Multi Core Mac Users: Dynamic Link, AE, and Warp Stabilization.

Now that Final Cut X has lost it's edge .. and more Mac users may be migrating .. here is some input :
Stabilization was the most important 'effect' which prompted me to buy a 12 Core Mac, CoreMelt's Lock & Load Stabilization AE Plug In, and the Adobe Master Suite. Second was the "Multi-Camera" editing.
Additional purchases ( to solve a sluggish frame rate ) were a NVidia GTX 285 video card, more RAM, and a 4 TB RAID 0.
Now with my Mac Pro running ( after several issues ) I would like to point out that:
1.) The "Adobe Stabilization Server" seems to only use one of the cores. It also seems that it is faster without AE multicore processing enabled. Other effects use half and it seems that some use all. With stabilization very time consuming .. I would hope that Adobe would address this like the multiprocessing 'aerendercore' processes that are seen in the Activity Monitor. I find that the Activity Monitor is one of the most important applications to be aware of ... and for developers who are interested in improving their applications .. a Godsend .. others who would like to bury their performance issues .. a nightmare. So .. a Multi Core Mac may be redundant if you
2.) If you are having any dynamic link crashes or lost linked compositions ... read my other posts.
3.) to be cont.

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Projects Not Opening with Multicam and Warp Stabilizer - "[..\..\src\TickTime.cpp-207]"

Editing a sequence with multiple nested multicam clips and warp stabilizer, if I close Premiere and reopen it, it says "Premiere Pro has encountered an error. [..\..\src\TickTime.cpp-207]" repeatedly until killed by Task Manager. I have restarted the computer, cleared the media cache and deleted preferences. I can import the sequence into another project and continue editing but if I close PPro I have to create another project and import the sequence again or I get the same error. Help!

Hi Kevin!
That is great news. I had a feeling the issue would be gone in the Next PPro. The issue can be easily duplicated by following these steps in CS6:
1) User warp stabilizer on several clips (like maybe 6 or more or so).
2) Take two clips and nest them and sync them for multicam on the same timeline as the stabilized clips (NOTE: these two clips don't actually have to be sync'd...just grab any two clips, stack them on top of each other, highlight them both and right-click and choose "nest", then right-click again and "enable" multicam.
3) Save project. Close project. Re-open project and you'll get the error.
If you do that in the NEXT version, does the error come up? Also, just while I have you...if you go into the settings of Warp Stabilizer, what is the default "method"? Is it still defaulted to "Subspace Warp" or did they smarten up and realize the option "Position, Scale, Rotation" is actually MUCH more effeciet causing less wobble and less cropping of the video 90% of the time? Just curious.
Coltom Media Productions,
I feel your pain. What also stinks is that the error pops up again when you export (or I should say when you queue) up the project into AME. I originally thought the number of continues equalled the number of warps applied but that's not always the case. Although, the more warp stabilizers applied the more times you'll have to hit continue. It often goes in numbers divisible by four. Why do I know all this crazy, useless info...hours and hours of trying to "solve" the issue. Every project I do, every single week has more than 100 clips that are stabilized and multiple multicam sequences so I often have to hit "continue" on the error 300-400 times or more on EVERY project. Can't wait til the next version!
To see more on this issue you can see the original post on it here (note that the staff has recently (and graciously) led the charge to help isolate and resolve the issue):
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/956692?start=40&tstart=0
And then also, it definitely made my "Top 15 list" here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1179004
Good luck!!!...oh, one more thing...the project will open...you just have to keep hitting continue. Sucks, but again, hopefully it'll be resolved soon.

Process Server, Dynamic Link, Export and HANG

My joke of the day... what do Adobe and Toyota have in common? Crash! Hey, I'm trying to make light out of a bad situation.
Here's the deal, I edited four straight days on a 12 minute video, at 9:00pm last night I was going to export the video for client review this morning. Media encoder would load the file and then nothing. Now I can not proceed with the edit.
I CAN load the project, but I can NOT save the project. When I save the project it acts like it has saved fine and I can shut down PP without error but when I try to re-load it, PP hangs.
Originally, I thought it was caused by Dynamic Link as in "send to Encore" as seen here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/543512?tstart=0 so, since then I haven't used Dynamic Link, I just export a video and then load that into Encore to make a quick web version.
This time when I tried to export, I got a "ProcessServer" error as seen here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/388668?tstart=0 I shut down PP and re-started the machine and PP in hopes of continuing. I also took a look at this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/586853?tstart=0 along the way.
I can't figure out how to proceed. What is weird is that I can load and edit away on the project without any problems, it edits fine. It is only when I save the project and then try to re-open it that it will hang. Could something be corrupting it on "save"?? How can I tell? I have tried save, save as, save a copy... none work.
Vista 64, Core i7 940, nVidia QuadroFX1700, 8Gig Ram, PP CS4.2.1. It is a 24PA widescreen timeline, it is a mix of footage 29.97 DV, Widescreen 24PA DV and uncompressed graphics created in AE. Everything was either captured in PP or saved as Uncompressed out of AE. No HD, no HDV, no MPEG, etc.
The last time this happened, I just re-edited the whole video since it was short. I would prefer not to have to do that this time around.
Any ideas?
Thanks

