PE7 Could it be ??????????

I wonder if the file browser will re-appear in this version(PE7)? I am so tired of opening the "bridge" in CS3, to edit images, only to have CS3 bog down and crash. Out with the install Cd, repair the corrupted files, and so on...I always fall back to my trusty old PSE3(which I have loaded up with new plug-ins, filters, brushes, layer styles etc.)at crunch time. If I could use CMYK mode in my PSE3, I would uninstall CS3! Am I crazy? Probably.Oh well, enough of my ranting...

No. Adobe has said, loudly and for a long time that the file browser is dead, no matter how many people (including me) preferred it to the organizer.

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  • Premiere Elements 7 freezes, haults, blows up, etc.

    I have recently purchased premiere elements 7.0 and I am not happy with it. I have a Dell XPS system with 2GB Ram, and over 200GB of free space on my hard drive. I am creating a movie with JPG's from my Canon DSLR that have been downsized them to 1024 x 680 before putting them in. My movies have been downloaded from a Sony Handycam HD camera to the wmv format before bringing them into Premiere Elements. I render my pics and movies everytime I put around 10 into the project and then do a save. I have tried to create a 3 1/2 hour movie on DL DVD's but this program seems to blow up all the time and eventually won't even load the project. I have exported small projects to avi format and reloaded them, which seems to work but after converting to wmv then exporting to avi and then bringing them back into premiere elements, the movies seem blurry. I decided to cut my project in half and I still have memory problems. Premiere says I am running low on memory and better save the project. When I check how much memory I have left, I have 760MB left. I have even closed everything on the task bar. I continue to get memory problems when I don't have memory problems, or the program elements.exe blows up with a "software exception (0xc000000d) occurred in the application at location 0x78138aa0). My most recent problem is that I was finaly able to put together a movie about 1 1/2 hours, rendered it, put my theme into it and saved it. Now I am trying to burn, with everything shut down in the system, just elements running and I can watch the memory start at about 1.5GB and it goes to about 650MB and the burn stops, and the program disappears from my screen. I have tried everything adobe says to do on their KB site but nothing seems to help. Anyone have a clue.

    Thanks everyone for your help. I think I have found a way to make PE7 work with a system like mine. Read below:
    I'm trying to put a movie together using JPG's and WMV movies. I have about 450 JPG's that I made all 720 width by using PS7, I let PS7 pick the hight. The movies came from my Sony Handycam HD camera and I used the Sony software to make them into wmv movies. I put them on my hard drive. Why did I use wmv - for some reason, when I used the Sony software and downloaded the movies to MPG, the sound did not come with them. As I said before, PE7 could not handle all my JPG's and movies (total of about 4 hours worth). I was hoping to put a 4 hr movie on a dual layer DVD. Forget that. I couldn't even put a 2 hr movie together. PE7 sometimes just went away on the screen, or I received a C++ error, or memory getting low when I still had 750MB's of memory left and 100GB left on my hard drive and just either froze or disappeared from my screen. I couldn't even move the movie bar too much without PE7 crashing. I found that as I worked in PE7, trying to put a 2 hr movie together, l would have to load about 10 JPG's, do a save, then render them, do a save, bring in about 5 movies, do a save, render those. I kept doing this for days, but as I got about 1 hr worth of movie, PE7 would crash all the time. I finally got 1 hr and 50 minutes all saved and rendered with all my markers, etc. Ready to go right. Wrong. When I tried to burn, the encoding right before the burn would blow up all the time and I couldn't burn the DVD. Days and days of trying to produce a movie and PE7 would just blow up everytime.
    My system:
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    Dell XPS M1730 Dual core, 2GB Ram, 200 GB HD with 120GB left to work with PE7, 512 Geforce video card. PE7 says this is enough - wrong
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    This system exceeds PE7 requirements but it is not enough.
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    I wish Adobe would let everyone know how PE7 really works. You would think by the ads, that my system would work properly. I hate to see how PE7 will work doing HD type movies from my camcorder. I will have to experiment with that one later. Right now, I am tired of working with PE7 over the last 2 weeks.
    Again, thanks everyone for helping out here. I hope this helps some others that are frustrated with PE7.

