Frame blend for default!!!

Hi I'm using Premiere from ever...but I'm very angry that now frame blend is not selected for default anymore... So I'm working everytime with pal 576i sequence...and I edit all my clip with speed at 70 or 60%, for rallenty. So I have to add the option "frame blend" manually to every clips that I put on Timeline! Beore Cs5 "frame blend" was activated on every clip that we put on every sequence. So can you add the possibility to make "frame blend" by default to every clip on the preferences menu of Premiere or better on preferences of new sequence! I think that it's very IMPORTANT! P.S. There's also a bug...if I select any clip in project panel and select there "frame blend", when I take these clips and put theme on sequence "frame blend" will not be selected anymore. Thanks!

Hi all,
Just a small quick comment. In past PP versions you could not turn frame blending off except for going though each and every chip in you project. I think the is why people preferred to have it turned off in the first place. This is a downfall so to speak in the PP software as a whole. There is just so much time wasted doing routine boring tasks like this one and others. I don't thnk adobe software is written that well. Some parts are nice but others could be a lot better. Like incooperating a slow-mo eding feature that incooperates the shuttlepro to create an action to record the slow-mo in real time. I have done this by taking my video camera and recording the screen of my actions using the shuttlepro and the jog dial to precisly show the slow motion. I can easily run the clip in slow forward rewind at just about any speed and play it again. This is what slow-mo recording should be. And ths is partly what i am talking about. Back to the subject. A computer is good for one main purpose, to perform these boring routine tasks and a computer can do it well leaving the editor to concentrate on the creative process. For those of you that have a iPhone 4 or 4s or an ipad1 or iPad2 check out both iMovie for video and Photoforg2 for photo editing. Photoforge2 in particular will give you an idea of what I am talking about when I talking about powerful ease of use software. Also iMovie shows this point and I will give a short example...
Say I want to email a 1080p video. Imove on the iphone tells me that the movie is to long/big to send. Instead of having me the user cut down and edit the movie to the right size imovie does the work for me and lets me confirm the resulting movie. I can use a slider to adjust the portion i want to send. Also imove compresses it and put it in the right format to send. These are all, things that are time comsuming for the user but a computer and well written software can perform well.

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I figured I would ask here before I started and extremly lengthy process.
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...my question is...If i turn off frameblending by selecting the entire sequence in my master timeline and deselecting frameblending....will that work instead off the mind numbing task of going into the sequences individually and turning off frame blending invidually on...every....single....clip?
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Guys, I just did a test on this though not in HD my guess is it will work the same. And this assumes your speeds are all the same. Simply highlight a clip hit command-J and uncheck the frame blending. Now that you have it on one clip then highlight the rest of your clips. Control-click and select paste attibutes. Check the "speed" box click okay and you will have lost all the frame blending on those clips.

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"lower than intended output quality: frame blending DISabled"???

When I print to tape, after all conforming processes have finished I get
"Note: The following conditions exist in this sequence which may result in lower than intended output quality.
The following can be adjusted using the Render Control tab in the Sequence Settings:
- Frame Blending For Speed is disabled"
??? Frame blending, if anything, will lower the quality even further?
And, if I turn ON frame blending the warning does not disappear but I get the additional warning
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***???

When I print to tape, after all conforming processes have finished I get
"Note: The following conditions exist in this sequence which may result in lower than intended output quality.
The following can be adjusted using the Render Control tab in the Sequence Settings:
- Frame Blending For Speed is disabled"
??? Frame blending, if anything, will lower the quality even further?
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"There are sections that are rendered at proxy quality"
***???

Frame Blend Default? & Recompress as Default?

Does anyone else feel that 'Frame Blend' should NOT be the default mode in Premiere? (Its a real pain in a world of 'progressive footage")
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Vote: Serious mode On
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Global Switches for Frame Blend and Motion Blur aren't working with the newest version of After Effects 2014.1.1

I have been using After Effects regularly since 1995. So this isn't an operator error.
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Is anyone else having trouble with activating frame blend and motion blur?
Occasionally I am able to get the global switch to appear to be on. It still won't activate motion blur or frame blend.

I'll answer my own issue. The global switches actually work. The distinct dark boxes that indicate when the global switches are enabled have been removed and replaced by a light blue outline of the switch icon.

