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How to find max audio peak of combined audio tracks with effects applied?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 20:03:17 GMT

Hello all,

I am working in PPro CS5.5.

Often when I am working on a timeline I have two audio tracks of the same songs, one from the camera and one from a separate sound recorder, synced on the timeline so they combine into one signal. Applied to these tracks I might have an E.Q. effect or highpass/lowpass filter. Now I know that the max peak of each track or individual clips is easy to find using the 'Audio Gain' menu item, what I am hoping for is the equivalent of that menu item but related to the final output after the two tracks signal has been added together and effects have been all been applied? It is a very laborious task to have to listen through the whole timeline to discover if the output is going over 0db, if there was a way I could locate on the timeline where the max output is, that would definitely solve the problem.

Finding the way to do this would save literally hours per project! It's the one thing that makes me inwardly groan when I have to effect the output volume, which I have to do most of the time.

Hopefully,

Peter.

Time Remapping Keyframes cause other keyframes to become unrelated to where they are on the timeline

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:12:08 GMT

This is the BUG report I have just sent in. If anyone has anything to add.

******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
When I add Time Remapping Keyframes to a clip, other keyframes become un-related to the part of the timeline they are on.

Steps to reproduce bug:
1. ADD TIME REMAPPING KEYFRAMES TO A TIMELINE WITH OTHER KEYFRAMES (LIKE POSITIONING KEYFRAMES)
2.
3.

Results: I ALTER THE UP/DOWN COORDINATE AND THE CLIP DOES NOT EVEN MOVE, THEN I SCRUB ALONG THE CLIP AND IT MOVES UP OR DOWN AT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PART OF THE CLIP. AS SOON AS I REMAP TIME IT SCREWS UP THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE EFFECTS PANEL.

Expected results: READ ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIME REMAPPING HAS BEEN BROKEN SINCE CS4 AS FAR AS I KNOW AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE ABOUT IT... SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have always just worked around it or avoided using selective time remapping but I have had enough of it... It's like the ability to change the colour of fonts on this forum, non functional (last time I tried to use it), but I would rather have time remapping able to be keyframed than coloured letters, I paid for the time remapping in both CS4 and CS5.

Peter

Spurious colours from RGB Curves and Track Matte...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:45:21 GMT

Hello people of the forums.

I am working on a music video.

In a couple of places in the sequence where there are two or more visible layers overlapping with top layer/s having less than 100% opacity there is some unwanted 'extra' colours appearing which can be seen in the attached image below.

In the left image the unwanted colour appears in the center above the mans head, it is grey coloured.

In the right image the unwanted colour is the red.

All blending modes are Normal. There are Track Mattes in use. There are RGB curves being used.

As a result of trying to gather pertinent information for this post I found a cure, hahaha.

For the left images situation I found that turning the RGB curves off removed the colours, so I replaced the curves with Levels and the issue went away...

So for the right images situation I added a levels below the track matte and above the RGB curves, and the issue went away, no adjustment to the levels at all... I moved the levels from between the Track Matte and the Curves and the issue reapeared.

I will post this anyway but not as a question.

All the best

Peter

Deciding on CPU & RAM configutation for Laptop.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:03:05 GMT

Hi All,

I am looking to buy an Asus G75 ex-demo laptop.

I use PPro CS5.5, mostly with HDSLR H2.64 video. It will be Win7 (Home Premium or Pro, depending on RAM).

Relevant specs.

GTX660M 2GB GDDR5.

1TB 5400RPM HDD (which I intend to replace with a 512GB SSD and 750GB 7200RPM HDD).

17.3" Full HD screen.

There are two variations of CPU & RAM I have to choose between:

i7 3820QM - 4 Cores 8 Threads, 2.7GHz, 3.7GHz with Turbo, 8MB Cache, 45W TDP

16GB (4x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3

i7 3720QM - 4 Cores 8 Threads, 2.6GHz, 3.6GHz with Turbo, 6MB Cache, 45W TDP

32GB (4x8GB) 1333MHz DDR3

I have three questions (greedy):

Will the mobile GTX660M do a decent job? My desktop uses a GTX480 which seems quite capable, would the 660M be comparable to that?

