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Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: premiere - Recent Topics http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: premiere - Recent Topics en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:39:36 +0000 composite1 on "Amateur to Amateur Advice...." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/amateur-to-amateur-advice#post-63964 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:14:10 +0000 composite1 63964@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ As one of the many Pro and Intermediate Gurus here in the forums, I've given tons of tips and advice to tons of Amateur and newbie videomakers. It's always cool to find an Amateur or Intermediate who has the chops to put out good info that even we pro's can find useful. Here's a vid by Dave Dugdale on 'How to Greenscreen with Adobe Premiere CS5'. <a href="http://vimeo.com/16953620">How to Key Green Screen DSLR Footage in Premiere Pro CS5</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/dugdale">Dave Dugdale</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. Christo Kj on "Laptop for gaming and video editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-gaming-and-video-editing#post-72454 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:29:36 +0000 Christo Kj 72454@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Is this laptop good enough for Premiere Pro CS 5.5? About the laptop: INTEL Core i7-2760QM firekjernet prosessor, 2.4GHz, 6MB SmartCache 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM 1333MHz (2x4GB) AMD Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td width="100%"> 500GB SATA 7200RPM </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td width="100%"> I know that Adobe is workin with nvidia but I don't have the money for nvidia 580M. So how is AMD 6990M with Premier pro? </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> G on "Editing in Adobe Premiere CS4" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-in-adobe-premiere-cs4#post-72423 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:53:00 +0000 G 72423@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Is it possible to edit DV and AVCHD simultaneously within the same project in Adobe Premiere CS4? I understand that it is two different resolutions, but is it possible? Bill Dillon on "Premiere Elements editing question" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/premiere-elements-editing-question#post-72138 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:19:06 +0000 Bill Dillon 72138@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  I have a question regarding Adobe Premiere Elements 8, not the Pro version. I've looked everywhere I can think to answer this and have come up blank. Say I have three or more saved projects (like baseballgame1, baseballgame2 and baseballgame3).  Is there a way I can join them in one time line so I can add start and end point and save them to DVD as a longer movie with tabs on the opening screen for the DVD?  You could click the game1 tab to watch baseballgame1, click game2 tab to watch baseballgame2, etc.  The underlying question is how to you combine projects to a larger project? Thank you Bill Dillon on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71612 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:10:35 +0000 Bill Dillon 71612@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  I haven't tried this but is it OK, technically, to mix HD and SD?  I'm using Premiere Elements 8 for editing? Rajesh Patwardhan on "Outsourcing Video Editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/outsourcing-video-editing#post-69449 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:31:40 +0000 Rajesh Patwardhan 69449@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi all, I am Raj from India. most of the wedding videography companies are small scale, generally owned by single person, of course there are a few exceptions. Its is waste of time to edit and finalize all footage by yourself. I currently handle editing part of wedding videos of some of my friends ( they became my friends after we started working together ) from Canada and UK. It helps them to get rid of headache of post and can concentrate more on getting more contracts or marketing. As editing costs less in India than any other country, it saves money and time too. Rick Ashworth on "Video card recommendations for CS5.5" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/video-card-recommendations-for-cs55#post-68685 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:01:11 +0000 Rick Ashworth 68685@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Question: Â I'm getting ready for my initial install of Premiere Pro CS5.5. Â I have never used anything by anybody previously (very noob), and my question to the knowledgeable masses: Â What's the best "bang for your buck" video card to work with PC/Win7Pro64 and Premiere Pro CS5.5? Â I read the docs where it specifies a 1GB "frame buffer.." Is that the same as a card advertised as a IGB DDRx, or is a frame buffer a "percentage" of the available video RAM? My Win7 computer has an "onboard" 256M video card, so I want to get something that will not cause problems down the road. Â I don't want to spend $700, but I don't want the BARE minimum card either. Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated! RonEmser on "Suggested workflow for Sony SR68 to Corel VideoStudio Pro X3" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/suggested-workflow-for-sony-sr68-to-corel-videostudio-pro-x3#post-65469 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:42:29 +0000 RonEmser 65469@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have a Sony SR68 and Sony has their proprietary mp2 fuiles. Any shortcuts to getting this to Corel's VideoStudio X3 or even Premiere? videopilot118 on "File transfer with Premiere" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/file-transfer-with-premiere#post-63821 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:47:52 +0000 videopilot118 63821@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi everybody, this is my first post here, so I'm not sure if this question has been asked yet: I recently got a new computer (Toshiba Satellite M645 (500GB of Hdrive, 4GB of RAM, Intel Core i5)) and I was thinking about buying CS5 Master edition. I'm a video student and have learned to edit on FCP 6 and 7, but our iMacs at school have CS5 on it with Premiere. Now my problem is is that my camera I use only has a 6 (or 4 don't remember) pin firewire port and my computer does not (that's really the one downside with my comp, no firewire ports whatsoever). So my plan was to capture the footage on the Premiere at school and then transfer those files to my computer that way I could edit at home. I was wondering if there would be any discrepancy between transferring files on Premiere from Mac to PC. I don't think there would be, but I would just like to be sure. I would like to know this before I put down money on Premiere and then only find out that I wouldn't be able to transfer the files. My other option, if it is even possible, is if there is an adapter that converts firewire to USB. After searching the web, I haven't found one and don't think such a thing exists. But if anyone happens to know of such a device, please let me know. Thanks. iklimon on "Need Help Exporting from CS4 Premiere" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-help-exporting-from-cs4-premiere#post-62180 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:36:19 +0000 iklimon 62180@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I currently shoot HD video with a <a href="http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/camcorders/high_definition_camcorders/vixia_hf_s10">Canon Vixia HF S10</a> digital camcorder (link goes to Canon's site). I shoot at the highest quality available, MXP 24 Mbps (1920x1080). When I bring the video over to my machine, it comes over as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mts">.mts</a> file which is the AVCHD file format (link goes to Wikipedia article on the format). I import these .mts files into Adobe Premiere (CS4). I import them into a AVCHD 1080p30 (29.97) Sequence. I do my editing, adding title screens, music, whatever. The problem comes when I go to export the final product into a usable format. I've tried all different sorts of formats to export to and I can't get any usable results. If I select, for instance, H.264 HDTV 1080p 29.97 High Quality (a preset within Premiere) the video comes out extremely choppy...as in the audio will play and the video will hitch along and be mostly out of sync dropping whole sections of the video as it tries to catch up. My end goal is to be able to export two versions...a higher quality (maybe burned to a DVD or Blu-Ray) and a lower quality (but still HD) for uploading to YouTube/SmugMug. Any help or thoughts you may have would be greatly appreciated. composite1 on "A Look at CS5 and Multiple Format DSLR Footage" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/a-look-at-cs5-and-multiple-format-dslr-footage#post-59162 Fri, 28 May 2010 15:05:27 +0000 composite1 59162@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ While waiting for the last ep of the Great Camera Shootout, I ran across this video by Jason Levine. He give a pretty good demo on using native DSLR footage in the Premiere CS5 timeline with the Mercury Playback Engine. One thing that came up during the Shootout was that after transcoding H.264 video to ProRes or Cineform codecs, DSLR footage becomes so much easier to work with and color-grade. The point came up then if that's the case, what's the 'big deal' about editing DSLR footage natively in CS5? Well, other than not having to go through all of that transcoding up front and saving it for final render, I can't think of anything else off hand. Anybody got any ideas? In the meantime here's the vid: <a href="http://vimeo.com/11369451">DSLR Editing in Premiere Pro CS5</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user986039">Jason Levine</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>. composite1 on "So Far, Not So Good...." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/so-far-not-so-good#post-58148 Sun, 02 May 2010 09:16:40 +0000 composite1 58148@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ In anticipation of upgrading to Adobe CS5, I downloaded the trial ver's of Premiere and AFX two of the programs I use the most. I have a fast connection and it still took nearly three hours to download the two programs and install them. Okay, I could deal with that. Next, I went through all of Adobe's new anti-piracy crap and setup the program as a 'trial version' though everything is set for you to just buy it ($600 bucks for one program? Not happening.) Anyway at start up I get a warning that I have to update all of my GPU drivers in order to take advantage of the MPE. No prob. Just about a 15 minute divert over to the NVIDIA site to update my drivers. Now, of course my GPU's aren't on the list of compatible drivers (why should they be when NVIDIA can get another couple of grand out of me to upgrade?) But, according to the list as of the 1st of May there was some suggestion that they had expanded support for legacy products. By the 2nd, all that info magically disappeared. Whatever, I needed to update the drivers anyway. So, I go back into premiere and though I don't have GPU support, I at least want to see how the software version of the MPE works. I choose the 'Open Project' option to see how my HDV project load times are supposed to decrease and check some other things. I get a message that 'The project cannot be opened due to the video codec cannot be found'. Hah? Dude I've got codecs up the friggin' ying yang! Whaddaya' mean it can't be found? Fine. I go into the 'Start New Project' section so I can just load some stuff and go from there. Survey says, XXX (insert angry buzzer sound)! No go. At least now I know why it 'couldn't find the codecs'. The only thing Adobe bothered to load was 'DV' settings! If you want to capture, DV is all you get! Now I dug through the project settings and yeah there's stuff for anything Panasonic has out involving DVC whatever even in the HD flavors. But if you want HDV, AVCHD, XDCAM or anything else, fuggeddaboutit! Well at the moment, I can't even test the software for what I need to do. Hell, I don't care how well it handles 'effin' DV! I don't need the MPE to do DV work. Well I still have 29 days left to get some answers and hopefully test this thing. Next, I'll try the AFX and give you a 'blow by blow'. Hopefully that will work out better. So far, I am thoroughly unimpressed. Well, after getting the trial version fired up I get to the initial project screen and si Raincheck on "Panasonic HVX201AE + Adobe Premiere pro CS4 + Youtube" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57770 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:37:15 +0000 Raincheck 57770@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi, Sorry to ask this question but I need to! There is so much info out there but still I havent found the perfect settings/setup. I use a Panasonic HVX201AE + Adobe Premiere pro CS4 to shoot and upload to Youtube. I prefer to do widescreen and all is digital. First Panasonic settings what is the best format to shoot? Second Adobe Premiere settings to import and export to get the best results in Youtube. Hope to find some usefull tips Regards, Rain composite1 on "Sneak Peek at Mercury Playback Engine...." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sneak-peek-at-mercury-playback-engine#post-56406 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:15:51 +0000 composite1 56406@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ With the advent of Adobe's CS line of software (particularly After Effects and Premiere) they have been making a serious effort to place themselves on equal footing with giants like Avid and FCP. Now with the pending release of their new Mercury Playback Engine, Adobe's about to send a seismic level shockwave that the big boys better be paying attention to. With the Mercury Playback Engine, Adobe Premiere will be able to finally take advantage of powerful off the shelf gamer GPU's and marry them with multi-core CPU's in a 64-bit OS! I could tell you how it looks, but it would ruin the surprise. Instead let Dave Henly show you what's coming down the pike. If it works like the demo everyone from newbies struggling to work with AVCHD to pro's struggling with 4k will be able to benefit! They say it's "to be included in a future release", but it damn well better be in CS5! <a href="http://tv.adobe.com/watch/davtechtable/sneak-peek-at-the-new-adobe-mercury-playback-engine-technology/">http://tv.adobe.com/watch/davtechtable/sneak-peek-at-the-new-adobe-mercury-playback-engine-technology/</a> manvantara on "send dvr-ms files back to sony fx1000. Good format converter" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/send-dvr-ms-files-back-to-sony-fx1000-good-format-converter#post-55768 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:06:01 +0000 manvantara 55768@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hello, I am new here and have a few questions. 1. What is the best video converter to buy - particularly for DVR-MS to AVI? I have downloaded several trials and have trouble really evaluating clearly what they are like. Avs is one in question. I do not mind paying $30 or so for a program (it is really hard to even find how much AVS charge for it!) but I want to make sure there is not going to be some limitation down the track. 