Clip Notes

When I export a clip note file from Premiere CS4 the comments box in the pdf file has a complete speech transcript from the original video under the heading [Sender]. When the notes are then re-imported to the sequence timeline I get a marker point for every word. Is there a way to stop this.
Richard Knight

See: FAQ:Why won't clip notes play in Adobe Reader?
Or perhaps: FAQ:Why does export to Adobe Clip Notes fail?
Cheers
Eddie

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Clip Notes in CS4/Acrobat 9: exports transcript, no controls for QuickTime

When I use the Transcribe feature, then export my project to Clip Notes, it exports every transcribed word as a separate comment. There doesn't seem to be any way of suppressing that, and there doesn't seem to be a way of deleting a transcription either in PP or in Acrobat. The result is that the reviewer sees all these comments and has to fight with Acrobat to insert new comments. When I import the xfdf back into PP, I get the whole transcription loaded into markers along with the reviewer's comments. Unless I open every one, I can't tell what's what.
Is there at least a way of deleting the transcription in PP or Acrobat?
Also, if I export the video as QuickTime, there are no player controls in Acrobat. I only get player controls if I export as Windows Media. That means that some Mac users won't be able to use my Clip Notes exports. I've seen others asking about this, but no answers. Any ideas? I'm running this under Windows Vista Ultimate.

But I find it amazing that there's no way to delete the damn thing. Adobe made a big deal of transcription, but it seems they didn't regard it as more than a gimmick, since they did it half-baked. I think you're right that it's best not to use this "feature".
I don't know if it's necessarily half-baked, so much as it is an overly optimistic appraisal of the capability of the technology at this point in time. I mean, it does create words, and sometimes very interesting ones at that
What's interesting to me is that when I tested out the transcribe feature back when Adobe released the beta of Soundbooth CS4, it was MUCH more accurate--and I was testing it on the mixed, final soundtrack of a documentary captured from Betacam SP. The transcription wasn't anywhere near 100%, but it was actually usable. Now, it struggles on pristine audio from a single, clear voice track. Wish it wasn't so...
Anyway, you can stop the transcription from appearing in a Clip Notes export. Check out the following screenshot for the how-to:

Is there a way to make an audio clip not cover the whole project? I want to add audio clip or song and let it start at a certain point in the project. I'm working with iMovie on IPad!

Is there a way to make an audio clip not cover the whole project in iMovie? I want to add audio clip or song and let it start at a certain point in the project. Whenever I add audio or song it covers the whole project. I'm working with iMovie on IPad!

Thank you for your reply Karsten but unfortunately this didn't help me so far. Or maybe I'm missing something?
First the link is a tutorial for iMovie on a Mac. I'm using iMovie on iPad so the steps are inapplicable.
Second it is only possible for me to manipulate the end part of the sound clip to whichever duration I want. But I can't do the same with the 'beginning' of the sound clip.
I simply want to place some photos in the beginning of my video with no sound in the background then after like 2 secs I want to start the music clip. For some reason that is not possible! Cause every time I drop the music clip unto my project timeline it automatically place it self along with the first frame in the project! And consequently the photos and music are forced to start together.
Hope I'm making sense...

Reader 9 Kills Clip Notes

For anyone using the Clip Notes feature of Pr or AE: don't upgrade to Acrobat Reader 9.
Your client won't be able to add comments, nor will they be able to export the .xdf data file that gets imported back to your Pr sequence. When you open the Clip Notes .pdf file in Reader 9, the program alerts you that the .pdf document has enabled features that are not available in that version of Reader. No other information is available.
-Jeff

Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, there is no Adobe presence here. We are all just users. Adobe might "read" a few posts out in the main fora, though we seldom know. The chances of them reading something in the Lounge is as close to absolute zero as one can get - sorry.
I would have assumed that this HAD been fixed by now, but from your comments, maybe not. Do you have the latest releases of all programs, Acrobat Reader 9, PrPro CS4.1 and whatever AE CS4 is up to? BTW, your client will likely need the latest for all pertinent programs too. Good luck.
For getting the attention of Adobe, it's best to use the Bug Report/Feature Request.
Sorry for the bad news,
Hunt