Which combination of CPU & RAM would be preferable? The faster CPU combo is a little more $, and it seems like a minimal upgrade as far as clock speed goes but the increase in Cache seems significant.

I'm not sure of the best way to utilize the SSD? I know to put project folders on it, and the sound files PPro creates when conforming audio will benifit being on it. Would it be silly or sensible to copy media onto it while working on the project then deleting them when done?

Does this all look like a machine which will give a smooth and prompt editing experience or are there things I am missing?

Ok I guess that is 4 questions .

Thanks as always,

Peter.

Quadro V Geforce and Desktop V Mobile GPU

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:15:12 GMT

I decided to list key specs in a table to plot the 'de-tuning' done to Mobile Graphics cards compared to their desktop twins. More specifically the differing amounts applied to GTX as compared to Quadro cards. I hope the table works ok, I'm a first time user of them .

Specification	GTX 660	GTX 660M		Quadro K5000	Quadro K5000M
Memory Size	2GB	2GB	0%	4GB	4GB	0%
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5		GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Interface	192-bit	128-bit	33%	256-bit	256-bit	0%
Memory Bandwidth	144.2GB/s	64GB/s	55.7%	173GB/s	96GB/s	44.5%
Cuda Cores	960	384	60%	1536	1344	12.5%
Max Power	140W	~50-75W*	64-46%	122W	100W	18%

*nVidia do not list the Max Power Consumption where I was looking. If anyone can enlighten me please do! I have seen it guest at 50W and quoted as 75W at another site Here

The cards I chose are arbitrary. The GTX660 because I am buying a laptop with this variant in and the K5000 because it was the only model I found showing in both categories. The values that are percentages show the amount of de-tuning.

My conclusions from this are that Quadro cards are allowed to retain much of their performance in a laptop environement because they will be purchased by users less interested in Battery operation for their machine. The GTX is hit with the All-in-one watering down brush yet they still wish to use the same product number, implying similar high performance. Buyer do your research!

Hope this is useful/interesting to someone.

Peter.

Refs:

GTX 660, GTX 660M, Quadro K5000, Quadro K5000M

How to search for all files w Metadata mismatch?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:02:20 GMT

I Upgraded recently from LR2.6 to 3.3.

Many of my images have an Exclamation Mark on them, following the upgrade, informing me that there is a Metadata Mismatch...

When I click on it I get this Dialogue box:

Firstly I think LR developers are playing with potentially important information with a lack of care and consideration. I looked at the metadata in 'File Info' in Photoshop before clicking anything: the creation date was the date the file was created and much of the camera data was missing. After I clicked Overwrite Settings all the original data was back on the file. I have no idea how this came to pass exactly, but it shows metadata is an easily lost thing.

If Adobe care about their customers I would think they would make it more clear what was at stake here!

Secondly I would like to know if there is a way to search for all images with this issue to save me having to go through and do it one by one, possibly thousands of times?

Thnaks Peter

Conforming Audio is driving me up the wall!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:40:06 GMT

Hi all,

Windows Vista Home Premium, i7, 12GB ram, Production Premium CS5.

I am making a DVD in Encore CS5 with 4 AVI files and a static menu.

When I add the Avi video files En conforms the audio...

I was getting frustrated because it seemed the audio was getting lost somewhere so after 'clearing' and re-importing files a few times I came to realise that before conforming the Audio was playing fine but once the Audio was 'conformed' the sound dissapeared? I used AME to create a Wav file from the Avi video files and added them to the EN timelines to get round that problem.

The problem I am having is that EN is conforming the audio every time I go to another window, like Explorer, or even if I preview within EN, I close the preview window (or just come back from explorer) and EN conforms all the files, all over again! It is driving me up the wall!!!

Then I started 'Transcoding Now' my assets and after every Video is finished I get

so I click OK and EN shuts down ...

