3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 25, 2014 1:25 PM by SAFEHARBOR11 RSS

    PP CS6 questions

    robirdman1 Community Member

      The insoluble problem I had of hijacking clips in CS5 was only solved when I got CS6.

      I am wondering about a couple of things with this though.

      Whenever I first open it and play a clip there is no audio.  If I then go to a music program and open it, such as Band in a Box, when I return to PP, then the audio is there.  this didn't use to happen with CS5.

      I am also wondering about why when I go to export, the default is always AVI and Android.  I always switch to H264, and then HD and chose maximum render quality, user previews, and frame blending.  I am putting the videos on youtube.  Is this more than necessary.  It does take a very long time to export and upload.

        • 1. Re: PP CS6 questions
          SAFEHARBOR11 Community Member

          What kind of source clips? AVCHD and other card-based formats need special handling for best results. Copy entire contents of SD card to hard drive, not just the "video" clips. Then use Media Browser in Premiere to do the Import. This solves a lot of issues with clip playback behavior.

           

          For Export, "Max Render Quality" is only useful for scaling the video, meaning the export frame size is different from the source, like 1080 to 720, or HD to SD. Otherwise don't use it.

           

          Usually, it's best to NOT "Use Previews" - these are not always the highest quality depending on which preview render codec is being used, and in any case, it means you've added another generation of compression - source clip to preview render to export file. Best to export direct from source (timeline). Unless parts of the timeline just won't play without rendering, I don't bother with rendering timeline to "green". Red doesn't hurt anything as long as timeline can still be played.

           

          Frame Blending - this is only used when converting frame rate. Do NOT use this otherwise. Checking all the boxed arbitrarily just increases render times and in some cases hurts the quality.

           

          For YouTube, are you using the YouTube preset found under H.264?

           

          Thanks

           

          Jeff Pulera

          Safe Harbor Computers

          • 2. Re: PP CS6 questions
            robirdman1 Community Member

            These are avi files from Nikon D300s and mov files from Nikon D4.  Just dragging and dropping or importing and then moving to timeline results in no problem in playback.  I will stop doing those 3 things that I check at the bottom of export, but I thought rendering gives a smoother video.  Thanks for the info.

            • 3. Re: PP CS6 questions
              SAFEHARBOR11 Community Member

              "I thought rendering gives a smoother video"


              If you're adding effects to the video in the timeline and it gets to where the clip plays back very jerky - like a few frames a second -and in order to check whether you're happy with the results of your edit you need to be able to see the clip play smoothly at normal speed, then by all means go ahead and render that segment to get a "green bar". You don't have to use those previews for the final export, just leave the box unchecked in AME.


              But no need to arbitrarily render things "just because", that is a waste of time basically. If you have red bars and the video plays ok, just leave it. When you use AME to Export to the delivery format, it gets rendered then anyways, but direct from the source for better quality.


              Thanks


              Jeff