Premiere Pro, After Effects CS5 & the shared memory pool

This feature works quite nicely under Win 7 x64. I'm thinking of adding more RAM and going up to 12 GB. However, I noticed that the CS5 shared memory pool is limited to 75% of the installed physical RAM. Although that makes sense if you have a computer with the minimum system requirements of 4 GB (because Windows itself will use just under 1GB +/-), it makes less sense at 12 GB, where 9 GB is all you can use for the CS5 pool.
Is this the way it works or is there some way that I can be "greedy" and go above the 75% number for higher amounts of physical RAM? It helps to have as much physical RAM as possible for high resolution AE previews, etc.

Dennis,
I noticed that there is a file memorybalancercs5.xml that seems to be used by the various CS5 programs to share the memory pool. I'm not about to play with it, but is that what controls the maximum CS5 usage? Or is it just a common location for all the 64 bit components to keep track of the RAM settings?
Jay

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Sony NEX-5N AVCHD 2.0 1080p50 and Premiere Pro/After Effects CS5.5

Hi all,
I have a new Sony NEX-5N and have shot some test 1080p50 video using it.
On my quest for some new editing/production software to close the loop I have just downloaded and installed a Trial Version of CS5.5 Production Premium.
I am able to load my video files into Premiere Pro.
However, when I attempt to open the Video File in After Effects, I recieve the following Error message:
   After Effects error: '00023.MTS' cannot be imported - this '.mts' file is damaged or unsupported.
I have tried renaming the extension to .MPG, .M4V, .M2TS all with exactly the same result.
Perhaps this is a limitation of the Trial Version or perhaps a limitation of After Effects CS5.5. Is anyone able to advise?
As extra information I include below the TEXT output from MediaInfo for the file I am able to load into Premiere Pro CS5.5 but not After Effects.
Thanks.
General
ID                               : 0 (0x0)
Complete name                    : F:\AVI\Video\SourceMedia\00023.MTS
Format                           : BDAV
Format/Info                      : Blu-ray Video
File size                        : 61.8 MiB
Duration                         : 19s 616ms
Overall bit rate mode            : Variable
Overall bit rate                 : 26.4 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate         : 28.0 Mbps
Video
ID                               : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP             : M=1, N=12
Codec ID                         : 27
Duration                         : 19s 680ms
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 25.1 Mbps
Maximum bit rate                 : 26.0 Mbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 50.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.242
Stream size                      : 58.8 MiB (95%)
Audio
ID                               : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : AC-3
Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                   : CM (complete main)
Codec ID                         : 129
Duration                         : 19s 680ms
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 615 KiB (1%)
Text
ID                               : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID                          : 1 (0x1)
Format                           : PGS
Codec ID                         : 144
Duration                         : 19s 135ms

Hi and thanks, this is exactly what I am looking for :-)
Tim Kurkoski wrote:
Other question: Is it just this one file that fails to import or is it all files from that camera?
All of the clips I have recorded fail to import to AE but work in PPro
Tim Kurkoski wrote:
Can you post a sample file that exhibits the problem so that I could try the clip on my machine?
I just recorded 4 seconds of a clock pendulum swinging, surprisingly the file was 20Mb!?!? Anyway, I have made the file available for download at the following location:
http://andrew.net.au/~rowan/avchd/00032.MTS
You can browse the directory at http://andrew.net.au/~rowan/avchd/ if you need to "right-click" and save as.
I am hoping it is a limitation of the trial as I have noticed a few other "gotchas" with the trial version.
Thanks for the advice about video format, I have noticed that my computer (Core 2 Duo) is very slow to process the H.264 stream, PremierePro cannot play the 30sec stream in realtime (starts to stutter around 23sec) and After Effects starts its stutter almost immediately (both just playing the stream with no effects) - that said WindowsMediaPlayer has no problem playing the same stream at full speed. I am however reluctant to do any transcoding except to a lossless format as it seems counter intuitive - but this will be the subject of another post, as I don't want to clutter this one.
Thanks again.

I have a Adobde CC account but when i open the app to download the different software, i have illustrator, indesign, photoshop, bridge to install but premiere pro, after effects, lightroom, etc. to "test"...???

