Help, NOTHING works, have watsted hours on this #@! thing

Question

I have years of experience with several NLE systems, but Premier Elements 10 is kicking my tail.
Consider the simplest of projects where two gopro units are placed on a kayak, one pointed forward in the direction of travel, the second pointed backward (at the person rowing).
Each clip is about 15 minutes in duration, bot occur at the same time (overlap).  i would  simply like to select between to two views (forward vs reverse) for my cuts-only program.
So  far i have encountered the following problems, design errors in Premiew Elements 10.
1. Unable to align botth AV tracks in time.  I smacked the hull with the paddle (similar to a clapper board) to provide a simple way to align the fwd/rev views.  Premeir will not allow me to shift (align) the AV tracks with less then 1-second accuracy.  I even tried turning off "snap", but program refuses to permit frame-accurate shift between tracks.
2. Program will not allow me to switch between "Video 1" and "Video 2" tracks in preview window.  Depending on the last clip dragged to the timeline, only one can be selected.  How the $#@! can one determine the edit points if one cannot view the various tracks that are aligned in time??????????????
3 Using classing video editing terminology, my clips may be condiered video "bus 1" and video "bus 2".  How does one select one or the other for output to the "output bus" ??        !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   I HAVE WASTED AN ENTIRE AFTERNOON ON THIS  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have observed several other glaring design errors in this program- but thats another post...

Answer 1

nealeh wrote:
whsprague wrote:
Since my source is shot in 60p,
Now that could give you a problem. Natively PRE10 does not support 60p, only 60i. However the following 'user written add-on preset' might help you out with that:
Premiere Elements 10 (Windows): new editing presets for 1080p60/50, burn Bluray/AVCHD at 24p
whsprague wrote:
I could not split a frame
No, PRE won't let you do that so 1/30th second is the best you'll get. Same with audio, frame level is the best you can get within PRE. But, while a little tedious, you can export the audio from PRE; edit it with an external audio editor (e.g. the free Audacity, or my favourite (the aging but still working) Magix Audio Cleaning Lab) to add or subtract smaller time units; and import it back to PRE.
Cheers,
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children
It seems to be commonly assumed on this board that PRE10 does not like 60p.  I didn't know that, so I started using 60p source material from both a Panasonic and Sony camera a few months ago.   I have Windows 7 and PRE10 both installed as 64 bit on an i5 Toshiba laptop with no video card and 8 gigs of ram.
My project preset is AVCHD LITE 720p60 and please note that it is "natively supplied" as a choice.  It does not produce a red render line when 1080p60 files are read into PRE10.  If you use a 60i preset, a red render line is displayed. 
At production time there are the usual choices for YouTube, DVDs and (often overlooked) the high definition "AVCHD disc" that plays HD on most Blu-Ray players.  Although a little hidden, 1080p60 is a "natively supplied" choice.  Go to Share>Computer>AVCHD and click Presets.  Select "MP4 - H264 1920x1080p30" from the drop down menu.  Push the Advanced button, go down to the Frame Rate button and select the Adobe supplied "59.94".   Save it as a preset for future projects. 
Another indication that it is "natively supplied" is the time line itself.  At full magnification there are 60 hash marks between each second. (Probably because I selected a 60p project preset.)  If you watch the frame counter and click ahead one frame at a time, you can watch it go through 60 frames before a second rolls over.
The default bit rate (in my chosen PRE10 provided preset) is a little higher than the source clip bitrate.  Consequently, if you use these settings on a single clip and render, the final MP4 file is a little larger than the original.  But it sure plays nice on my laptop with Splash Lite or on my 55" HD TV with a WD TV Live Media Player.  Please note, that the creation of a 1080p60 file for viewing has limited playback options.  It certainly does not make sense for uploading to YouTube or as a workflow step in making a DVD. 
1080p output is not for everybody.  But, there are "purists" with newer 1080p TVs and camcorders that want to make video from their1080p clips that can be perceived to be equal to the source footage quality.  In fact, I think almost everyone with a new camcorder gets 1080p!  With all due respect to the long timers here, to suggest on an Adobe forum that Adobe's primary consumer NLE can't or won't do it is a disservice to Adobe. 
I have also read in various places where people do have trouble with 1080p60 files.  I can't test or prove it, but it seems to be important that it be PRE10, 64 bit and more than minimum memory for reasonable operation. 
So, in summary, choosing a project preset that makes the work flow fairly smooth on a midgrade laptop and making one change to a Share preset you get 1080p60 output.  To me that's pretty close to "native" even if it is not outlined in a step by step procedure in the instructions.  It is still in there, so an Adobe programmer in India must have put it there.
Bill