Clip Notes aspect ratio wrong

I have AE CS3 on an Intel 8. Would like to use Clip Notes for low-rez approvals, but when I render a Quicktime movie in 3 x 4 aspect ratio (like most video) when I open the pdf in Acrobat Reader 8.1.2, it stretches it to 16 x 9. Checked all the preferences and view options and can't find anything to change it. Searched through the render options in AE, and can't find anything in there either. Tried the NTSC presets, tried using Stretch, nothing makes any difference.
Also, the audio sounds very bad. I've seen demos of Clip Notes that looked great, but demos usually do.
Please help. I'd like to use this potentially great feature.
RD

Sorry, that was a typo. Since then I've done more tests. The default size ClipNotes wants for regular video is 640 x 480. But when I render it that way in AE-CS3, and open the PDF in Acrobat 8.1.2, it gets stretched to widescreen. There seems to be no way to control this. So then I go back, nest the 640 x 480 in a comp that is 854 x 480, which is the default size ClipNotes specifies, and render it with black pillars on the sides. When I open this PDF, it looks correct and not stretched. I can live with the black pillars until they fix this.
BUT, the fatal flaw is, the audio. It sounds terrible, like the music is doing a constant phase-shifter effect. I tried it at 48 and 44 kHz, and made sure the settings matched in the output module and the ClipNotes audio settings, and it made no difference.
Thanks for your thoughts on this, but do people from Adobe ever read these posts? I have read several posts about this audio problem here and on Creative Cow. I hope they fix it or tell me what to do soon. Try it with a clip that has music, and you will immediately see what I am talking about.

Clip Notes streaming export causes Reader media clip error

MacPro HDV captured into PPCS4, export OK to Adobe Clip Notes streaming, uploads .mov file to my FTP site OK. The .mov clip plays fine locally in QT. When I open the clip notes pdf in Acrobat 9 Reader for Mac or Acrobat 8 Pro on Vista, both give the same error on opening: Javascript window - error reading media clip. The clip does not load into the pdf, and I can not get error information to debug.
Answer: I need QT streaming server. The Clip Notes streaming is true streaming, not progressive-download or pseudo-streaming. I did not see this in the Premiere CS4 documentation.

I'm using Vista 64.
I was having the same problem with the transport controls not showing up.
I set AcroRd32.exe to run in XP mode and that fixed the problem with the embedded movie file.
Transport controls show up.
Thanks.
I hoped that would also fix the QT streaming problem.
However, if I select "Streaming" and upload it to my server then when the Clip Notes tries to play the file it says "
This happened also before I set AcroRd32 to XP mode.
No problem with "Clip Notes Windows Media" format. It uploads and plays fine.
The .mov file is on the server. I can play it fine in a browser.
Any ideas why Adobe Reader won't play a streaming .mov file in Clip Notes, but will play a streaming .wmv file?
You really need to use QT so you can scrub the timeline.
.wmv files don't let you scrub!
Adobe why haven't you after all these years made Clip Notes use flash?
If you did it would truly be cross-platform.
Thanks.

Adobe Clip Notes in Acrobat Reader Not Working

I am having an issue with acrobat reader not processing the clip notes correctly. In Acrobat Reader 9.1 the clip notes do not process and save with the time line. All notes are placed in one box and are not saved intividually with the time line code. The export option button is there but does not work. This is happening not only for my customer but for me as well using a computer with only Acrobat Reader installed.. (9.1)
So there seems to be an issue with Acrobat Reader and clip notes... It works fine on my system with Acrobat Pro installed but from my understaning, it should work with Acrobat Reader as well..
Any help would be appreciated.. I lost my connection to support.. I was on the phone and it went dead and no one has called back yet..
I am using all CS4 producst (Master Collection) So this is being exported to .pdf by Premier Pro CS4

I am having this problem with a slew of users as well. I have followed all of the steps in Adobe KB article 405461 and while one solution in this resolve the problem (using reader as a helper program instead of opening PDF files directly within the browser) with the error message it caused problems with other web applications that we use. Has anyone else figured out how to get Adobe reader to work within IE? I have to think there was something included in the last batch of Windows Updates because it was working fine prior to that.
Thanks.