I have a Adobde CC account but when i open the app to download the different software, i have illustrator, indesign, photoshop, bridge to install but premiere pro, after effects, lightroom, etc. to "test"...???
Before (2-3 monate before) i had no problem to access to lightroom & after effetcs...help me please. Thx

That's okay , besides I got nothing to do lol hehehe atleast I can make myself useful for someone else hehe
1)Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and look for file named hosts inside etc folder.
2)Copy the hosts file to Desktop and open the same with notepad.
Check with the hosts file entries , let me know if there are any Adobe entries like 127.0.01 xxx.,adobe.com .activate.adobe.com....etc?
If there are no Adobe entries in Hosts file .
If you wish , you may uinstall and reinstall the app .
You may try below steps :
Open Control Panel and Navigate to Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features .
Under Program and Features list, locate Adobe Creative Cloud and uninstall it.
End all Adobe related Tasks from Task Manager.
Open C:drive and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe.
Open Adobe folder and delete folders named Adobe Application Manager and OOBE.
Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe.
Open Adobe folder and if present delete Adobe Creative Cloud folder.
Press Windows button (located between Ctrl and Alt buttons) along with R button together at a time , you will get a run command window.
Type in below command and hit 'Enter' key.
appdata
Then navigate to Local>Adobe.
Open Adobe folder and delete folders named AAMUpdater and OOBE.
Click on the below link and download Creative Cloud setup file and use the same to install the Creative Cloud Desktop application.
https://ccmdls.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/KCCC/1/win32/CreativeCloudSet-Up.exe
Once the installation process is completed , sign in and check.
Still same issue ?? let me know

Premiere Pro/After Effects -learning proper workflow?

I'm just beginning with video editing in Premiere Pro/After effects. I have used more basic apps such as iMovie and GoPro Studio. I understand the principles of post production for still images as I am a veteran photo retoucher. But as I want to produce videos with more professional productions values, my plan is to learn these Adobe apps from the ground up -and properly.
2 questions:
1 - Is it correct to assume that most video/audio editing will be performed in Premiere Pro with After Effects used primarily for special affects & enhancements beyond the scope of Premiere Pro? It seems that many features are "Shared", so I want to direct my training efforts in the most appropriate directions.
2 - Would Lynda.com be the best resource for training? I see that some of their offerings are not always for the most current versions of some apps.
There seems to be a jumbled assortment of basic training videos from Adobe. Some are intros from Lynda.com while others are from Adobe and go back to CS6.
Note to Adobe: I would like to see more complete & integrated ADOBE training materials offered for the various CC apps, which would be updated in reasonable relation to newer versions of the various CC apps. I would be willing to pay for quality training materials created by working industry pros.

1 - Is it correct to assume that most video/audio editing will be performed in Premiere Pro with After Effects used primarily for special affects & enhancements beyond the scope of Premiere Pro? It seems that many features are "Shared", so I want to direct my training efforts in the most appropriate directions.
premiere pro to edit. they have added some audio features to premiere, but if you do need more advanced audio editing, you can use adobe audition. the same can be said of premiere and after effects. they seem to keep slowly adding AE features into premiere pro, but when you need to take it beyond the basics, you then need AE. i would say AE is for visual effects, composting, advanced motion graphics & titling, and fixing video problems with a clip when you cannot in premiere. AE has some tools like the clone tool (photoshop) and rotoscope that premiere doesn't. while you can do some of the same thru different methods in premiere, its just more advanced in AE.
2 - Would Lynda.com be the best resource for training?
most of the information on lynda can be found thru others tutorials on youtube and adobe, and blog type websites etc. however, you could spend a month digging thru the random and unorganized, repetitive information on the web, or just watch a series geared specifically towards the subject you want to learn. time vs money. i have watched some lynda videos and the essentials courses for adobe products are very well done imo.

New Machine purchase advice to run Premiere Pro & After Effect 5.5

I am about to purchase a new pc with the following specs: Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit), Intel® Core™i7-930 processor(8MB L2 Cache, 2.80GHz), 12GB Tri Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 6 DIMMs, ATI Radeon HD5970 2GB GDDR5 video card. Are these good features? I cannot find any compatability or certification for any ATI video cards on the Adobe site. Is the video card, ram and cpu good to get the acceleration featured of CS5.5 (specifically Premiere Pro & After Effect)?