2. I imported several HDV/DV tapes (which are now deleted) from my Sony FX1000 straight to my computer as DVR-MS files, before I got a trial version of Premiere, which imports it straight to AVI. As I need AVI to edit in, is it possible to send my DVR-MS file back from my computer to the FX1000 via the ilink cable so I can import it straight back into Premiere as an AVI file? It seems to say in the manual that this can be done but I cannot get it to work. 3. In my full trial version (1.3 gb) of Premiere, in the timeline section at the bottom, I seem to have lost the headings at the side where it says 'video 1', 'video 2' etc. And I cannot drag the clip from the source screen into the timeline like I could before. One of the problems I find with Premiere is that I keep losing my settings, yet when I go to 'windows' menu, the 'timeline' is checked as on. 4. Is there an easy way to uninstall DVRMSToolbox without a degree in computer software writing? thanks for your time, most appreciated, M. FauxCarnival on "Video size" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/video-size#post-53059 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:41:51 +0000 FauxCarnival 53059@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hello, I have 6 images. All of them are of size 1000x580. But, when I try to make a slide show of the pictures in Premiere and export the video, the size of the video is not 1000x580. It is something entirely different, with black margins around the video. How can I have my video the size I want? chipguy123 on "incorrect frame rate imports for .mov" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/incorrect-frame-rate-imports-for-mov#post-52853 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:20:35 +0000 chipguy123 52853@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi there. I'm using Premiere Pro v7.0 I've taken a few clips that are .mov files. In quicktime the videos look beautiful and display at full frame rate. However, in Premiere, instead of displaying or saving at the correct frame rate of 29.97, it thinks the frame rate is 2.99 fps. The strange thing is is that the duration of the video is correct, so if I try to manually adjust the frame rate with the 'Interpret Footage' it shortens the duration of the clip proportionally. Another odd thing is that Premiere shows the video track frame rate to be 29.97 in the clip properties but then assigns a frame rate of 2.99 for the whole thing. Here's what it shows for one of them: Type: QuickTime Movie File Size: 151.08MB Image Size: 848x480 Pixel Depth: 24 Frame Rate: 2.99 Audio 44100 Hz - 16 bit - Mono Total Duration: 00;04;08;15 Average Date Rate: 622.55KB / second Pixel Aspect Ration: 1.000 Quick Time Details: Move contains 1 video track(s), 1 audio track(s) and 0 timecode track(s) Video: This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES. There is 1 frame with a duration of 64/2997ths. There are 7449 frames with a duration of 1/29.97th. Video track 1: Duration is 00;04;08;15 Average frame rate is 29.97 fps Video track 1 contains 1 type(s) of video data: Video data block #1: Frame size = 848 x 480 Compressor = Quality = Least (1.00) Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks! bpachal on "CS4 encoding error, please help" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/cs4-encoding-error-please-help#post-52836 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:31:48 +0000 bpachal 52836@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hello everyone, I am brand new to this forum as of like 5 minutes ago. I have a project I need to get finished and ran into a encoding/compiling error. Here's the deal: I am making a wedding video that I filmed. I would say 85% of it was shot onto mini HDV while the rest was done with a camera that uses AVCHD. The problem came when I exported the ceremony clip. We shot the ceremony with both cameras (both formats). CS4 let me bring import both into my timeline and i worked with both without a problem. Come time to encode and I get an "unknown error". I realized that it was saving the video up to the point where the AVCHD format first shows up. Sooo i copied my work and in the copy took out all the AVCHD material and walla .. it encoded. My question/problem: Is there any export settings or sequence settings that will allow me to have both formats in my timeline and still be able to encode the movie/scene? Or is this even my problem? Feel free to let me know what I am doing wrong or where i misspoke; I have been away from the movie editing hobby for a long time.. thanks, Bryan Abdo on "Premiere Interpreting problem with MP4's" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/premiere-interpreting-problem-with-mp4s#post-50786 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:37:12 +0000 Abdo 50786@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi, I'm using Samsung SC-MX20 to capture videos for the web, that specific Camcorder does have a known problem with 16:9 videos, you can check the reviews @ amazon.com for details <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SC-MX20-Memory-Camcorder-Optical/dp/B001FA1OHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1252801263&sr=8-2" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SC-MX20-Memory-Camcorder-Optical/dp/B001FA1OHW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1252801263&sr=8-2</a> The problem that the videos that's supposed to be taken @ 16:9 is being read as 4:3 by every software and had to modify the aspect ratio to get it right. So practically speaking when I import the video I've shot @ 16:9 (better for YouTube .etc) using the camcorder to Premiere it shows as 4:3, to fix that using Premiere I right click and chose interpret footage > modify aspect ratio to 1.2 and the video shows as 16:9 >> Great! Screen Shot: <a href="http://abdo.me/images/precam01.