  • Error message on PE7

    I have recently upgraded from PE2 to PE7. I have also upgraded my computer from 1 to 2 MB Ram which has made a difference. The reason why I stopped using PE2 was because of frequent crashes and I reinstalled, defragmented etc and couldn't get it to work. I still encounter crashes with PE7. IN particular:-
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    2. WHen I try and open projects, particularly those created in PE2. However, this does not happen all the time. This morning I tried to open a project I made. One copy triggered the error message "Sorry a serious error has occurred that requires PE to shut down." Another copy of the same project that I had saved under the "save a copy" function in PE opened ok.
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    Many thanks
    Erika

    Erika,
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    b STOP!
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    One note: re-linking is easier, when you Open a Project. One could just choose Offline All to get the Project Open. If you do this, the re-linking can be done from the Project Panel. If you do choose Offline All, then do a Save_As for your Project. You'd much rather re-link from the initial pop-up, rather than from the Project Panel. This will save you a few clicks per Asset and will progress automatically. In Project Panel, you'll have to go down the list, and do it manually. If you just do Save, with Assets Offline, then you have only one choice - manually re-linking from the Project Panel. Avoid having to do so, to save mouse clicks.
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    Good luck,
    Hunt

  • How to load and save custom workspaces in PE7

    I've written a little utility which allows PE7 users to load and save custom workspaces. It's attached to post #1 of this thread.
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    The utility has been tested with Windows XP Pro SP3 only. It might or might not run under Vista. It will only work with PE7 installations where the executable files are in the default places.
    Installation
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    I'm finding it very handy on my particular twin 22" monitor setup to sometimes use a one-screen layout and sometimes a two screen layout. I 'discovered' that having the timeline on the second monitor enables me to tweak edits there while having the playback full size after pressing the "full screen" button on the first monitor. Where the timeline would normally be I have the history, mixer, and other windows always open. As the second monitor is also used by another PC (the one I have the net and email etc on) using "Maxivista" monitor sharing software, I revert to single screen layout when doing stuff like exporting to DVD so I can see what is going on with the render while typing stuff like this.
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  • PE7 Color Replace doesn't work.

    In PE7 I have scanned in a line drawing of a lily in black and white.  I want to change the black to a green - 666600.  I did Enhance - Color Replacement- tried different select tools, chosen eyedropper and selected all black lines, changed the replacement color to 666600, and clicked OK.  It is still black and white.  I have tried making a duplicate layer and doing the same thing, and still black line drawing.  What am I doing wrong?  I've referenced 4 books and they all say the same.  Is mine not working?  I can use the select tool and 3Pt  brush and do it that way, but it isn't accurate and could take forever.

    See this post for some ideas.
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  • FLV File support in PE7 Trial Version?

    I just downloaded and installed PE7 Trial version. My main interest in this version was to be able to edit .FLV video files. I've noticed in some reviews PE7 is able to upload .FLV files to Youtube. Well the trial version doesn't appear to suport .FLV files for editing. The trial version install procedure mentions that not all features of PE7 are included in this install. My question is does the full PE7 version support editing .FLV files?

    You can not import and edit FLV files in PE7, it will only export to FLV. It can import and edit SWF files. If you want to edit FLV files you will need to convert them to another format, ideally DV-AVI. You could do an internet search for a free converter (there are a few) or purchase one.