Clip Notes in CS4: questions about streaming

I've used Clip Notes before with small, embedded files, but this is my first time with a large video that I want to stream on a server. Maybe someone can answer a few questions:
Where do I name the movie file? The export dialog only has a place to name the PDF.
How does the URL setting work? The documentation simply says "This is where your video file is located" but that puts the cart before the horse. How can I specify the name and location of a movie that hasn't been created yet and for which I have no control over the name? The FTP feature works great, but it's for upload only, not for naming.
After exporting the movie and PDF, is there a way to re-generate the PDF w/o having to re-export the movie? I realized I wanted to make some changes to the PDF only (like instructions and URL), and exporting another movie will take time that isn't necessary.
I learned here earlier that only the QuickTime option will provide player controls. But a big .mov requres a streaming server, which I don't have. The .wmv option has the opposite problem. Does anyone know of a workaround (or other method entirely) that will use Flash video? FLV or F4V will do progressive downloading with small file sizes for online viewing.

Where do I name the movie file? The export dialog only has a place to name the PDF.
The name you assign to the PDF is also assigned to the exported movie file, regardless of whether you use QT or WMV. So, if you set the name of the PDF in the Export Settings to "clipnotes.pdf", the video will be either "clipnotes.mov" or "clipnotes.wmv", depending on the format you've chosen.
How does the URL setting work? The documentation simply says "This is where your video file is located" but that puts the cart before the horse. How can I specify the name and location of a movie that hasn't been created yet and for which I have no control over the name? The FTP feature works great, but it's for upload only, not for naming.
See above. Since you now know what the filename will be, you just have to decide where the file will reside on your server, and input this into URL field. Using our example from above, you'd use enter something like "http://www.mysite.com/upload/clipnotes.mov". It's a full URL, with the "http://" needed; just change the pertinent details.
After exporting the movie and PDF, is there a way to re-generate the PDF w/o having to re-export the movie? I realized I wanted to make some changes to the PDF only (like instructions and URL), and exporting another movie will take time that isn't necessary.
Maybe, though I haven't tested this:
Trash the original PDF file.
Temporarily rename your originally-exported movie file, or move it to a different folder so that it's not overwritten.
Set your export range to one frame, using the same settings and same name that you did for your first export, and restart the export.
Throw away the new movie file, and rename the original or move it back to it's original folder. Since the only connection the PDF has to the movie file is the URL and filename, this should work.
I learned here earlier that only the QuickTime option will provide player controls. But a big .mov requres a streaming server, which I don't have. The .wmv option has the opposite problem. Does anyone know of a workaround (or other method entirely) that will use Flash video? FLV or F4V will do progressive downloading with small file sizes for online viewing.
I don't think you need a streaming server; I've tested QuickTime off a regular ol' HTTP server and it works fine. Incidentally, I should add, QuickTime streaming WASN'T working for me previously, at all. I just tried it out, and it would seem that a recent update to Adobe Reader might have fixed the issue. Streaming WMV always worked fine. Curious.
As far as Flash: are you talking about using Flash Video in ClipNotes, or just Flash Video viewing online, in general? At this time, ClipNotes is QuickTime or WMV only, but I wouldn't be suprised if Flash Video makes an appearance in ClipNotes CS5, given the whole focus on Flash in the Adobe ecosystem. If you're talking about general FLV playback, check out the JW FLV Media Player; it's an fairly simple-to-configure Flash Video player that can be embedded into a webpage.

Link to online web service or set up my own? Clip Notes Problems

I am looking for some kind of hard drive/server kit for hosting my own videos. I want send my clients links to their projects at certain stages, but not through YouTube. I have no idea how to set that up. I saw an ethernet/USB2/what-have-you Buffalo drive that I could supposedly serve from and store my archive files. Is that the way to go or is it better or more cost-effective to go with an online service?
By the way, I could not get Clip Notes to work. In fact, it crashed my computer (or Premiere anyway). I should be able send direct from the timeline, correct? It didn't do that. Instead I had to send it to myself first - save to hard drive, and then email it to whomever. I don't see how it could work anyway. I can't email a 20 MB or bigger PDF file, can I?