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://abdo.me/images/precam01.jpg</a> The problem is that If I made any editing to the video the display start behaving very strangely and add some green to the track, that mean for me that it's not being interpreted correctly. Check the photo link below <a href="http://abdo.me/images/precam02.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://abdo.me/images/precam02.jpg</a> Wondering if anyone have some experience with something similar and can help. Video are saved from the cam compressed with H.264 in MP4 format. Thanks in advance. - Abdo lauriera on "Premiere Pro <> After Effects workflow" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/premiere-pro-ltgt-after-effects-workflow#post-50709 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:01:09 +0000 lauriera 50709@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I've used Premiere for years and have now graduated up to Adobe Production CS4 Suite. I'm not a novice but maybe not up to being called "intermediate." Here's my problem: I'm having a hard time understanding the flow and interaction between Premiere and After Effects. I've googled it and found everything from, "I edit in Premiere and just do titles in AE" to "I edit completely in AE." I've edited a short video together and then right clicked the clips and selected "Replace with AE Composition" to add some green screen keying and that sort of works, but then it seems to lose information or not save properly... and I'm now officially confused. In general, I'm wondering what process do you out there that use both apps use? Do you edit completely in Premiere, use the Replace with AE Composition? Or do you set up the clips first in AE, then dynamically link them into Premiere assets to be added to a sequence? Thanks! - Laurie raytoms on "Time stretch gets lost" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/time-stretch-gets-lost#post-50108 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:58:48 +0000 raytoms 50108@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I matched the length of sound from two sources using the stretch tool. Saved the project and viewed it - perfect match. Created a DVD, and created a flash file, then the stretched audio had reverted to it's previous length, both in the project and on the output (causing an echo against the primary track). Tried it again with the same result. Tried it on my second machine, with different material, with the same result. Seems to be a bug in CS3 Premiere. How do I get round the apparent bug? videoguys on "What is the difference between consumer video editing software and 'real' NLEs" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-is-the-difference-between-consumer-video-editing-software-and-real-nles#post-49909 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:49:05 +0000 videoguys 49909@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ What is the difference between consumer video editing software and 'real' NLEs (Non Linear Editing)? Inexpensive Consumer Video Editing programs like <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Brand/Pinnacle+%28by+Avid%29.aspx">Pinnacle Studio</a>, Adobe Premiere Elements, <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Search/Search.aspx?Query=vegas+movie+studio">Sony Vegas Movie Studio</a>, Apple iMovie, Windows MovieMaker are easy and fun to use. In fact, I think they are pretty amazing. While these products can be purchased for less then one hundred dollars they deliver a level of performance and features that would have cost 10 times as much just 5 years ago! While these products allow you to edit your video, create slideshows, author DVDs and export them to the web, the actual features are limited and if you want to do some serious vide editing, you will find you can outgrow them pretty quickly. Consumer video editing products have trouble with long format productions. One of the biggest complaints we hear from consumer video editing software is that after 15 or 30 minutes the video editing become sluggish and the software can become erratic. Go even longer and more issues come up - the audio starts to become out of sync; the playback jitters; or worst of all the video and then the app just freezes up. <img title="Advanced NLE's" alt="Advanced NLE's" src="http://www.videoguys.com/Images/Blog/BlogEntryImages/collage.jpg" /> Advanced NLEs will all deliver perfect playback, regardless of the length and complexity of your production. If you are editing HD footage some formats and settings may require rendering before they will playback in full speed, but you will be able to adjust your playback settings in order to achieve a level of real-time that meets your needs.