After more testing, I found that the files that I rendered from AE are all fine. I was able to add them to a project and save, restart and render.
This leads me to believe that the project got corrupted in the process of editing or when exporting to media encoder. As I mentioned the last time this happened, I feel like there is a bug with media encoder or dynamic link that can on some occasions corrupt a project.
Save early, often and with progressive file names. Hope that helps if you are having this problem.

Is it too much to ask that a Mac user can just OPEN and USE a PDF form created by LiveCycle Designer PC software?!?

My problem is just that- I have created all my forms using LiveCycle Designer because it is easier to make the forms accessible to individuals with disabilities. Apparently it doesn't make Mac users have access to the forms. I've received complaints from Mac users that cannot complete or submit the forms that I created. I'm not asking how to recreate using another software, I know how to do that. I'm asking is there a work around to allow a Mac user to open a PDF form or even XML (bedded within an HTML page) on a Mac computer WITHOUT having to use bootcamp, parallels, etc. and be able to complete the form and submit, print or email it????? I've exhausted all my knowledge on this thus far and I'm hoping to find something that will help. So far all forums talk about how Mac users need to have a PC side to their computer. Isn't there another way?
I've attached an example form that we are no longer using (though still created exactly the same as the others)
Thanks!

Hi, as far as I can infer, that term means it's not loading any resources until needed, opposite of this...
-bind_at_load
Sets a bit in the mach header of the resulting binary which tells dyld to bind all symbols when the binary is loaded, rather than lazily.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/ld.1.html
Load resources lazily.
You should never load a resource file until it is actually needed. Prefetching resource files may seem like a way to save time, but this practice actually slows down your app right away. In addition, if you end up not using the resource, loading it wastes memory for no good purpose.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneos programmingguide/PerformanceTuning/PerformanceTuning.html
And, higher OS versionsare even worse with Bonjour/mDNSResponder, but might see this...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3789

Why doesn't my Dynamic link work and or why am I getting these error msgs?

Im using CS6 of Encore while using Pr CC 2014.....I dont have access to the Dynamic link option either....Can I get some assistance with my issue...?

Dynamic link only woks between like versions. So PR CS6 to EN CS6. There is no dynamic link from PR CC to EN CS6.
For issues and a link to a workflow see:
http://helpx.adobe.com/encore/kb/encore-cs6-installed-cc.html

Dynamic Link Premiere and After Effects CS4

I am new to owning the whole suite, so I did not realize that you could use dynamic link. I figured out that I could import premire projects into AE (without linking) I just imported them and assumed I would create my effects and render out the project only to import the rendered video into Premiere. Now, I realize I could have just right clicked on a clip in Premiere and used link.
Now, my question is can I get those effects prjects from After Effects into premire? If so, then how? i have tried dymanic link and I just get a linked sequence in premeire . . .
Am I blind or stupid or both?? Please help!

You can export a Premiere Pro project from After Effects, but the results are usually pretty messy. Because of the different way in which tracks in Premiere and layers in After Effects work (ie. you can have multiple clips on a single track in PPro, but only one clip/item per layer in AE), you can end up with an unmanageable number of tracks in Premiere. Still, it's an option to explore.
Note that AE-only effects won't come through to Premiere, and certain project items will be recreated in a way you might not expect.

Mac os preview: linked pdf and going back

When I click on a linked reference in a pdf it jumps to the bibliography at the end of the paper. Is there an easy way to jump back to the passage I just read? Thanks in advance

Glad this was useful to you. And indeed, I don't know what happened to the original screenshots...
I encountered this problem as well.
The solution is to move the filters from:
/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Filters/
to:
/Library/Filters/ (you may have to create this folder)
In other words, in OSX 10.7(.2), the filters need to be in the main system-wide Library, not in a user's Library.
And yes, the PDF Quartz Filter functionality in Preview has moved from the Print dialogue box to the File > Export command.