Running your own server would probably be much harder than setting up a page through a commercial-grade provider. First and foremost you would need to set up a server-class OS and webserver system (such as Apache running on a Linux kernel). Security becomes a big issue as you almost certainly *will* come under fire by bots looking for servers to infect. So, you'll need to learn Apache, setting up CGI, Perl and other scripts and firewalls to protect your investment. Then you still would need to set up a page with a secure entry shell to allow your clients in without letting others in (to protect NDA protected material and preventing other clients from "peering over your hsoulder" as it were).
Also, if you have internet provided by Comcast or Verizon (or similar end-user broadband), those plans *explicitly* disallow use as a server and they most likely would shut you down if they detected the presence of incoming HTTP routing on port 80, and doubly-so if you are running a commercial website for the benefit of your business. They have specific "enterprise class" broadband packages but they are typically more expensive (often twice as much as "home" packages) as they provide more consistent and reliable speeds and are usually synchronous rather than the typical end-user asynchronous broadband (ie end-user is 2Mbs down and 300Kbs up, where enterprise class would be 4Mbs down *and* up). The benefit being that people visiting your server are getting full speed *from* you as well as *to* you, and also they typically provide more robust mail packages.
Serving your own content from home is typically an expensive and extremely labor-intensive prospect, as you will almost certainly need to learn Linux/Unix as well as apache, and maybe also a robust FTP client and mail server. Serving from Windows XP or Vista is highly discouraged due to enormous security problems and downtime issues. Learning CGI, Perl and so forth is daunting at first and (if you're like me) you probably want to work on graphical content more than laboring over server duties and security details.
Subscribing to an enterprise-class hosting service can provide you with a robust, professional-looking website with almost no knowledge of HTML, CSS, Perl, CGI or other technology, and most provide a wide array of "extras" like secure password-protected content for individual users, CGI bins, mail hosting, extensive arrays of scripts to use (such as blogs, forums, online updating, user statistics, traffic analyses, etc) and many also provide simple tools for setting up your site with easy-to-use templates and so forth. I have used 1-and-1 hosting and they provide excellent service with highly-rated uptime and security as well as a ton of tools and software for site building. Typical packages for decently rated monthly bandwidth can be had for around $10 to $20 a month which is a fantastic value, compared to spending upwards of $100 a month for hosting your own server and the countless hours of set-up and daily maintenance.
Depending on the services you subscribe to with a provider, many probably have compatible systems for allowing you to publish directly to your website via common protocols and tools (using FTP or VPNs (virtual private network allowing for remotely mounted network drives)). You may need to do some research and homework, but the end result would be a very seamless work environment where you can share results with clients quickly and easily, and also allow them to comment, share notes and upload assetts for you to utilize if necessary.
-Mark

PPCS4.1/4.2 / Adobe Clip Notes - QuickTime All Screwed Up

Ok, so I am trying to create an Adobe Clip Notes for a client to review. I've done this with CS3 in the past just fine.
My project is a P2 DVCPROHD 720p project, and when I export, I choose Adobe Clip Notes, and the "NTSC Widescreen Source to 1024kbps" preset. All I changed was setting the video option to "Stream", set the URL, and entered my e-mail address.
The preset shows that the video should be 854x480 pixels, but the rendered file is an 1139x480 pixel video. The image looks right but there are just giant black bars on the left and right of my video, not to mention the encoding looks like crap due to the wasted encoding space.
Mathmatically, this seems like a pixel aspect issue, where it is multiplying 854pixels by a 1.333 aspect... but there are no options for this in the Export settings.
I've tried changing the resolution and it seems that the numbers always keep the aspect even if the "link" button is off.
Help!
Any why the heck can't I use my Flash Media Server with Adobe Clip Notes? Doesn't it make more sense for Adobe to implement it's own product first?

Nope, just an Adobe made P2 DVCPRO HD 720p preset. The pixel aspect is 1.333.
I did get a 4x3 aspect once, and I had to leave the video set to embedded for that to work. Then I duplicated the export in AME, and changed only the video to stream and set a URL, and it was back to the crazy black bars on the sides. Trouble with the embedded is that I can't view the properties of the video.
I even created a NEW Adobe sequence and put only a graphic in it and it did the same thing. I then created a custom sequence that used square pixels and it did the same thing.
I gave up. I'm just going to have to forego Clip Notes and submit this to my Flash Media Server. I've spent too much time trying to figure this out when it should work out of the box. There seems to me more broke by moving the exporting to the new Adobe Media Encoder than keeping it in Premiere as with CS3.
Maybe I'll fiddle with it later, but for now I am on a deadline.

