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Read this and free up 300GB or more of wasted After Effects disk cache space...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:40:04 GMT

I noticed on my MAC that the After Effects disk cache folders took up 400GB of space, even though I told it to only use 100GB. I run my disk cache on an SSD so space is valuable.

I investigated and realized that every time After Effects has a new version update, it creates a new disk cache folder for that new version number (ie. 12.2). However, the disk cache folders for all the previous versions (11.0, 12.0 and 12.1) all remain on the hard drive wasting 300GB of space.

If you're not using disk cache or didn't update from previous versions then none of this will apply to you.

To empty the 12.x abandoned disk cache space...

Just click on the "Empty Disk Cache" button in the After Effects settings
You can also manually delete the 12.0 and 12.1 folders from /Users/(username)/Library/Caches/Adobe/After Effects/ assuming you have the current 12.2 version folder.

To empty the 11.x abandoned disk cache space...

This has to be done manually and is located in the /Users/(username)/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/11.0/ folder
Delete the folder that starts with /Adobe After Effects Disk Cache... (ie. "Adobe After Effects Disk Cache - Peter’s iMac.noindex")

In OSX, the User's library folder is hidden so you will have to first unhide it to manually delete disk cache folders...

In finder, go to your user home folder
Next, from the finder menu select VIEW -> SHOW VIEW OPTIONS
Finally, add a checkmark beside "Show Library Folder" in the view options window

-Pete

Synchronize Folder removes PNG files if there's a JPG that has the same filename

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:08:11 GMT

I frequently use Synchronize Folder and noticed it tries to remove my PNG file if there's a JPG file that has the same file name. There's no issues with importing them, editing them, etc...

The only workaround is to uncheck the "Remove missing photos from catalog" on the Synchronize Folder window prompt so it doesn't remove it from the catalog.

I have the latest version of Lightroom for Windows (v5.6) but it's been happening in previous versions as well on both Mac and PC.

Has anybody noticed this?

-Pete

Red Giant Trapcode plugins no longer work after updating to Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 (v8.1)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:27:46 GMT

I'm not sure why but after updating Premiere Pro CC to 2014.1 none of my previously installed Trapcode plugins work. I tried uninstalling Trapcode and then re-installing the latest Trapcode update (12.1.6) but it didn't fix the problem. I'm also running Windows 8.1.

I checked the plugin loading log file (\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\Plugin Loading.log) and noticed all the Trapcode plugins had the message "The plugin is marked as Ignore, so it will not be loaded."

So to fix it, I had to manually modify the registry and change "Ignore"=dword:00000001 to "Ignore"=dword:00000000 for most instances of my Red Giant plugins. Everything works now.

Here's all the ones I had to modify:


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\3DStroke.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\HairLines.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\LightFactoryLERender-64.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\LightFactorySpectactularRender-64.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RadiumGlow.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RadiumGlowEdge.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RadiumGlowLite.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGCornerPin.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGReflection.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGSGrowBounds.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGShadow.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Screen Text.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Shine.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Smooth Tiler.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Starglow.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Grid.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Hacker.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Matrix.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Spiral.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Blacklight Edges.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Goth.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Heat Vision.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Outlines Only.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Roto Toon.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\TypeOn.aex] "Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\3DStroke.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\HairLines.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\LightFactoryLERender-64.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\LightFactorySpectactularRender-64.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RadiumGlow.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RadiumGlowEdge.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RadiumGlowLite.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGCornerPin.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGReflection.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGSGrowBounds.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\RGShadow.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Screen Text.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Shine.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Smooth Tiler.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Starglow.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Grid.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Hacker.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Matrix.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\Text Spiral.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Blacklight Edges.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Goth.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Heat Vision.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Outlines Only.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\ToonIt Roto Toon.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Premiere Pro\8.0\PluginCache.64\en_US\TypeOn.aex]

"Ignore"=dword:00000000

-Pete

When exporting a small area using in-out points, why does Premiere render audio for ENTIRE sequence?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:58:29 GMT

I'm trying to export a small section of my timeline using in and out points... but it looks like Premiere wants to render the audio for the entire sequence and not just my in-out points.