Black Magic and Warp Stabilizer

I am working with 6.0, Footage is P2, Sequence is Black Magic Progressive @ 29.97 / 1920x1080. Black Magic board is Decklink 3d Extreme.
Black Magic Drop Down in "New Sequence Setting Box" shows no 1280x1080 option which is P2. All Black Magic options are 1920x1080, progressive or interlaced.
When I drop the Warp Stabilizer onto a clip (P2) I get the message:
"Warp Stabilizer requires clip dimensions to match sequence"
How do I get around this, using the Black Magic Sequence and P2 footage?

With CS6, you shouldn't. Any sequence should output via the hardware just fine. Though I've never used that hardware, so I can't comment specifically on how to get that going. See if this helps.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-video/get-better-playback-pe rformance-with-mercury-transmit/

CS6. Need to have time remapping and warp stabilizer work together.

This should be obvious for most people. These two effects must be made to work together.
If you're shooting with a glider you're usually moving very carefully (read: slower than normal) so the footage in post would need to be sped up plus stabilized a bit.
Currently warp stabilizer and time remapping cannot be applied at the same time. But I *need* it to be applied at the same time. I need a workaround.
Should I:
1. shorten the clips, export them, re-import them into the project, and then apply stabilizer?
2. apply the stabilizer, export them, re-import them into the project, and then shorten them?
How do I export individual clips as just seperate clips while Premiere? Do I have to drag them into an empty timeline one by one, apply the stabilizer/remapping, and export, remove the clip, put in the second clip, etc all one by one?
I've used Mercalli in the past and I time remap the footage and then apply Mercalli to the accelerated clip. Mercalli doesn't mind a bit.

ComputerNovice25 wrote:
Adobe might have written the code in a way that doesn't include the ability to deal with that extra variable. I'm assuming that when it's nested it then makes the timeline it's in just read it as a normal clip again instead of a clip with a non-supported variable included.
Although I'm totally just guessing, but if what I'm saying is correct it would mean a fix wouldn't be very much work at all. Which means in the future they could simply provide a quick and easy patch to fix this. I'd highly suggest to make a feature request.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Does Adobe read these feature requests? I often have a hard time justifying spending time to type out something when I feel like it's just being thrown into a black hole. I'm sure the team gets thousands of feature requests. It's like the lottery. Statistically you will never win. Sure, you'll never win if you don't play, but it's still a waste of time to play. I know, I'm pessimistic. Just don't have much faith in conglomerates - although Lightroom 3 is by far the most perfect program I have ever used and I would kiss the LR3 team if I could.
With Lightroom, Photoshop is hardly needed anymore unless absolutely necessary or for truly intensive chop-like edits. Premiere DESPERATELY needs a Lightroom equivalent.
I have half a mind to guess (nicely) that you video guys have absolutely no idea what you're missing out on, workflow-wise. It's life-changing. Literally.
I'm doing a video right now and I can't stop thinking about how if I had a Lightroom workflow, this video consisting of 40 clips, 40 titles, 40 transitions, audio tracks could be on the way to final export in 5 minutes. 5 MINUTES. And be 100% as good as if I had to spend an hour doing this in traditional Premiere.

Dynamically linked text and some...

OK so I'm obviously not looking for someone to code this but I'm hoping for some "been there done that" type input.
I have a set of InDesign files that for simplicities sake I'll care novel and another set that is derivative. Now I would like to be able to streamline the text edits from the novel InDesign files to the derivative files. At this point I'm considering the following bloated strategy mostly to wrap my brain around this and then an end goal of being able to pare the tool down to make things a little more unified.
1) Export the words from the textFrames and Tables as separate text files. (No footnotes to worry about thank God.) (At this point I'm confident in my ability to script this.)
2) Place the text files into the derivative InDesign files in their respective places. (I haven't done this, it's going to be a bit of a chore but I feel that I can find a way to script this using geometricBounds and contents... I'm in a conceptual phase.)
3) When the novel InDesign file changes, or once daily, the text script would execute and save over the old text files. The derivative InDesign file would then detect that the links had changed when its opened, links get updated and the new text is filled in.
It seems simple enough but I know with formatting, etc. things are going to get real sticky, real quick, but it feels like a better solution than extending the novel edits to derivative products one at a time. The other solution I can image is tracking changes and then doing a find replace over the dataset as an IDML.
Anyhow to basically summarize I want to push chunks of text from one set of documents into the other sets of documents.

