoping Todd stops in here; he will make heads roll for this completely misguided recommendation. Any codec you could possibly download to make these files work would be bad news for your system. Premiere has support for H.264, but not when it's wrapped in an AVI. What is in the AVIs? That can be a lot of different things. Download and use MediaInfo to determine the content of your AVIs; the Text view can be copied and pasted here. ... View more

And we're back... Thanks! -signed The Real Me. ... View more

It will be publicly available soon. The final bugs and optimizations are being worked out--they have taken a bit more work than was originally expected. It should be available for wide release in the next week or two. Stay tuned here for final release details. ... View more

In TMPGEnc, go to Options > Preferences > File input plug-in, and uncheck the AVI file reader option. That's it; no need to export separate audio or to embed the PCM samples. ... View more

(now PPro is right there in quality with iMovie 11!). Yeah... I know what you mean... ... View more

Make sure your Playback Resolution is set to "Full" and not "1/2." To do this, click the Output button in the Program Monitor (looks like a Venn diagram with three overlapping circles). That usually smooths out playback on footage like this. ... View more

UNEXCITING UPDATE: The frameserver is about 90% functional right now. A bug with RGB24 frameserving that caused transitions to render weird alpha issues has been fixed, which was the last major bug that was discovered. The frameserver also has a new name: Advanced Frameserver. Keepin' it simple The last major hurdle that is being worked on is not so much a bug-squashing stampede, but rather some major overhauling to the way the frameserver dishes up frames to external applications. Generally, encoding from a frameserved signpost AVI file is as fast as encoding from an intermediate file. However, there is a significant slowdown when serving from a sequence with render-intensive effects or when using MRQ during export; this is primarily evident when using poorly multi-threaded apps like Squeeze or VirtualDub. However, when encoding to something like CCE or when using the multi-threaded version of Avisynth between the frameserver and VirtualDub, the time differential diminished or disappeared. So, what the developer is working on is a method to request multiple frames in parallel and cache them, so that encoding applications that maybe aren't as efficient will have a "pool" of served frames to pull from, instead of asking for them one by one. This increases the overhead a bit, since the frameserver will have to cache a certain number of frames, but should be offset by much shorter encoding times. In order to implement this, however, the frameserver needs to be more or less written from scratch, so that's why there haven't been any updates lately. The frameserver is essentially complete; it's just being hot-rodded now I'll update as we get closer to a revamped version of the frameserver--stay tuned. My thanks to everyone for your interest and support of the project. ... View more

I've had it since 5.0.0. ... View more

Seems to be caused by Red Giant/Trapcode plug-ins. I get this all the time with Shine, Starglow, and similar. Doesn't seem to affect anything; I keep meaning to submit a bug report to RG... ... View more