SO MANY PROBLEMS... I'M HATING CS4!!!
fuaho Nov 1, 2008 7:04 PMAfter using AVID Express Pro for tape-based DV format, I moved into a Hi Def, Tapeless 1280x720p MJPEG format. Installed an old version of Premiere 6.0, made a custom project, imported footage and successfully edited and exported. Playback was a little choppy, but not bad. Renders took awhile but completed successfully and exports using the LEAD MJPEG codec were fine, played well in Windows Media Player and looked great.
Laid out $3000 for a brand new computer - Q9550 quad processor @2.83GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM @1.333 GHz, 1 TB Raid 10, Intel DX48BT2MB, nVidia GTX 260XXX CPU, etc and upgraded to Production Premium Pro CS4.
What a waste of money!!!
If I open a previous project, Premiere does some conversion to it - there is no choice to skip the conversion - that first of all shifts the reds about 300 pixels to the right. There is the red line indicating that the entire timeline needs to be rendered. After rendering, the image in the program window is about half the height that it should be with everything squashed down. I have set up a custom project that is 1280x720p, 30fps as the default new project, but that makes no difference.
If I simply import a file, it plays fine and looks fine.
OK, so I opened a project, deleted all the media and relinked all the files. It still indicated that it needed to be rendered and did the same thing - squashing everything to half height.
Apparently, all the work done previously is useless because I've tried opening and importing and nothing works!
I opened another project I had done that is not 16:9 and was able to get it to import the files. In this case, they were all stills cut to music - sent it to Encore and was able to make a Flash file, but it would never build for a DVD even though there were no errors listed when the file was checked. Clicking "Transcode Now" caused Encore to crash!
I opened a new 1280x720p project and created a new Universal Counting Leader. Tried to export the media as 1280x720 and AME crashed.
I'm always willing to give a new piece of software the benefit of the doubt because of the inevitable operator errors and learning curve, but not in this case because there is no reason for these things to be happening! I've successfully done projects in AVID without incident for years and Premiere 6 recently, and the new computer has been rock solid with other applications like Photoshop.
If anyone has any insights into why there are all these problems, I'd appreciate their expertise. All the stuff about latest drivers, etc has no bearing because the machine is less than a month old and CS4 is the only thing on it other than the drivers for the Blu-Ray disk, AVG Internet Suite and Microsoft Office, USB keyboard & USB trackball.
TIA,
Laid out $3000 for a brand new computer - Q9550 quad processor @2.83GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM @1.333 GHz, 1 TB Raid 10, Intel DX48BT2MB, nVidia GTX 260XXX CPU, etc and upgraded to Production Premium Pro CS4.
What a waste of money!!!
If I open a previous project, Premiere does some conversion to it - there is no choice to skip the conversion - that first of all shifts the reds about 300 pixels to the right. There is the red line indicating that the entire timeline needs to be rendered. After rendering, the image in the program window is about half the height that it should be with everything squashed down. I have set up a custom project that is 1280x720p, 30fps as the default new project, but that makes no difference.
If I simply import a file, it plays fine and looks fine.
OK, so I opened a project, deleted all the media and relinked all the files. It still indicated that it needed to be rendered and did the same thing - squashing everything to half height.
Apparently, all the work done previously is useless because I've tried opening and importing and nothing works!
I opened another project I had done that is not 16:9 and was able to get it to import the files. In this case, they were all stills cut to music - sent it to Encore and was able to make a Flash file, but it would never build for a DVD even though there were no errors listed when the file was checked. Clicking "Transcode Now" caused Encore to crash!
I opened a new 1280x720p project and created a new Universal Counting Leader. Tried to export the media as 1280x720 and AME crashed.
I'm always willing to give a new piece of software the benefit of the doubt because of the inevitable operator errors and learning curve, but not in this case because there is no reason for these things to be happening! I've successfully done projects in AVID without incident for years and Premiere 6 recently, and the new computer has been rock solid with other applications like Photoshop.
If anyone has any insights into why there are all these problems, I'd appreciate their expertise. All the stuff about latest drivers, etc has no bearing because the machine is less than a month old and CS4 is the only thing on it other than the drivers for the Blu-Ray disk, AVG Internet Suite and Microsoft Office, USB keyboard & USB trackball.
TIA,