  • PE7 - AVCHD user's first look

    I've been using a variety of AVCHD programs for nearly a year now to edit clips from a Panasonic SD5. I've also tried some trials without purchasing them. I've not tried the most costly, just those suitable for someone chiefly producing domestic-type projects.
    Here's my take on Premiere Elements 7 totally from that standpoint, and based at least initially very much on first reactions. Oh, I should add that the most recent version of PE I have is version 2.
    Installation - no obvious problem.
    First reaction to the interface - not as "noddy" looking as some in this league.
    I'm following my nose. Opening existing AVCHD clips stored on my hard drive. When I attempt to open them I get a message requiring activation. At once, a problem - this version isn't listed on the activation page. Well, I tell it I've got the previous version and it gives me an activation code. The program accepts it. I have to say that normally such activation procedures are completely automatic - this seems a bit crude.
    Good, there's the six clips. They appear on the "organise" page in reverse time order. I think this is normally a Windows problem (XP Pro here on a quad core PC). I've now dragged them one by one into the sceneline.
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    In the "Share > PC" page I have now found an option to output to H.264 in the same format as the original footage. Set that running and the time to complete the 2.5 minute project with no effects or transitions is given as about 9 minutes. Well, that clearly shows that the clips are being transcoded unnecessarily, as in a non-transcoding AVCHD process (in other software) the task would take much less than a minute. Not good.
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    If you created an m2ts file, you can burn that to a DVD as data and the Playstation 3 should play it as a standalone file, or you could copy it onto the PS3 hard drive.
    If you created Blu-ray folders, you can burn those to a normal DVD using ImgBurn as detailed in the second page of the tutorial whose link I gave above. The PS3 will then treat that as a Blu-ray disc and I suspect many other Blu-ray players will too.
    In the next day or two I will set out these procedures in more detail and with better presentation in a form suitable for adding to the FAQs for PE7. When set out on the page it sounds like hard work, but actually it's very quick and easy. But no, Adobe, that doesn't get you off the hook of needing to add AVCHD DVD support natively to PE7!

  • PE7 - burned widescreen DVD played as "normalscreen"

    Hi,
    I recently started my "video career" by buying Premiere Elements 7 and a Sony Camera.
    The camera produces 720x576 widescreen mpgs, so I use the according PE7 widescreen template for editing. After resolving some big problems (they weren't big, but typically for beginers, I think: codecs, interlacing, file-formats) I thought everything is fine.
    But I was always working in front of my computer and dealing with mpg and wmv files. Then, I finally wanted to put my results onto DVD to see it on my TV and shared/burned the clips as "PAL DVD Widescreen".
    And the next problem was waiting for me: the widescreen format was lost. The DVD-Player on my TV (which never had widescreen problems with bought DVDs) crops some parts on the left and right side of the clip. The result is a 5:4 format (or 4:3?, don't know exactly...). It is not blurred or transformed, just croped.
    But there are no format options or something I could change when I share/burn it in PE7. What could I have done wrong?
    I'm using:
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    The problem is that you're using a hard drive camcorder, which doesn't directly interface with Premiere Elements.
    How are you capturing the video into your computer?
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  • PE7 takes 6 minutes to load

    I have just installed PE 7 and when I open a project the screen is frozen for five to six minutes before I can start working. Is this because I have a dual head video card? Matrox P650 PCLe128
    If I set the screen resolution at 800x600 it will open a project straight away. But set higher, and I usually have it set at 1280 x 1024 there is a long delay while it is frozen for at least five minutes.
    Have Athlon 3200 and 2g of Ram. C drive is 250 Gb with 200 of free space. D drive on which I save video is 250GB with 184 of free space.
    Do I just have to wait 5 minutes, or is there somthing I can do to correct it? Have gone through all steps recommended in Adobe TechNote kb404997 but no joy. Appreciate any help yopu can give. Brian