I added a bunch of audio effects to the entire sequence so it's taking 10 minutes to render this audio. When I click on the cancel button, Premiere just freezes and I have to force shut it down.

Is it possible for premiere to only render the audio in the in-out points I originally asked for to cut down on export times?

-Pete

Removing custom label color changes to items on the timeline...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:45:12 GMT

On my timeline, I manually assigned different label colors to a bunch of different assets... but now I want to remove these manually changed label colors and put them back to their original label color state.

I can't find an option for this... it seems that once you manually change a label color on the timeline, there's no way to put it back to a "use global label color" state. Unfortunately, manually changing the item's label color to match the system default doesn't really fix this because if I decide to change the global label color preferences, those clips won't change with it.

Not really a big deal, except I have 100's of items with mixed colors so manually re-coloring them would be tedious and take a long time. Would be nice to just select them all and select "use global" or something.

-Pete

Using expression controls in animation presets...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:19:21 GMT

I have several animation presets that contain expressions with expression control sliders. When I apply the animation preset to a layer, it adds the expressions controls to the effects panel like normal and everything works fine.

However, if I add another animation preset to the same layer it just adds a duplicate set of expression controls (with a number 2 added to the name) instead of just overwriting the existing ones. I realize the preset detected a duplicate name which is why the 2 was added... but the actual expression wasn't updated to use the new expression control name. So basically, the expression still references the original name and completely ignores the duplicate set of expression controls that was created.

So does anybody know a way to get an animation preset to overwrite or update existing expression controls that use the same name?

Is it possible to show the sequence name in Premiere Pro's window titlebar?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:47:34 GMT

Currently the Premiere Pro titlebar displays "Adobe Premiere Pro" and the project file (ie. D:\Videos\2014-04-30 - PPK\_Project Files\PPK.prproj)

I was wondering if anybody knows a way to also display the name of the current sequence you're editing?

I use time tracking software to monitor my Premiere editing times and uses the tilebar name... so if the Premiere titlebar included the sequence name, I would know how long I spent editing a specific sequence in that project.

I'm using Windows 8.1

-Pete

What's the quickest way to slice up this image...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:07:32 GMT

I found this image and would like to slice it up into separate images. What's the quickest way to do this without having to manally select each one or manually draw slice lines?

My idea was to get them all surrounded by a marquee or path, and then somehow export that marquee or path area into a file.

The first part of creating the marquee and path was easy...

I first surround the entire image with a black border so that it intersects the horizontal black divider lines
I then used the magic want tool to select the black border which also selected the black divider lines
I next inverted the selection... so now all the sections are selected perfectly
Finally I right-clicked on the selection and picked "Make Work Path"

But now how do I export all the work path sections into individual files?

I would appreciate any help or advice... thanks.

-Pete

Adobe changed how the mousewheel scrolls timeline in CS6...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:06:04 GMT

I scroll through the timeline alot using my mousewheel. In premiere CS5.5, if I position the mouse cursor over the timeline and use the mousewheel to scroll... I can get move the timeline from one side of the screen to the other in less than 8 mousewheel turns. And I can do a fast scroll if I position the mouse cursor over the scrollbar under the timeline... less than 3 mouse wheel turns.

This worked great because I can scan through the audio waveforms of a 3 hour lecture really quickly.

However, in Premiere CS6... it now takes 25 spins of the mouse wheel and they disabled fast scrolling.

Is there a way to customize the mousewheel scrolll? Changing the mouse scroll wheel settings in Windows does nothing.

This is the third annoying thing Adobe changed in CS6 that reduced the speed of my workflow.

Grrrr

Why can't Lightroom 5 recognize Quicktime ProRes 4444 videos on a Mac?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:26:20 GMT

When I import Quicktime ProRes 4444 videos into Lightroom 5.3, it reports "Lightroom has encountered problems reading this video. You will not be able to make adjustments to the video."

Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Audition all recognize Quicktime ProRes 4444... so why not Lightroom?