To answer your question:
That build could be better equipped.
First off, Windows 7 Home Premium maxes out at 16GB of RAM. This means that if you want to put in 24GB total anytime in the near future, Windows 7 Home Premium will make only the first 16GB available for programs. You will need Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate in order to use more than 16GB of RAM.
Second, Premiere Pro CS5.5 needs more than 12GB to run at its best. However, since that build fills up all six DIMM slots to attain 12GB, you would have to discard some of the DIMMs in order to add more RAM at all. As a result, if you must have only 12GB, I'd recommend three 4GB DIMMs instead of six 2GB DIMMs. These days, 4GB DIMMs sell for about $40 to $50 USD each ($120 to $150 for 12GB, or $240 to $300 for 24GB) whereas a year ago they sold for $200 to $300 USD apiece ($600 to $900 for 12GB; or well over $1,000 for 24GB).
Third, Adobe does not currently support the use of any ATi or AMD GPU in its MPE GPU acceleration feature. This means that any ATi or AMD GPU, including the top-of-the-line models, will force MPE to run in software-only mode. And software-only mode is often 10 times or more slower than MPE GPU mode. At present the MPE GPU mode supports only Nvidia GPU-equipped cards with 896MB or more RAM and CUDA support.
Fourth, that HD 5970 is a dual-GPU card. Unfortunately, Adobe does not support the use of more than one GPU at all, which means that the HD 5970 goes half-unused in any flavor of CS5.x - and then, it goes to software-only mode, to boot since it's not an Nvidia GPU. As a result, the HD 5970 performs no better than an HD 5850 in CS5.x, especially since the HD 5970 actually consists of two HD 5850's on a single card. In other words, dual-GPU cards are a total waste of money, as far as Premiere Pro and After Effects are concerned.
Finally, if that system has only one hard drive, I'd strongly recommend adding two or more additional hard drives. This is because Adobe requires a minimum of two hard drives (one for the OS and programs, the second for everything else) just to run without severe slowdowns in performance. The more (hard drives), the better.

Integration of other Adobe products..Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore DVD

Prior to obtaining CS2 I have been working with the other video/audio Adobe tools; Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore DVD.
I fully expected to see integration of these products into the Bridge application after CS2 installation. I was disappointed, there does not appear to be any such integration. I do hope that this is in plan, and that I don't have to spend an "upgrade" fee to use integration that should have been there to begin with.
Even if there is no further integration, it would be nice to be able to continue using the Bridge as my "file manager" in the event I have to transfer my CS2 activation to another computer; after all I still have 4 licensed Adobe products installed on the machine, even if there not, quote, CS2 applications.

I can't use Bridge with my video products anymore. I have 3 systems in my personal development environment. I am now past the 30 day period before activation of CS2 is required on my video editing machine. Now I am no longer able to use Adobe Bridge with my other Adobe (video) products.
Also, now I've noticed that the next level of video products is available, they now have Bridge integrated. As I anticipated in my first append, I cannot continue using Bridge with my Adobe video products unless I spend more money for an upgrade. If the intention is to have Bridge become an integral tool in the creative process, this policy is short sighted. It can't be that difficult to bring out an update for the CS2 level of bridge that would enable it to work with users that have AE 6.5 or PPro 1.5 installed.

If I purchase or subscribe to creative cloud, will this include adobe premiere pro, after effects, photoshop, illustrator and audition?

If I purchase or subscribe to creative cloud, will this include adobe premiere pro, after effects, photoshop, illustrator and audition?

Here is a link to a page that shows all of the Cloud applications...
All Cloud Applications: http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/catalog/desktop.html

Premiere pro / After Effects CS6 upgrade , render doesn't save ?

Hi, I have just upgraded CS5.5 to CS6.
I have opened and converted a previous project in CS6 which is linked to After Effects via the dynamic link. The media opened ok but even though it was fully rendered and saved from the previous version I had to re- render the entire sequence ..l. It's a 4 minute timeline and took over an hour to render in premiere CS6 .
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Any tips on getting the render to save so I don't have to re- render each time I open the project.
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Mark

Ok thanks. What about this card?
Amazon.com: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Superclocked with ACX Cooler 4 GB GDDR5 256-Bit Dual-Link DVI-I/DVI-D HDMI DP SLI Ready…
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Issues installing Premiere and After Effects CS5

I've been trying to install the master collection of CS5, but the installer does not install Premiere nor After Effects, i've checked the solutions over and over and nothing seems to work, im running a system that meets all the requirements specs are:
Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise Edition
Intel Core i7 920 Processor
6Gb Ram Memory
Nvidia 250GTS Video Card SLI x 2
Aside from the vid card not having the "official certification" i don't see any problem here, i have administrator privileges and those are the only two products that i cannot get installed, thanks for your help.

Browntimmy I would recommend posting in those product specific forums with your inquiry. There is troubleshooting steps which can be employed for both products which are not install related. The link to the forums is as follows:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current

Premiere and After Effects CS5.5 crash on startup

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Crash in progress. Last logged message was: <5980><AppDirs> <5> Required Dir = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CS5.5\Support Files\Required
The rest of the programs still work fine. I reinstalled a few times, used the Cleaner tool and also tried some solutions on this page:http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/errors-exit-code-6-exit.html, but no luck.
My last installation actually didn't give me any fatal errors or errors, but AE and Premiere still don't work.
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 0 error(s), 2 warning(s)
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Browntimmy I would recommend posting in those product specific forums with your inquiry. There is troubleshooting steps which can be employed for both products which are not install related. The link to the forums is as follows:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current

Premiere to After Effects CS5 - lost transitions and other stuff....