I can see why John asked you about translation, because what you are describing is a pretty normal thing when you're managing documents across 20 languages. "Managing" is the key word here; SDL has all kinds of "content management tools" that will make your job very easy. Unfortunately, such tools are very expensive, so they're more likely to be useful to you if you're asking on behalf of 10-30 people. But it sounds like it's just you, to be honest, so I'm not going to go into descriptions of the global-team-cat-herding tools unless you ask. (They're great, especially if you have to herd cats.)
What I do, when I'm in your shoes, is I make a "fake" translation memory. I'd align my "parent" document against itself, saying that the source language was en_US and the target was en_NZ. I'd do this because translation memory tools excel at doing what you're trying to do (reuse identical content outside of its original context, automagically, with no laborious control-c alt-tab control-v work). Of course, that's why SDL, a company that has built its fortunes on translation memory tools, has expanded its toolset to encompass monolingual content management. There are other such tools out there, of course, but I mention SDL because if translation is involved in your workflow there's a chance that you already have Trados. All that would do for you, if you were to make a fake TM as I describe above, would be to get your "master content" out of ID and into a database, which is where it belongs if you want to attempt contact management on this scale. That could be a homebrew database, or you could pick out a content management tool that was able to trigger the script to regenerate your stuff in InDesign. I can't suggest anything because I always ignore content management tools that do not have multilingual content management, localization, and internationalization built in from the very beginning.
So, homebrew: I dunno what your background in databases is like. Because I have had this conversation with Mac-based designers dozens of times over the years, this is where I usually mention Filemaker. What's your expertise level here? Because, honestly, if you wanted to script something but know nothing about databases, then I'd say: Move all of your content into Excel. Seriously. Save out CSV from there and route it into InDesign via Data Merge. Manage content in Excel. Make people submit changes in Excel. Handle change tracking by writing VBA scripts to do change tracking in Excel.
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TL;DR: Don't try to manage your content in InDesign. Get it out of your page layout tool into a container that makes sense, like a CMS, or a homebrew Filemaker database, or even Excel. <shudder>

Mac Users - 10.6.4 and LR3.2 or not?

All,
I've been resisting putting on 10.6.4 given the initial bad experience with LR and other graphics apps. Apple did put out a graphics update for 10.6.4. but I've not seen much chatter on it as it relates to LR or Photoshop CSx. Just curious if anyone is running 10.6.4 without issues since the graphics update?
Thanks.
Jay S.

I have a Mac Pro 2.8Ghz 8-core 12Gb RAM and 10.6.4, Lightroom 3.2, Photoshop CS5 and Dreamweaver CS5.
Photoshop and Dreamweaver work like a charm. Lightroom is a dog, though I doubt it has anything to do with 10.6.4
Re-installed the OS, and LR, but no luck. LR3.2 didn't solve any of the issues I as encountering everyday, though it may have solved other bugs which I never come across so I don't notice.
My main issues among others are occasional corruptions when converting to DNG, clone tool very very slow, and when selecting 30 or so images to edit in PS, some of them won't open for some random reason.

Help needed for a new Mac user with his photo and video librarys

after swopping my Ericson for an iphone a year ago. then taking delivery of an iPad on launch day. I have finally taken the plunge and swopped my windows pc for a lovely 27" iMac... what have I been doing all these years using windows? using the Mac is a joy.
As I get more involved with their products I am constantly fascinated (and frustrated) by Apples way of doing things. this situation is no exception and I need Apple people with Apple experience to help me make a decision.　
I am looking at software to organise my photos and videos. I have approximately 7000 photos residing on a windows home server. in addition to that there are some 200 or so HD videos taken with either my Sanyo Xacti camcorder or Sony DSC W300 camera. both cameras I think produce MPEG format
my first experience was iPhoto. great for the `price' but not very flexible. single libraries, poor editing facilities. and because I have files referenced and not copied to my iPhoto library, if I deleted from the library its not deleted from the server (and vice versa). this leads to images being displayed in the library that don't exist etc.
then I downloaded the Aperture 3 trial. great until I came across the `Unsupported file format' situation with the MPEG videos that strangely enough, iPhoto will recognise and play (the Apple way of doing things).
1. should I put the photos on the Mac instead of the server?
2. Is there a better way of managing the images for deletions etc
3. should I stick with Aperture because of the editing
4. is there a better software or way of managing the videos
sorry for the ramble but its all new to me

