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Fixing fluctuating iris in premiere or after effects - possible?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:17:12 GMT

Hi everyone. I have some footage of a person giving a lecture. Looks great except that the camera was on auto iris and the exposure changes significantly whenever the speaker moves his head down toward the podium. Don't want to do every adjustment manually because he bobs his head up and down quite often. Is there anyway for premiere or after effects to be "told" what the proper level should be, and then "remember" so that it can fix the fluctuation and give at least the appearance of a steady iris level? Thanks in advance. John

Open Question to Adobe - Why Should I Stay?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:25:53 GMT

Okay, there are now thousands of posts complaining about Adobe Creative Cloud. There are over 31,000 signatures gathered in protest. So far, Adobe is eerily silent. So I am asking Adobe, why should I stay with you? Why? Why should I use Creative Cloud at $600 a year when I have been updating my Creative Suite about every other year for $700 (that's $350 per year)? Why should I stay with you when you do not seem to be responding to your customer's complaints? Why should i stay with you when you act as if everyone is so very happy with Creative Cloud and you seem to be ignoring the uproar as if it is not even happening? Why should I stay with you when you act more and more like a monopoly that is strangling its customers? I am a professional that has used your products for almost fifteen years. Why on earth should I stay with you?

Others are invited to post but I am curious if Adobe will ever respond to this.

Alternatives to InDesign. Suggestions?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:09:00 GMT

As a professional, I have decided, after much consideration, that Adobe Creative Cloud would be a decidedly unprofessional move for me to make -- as well as being outrageously expensive. I have already chosen my substitutes for all of my Adobe software -- except one. The one that is still puzzling is Adobe InDesign...what are good alternatives (perhaps not perfect alternatives, but still acceptable)? I am thinking of Quark but have never used it. Some say Mircrosoft Publisher, as amateurish as it is, has many more features than before and can actually work for making professional publications. What do you think?

Choppy playback with mxf files...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:18:26 GMT

Hello. I have been working with Premiere Pro CS3 for quite sometime until just recently. Then last week I installed Windows 7, then Premiere Pro CS5.5 along with various updates. I usually work with DVCProHD (Panasonic), 720p, 60p. I just started working on a new project and playback is very choppy, whether the footage is rendered or not. Everything else works fine. My computer (purchased in 2008) has Dual Intel Xeon 5150 (10.64 Ghz total), 4GB DDR2-667 FBDIMM RAM (4x1GB), and an ATI FireGL V3350 256MB PCIe Video Card. I am using a dual monitor set up as I used to do with Premiere Pro CS3 and Windows XP (with no problem before I went to CS5.5). I checked the settings for the Mecury Playback and it seems to show that it is selected but also grayed out (can't be changed to anything else). Anyone have thoughts on why the choppy playback? Even Premiere 6.0 never gave me choppy playback like this. Thanks in advance.

Encore audio and video different lengths

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:51:05 GMT

Hi everybody. I am using the Adobe Production Premium CS 3.2 and I am currently using Encore to make a Blu-ray. My show consists of eight MPEG files which I make into timelines in Encore (they become eight chapters in the menu -- each one is about 5 to 10 minutes long). I made a DVD -- no problem at all. I made an older version of the program on Blu-ray using the following settings (in Media Encoder) and was 100% successful.

MPEG-2 (1280x720)

720p 59.94 fps

VBR 2 pass

(25, 30, 35)

Quality 4.5

Audio 48 Khz, 16bit PCM

I made some changes in my original footage and decided to re-create everything anew. I changed the Quality setting in Encoder from 4.5 to 5. Now my MPEG-2 for Blu-ray files I import as assets into Encore. I create timelines for each of my files/chapters. Now, on every single timeline without exception, the video is one or two frames longer thatn the audio. I cannot build a Blu-ray. I try to go into the timeline, zoomed in to see the individual frames, and manually attempt to adjust the audio and video, but cannot get them to match up.

Any clues as to what might be going on? I've read similar threads but nothing with a definite solution. And I am wondering if Encore or Encoder just "doesn't like" me changing the quality to 5.0. Remember, when I did it before I didn't seem to have a problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Premiere Pro cs3 performance slow

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:50:49 GMT

Hello, I tried checking various places for this answer but could not find the answer, so apologies if this can be answered somewhere else.

I use Premiere Pro CS3 (I have the suite). When I start to work on a project, all is well. When I get to about the fifteen minute or twenty minute mark in terms of footage that is on the time line (perhaps just one or two video tracks and then a title or two on tracks three and four), then Premiere behaves very sluggishly. When opening the project, it takes a fairly long time (about two minutes) to open. Playback always stutters, no matter what. If I select "File" or "Edit" on the top bar, I might have to wait a few seconds, or longer, for the drop-down items to appear. If I dare to do something like add color correction to a shot, or some other effect, Premiere is even more sluggish. I used to use Premiere 6.1 for years and never had a problem -- even did a massive production with enormous number of SFX, green screen, etc...no problem. My system smoked. I have a great system now (see below). Now I do a project in CS3 and am so very careful not to get near the 30 minute mark (otherwise very slow performance) and even then I feel very limited in terms of what I can dare do, lest CS3 crashes altogether. And sometimes it has. "Premiere Pro had encountered problems and will now close..." Any suggestions?

Here is what I am working with:

Pyro PCI card

650W Power Supply

Supermicro X7DAE Dual-Core Xeon Motherboard

Dual Intel Xeon 5150 (10.64 GHz Total)

4GB DDR2-667 FBDIMM RAM (4x1GB)

ATI FireGL V3350 256MB PCIe Video Card

Creative Labs AudigySE Sound Card

80GB OS/Application Hard Drive

1000GB SATA Internal Video RAID (2x500)

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Adobe Production Suite CS3