Ã?Â Most importantly they are extremely stable and reliable. If you are running into any playback issues with an advanced NLE it is probably caused by data throughput bottlenecks in your computer. We have several articles on our website which can help you tweak and optimize your computer for NLE. If you take the time to optimize your computer for editing, you will find that you can edit for hours and hours without any crashes or performance issues. Why do I want to invest in a "real" NLE for Video Editing? Buying an advanced NLE like <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Item/Adobe+Premiere+Pro+CS4+for+PC/1333930323035363.aspx">Adobe Premiere Pro</a>, <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Item/Apple+Final+Cut+Studio+2/23353464.aspx">Apple Final Cut Pro</a>, <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Brand/Sony+Creative+Software.aspx">Sony Vegas</a>, <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Item/Grass+Valley+EDIUS+v5+Editing+for+the+Digital+Generation+/630333634363.aspx">Grass Valley Edius</a>, or <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Item/Avid+Media+Composer+35+-+1%2c995+extended+thru+7-15/1303D20303030323D203035373.aspx">Avid Media Composer</a> will not give you better video quality or make editing easier; what they will give you is a far more powerful set of tools that will allow you to be more creative and produce video content that is better and more entertaining to watch. The reason to buy one of these more expensive advanced editing programs is simple: to be able to tell your story better. That's what the heart of video editing is, taking a collection of media, video clips, audio, images and graphics - then putting them together to tell a story. The longer the story you want to tell, the more important it is to use more sophisticated tools to keep your audiences attention. Once you decide to graduate from point and shoot productions and simple slide shows into storytelling you will want the right tools for the job. In this article we will go into some of the most important tools found in our advanced NLEs and their superior workflow. <a href="http://www.videoguys.com/Guide/E/What+is+the+Difference+Between+Consumer+Video+Editing+Software+and+Real+NLEs+Non+Linear+Editing/0x5ba89e5673caa709967ac4699dbd7dc7.aspx">Read the full guide here </a> Gary kr0490 on "Need a written tutorial on green screening for class." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-a-written-tutorial-on-green-screening-for-class#post-46426 Mon, 04 May 2009 08:37:30 +0000 kr0490 46426@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Does anyone know where I can get a good printable guide / short tutorial project for Premiere that I can give my class to teach them how to do basic green screening. Thanks for any help. kr0490 on "Need green screen project / tutorial for class." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-green-screen-project-tutorial-for-class#post-46466 Tue, 05 May 2009 08:04:46 +0000 kr0490 46466@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Does anyone know where I can get a short premiere chroma keying tutorial / project i can give to my class that will teach them how to do basic chroma keying. Thanks kal800 on "NLE upgrade" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/nle-upgrade#post-46227 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:07:49 +0000 kal800 46227@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi, I've got kind of dilemma in which direction should I go regarding my NLE system. I am producing documentaries - mainly for polish national TV. Till now I've been using Sony DVCAM camcorder and Premiere Pro CS3 with Matrox RT.X2 (also AfterEffects 7.0 and Encore) on Core2Duo based PC. I cannot say that I am satisfied with my system. It is not as stable nor perform well as I would like. I'm experiencing numerous hick-ups and performance drops as material become too complicated. Recently I've made upgrade to Premiere Pro CS4 and replaced camcorder - Sony PMWEX3 - situation become worse. I got problems with timecode, performance is even worse, moreover I cannot use full resolution that camcorder produces - 1920/1080. It is time to make serious upgrade. Here are my options: 1. Upgrade to Matrox Axio LE - regarding to Matrox reseller, that system does not require very powerful platform as it posesses quite a computational power 2. Upgrade my workstation - for example Dell Precision with Dual Quad Xeon, by professional IO card with SDI interface and switch to Avid Media Composer or EDIUS transfering all strain to PC. 3. Switch to Mac, buy AYA IO card and choose Final Cut suite. Do you have any other suggestions? The most important thing for me is stability of production process and robustness. I would be grateful for any ideas... Krzysztof JoeLouw on "FCP vs Premiere" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/fcp-vs-premiere#post-38905 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:45:47 +0000 JoeLouw 38905@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I'm just starting off