When I restart it, opening the same project, it gets partway through opening the project then windows leaps in and declares EN to have a problem and the only option is to close the program. I then start it up again and it starts correctly, I can then 'Locate Transcoded File' for the video file I just transcoded.

Seems like ENcore CS5 is no more stable than CS4 and if anything is less stable.

Any ideas? I can still work through all this 'Stuff' and produce DVD's but the Conforming, CONTINUALLY is just so annoying!

Peter

Why does the Audio dissapear at the end of some clips?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:43:30 GMT

Hello,

I use PPro CS4 on a 64bit Vista PC.

For quite awhile I have experienced PPro 'Loosing' the audio at the end of some clips. It happens to the Audio attached to video, and it happens to MP3's with no video. Looking at the waveform of the Audio on the timeline shows a complete and entacted signal right to the end of the clip/mp3, but when played, somewhere near the end, the sound just stops! Playing the file in other programs proves there is no problem with the file. I can re-import the clip/mp3, but it always has the same problem. I've got around (the cursed workarounds!) this by opening the audio in Soundbooth and saving it as a wave and replacing the problem audio, it is frustrating but that is what I have come to expect with PPro.

Recently I have been using Encore (CS4), for the first time really, and am mortified to find it doing the same damn thing!! A clip 6:38 long Dynamically Linked from a PPro project, that plays fine in PPro and Media players, when dropped into Encore looses the last 45seconds of Audio!!! WTF! This is very frustrating, so here I am. Do I have to listen to the entire project to 'prove it' before burning it?!?!

If it did it to all clips then that would indicate a fault, possibly not with PPro, but since it does it only with some and not others, but always with the same file (if the file exhibits the problem it will always have the problem and if it does not show the problem, then it will never have the problem), then surely it cannot be my system or my workflow, it has to be PPro (and Encore now!).

What is going on please? Anyone?

Peter Studt

Deleting Markers

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:52:59 GMT

Currently to delete markers in Premiere Pro CS4 (4.2.1) I navigate the (is it CTM, Current Time Marker?!?!?!) CTM to the marker I want to remove and right click it, then go to 'Clear Markers', wait for it to 'pop out' then go to 'Clear Current', and it is getting frustrating.

Is there a key combination that is hidden or top secret for some reason that will delete the current marker?

In Sony Vegas (Sorry to mention it, but) the markers are selectable and then you simply hit delete, it is simple as that, you can select and delete 1 or ctrl select incongruous markers or shft select them and delete as many or as few as you like. Also their Markers have labels that are constantly visible, which means at a glance you can understand your markers instead of messing around in the fog that is PP's markers!

Any assistance other than a recomendation to put in a feature request would be appreciated, thank you.

Peter

p.s. I have put in a feature request already!

Any way to know where a clip came from within the source clip?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:25:24 GMT

Using Premiere Pro CS4, Version 4.2.1, on an i7 based PC.

I would like to be able to see where a clip on the timeline came from within the clip in the source monitor. Where ever there is information about the clip on the timeline, it only seems to tell me it's 'Start', 'End' and 'Duration' in relation to the current Sequence, but nothing relating to the 'In' or the 'Out' points within the source clip.

Is it possible to read this somewhere, rather than having to replay the clip in the source monitor to discover the in and out points? It tends to be tedious doing this too often.

Thanks in advance, hopefully.

Peter.

Getting Scale and Crop to work together in a linear fashion?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:42:00 GMT

I'm using Premiere Pro CS4 4.2.1, on an i7 based PC running in Vista 64 bit.

I am trying to use video that is smaller than the full viewing area, to do this I am using the Crop Effect. This work nicely until I want to change the scaling of the clip, whereupon the size of the clip changes in the viewing area. Even when I try to Keyframe both the scale, and the Crop so that they begin and end being the correct size, the only time that the clip ends up being the right size is at the beginning and the end can someone tell me a way to achieve this accurately so that as the scale increases, the crop also increases such that the clip remains exactly the same size through the entire transition?