-Pete

Dynamically linked After Effects comps causing Premiere to freeze (after latest updates)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:26:51 GMT

Normally in a dynamic link, any changes made in After Effects would be displayed in Premiere within a few seconds. However, after the latest software updates... it now takes 1-2 minutes and the Premiere interface is completely frozen during that time.

Anybody else having similar issues?

-Pete

I'm getting pure digital noise on audio transitions after 7.2.0 update

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:53:00 GMT

Anytime an audio clip on the timeline has an audio transition-in effect... premiere can't decode it and all I hear is loud pure digital noise. This only happens when I play the timeline within Premiere.

The problem doesn't happen if...

I just drag the cursor to scrub across it
the clip is exported
another audio clip is right above it that also has an audio transition (overlapping audio transitions)

Here's a few more things I tried which didn't fix it...

emptying the Media Cache and Media Cache Files folders
deleting the Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files folder
different audio files
restarted the Mac
using different audio transitions (contant gain, contant power, exponential fade)

Pretty weird... anybody else having this issue?

-Pete

Darkness issues when using Lumetri Looks preset "Cinematic 1" and "Sepia"...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:56:32 GMT

I frequenly use the "Cinematic 1" Lumetri Looks preset in Premiere Pro but it seems only recenly this preset stopped working. Normally it gives me a nice contrasty look but now it just darkens and flattens the entire image.

It's possible this started happening after I updated my Mac to OSX Mavericks. I also updated all Adobe products to the latest versions and it didn't fix this issue. I checked and Cinematic 1 works fine in Speedgrade.

For now I guess I'll just have to use Cinematic 2 but that means I'll now have to replace Cinematic 1 in 100's of old projects... bah

-Pete

Need a clever solution for removing audio from the video gaps...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:06:14 GMT

Here's a tiny section of my timeline:

I want to delete all the audio in the areas where there's no video so that it looks like this:

I was planning on just doing it manually one at a time, but my timeline is 3 hours long and there's over 500 gaps... that would take a very long time. So I was hoping somebody would have better method... sort of like a ripple delete all that would ignore audio. Everything is unlinked.

-Pete

Using Timewarp on motion tweened effects...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:04:16 GMT

I'm using Timewarp to adjust the speed of a layer that contains motion tweened effects (ie. particles). For some reason Timewarp is treating the layer as regular 29.97 fps footage and using it's vector blending to interpolate the footage (creating undesirable distortions).

In the end, I plan on Timewarping a single pre-comped layer that contains many different effect layers (Particular, Optical Flares, Element, etc.)

Is there a way to get Timewarp to just re-calculate and re-tween the motion instead of doing it's usual vector blending thing?

-Pete

Display a motion path when the layer is not selected?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:16:17 GMT

When I switch the composition display to custom view 1, the camera's motion path is only displayed while I have the camera layer selected. So is there a way to force the camera's motion path to show when the layer isn't selected?

This would be helpful when trying to place different objects along the camera's path, but it's really difficult to position the object when you can't see the path.

Any ideas?

-Pete

Which effects work with the 3D camera?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:43:11 GMT

Does anybody have a list of which of the built-in effects work with the 3D camera?

The ones I know that do work are:

CC Cylinder
CC Particle World
CC Ball Action
Shatter

The computer I'm working on doesn't have any Trapcode plugins so I'm stuck working with the built-in effects.

-Pete

Media Encoder CC not using GPU acceleration for After Effects CC raytrace comp

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:09:28 GMT

I created a simple scene in After Effects that's using the raytracer engine... I also have GPU enabled in the raytracer settings for After Effects.

When I render the scene in After Effects using the built-in Render Queue, it only takes 10 minutes to render the scene.

But when I export the scene to Adobe Media Encoder, it indicates it will take 13 hours to render the same scene.

So clearly After Effects is using GPU accelleration but for some reason Media Encoder is not.

I should also point out that my GeForce GTX 660 Ti card isn't officially supported and I had to manually add it into the list of supported cards in:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC\Support Files\raytracer_supported_cards.txt

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder CC\cuda_supported_cards.txt

While it's not officially supported, it's weird that After Effects has no problem with it yet Adobe Media Encoder does...

