PE12 does not default to last project video edit setting

Question

My PE12 video edit setting is defaulting to HD1080i25 (UK region default). I need AVCHD1080p50.
I have set a new project to AVCHD1080p50 and saved. Exit PE12 then re-start. It still creates new project at 1080i25.
The documentation says PE12 should remember the last used setting.
What is going wrong?
thanks
Audrie

Answer 1

Audrie
Allow me to go over some details to make sure that your details are not being misinterpreted by me or anyone else here.
1. You open a new project in Premiere Elements 12 and you want to edit your 1080p50 video in it. Who is setting the project preset, you or the program?
a. If you, are you using File Menu/New/Project Change Settings and Changing the project preset = PAL AVCHD AVCHD 1080p50, making sure that you have a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on This Project" before you leave that area. Then, when you are back in the Expert workspace, are you using Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets for the 1080p50 import.
or
b. If the program, are you first using Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag your 1080p50 to the Timeline? If this is the case, have you determined what the program has selected for the project preset based on the properties of the first drag to the Timeline? (See Edit Menu/Project Settings/General and the readings for Editing Mode, Timebase, Frame Rate, and Pixel Aspect Ratio, even if those fields look grayed out.
The program does not always give the correct project preset. When it does not, it does not give you the closest to what you have. It gives its default, which is in your case, PAL AVCHD Full HD1080p25.
Now here is the question...are you saying that, after you save close reopen your program, you discover somehow that you project is 1080p25 instead of 1080p50. If so, how are you making that determination at that time. Once the project preset is set by you or the program for a project, that project maintains that project preset for that particular project.
So when you point to documentation that says
The documentation says PE12 should remember the last used setting.
Please give a link to such documentation. Premiere Elements 12 cannot even remember workspace in the dual monitor set up when the same project is saved closed reopened.
A new project will always open to NTSC AVCHD Full 1080i30 or its PAL counterpart. After that
a. You set the project preset based on the properties you know for your source.
or
b. The program sets the project preset based on the first drag of the source to the Timeline (if it cannot, then your project preset is for NTSC or PAL AVCHD Full 1080i30.
http://atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-accuracy-of-automatic-project.html
http://atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-dual-monitor-workflow-concerns.html
Please review and consider.
Thank you.
ATR.