Current Time Indicator Question

There is a grey area following behind the current time indicator everywhere it goes, and animation presets will move along, how do I change this problem

What is the problem? The grey area around the current-time indicator merely indicates the shutter angle and shutter phase of motion blur:
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Premiere elements 12 - cannot move assets past current time indicator ... why?

Cannot drag/move jpg (img 1232) past current time indicator (red) on any of the available tracks ... it does nothing ... I can only drag/move asset around before the current time indicator ... why
This would make my work useless !!! Please help!
Newly installed as iMac OSX 10.8.5
Premiere Elements 12 directly downloaded from Adobe site (purchase version)

Dave
Whatever you decide, please keep watch on how many days from date of purchase so that you do not lose any rights to 30 day money back from Adobe if you purchased from Adobe.
I had some thoughts for some areas to look into in your situation.
You have asked several time if you are using the correct project preset. I do not see that any one has responded to that question. I am assuming that your iPhone 5s is recording H.264.mov or.mp4 1920 x 1080 @ up to 30 progressive frames per second. The frame rate is probably up to 30, meaning variable frame rate. So, where is the 120 frames per second video coming from? I would manually set the project preset for
NTSC
DSLR
1080p
DSLR 1080p30@ 29.97
Details for manually setting the project preset are in the How To section of
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-accuracy-of-automatic-project.html
The use of video with variable frame rate has created all sorts of issues besides audio out of sync with Premiere Elements. It could be the iPhone 5S video that is creating the problems, but.... Have you taken the time to remove selectively and sequentially types of media from the tracks to determine if such removal would then allow you to place additional media from Project Assets to Timeline wherever you want?
If you implicate the iPhone 5S video in the issue, you could take it into a program such as HandBrake and change the file's variable to constant frame rate and export it from there as 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97 progressive frames per second H.264.mp4 file. Then try it in your project.
The party line is that you cannot change the project preset once it has been set for a project. We can go into that later. By the way, if you start a new project, is the problem of placing source media where you want in the Timeline still there?
We will be watching for further developments.
ATR

Current time indicator won't move to end of comp in After Effects CS6

The current time indicator won't move to end of comp in AE CS6. I setup a new comp at 10 seconds. When I drag the current time indicator OR hit the End key to bring the current time indicator to the end of the comp it stops at a value of 9:23. Is this a bug?

No, your frame rate is obviously 23.976, or it's most likely INcorrrectly 24.
The first frame of the comp is frame ZERO, as in 00:00. The last frame is 09:23. Which is what you set it to be.
00:00 - 09:23 is ten seconds. 00:00 - 10:00 is ten seconds and one frame. If the beginning frame was frame ONE, you'd be correct in your statement of woe. but the beginning frame is frame ZERO.

Start text layer (using Text Tool) from current time indicator - Adobe After Effects CC

This is something that would improve the speed of my workflow considerably. When I click inside a composition using the Text Tool, the text layer always positions itself at the beginning of the composition.
Is there any way to make the text layer start from the current time indicator so I don't continually have to scroll back to the start of the composition and drag the text layer forward to the desired position?
Many thanks.

There's a preference: Create Layers At Composition Start Time.

Close to the "current time indicator" there's a lighter gray section. What is it for?

Close to the "current time indicator" there's a lighter gray section. What is it for?

This is the correct answer.
1. Re: What mean Light GRAY COLOR near CTI?
Todd_Kopriva
That is answered in After Effects Help:
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Paste Clips In Place From Current-Time Indicator?

Is there a way to paste clips in Premiere Pro CS5 at the current-time indicator / playhead without it jumping to the end of the clip?
CS3 worked that way by default. CS4 introduced jumping ahead to the end of a clip when pasted.

Thanks for your reply Bill.
It does paste at the CTI, but then the CTI moves to the end of the pasted clip automatically. I liked it in CS3 when the CTI stayed in place.
Mostly I use this for audio editing just to do quick fixes by dropping in silence over background noise in the video. So it was handy when the CTI stayed in place because I could play or scrub through the audio without moving the CTI back to the start of the pasted clip each time, then resize it accordingly.
It's not a huge problem, but since it's been part of my workflow for so long it's an awkward change.

Moving clip to current time indicator through keyboard command?

I have a clip in my timeline that I am trying to move to the current time indicator using a keyboard command. In after effects, I would just use the "[" button to do this. For some reason, in Adobe Premiere, this does not work. Does anybody know a fix for this?