I also updated After Effects to 12.1 and AME to 7.1 as well as set AME settings to use CUDA but it didn't make a difference.

Any ideas?

Program monitor constantly freezing/stalling when playing dynamically linked After Effects comps

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:10:12 GMT

I'm having program monitor issues when I try to play dynamically linked After Effects comps from my Premiere timeline. I realize it's expected to have jerky playback since After Effects comps are memory and CPU intense, but it doesn't seem normal for these things to happen:

Sometimes during playback, the program monitor completely freezes while audio continues to play and the CTI continues to move along timeline. When this happens, there's no way to stop the playback at all using mouse or keyboard... so I'm forced to just quit Premiere and re-open project.
Program monitor can also freeze when I place the CTI on top of the After Effects comp. Sometimes if I wait a minute, the screen could update and eventually display the After Effects comp.
I'm unable to render effects on the Premiere timeline because it just hangs at "Rendering frame 0" and never advances forward.

There's nothing special about the After Effects comp I'm linked to... it could just be regular text that I animated using ease keyframes and motion blur.

I originally thought it was related to GPU settings but it doesn't make a difference if I set After Effects to use CPU instead of GPU or set Premiere's Mercury Playback engine to software, CUDA, or openGL. I even have the latest CUDA drivers installed on my Mac. But I must mention that this issue got significanly worst after updating to OSX 10.9 Mavericks.

Here's my system details:

OSX 10.9 Mavericks

Premiere 7.0.1 (105)

After Effects 12.0.1.7 (I installed the OS X Mavericks crash update fix)

The most prevalent error messages displayed in the OSX console is:

Adobe Premiere Pro CC[402]: dynamic_cast error 1: Both of the following type_info's should have public visibility. At least one of them is hidden. N5dvaui2ui8MessageTIKNS0_7UI_NodeEEE, N5dvaui8controls23UI_PictureSupplyMessageE.

Here's a few that are less common:

Adobe Premiere Pro CC[402]: [PremiereCocoaMacApplication handleMenuCommand:1633841013 from <DVAMacMenuItem: 0x6100002f8300 About Premiere Pro>]

After Effects[377]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x600000077080

If anybody has any ideas or suggestions, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

-Pete

Annoying edge trim cursor anytime I hover near an edge in CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:00:59 GMT

I'm trying to select a transition on the timeline (so I can delete it or midify the times) but anytime the mouse cursor comes near an edge, it automatically changes into an edge trim icon. When this happens I can't select the transition unless I zoom into the timeline far enough so that the mouse cursor remains a pointer when I hover over the transition.

This was hardly an issue in CS5.5 or ealier because the cursor needed to be much closer to an edge before it changed into an edge cursor.

As a result, my workflow is much slower now because I have to constantly zoom in and out just to select small items on the timeline.

Is there a way to turn off these automatic edge trim cursors?

-Pete

Premiere Pro CC periodically causes Mac to freeze for 1-2 minutes

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:29:15 GMT

I'm working in Premiere Pro CC on OSX 10.8.4 and every once in a while my entire Mac will freeze/stall/hang for 1-2 minutes. During the freeze, the mouse cursor dissapears and the keyboard doesn't work. Once the freeze is done, everything resumes and works like normal.

Things that seem to trigger this event are adjusting effects sliders on layers that have transparency, alpha channels, or low opacity. I mostly work with Quicktime MOV files that have alpha channels and use fonts with an opacity set to 78%.

One time this even happened after I did an export media, and the preview window on the export media panel was stuck at "Rendering Preview".

I'm using one of those newer iMac machines and it has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB video card. In the project settings, my video rendering and playback is set to "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Accelleration (OpenCL)". I will next try setting it to CUDA to see what happens.

-Pete

How to create a simple bobbing up and down motion expression?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:03:45 GMT

Hi, I have a 3D object that I want to continuously bob up and down but I'm having trouble finding an expression to do this.

I would use wiggle on the Z except wiggle creates random motion and I need consistant up and down oscillations.

It seems simple but I can't figure it out... any ideas? Thanks.