with my video career, As a professional photographer (use to Adobe Photoshop), I'm now looking into finding the best Video editing software. I read a few forums regarding this issue of FCP vs Premiere (one of them will be my choice) and it sounds it's more a PC vs Mac issue.What I could figure was that both FCP & Premiere are great, with the FCP exception working great on Mac (as it's ONLY for Mac). I work on PC currently but is due for a major upgrade soon, my decision has been made it will be a Mac this time around, as all my friends tell my I could have just as well bought a Mac every time I build up my PC, because my PC's I've build up are so huge and expensive, and I use it only and ONLY for editing (not even e-mail & internet, for that I still have a separate PC) you might as well use Mac. So Iâ€™m going that route soon by buying the latest, biggest iMac.Â My question is I need to make a decision on an editing software package, FCP or Premiere. As Iâ€™ve hear great things from both, and also Premiere is NOW ready for Mac, I've not found anything comparing FCP & Premiere on the same platform (Mac) also you hear of big companyâ€™s using FCP on Mac AND/OR Avit on PC, so where is Premiere? The thing is I need to buy the software and also get training on it, so I would like to make the right choice from the start and not waste any money as we are talking big bucks.Â Thanks in advance for everyoneâ€™s help coming my way. Joe Louw chrisColorado on "Adobe CS3 vs. CS4" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs3-vs-cs4#post-42789 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:36:51 +0000 chrisColorado 42789@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Has anyone used the Adobe CS3 Production Premium and then upgraded to the CS4 version? I see that CS4 is missing Ultra from the bundle. Has this bothered anyone, or is it more convenient that way? If you upgrade, do you get to keep Ultra? It might be more convenient, since I'm thinking most chroma keying can be effectively done with After EffectsÂ and Premiere, so Ultra isn't needed. Am I right? clover on "Adobe Premeire Pro Audio Encoding error 2 pass vbr/cbr issue" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-premeire-pro-audio-encoding-error-2-pass-vbrcbr-issue#post-41180 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:36:52 +0000 clover 41180@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ My problem seems to be only when I try to convert a project to a Windows Media File. I use the 2 pass VBR method. I get an error the Audio encoding failed and am told to try one pass or CBR (Constant Bit Rate). I try this but get the same message. I first encountered this issue a year ago and found the fix online but thought it was a one time issue so I did not record how I fixed it and now I have forgotten what I did to fix it.Â Adobe says they will no longer support Premiere Pro 2 and promptly ended the techsupport. Any help on this issue will be greatly appreciated. stitch1z on "Adding Closed Captions" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adding-closed-captions#post-39484 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:52:02 +0000 stitch1z 39484@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hello all, I need to prepare a Music Video for broadcast and Music Choice needs Closed Captions added to it. I've searched for answers online and have come up with no real answers. Just encounters with shockingly over-priced software for what seems would be a relatively painless procedure. I run Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe After Effects. Thank you! FDEditor on "What's the difference?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/whats-the-difference#post-40740 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:42:19 +0000 FDEditor 40740@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I know that people (regardless of occupation) have preferred tools for various reasons, whether it's familiarity, sentimentality or whatever.Â In the most recent issue of VM, there's a review of the new Avid. Living within walking distance of WB, Disney, Nickelodeon, etc, I'm fully aware of Avid's position in the industry. However, I'm wondering why it holds such prominence in the industry compared to Premiere or other NLE's. I'm well aware of its dominance early on, but why do Avid users contiunue to say it's so far ahead of Premiere? At home,Â I have a version of Premiere from a long time ago (I've mainly concentrated on web design for the past 10 years), but now I'm editing video at work and am using CS3 and the difference is night and day. The reason I ask is for my home system. When I upgrade my system at home, I might get Avid, but is the difference in the software great enough to justify paying for a new version of Avid that would be twice as much as anÂ upgrade to Production Premium CS4? Also, I look at what happened with QuarkXPress. It was the industry standard in print because there was no alternative that could touch it. However, InDesign came along and now people are jumping to ID (and there are several Quark-hating blogs out there) and leaving Quark behind. If Avid is better, why is it so much better? What can it do that Premiere can't?