Hopefully

Peter Studt.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Seeringipity

http://www.pictures-of-paradise.com

Cropping video

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:56:03 GMT

I am using premiere pro cs4, in windows vista home premium.

I was wondering what people think is the best work around to show video that does not fill the viewing area, and is cropped?

It is easy enough to present multiple pictures on the screen, but it is much less easy to digitally zoom into these 'pictures' without them growing larger, and if I wanted to change the shape of them (say from rectangular to square), they get distorted.

Looking forward to something obvious that I missed in premiere, but half expecting to be directed to after effects... Coming from a stills background cropping is as basic as it comes, but video i realise is not stills.

Cheers

I remap time then try to keyframe opacity, opacity is not reacting to keyframes properly!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:35:10 GMT

I'm using PPro CS4 in Vista Home Premium.

Firstly I have used 'Speed/Duration' to make the speed 150%, then I have applied various time remapping to the clip, and to finish it off I simply want to fade out at the end of the clip, then the next clip on the timeline fades in (so there is a definite dip to 20%), very much like 'dip to black' transition except I only want to dip to 20% and 'dip to black' dips to 0%. So I get it all set up and find that the opacity ramp happens about half way along the clip instead of the end of it and then it stays at 20% for the remainder of the clip. Just for the record, the 'Dip to Black' Transition works as it should do (Dam it!!!).

I have tried using the opacity adjustment in the 'Alpha Adjust' effect, after the time remapping incase it was a render order problem, but it made no difference...

It seems like a bug to me, or am I missing something like I usually am? I recall having had this happen once before, and that time I decided to do something different because I could not figure it out.

Please help

Thnaks in advance and all that!!!

Peter

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Seeringipity

www.pictures-of-paradise.com

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Keywords are a jumbled up mess tacked on to files as a good idea very poorly implimented!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:21:00 GMT

I looked for the Bridge Forum but apparently it doesn't have one!

I have been adding keywords to a bunch of images in LR 2.5. I am using LR to do this because it is not easily done in Bridge, the interface is clumsy and most unsatisfactory! I assumed (silly me) that these keywords would be visible to bridge since the concept of keywords is important to both applications, and surely since both applications come from the same mother company of Adobe there would be some kind of consistency of method.

Of course the keywords are not visible in Bridge, and the only thing I can do is import the keywords as a text file, which I do, only to find that they are not attached to the images but just dumped into the keywords checkbox excuse for a keyword interface in Bridge.

Can someone please show me where I am wrong in this, something I have missed, or do Adobe expect those of us who would like to use both LR and Bridge to apply keywords twice?!?!?

Peter

http://www.pictures-of-paradise.com

Keyword is stuck, it always adds extra words to a particular name!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:32:47 GMT

The name I am trying to add to some images is 'Derek', no more, no less. As I type the name there are two suggestions that have 'Derek' then a ' > ' then 'Old Family Photos' and the other is ' > Family'. I try deleting the extra words, I tried editing the recent keywords list, but the ' > Old Family Photos' just reapears everytime I hit enter when 'Derek' is the keyword to be added?!?!?!

I mean keywords are meant to save us time arn't they? Yet I end up spending hours achieving nothing because LR has decided to have a mind of its own!

Is the '>' character significant in some way? I would really appreciate some help here...

Peter Studt

http://www.pictures-of-paradise.com

Checkout my video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqTmAart5vI

White shows where Distortion Video effect has pulled image back from the edge, how do I make it black?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:21:24 GMT

Hello all!

I have applied 'Lens Distortion' from the 'Distort' Video Effects to a clip, the distortion pulls the image in from the corners, thus revealing White. I would like this to not be white, infact I would like it to be 'Black' like when there is no image or video on some parts of the screen in the sequence in question. The same thing happens when using other effects like 'Camera View' from the 'Transform' Folder (ummm, Bin?).

Apologies in advance for anything I have or have not done to earn anyones impatience

Peter