Thanks for that.  Other than making sure I am not crossing a specific dB threshold, in a lot of cases I am bringing UP levels to a specific amount.  In waveform normalize does this automatically and I can see the peaks. I get that final audio will show levels and I can play through the entire file and adjust....but it appears there is no way to see what a particular track level setting will do to the entire exported audio via a waveform so you can determine the correct track level?  Live performance has a lot of peaks. I would say you can use the original waveform and if the peaks are say -10db and I want them at -3db that adjustment to track gain is obvious.  However as I mentioned in multitrack edit view I show NO dB vertical scale on the waveform so I can't even do that. I was hoping to be able to save my EQ and tweaks in multitrack so if I need to tweak I can tweak from where I started.  Oh well, if this is how it is I guess back to waveform. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

Spinning Onion, THANKS!!!  I am an Asus guy too.....Skylake ROG Maximus Hero VIII. I have had Sonic Studio 2 on here since I built the system!!   I can guarantee there is no conflict between Sonic Studio II and Pr Pro CC 2015.  It all started when I "upgraded" to Pr Pro 2017. All I had to do was right click on sonic studio and hit exit.  And my video popped up!! Unbelievable.  I wish there was a "props" button because I would be hitting it. Since this was NOT a problem and Adobe's move to 2017 caused it, perhaps some of the people with pull on this thread can get it fixed on the adobe side?  Hard to blame Asus when this was working for like 2 years.... BJBBJB1 ... View more

Well I uninstalled my current driver and went back to a version from 3 months ago.... Still have black screen on Pr Pro video box monitor although everything else works fine. I noticed Pr Pro had an update so I did that update, no difference. I then uninstalled Pr Pro (although I kept preferences) and re-installed.  Still have the black screen monitor. I have switched hardware acceleration off and on with no difference. I am now running Nvidia driver 376.33 from December.  This driver installed just fine so I think I have a good driver install now, it seems to be a premiere pro issue. I guess I wouldn't know if sure unless I went back to an old version of Pr Pro which I am tempted to. This appears to have started when I updated an April driver as I mentioned in first post but now I cannot be sure. I am at a loss....I do need to get Premiere Pro working and not sure what to do. I have opened old projects that used to work, opened new ones and dropped in a clip, regardless, no video at all. I have resized the window, tried it on both of my monitors, no joy.  Never had this problem before.  I have researched this and it always seem to go back to a re-install or drivers. However I have a hard time believing NVIDIA driver from December through now had this issue.  I could believe the newest one caused it, but not that the issue has been out there for four months... Now this may be a clue....and this never used to happen either!  When I start premiere pro the first time after a reboot, it starts fine. However when I close it, if I start it again without rebooting it won't start. I can go in task manager and see "Adobe Premiere Pro.exe" still running in "Details", if I stop this process, it will run again. But what is up with that also? Do I have to go back to PPro 2015?  (I think that was the last major version). That was working just great. Any help appreciated. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

I have the same issue after upgrading my video driver on my ROG Skylake desktop. I am going to try the driver lottery next week and go back a few.  Did you just uninstall Pr pro 2017 and then re-install from cloud or use a direct link/file download? I still suspect the driver in my case but the symptoms are so similar.... BJBBJB1 ... View more

I was able to find them.  I have an SSD for my C drive and some adobe items are saved on my mechanical hard-drive based user "documents" folder and some default to the almost empty SSD User documents folder. Sure enough they were under Documents>Adobe>Adobe Media Encoder>presets>9.0 I copied them over and imported them.  All is good. All of my other older ones are on my mechanical hard drive based documents folder.  Must be a default I did not set or something. Thanks for leading me on the right path. BJBBJB1 ... View more

I have a backup of the entire PC from some time before I did the upgrade.  However I did see a   AME 2015 folder but didn't see presets unless buried. If I can find it can I just copy to 2017 or do I import. I did not make a file copy of any 2015 folders as I could not imagine the upgrade would blow away presets or any user files. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

John, Thanks. I know this is not nvidia support but since you have been through it, is the best approach to just uninstall the driver (and related physix etc) from control panel and then just install an older driver with the nvidia installer? That Windows driver rollback just seemed a little glitchy in the past. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

Thanks.  With a 100mbps source would you use 100Mbps CBR or say 75 target 100 max vbr?  I did research like crazy but not a lot of solid 4k mbps export info. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