Clip Notes won't play/no controls

I export Adobe clip notes from Premeire Pro CS4 and when one tries to open with Adobe Reader 9 there are no player controls, so the video clip cannot be played. I am running Vista 64 bit. Does Adobe Reader 9 not work with clip notes?

You would think that Adobe might do us the courtesy of letting
Prelmiere Pro users know that Clip Notes aren't going to work anymore with Adobe
Reader 9.x or later. Adobe Tech Support seems to be clueless about the issue. Does one hand know what the other is doing?

Clip Notes doens't work in Reader 9??

I read online that Clip Notes doesn't work with Reader 9?! Maybe that's why I and my clients have been having problems as of late with Clip Notes?
So I found an Adobe link for Reader 8.12 and tried to download it but it defaults to downloading 9. This really sucks Adobe. I'm not upgrading until the new year. What exactly am I supposed to do now? This is part of our workflow and now it doesn't exactly flow.
Btw- I'm on Mac, OSX 10.5.5, CS3. I'm dual booting and on the Windows side with Reader 9, can't view a clip notes PDF. On the Mac side, I can open the ClipNotes pdf and see and hear video but the timecode is screwed up and get an error message that "you can't save this form", etc.

I agree with Jim as to the bottom line for CS3 current workflow/workarounds. However:
The problem is not the development of CS3 but the development of the Acrobat Reader
My understanding is that the issue is indeed with CS3. Reader 9 closed certain security holes, which is why it no longer plays Clip Notes files. CS3 would have to be updated to create files that are compatible. But like I said, that's not likely to ever happen.
When the same company (Adobe reader/Adobe Premiere/clipnotes) makes changes in one area that break an important/promoted feature in another product, they should fix the broken product. CS3 should have kept its promised functionality in the supported operating systems.

Reader 9 - Clip Notes?

I have a client that downloaded Adobe Reader 9.0 and is unable to playback a Clip Note PDF created in Premiere CS3. They keep getting an error message: This document enables Reader capabilities that are no longer enables in this Reader version.
Any one else had this problem?

I downloaded Reader 9 to check this out.
I am able to play the Clip Notes video, but I have to click past an error message that says
>This document enables Reader capabilities that are no longer enables in this Reader version.
Edit: It looks like the user can no longer edit the file and save it. And the timecode is terribly broken. This means death to Clip Notes until fixed.

Export to Clip Notes - No queue at AME

When I export my PP CS4 project (DV PAL) to Clip notes, Media Encoder opens, but there is no queue. All other exports do media encoder are working fine. Only the Clip Note export funtion seems not to work. Anyone challenged this before?

This is somehow interesting: I figured out that it works when I use the user defined settings. Only with the presets (such DV PAL or NTSC 512 KB Download) it does not work. I can live with that (but I Adobe should fix this). Did you try the presets?

Clip notes with reader 9 and premiere cs4

After upgrading reader to version 9 clip notes no longer works from Premiere CS3. It does work with premiere CS4 but a modification to reader by the reviewer is required to view the clip notes. Otherwise the video play/rewind etc buttons will be missing. This modification is detailed here www.alserver.co.uk/clipnotesreadme.pdf.
I have discovered this after many hours of trial and error and have posted the workaround here for anyone else with the same problem. Adobe support have been as much use as a chocolate tea pot! why do they ruin such great feature of premiere.
If anyone knows of a better workaround then please advise.

...real-time playback works fine in other high-load editing programs, as in the 2-series version of Avid Media Composer (which, by the way, played back just fine on my GeForce card and CPU/RAM configuration.) I wanted to go to Premiere because of my other CS programs. That said, I'd like to take a different approach other than simply throwing money and horsepower at a problem that might simply be a configuration issue.
Thanks!
Alan Staats

STREAMING CLIP NOTES ftp HELP

I am attempting to use Clip Notes to stream for the first time. It seems that I have all of my server setting correct because there is a a test4.wmv file appearing on my server. But, when I open the the pdf I am getting a connection error. Any sugguestions?

As Colin says, Clip Notes is gone.
This post by Kevin Monahan goes into how to set up CS Review:
http://blogs.adobe.com/kevinmonahan/2010/11/22/getting-started-with-cs-review-in-premiere- pro-cs5/

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