    Dear Steve, Chuck and Bill thank you ever so much for taking the time to reply to my troubles. Your time and expertise is much appreciated.
    Perhaps I should give you a few more details of my computer, then what I have done.
    Computer is 3 years old. Athlon 3200 and 2 g of Ram. 4 hard drives. Matrox P650 video card with dual heads. Two 19 inch CRT monitors.
    A month ago I had trouble with Windows opening. My IT expert said the C drive may be faulty, replaced it with new 250g Sata drive ( 204 free space) and transferred my programs over to it.
    My drives for storing data 2 x 250g Sata drives. Were Raid linked so as to be mirror drives. These were separated into two separate drives D ( 204 free space) and H (208 free) when new C drive put in. Had another 180g older drive in (not sata) which was partitioned into E for a scratch disk, and G as a spare to back up some photos on.
    I always did disk clean up, scanned for virus and spyware each week and defraged all drives each month.
    After encountering trouble when starting to use PE7 I followed Adobe Tech note kb404997
    Set up a new user with only, PE7, My Computer, and Recycle Bin icons on desk top.
    Still no joy in loading a project, had to wait 5 minutes to open a new project, or once I had downloaded 4 minutes of video from camera, it also took 5 minutes to open that existing project. Task Manager showed that PE7 Not Responding. CPU usage ranged from 50% to 100% and PF usage 500 to 809mb All that time the little red light on top of the computer was blinking as if trying to work and find something.
    Took computer down to my technician. He could not see why it took so long to open a new or small existing project. He installed the latest driver for the Matrox card.
    No difference. He then installed a new ATI RX2400PRO card and driver with dual heads. No difference. Set scratch disk to E drive. No difference. Put the Matrox card back in.
    When I got home I made the screen resolution very small 800 x 600 New project or existing project opened straight away. Changed the resolution back to 1280 x 1024
    Project opened immediately not frozen - but only opened in the top left two thirds of the screen! When I grabbed the bottom corner and pulled it out towards full screen, it got half way out then everything froze for 5 minutes! Next time I opened it, it displayed full screen, but was frozen for 5 minutes!
    Followed your suggestions and did another full disk cleanup, virus scan and spyware, and disk defrag. C needed doing, D & H were not bad. G took ages to defrag several hours. Uninstalled PE7 and preferences again I had uninstalled and reinstalled it 4 times previously and then scanned everything again before re-installing. Noticed on disk clean up of C drive that there were still some items on it. Web client/Publisher Tempory files 32KB and Compress old files 55KB Does that matter?
    Steve. Couldnt see any other processes running in Task Manager. Sorry I didnt know where to look for too many files in browsers web page cache.
    Noticed when I opened the scratch disk (E) there were some PE7 files on it. Should they be there? Is that normal?
    Even after deleting all files from G drive it took over an hour to defrag! Disconnected G/E Drive, but no difference.
    Bill, It looks like you know some good things to check. But beyond me, so I will refer your suggestions on to my IT man. But many thanks.
    Went to open my last project to see if I could turn the thumbnails previews off, as you suggested. But the name of the project was not on the open project list. Found it by going to the D drive where I had saved it. Another thing, after the project was open and working, I went to File- Open Project, and clicked on another project. It was frozen!
    Sorry, looked, but could not find where to turn the Thumbnail Previews off in timeline/Sceneline, Project panel and the Organiser.
    One other thing I have noticed, though it may have nothing to do with opening a PE7 project. When opening Photoshop CS3 I first of all get the message, The folder specified for Tempory files is not available. The default folder will be used. Would this affect PE7?
    Is it good practice to save a project to a drive other than C? Should scratch disk be set to yet another drive?
    Steve and Chuck. I Purchased PE1 when it first came out, also your book, PE2 In A Snap. But did not get into the programme as I had to go back to Papua New Guinea to help with major urgent repairs to Church Regional Office building. Now I am ready to put all my old PNG footage on to DVD Is your book still useful for PE7, or are you bringing out a new edition?
    Thanks again for all of your help.
    Brian

  • Poor Rendered Video Quality PE7

    Hi All,
    I've been running the trial of PE7 for a few weeks comparing against my existing copy of Pinnacle 10 and trial of Power Director. I love the interface and edit abilities, however when I generate DVD files and view them the result from PE7 is of a much lower quality than from Pinnacle or Power Director.
    I'm using the default quality settings in each of the programs and viewing all with the same DVD viewing software (AVS Player). The originating AVI that was edited was captured using Pinnacle, but I imported it into PE7 and rendered a PE7 DV AVI for editing to make sure I was working with PE defaults. The picture seems to be more grainy and less vibrant in color with PE7. Of course having the big black "PE7 Trial" directly across the middle of the screen doesn't help with comparison (what possessed them to put the watermark directly across the focal point of the viewfinder?), but I'm pretty certain the PE7 files are not as good.
    Is there some setting that I'm missing that would make the video from PE7 that much worse than the other two products? I can't believe that the Adobe product would be that much worse without someting I'm doing wrong or missing.
    Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
    Dale