Jim, A follow-up! So my original source file is  12GB (around 15 minutes), a 4K XAVC-S (100mbps) file from a Sony FDR-AX53 and I merged my portable audio to it. For my 4K render I used the settings you recommended which was H.264, match source-high bitrate.  I didn't notice until after the render it defaulted to a target bitrate of 10Mbps and a maximum of 12!??   My resulting render was a file size of only 1.4GB?  Now I am not trying to down-rez, , just render to the same 4K quality. So I have not done 4K before but I would have thought it would have matched the source and a high bitrate should be 100 if the source is that, correct?  Or maybe "match source/high bitrate" is not yet intelligent for 4K data rates? What made me do a double take was I then did a render for 1080P HD, again using H.264 and the HD 1080P 29.97 preset. THAT preset has a target of 32 Mbps and a maximum of 40 which resulted in a 4GB file! I have done many HD renders but this is my first 4K. Something just doesn't seem to make sense here with file sizes. My 4K render file says it is 3840x2160 with a data rate of 10032kbps. My 1080P file says it is 1920X1080 with a data rate of 32049kbps. The time lengths are identical. Obviously the difference is due to the data rates. But I would have thought the "match source high bitrate" would have given me the right numbers.  Do I just need to manually adjust those 4K render bitrates and if so what are good numbers for target and max if my source is 100? Just do a constant 100 or VBR? Any help appreciated. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

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Thanks, so no smart rendering.  Given my situation, what would the recommended 4k preset and codec be to keep the most quality? Would it be best and can I still just choose "same as source"  even though I won't get the smart render? BJBBJB1 ... View more

Greetings.  I believe my question is still on the same subject as this thread so hopefully it is okay to add to this.  That PDF is very helpful but have another question!  I am on the latest version of CC for AME and Pr Pro. I recently have purchased a Sony camcorder and will be recording 4K 3840X2160 30P XAVC-S at 60Mbps but also have the need for HD and even lower resolution versions. I would keep the 4K version as my "original" for the future. I just want to make sure I am interpreting all of the above correctly.    If I use the XAVC-S file as my AME source, I can export to any 1080P encoded format I prefer.   So it will natively recognize it and transcode it.   Having never transcoded from 4K to HD before, do I need to be mindful of any frame-rate issues or any other settings?  Any recommendations on an export preset that would play nice with this footage?  I would just like to transcode to maybe H.264 1920X1080 or MP4 etc. so my HD streamer can display it. In my HD workflow I am extremely careful to make sure I always match the original format, frame rate, etc. etc.....just not sure how all that translates to 4K. Currently the only way I can play my 4K video on a TV is to attach the camcorder to it but I presume that will change over time. Thanks, BJBBJB1 ... View more

If there is no definitive advice I guess I'll just wing it and download CC from the website and hope for the best. BJBBJB1 ... View more

Stan, I totally agree! BJBBJB1 ... View more

John, You provide outstanding input and support on this forum but on this point I respectfully disagree that only a licensing issue forced Adobe to not provide SOME disc-based authoring software and therefore it is okay it was not updated.  Had they wanted to, I am sure they could have found a way to make something happen even with this issue.  Although that is an interesting post and analysis. They  released many new "apps"/programs for CC that most people don't use. Certainly an Encore replacement could have been one of them and would not have cost an arm and a leg to develop. But they made a decision to re-allocate their resources.....and not support disc-based authoring.  If there was a licensing issue that impacted say a legacy Pr Pro, AE or PS feature or plugin, I am sure that would have been resolved so it would not have to be dropped.  It was just not a priority. It still irks me and there is still not an elegant authoring solution that will not cost more than the cloud membership. Using Encore CS6 with the increasingly updated PP is clunky at best.  But yes....it is out there but as noted above, as new OS's come out that support is sketchy. I would be interesting if streaming can't keep up with ever increasing resolutions and we have to go back to optical for certain applications...:) BJBBJB1 ... View more

GTX560 here with dual monitors. Only unique thing I can think of is both monitors are different sizes/resolutions....and one is Adobe RGB colorspace which of course is the one I want it to open on! BJBBJB1 ... View more

I just installed Photoshop CC 2014.  And STILL....STILL....the same kind of nonsense trying to get PS CC to remember which monitor you want it to open on!! I thought I would share how I finally kind of got it to work and remember. Still, if you maximize it, it won't remember.  If you start with it minimized but stretched to the edge, now it won't remember either. If you minimize in a smaller window, THEN it remembers. So you then stretch it a little bit more......and it it remembers.... Then you stretch it close to the edge????  It starts up in the other monitor!! So....you have to open and close PS CC 2014 like 40 times to try to get it as close to the edge as you can and still get it to open in the correct monitor. Yeah, I know we can report a bug. This has been reported, just not fixed. BJBBJB1 ... View more