-Pete

Titles created in Premiere look blurry... imported Photoshop titles look perfect

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:35:54 GMT

Did anybody notice that when creating titles in CS5 the text looks blurry? It's extra blurry when the title is overlapping another layer. You can really notice this if the title is half overlapping another layer. This was not an issue in CS4.

I did a test and imported a title I created in Photoshop (using same font settings) and it looks perfect and sharp when put beside the premiere created title but still have a slight blur when overlapping another layer (look closely at the "P" and "H").

Here's a screenshot I took from Premiere CS5:

The next screenshot below is the same project loaded in Premiere CS4. It too is a little blurry but doesn't suffer that extra blur when overlapping another layer:

The titles really look like crap if blown up much bigger, especially if the video is perfectly sharp and you have blurry titles on top of it. Very amature looking.

Does anybody know if there's a fix for this or maybe it's a problem on my end??

-Pete

Is it possible to do a search and replace in audio?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:02:26 GMT

I'm editing a lecture and the guy says UMM a lot, so I thought it would be cool to have the ability to scan the audio and replace his UMMs with silence or an auto-heal. Maybe capture a single UMM as a reference.

Similar to doing a search and replace in a text file, but with audio.

I imagine that it couldn't be that hard to compare sound clips and mark the location on the timeline where a similar sound occurs.

-Pete

Quicktime playback issues in windows 8

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:19:48 GMT

For some reason quicktime files are choppy and jittery during playback in Windows 8.

I have the latest Quicktime installed with no other codecs.

I tried playback in the quicktime player as well as in adobe products (premiere, after effects, etc.).

Here's a preview of what the playback looks like:

youtube.com/watch?v=BghtZznedvo

The same rotating star video plays fine on my windows XP machine.

I know this is not an Adobe problem but I was wondering if anybody had any ideas?

-Pete

Multi-camera playback - timelime cursor not moving

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:32:56 GMT

When I play video in the multi-camera window, the timeline cursor doesn't move.However, if I switch to the program monitor window and play video, the timeline cursor moves.

This is an important feature because sometimes I don't want a cut to last too long and I need to use the timeline cursor for visual cues, etc.

This is something I noticed in every version of Premiere I used.

Any ides/suggestions?

-Pete

Exported footage has major interlaced lines!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:29:08 GMT

Hi, I was hoping somebody could help me with this encoding problem.

I'm using Premiere Pro CS4 and when I export my video using the "MPEG2-DVD PAL Progressive Widescreen High Quality" preset, the resulting video has major interlaced lines when playing back on my DVD player. I confirmed the progressive option was selected in the advanced video options.

I'm not sure what could be causing this since the source footage is supposed to be progressive (HDCPRO HD at 720p) and all the project and sequence settings are progressive. Here's the details:

Source Footage:

Manufacturer: Panasonic

ModelName: AG-HVX200E

Type: P2 Movie

File Size: 4.0 GB

Image Size: 960 x 720

Pixel Depth: 0

Frame Rate: 25.00

Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Mono

Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Mono

Total Duration: 01:12:08:14

Average Data Rate: 963 KB / second

Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.3333

Sequence Settings:

Editing Mode: P2 720p 50Hz DVCPROHD

Timebase: 50.00 frames/second

Frame Size: 960x720 16:9

Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.333

Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)

When I export the footage using upper lines (instead of progressive) they play back fine on my DVD player.

Any ideas to what could be causing the interlaced lines when exporting as progressive?

-Pete

Can't load project after any Premiere CS4 update...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:27:29 GMT

Premiere 4.0.0 works fine with my project. After updating to 4.1 or higher, my project no longer loads. Premiere shows the loading project indicator, goes away after 100% and then freezes.

Deleting all the cache directories doesn't fix the problem.

The only thing that works is re-installing Premiere 4.0.0.

I played around and noticed that if I hide the video files from Premiere before loading the project, the project will load and ask for the location of the video files. I click cancel and the project loads fine.

It seems that whatever the update does somehow confuses Premiere when loading my P2 video files.

But like I said, everything loads in Premiere 4.0.