You don't need to hover the mouse over, or click, the Step Forward / Step Back buttons. Just use the wheel anywhere within the red block in the following image. Note also that you can scrub through the timeline by click-dragging across the CTI box (yellow block), or click-dragging across the Shuttle (green block).
If you click within the Monitor image so that the handles display (see red blocks below) then you can use the wheel anywhere within the Monitor pane to move the CTI back and forth. Again no clicking necessary.
Cheers,
Neale
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Premier 12, Titles & Text, Current Time indicator, Pan & zoom

I am using Premier 12 and am really enjoying the program, I had been using Premier 8 and I am getting much fewer project crashes, in fact almost none! Whomever worked on this program did a really good job. I am also finding it very user friendly and have been using both the "quick" and the "expert" portions of the program. That said I have three questions,
Titles and text, I am using one with "scrolling credits", is there a function where I can either "freeze" the screen after it scrolls to the text OR is there a function to "replay" the text instead of just going "black" and stopping?
Also when I have added all of my clips onto the timeline and have my "curent time indicator" at the "end" it does not stop and "go back" to the beginning/home unless I manually hit the "home" on my keyboard. I want to make sure that when I go to burn that the movie will instantly go back to the beginning of the project.
Is is possible to do a type of "Ken Burns" panning and zooming with Premier 12 and if so how do you do it?
Thanks

AuroraAz
Good to learn of your progress with Premiere Elements 12.
3. Is is possible to do a type of "Ken Burns" panning and zooming with Premier 12 and if so how do you do it?
The Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1 Horizontal and Vertical Pan & Zoom choices in Presets are available in version 12 under fx Effects/Presets/. As in 8.0/8.0.1, in 12 it is either pan OR zoom applied to each clip, not pan AND zoom.
As in 8.0/8.0.1, in 12 there is the Motion Panel expanded and its Toggle Animation for doing more advanced pan and zoom effects. Here look to Applied Effects Tab/Applied Effects Palette/Motion Panel expanded for it Scale (for Zoom) and Position (Pan) properties.
The Pan and Zoom Tool is not found in version 8.0/8.0.1. It can be found in 12, Tools Menu/Pan and Zoom. The feature comes with its own workspace once you select the image and then the feature under Tools Menu. Note, when the panned and zoom image is returned to the Premiere Elements workspace from the Pan and Zoom workspace, the duration of the image is markedly increased. That is normal. Here is a sample of more information on the topic
online video tutorial on use of Pan and Zoom Tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhLBAT_kLHs
my blog post on the subject, including applying same pan and zoom effect of Pan and Zoom Tool to more than one image at a time
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/05/pe11-pan-zoom-tool-more-than-one-photo.html
work in progress with gtavetian, regarding Pan and Zoom Tool and Portrait Oriented Images
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1382933?tstart=60
2. Also when I have added all of my clips onto the timeline and have my "curent time indicator" at the "end" it does not stop and "go back" to the beginning/home unless I manually hit the "home" on my keyboard. I want to make sure that when I go to burn that the movie will instantly go back to the beginning of the project.
I am not sure that you are dealing with leftover beyond the left gray tab of the Work Area Bar. So let us make sure.
After you have added all your clips to the Timeline, do the gray tabs of the Work Area Bar span that Timeline content from what you see as the beginning and end of the whole content? When you hit the play button of the monitor, does the Timeline content playback from beginning and end of what you can see as the beginning and end or does the Timeline Indicator continue beyond the last item that you put on the Timeline? If the latter, then you are some fragments further to the right of the end that you can see. Typically the present (with Timeline content expanded max) as very thin vertical black lines which will need to be deleted. In these cases, use the End key stop position to search for the leftover(s).
Other Home and End key to navigate the whole Timeline content under the gray tabs of the Work Area Bar.
Titles and text, I am using one with "scrolling credits", is there a function where I can either "freeze" the screen after it scrolls to the text OR is there a function to "replay" the text instead of just going "black" and stopping?
The basics of this feature should be the same as in Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1. Menu name is different and Titler has a different look but principles are the same between 8.0/8.0.1 and 12. Are you talking about looping a text title? Sounds like that. If so we can talk about that in greater detail. Have you done in 8.0/8.0.1 what you want to go in 12 in this regard? Or is this a new effect that you want to achieve?
Please review. Keep up the great work.
ATR

Razor at current time indicator not working in cs4

Hi!
I can't seem to get the keyboard shortcut ctrl+K to work in Premiere CS4. Anyone else had the same problem?
Thanks!

Seems this is a good thing in CS4.
In CS3, you can split tracks that you didn't want split if you are not careful, so this seems like a very good new thing they added.
Dave.

Time Ruler Question...I think

I'm new to After Effects. I've tried to figure this out on my own, but figured Id try asking online. When I want to move my movie forward via Next Frame, I have to move forwards 4 frames before the image actually moves. I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but when I've seen other people tut videos, and they only seem to have to click Next Frame once. Maybe It has to do with my Time Ruler, I don't know. Again, a huge noob I am to AE. Some non condescending advice would be appreciated.