had a good session on all three of the recommended programs and now have a better understanding of the excellent advice I have been given.
iPhoto
great `free' program that is easy to use but somewhat limited on features. think I would always be looking to upgrade from here (feels a bit boring)
Aperture
really enjoyed using this but at £170! a hefty price tag considering its limited file support. fortunately its only my camera video clips (MPEG) that it wont view. my camcorder files (MP4) are fine so this is looking better as a one stop solution.
Elements
much more than just a image touch up. considering what it can do.. very good value at around £60. teamed with iPhoto it becomes even more attractive.
My issue still remains with the masters file location.
I would prefer to keep all my media on the external server to ensure I have a fail safe recovery option. its a 4TB 5 disk affair which contains all the family music, video images and DVD's etc (likely to change to a Mac server in the future!)
one feature that I cant find, (even in Aperture which surprises me), is the ability to automatically manage deletions from referenced locations? i.e. delete a file from the server and when aperture opens up the thumbnails are updated. or, delete a referenced master in Aperture and an option comes up to delete the referenced file on the external drive.
how would a professional photographer or studio using Aperture manage this process (or would they use something else?)
forgot to mention that through our student facilities i can get a discounted copy of Photoshop CS5 for around £175 which is close to Aperture. is this a worthwhile option or overkill
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I am not a Mac user, but Premiere Pro and other Adobe programs are installed on the Macs used by our freelance artists and editors.

We have video clips of interviews stored on a Mac-formatted external hard drive. Our new editor explained that in order to have authentic time codes, we must transcribe them using Premiere Pro. What is the most efficient way to do so?
In other words, should I open a Word doc, start listening to the interviews and type them? Is there a dictation option within Premiere or a note pad I can type into and save them? I am really baffled.

I think I've figured out that there is no dictation program.
When I open the video clips in Premiere Pro, they will not play. If I can figure out that problem, I wont worry about anything else. Isn't PP, a media player in and of itself? I must not be opening it correctly.

Dynamic link after effects and adobe media encoder

Hello,
I recently downloaded After Effects cc (yesterday). I am running a mac pro with OSX 10.9.3 2.3 ghz intel core i7 with 16 gb 1600 MHz DDR3.
On previous versions of AE I was able to render straight out of AE, I know this is not the case with CC anymore. I am trying to use AME to export however I am having issues.
When I try to send to AME from the Composition tab in AE it looks like it is doing something and then nothing happens. I then opened AME separately and tried to "add after effects comp" from the file menu in AME the error message displayed was "Could not connect to Adobe After effects. Please verify that Adobe After effects and Adobe Dynamic link components are installed".
I have also tried to drag and drop my composition directly from AE to AME and the following message appears "Dynamic link error - Source is empty"
I have read a multitude of threads on this issue and this is definitely not a firewall issue. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

> On previous versions of AE I was able to render straight out of AE, I know this is not the case with CC anymore.
Why do you think that? You can still use the render queue in After Effects to render and export directly out of After Effects.
That said, there are some formats that Adobe Media Encoder handles better.
> and this is definitely not a firewall issue
How have you determined that?
Does exporting to QuickTime (.mov) format from After Effects work? How about the 3D Camera Tracker and Warp Stabilizer effects? The reason that I ask about these is that they use the same communication mechanism that Dynamic Link does, so if they also fail, then it tells us something about where the problem is.

Dynamic Link cannot connect to server - Mac OSX

Hi,
I have a problem importin AE compositions with Dynamic Link.
I have Master Collection CS5 installed on a Mac oSX 10.5.8
When I try, for example, to import in Media Encoder a AE composition happear the window where I should choose the composition, but for a few minutes stay "Connecting to Dynamic Link server" and than "Cannot connect to Dynamic Link server".
I was never able to use Dynamic Link since I installed CS5.
I also tried to create a new admin user and with that new user it worked, but only for maybe a week... than it started again to say "cannot connect....."
Something change in preferences I think, but I have no idea what can be, I used without problems on friday evening last time and on monday morning it quit to work...
Someone know something more about?
Thanks in advance.

It's possible that you're seeing a case of the problem described here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/857/cpsid_85711.html
Basically, some aggressive firewall software can block communication with the Dynamic Link manager, and you have to manually unblock it.

Multi Core Mac Users: Dynamic Link, AE, and Warp Stabilization.

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