    Dale,
    The test of each program would be to author a DVD (use RW, so you don't spend a bunch of $ on test DVD's) and then watch that through a DVD software player on the computer, or on a set-top player to TV.
    As for the display in the programs, there are a couple of things to look at. In PE, if your DV AVI Clip shows a green line, above the Timeline, it does not require Rendering. If it's red, just hit Enter, to Render it. If you Rt-click on the Display Monitor, you can choose Fit, or one of several resolutions - choose 100% and see if your display improves. Fit is basically a "draft preview," sized to fill the Display Monitor, where 100% should show the actual detail.
    It's been a long time, and several versions ago, since I last used Pinnacle, but I was less than impressed by its "monitor" back then. However, I am going both from memory and also this was on a previous laptop. Though it also had a 17" monitor, the rez was way down (totally different GPU), than what I am now using.
    I have Power Director on my workstation (dual 21" CRT Hitachi 915's), and I see no difference between it's display, and that in P-Pro2, when I switch it to 100%. They both look the same to me. Do not have PE on the workstation, and do not have Power Director on the laptop, so I cannot compare those in an A-B situation.
    Going back a couple of versions of P-Pro, Adobe went from DirectShow display to a common display engine for all of their programs. It has been my experience, when setup to 100%, that their displays are equal to, or better than, any program using DirectShow. This is for footage that does not need to be Rendered, or that has been Rendered, and is for 100%, and not Fit. I do not know if Pinnacel and Cyberlink still use DirectShow.
    One last item to consider is the display settings on your monitor. Because Adobe does not use DirectShow any more, you could have differences there. I'd spend just a bit of time with the settings on your monitor, both in the Windows' Display, and in your GPU's utilities, to see if you can "calibrate" your monitor for best viewing of the Adobe display engine. In my nVidia Quadro 4500FX control panel, I have one setting for "Print Work," and one for "Video," and my needs fluctuate between the two. I also use Adobe Photoshop's Adobe Gamma utility to set things up for my print work. It is no longer included in the latest CS3-CS4 Photoshop.
    Hunt

  • PE7, so far, so very good

    Downloaded a copy of PE7 from the Adobe site. 3.2GB total and very quick. Uninstalled everything to do with PE4 (and Powerdirector 7...), defragmented the C: partition, deleted all unecessary files from the dedicated external hard drive (a 500GB WD), installed PE7 and in three hours of editing twenty five minutes of HDV files, have been unable to crash it. Did exactly what I used to do with PE4, added files, added crawling and rolling text, edited the text, changed the font, added drop shadow, rendered, etc., etc., and not once did it crash. Really tried to crash it. Simply did the stuff that would have had PE4 reeling, but, nothing happened. Render times actaully take as long as indicated and sometimes a little faster. No more hitting the enter key through squinted eyes. Haven't shared yet via DVD or Blu-ray and still have to add some opening titles and rolling credits at the end, but things are looking very, very promising. Seems they may have ironed out the bugs. Although it's early days, so far, I'm a very happy bunny...did nothing else other than install...
    Interestingly, when you double click the icon on the desktop to open the application, you get the PE7 startup title, which quickly runs through the installation of the .dll's and plugin's, etc. 95% of the developers names seem to be of Indian origin. Seems some of the development may have been outsourced (or even 'insourced'), however, in my book, they've done an excellent job (so far...)...
    Is it possible to download of copy of this PE7 book then Steve...?

    To be honest, I don't know. Because I had such a problem with PE4 and I was changing the location of the scratch files and other stuff, I just couldn't find the location of certain items. So basically I uninstalled PE4 and deleted everything associated with it and started again. I didn't really have too much data (because I stopped when I started having so much trouble), so I guess I could afford to do it.
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