If your composition frame rate matches your footage frame rate then moving one frame in the timeline (page down key) moves one frame. If you footage is say 29.97fps (normal ntsc video) but your comp is 60 (or 59.95) then moving the CTI (current time indicator) forward two frames advances to the next frame of the video in the composition.
If that's not what you're seeing please tell us all about your composition settings and your footage.
One more thing. Say you're animating position or rotation of a layer. In this case, it doesn't matter what frame rate the composition is. Move one frame in the time line and you move one frame.
I just had another thought. Maybe you are looking at timecode instead of frames in the Time Display. If the display is set to time code instead of frames and you advance a single frame in a comp that is 60 fps then the timecode will not advance by a frame number until you move 2.
Since you said you have to move 4 frames before the image actually moves I suspect that the comp frame rate does not match the footage frame rate.

Current Time expressed in decimals + Keyframing export question

This was noted in an earlier post, but I could not reply since the thread was archived...
I've noticed that certain movies, when viewed in QTPro, express the current time (viewable in the movie info dialog) in decimals, rather than in frames.
For example, using a 30fps movie, a time of one second and 15 frames is instead shown under the current time (viewable in the movie info window) as :01.50 (hundreths of a second). This can be a problem if you are trying to count frames or note a particular time expressed in frames, rather than in fractions of a second.
After digging a bit, I discovered that movies compressed WITHOUT keyframing enabled DID NOT have this trait - the time is shown in frames instead.
The workaround is to export the movies from QTPro using a codec that does not support keyframes (for example - the Uncompressed codec).
I have two questions -
1. Why, when exporting a movie with keyframes on, does the video track frame rate end up with a value that goes to multiple decimal points? - For example:
- Export a movie from QTPro using the animation compressor and a frame rate of 30. Set Keyframes to anything you like (note that you cannot turn it off).
- View the exported movie, and press cmd-J (movie properties). The frame rate shown will likely be something like 29.3293293820932, and the current time (as shown in movie info (cmd-i)) will be in decimals.
If you export Uncompressed 30fps instead (keyframes are not supported in this codec), the resulting frame rate will be exactly 30, and the current time will be shown as FRAMES, not decimals.
2. WHY is it possible to render a Quicktime movie from After Effects, using ANY codec, and have the ability to turn keyframes OFF, whilst turning keyframes off seems to be impossible in QTPro when exporting a movie using a codec that supports keyframes?
Thanks for any help!
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

No - there's no variable frame rate - depending on the project, we're either using 29.97, 30 or 60fps.
We're using the "Current Time" in the movie info dialog so that people can make precise timing notes regarding animations without having to get to a machine with FCP, After Effects et.al. on it. Since we're concerned with getting exact frame numbers, we're using the Movie Info dialog rather than the time provided in the movie window.
Practically every movie we're using is coming from After Effects, Shake, or some other animation/compositing program.
The only times I've gotten those long-decimal frame rates is on a movie with keyframes set. Turn off keyframes, and the movie frame rate is exactly what we set it to be.
I'm guessing that we're bumping into something that's actually a cool trick - when Quicktime sees that a movie has a traditional frame rate (30, 60 or even 29.97 for example), it displays the current time in frames. When it loads a movie with an odd frame rate (particularly something like 29.9630843098) it calculates and displays in thousanths of a second instead.
Nonetheless, we're setting all the movies to a defined frame rate. The movies exported without keyframes end up with the correct rate, and the ones with keyframes end up with a frame rate that have many decimal places....

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It should be done in a <header>. So i'm writing a new (template based) renderer for that element. How can i display the current time and date on it?
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Regards,
Robert Willems

Hi Robert -
When you say you are writing a template-based Renderer, do you mean that you are creating a custom look and feel and replacing the header Renderer? If so, I'd recommend instead simply creating your own template (not template-based Renderer), and reference your template directly from your uiXML pages where you want to insert the timestamp.
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For more info (and samples) on templates and data binding, see the "Templates and Data Binding" section of the "Includes and Templating in ADF UIX" help topic:
http://tinyurl.com/5b7bf
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The attached file is a simple vi about how to show the current time on x-axis in wave chart. I have a question about why the current time increase so fast. It looks like the current time increases with the loop iteration counter. Thanks for your help.
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I tried to do it with “timestamp” and “build waveform” but it didn’t work out. All I need is some values over the current time x-Axis.
All it shows in my waveform is the time since 1904, like it always does!
Probably a silly question, but can anyone help me out, maybe with an example VI?
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I attach a screenshot, that shows this.
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Since Java provides an sql.TimeStamp class to map to an sql database supporting nanos, how does Java instantiate this class as far as nanos are concerned? Unless the only thing its good for is for READING sql TIMESTAMP values.
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