Whey is frame blending ON by default?

Just wondering...never really thought about it before, but why is the box checked next to frame blending when you open up the speed?
Something tells me that it only applies when you change the speed...is that correct or is it blending frames at 100% too?
Thank you.

Because it can look better when you speed up, creating "in between" frames. In the olden days, we called this ability to interplolate "revolutionary". It's only relevant if you actually change playback speed, so no, it doesn't blend if your footage is at 100%.

Unwanted frame blending look after transcode

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IIRC, En CS5 changed a few default settings. I do not think that those were eliminated, just the defaults from OFF to ON, or ON to OFF were added. Likely one of those settings made the difference. Do not recall if any of the Frame Blend options were in that group, but they could well have been.
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What is "frame blending" really?

I can't figure out what "frame blending" is supposed to be. The fact that it's a *checkbox* makes it even stranger. It's either on or off. How does this differ from "motion blur" (is it just a synonym?) and why is it not an effect you put in the timeline but a boolean on/off option when exporting?
I did read the pop-up summary when hovering the option. It does explain it somewhat, but doesn't really answer my questions.

silly people with a silly request.
Heh, heh. I was one of them. (We're talking back in 2007.) I didn't like the default (particularly for what I was doing at the time), and I think it was not possible under some conditions to avoid it.
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Hi all, and thanks for trying and commenting my plugins.
marekn,
unfortunately there are 2 potential limits in the use of both my Time Remap plugin and the corresponding FCP built-in Time Remap Function:
a. +only the speed of the video portion+ of the clip is modified, and there is no way I know to change speed of the corresponding audio accordingly;
b. the +clip length does not adapt to the new speed+ (longer for a lower speed, shorter for a higher speed - as in the Speed command).
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I didn't really want to repost, but I felt the title and info in my previous post were innacurate (http://forums.adobe.com/message/2576915#2576915)
In my previous post, I thought Premiere was to blame, but after a few reinstallations, I've found that the update to AME 4.2 causes the problem.
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I have some editing background in the Windows Movie Maker and iMovie world, and was excited to use Adobe Premiere, but I have had nothing but problems.
Everything that I am trying to do, looks really washed out, and renders the video useless.
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Then I go to compose my video, and output the video, but the video is crap. It sounds like the Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder are having major problems.
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I am running:
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2.33 GHz (which is kind of slow)
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Windows XP 64-bit
Let me know there is another process that I am missing. I don't really want to give up on Adobe Premiere, but from a end-user standpoint, I will have to revert back to using WMM due to time constraints. I want to take full advantage of all of the editing and effects capabilities of Premiere, but can't because I can't even produce a decent export to be used by any other program (and given that every conversion will in some way affect the quality of the output, I want to reduce any intermediate steps).
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I happened upon this video just before I made my posting and it doesn't help with the
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show as solid green in their thumbnail views in the timeline and scrubbing the timeline
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The same installation of Premiere CS4 on one of these computers has been just used to
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1. I export in H.264 with the preset HDTV 720p 29.97 fps High Quality. I would use the YouTube preset, but it compresses the audio to a point where it sounds terrible. I'm sure there's a way to fix this, but I don't know enough about it to do so myself.
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Problem is this:
A clip is slowed to 20% with frame blending enabled. However, when it's played back, it looks jerky, as though there were a problem with the frame rate.
The clip is MPEG4, 30fps. The sequence is also set at 30fps.
This is what it looks like:
http://www.wpsc.co.uk/teleport/slowmoproblem.mp4
Any help would be awesome!
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I've actually been having this exact same problem for about a half year now (ever since Apple released a past update to Final Cut Pro and frame blending started behaving weird after that.) The bummer part is that all the NEW videos I've made after the update, using frame blending, work great and blend beautifully. But all the videos that I started working on before the update stutter miserably.
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I feel like there has to be a really simple solution, like a field is off or the FPS is off or some little thing that got messed up in the update that I just need to switch back but I haven't the foggiest what it is and I haven't been able to track down any good info on google about this yet.
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What is the source of your video, and exactly what is inside your video?
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30 for screen shot instructions
Free programs to get file information for PC/Mac http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

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