Hi guys,
We are learning this stuff by using the 'hammer to the head' method...
Premiere CS5 to After Effects CS5 'replace with after effects composition' method loses the trasitions that were placed in Premiere. They don't show in the After Effects composition. Fine.
So, doing the all the effects and Magic Bullet effects in the footage and then doing a multi-machine render to a PNG sequence is fine. Then, instead of using Media Encoder to assemble the PNG footage back to an AVI to re-import to Premiere, it's FAR faster to have after effects re-assemble the PNG to an AVI. Here's where the 'weirdness' comes in. We import the newly assembled AVI-PNG sequence to Premiere and CAN"T ADD transitions to the AVI file. We will put in the cuts where we want it and it doesn't work! HUH? Here's where things go really sideways...If we assemble the same PNG sequence using the ultra-slow Media encoder, we can then do transitions in Premiere. WHAT! I don't get it. What is After effects doing differently than Media encoder to put it all back together?
Sorry for the 'frustration', but man, what is goin on?
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Jason

See my reply in your other thread. Re-reading this post I do get the impression, though, that you are messing up the frame rates somehow and thus run into problems...
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Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Matt,
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Sign out from Creative Cloud, restart Premiere Pro, then sign in
Update any GPU drivers
Trash preferences
Ensure Adobe folder preferences are set to read/write in all 3 locations.
Delete media cache
Remove plug-ins
If you have AMD GPUs, make sure CUDA is not installed
Repair permissions
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Reboot
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I’m having two issues. One with AE getting hung up on loading the MediaCore and the other with Premiere Loading the ExpoerterQuickTime.bundle I’ve looked and looked for solutions and haven’t found any with my problem.
I’m running a Mid-2010 MBP 8GB RAM with Lion and CS5.5 I’ve done a uninstall and reinstalled and still same problem. It works on other user profiles on my computer but not mine and that’s the one with all the content! Any help?
I launched AE with Alt+Command+Shift down which reset my preferences and whatnot but then it gave me a warning about the MediaCore and let me continue but now it's hung up on the the user interface. I don't know what to do. Any help from anybody would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Loggin in as the Super Admin User worked for Premiere for whatever reason which is awesome! Thanks!
However After Effects is still looking for that MediaCore. And now Media Encoder isn't working. (Not that I really use it but if it doesn't work the issue might be somewhere else. Again. I tried all of these in the Super User account and the other normal account and they worked fine. Just not here in mine. Any ideas for that?
I don't have any firewalls up, It's all wide open. And I tried the second option there of removing all of the quicktime plugins in the Quicktime folder but it still gets hung up on the MediaCore.
I went into the super user and edited a AE project then came out and open the project instead of the dock icon and it went on and gave me the quicktime isn't installed bit and something might not work properly. But from playing around in it I've not seen anything different. This is an extrememly frustrating situation. I can get both programs open now but it's all janky and isn't working properly. I consider Premier to be a done deal, it's got no issues. I just need to figure out this mediacore business.
Original Post from the Premier Forum, thought I'd get better luck here in the AE one. Thank you for any help!
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3901233#3901233

Yea, it's the main account i use. So I got all the permissions set up correctly. The rest of the CS suite open just fine it's just those two that give me hickups.

Premiere Pro & After Effects close after a few seconds after the startup?

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I bought Creative Cloud yesterday and everything installed just fine. I haven't tried all Apps yet, but so far Premiere Pro and After Effects close after a few seconds after the startup. There is no dialogue or error window of any kind, the programs just shut down automatically.
The weird thing is that I had the trial before, but also uninstalled it, but then the apps worked just fine.
I searched the forum but couldn't find anyone with the exact same issue. I hope someone can help me out.
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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>assigning my nVidia card as the main driver for Premiere Pro (instead of the standard card)
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-http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/error---preludevideo-play-modules.html
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1001579
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-link to why http://forums.adobe.com/message/4685328
-http://www.anandtech.com/show/4839/mobile-gpu-faceoff-amd-dynamic-switchable-graphics-vs-n vidia-optimus-technology/2

How do I fix yellow spots on face and background with Premiere Pro/After Effects CS4?

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I have the CS4 version of pretty much all Adobe products. I have to color correct and edit a video that was shot during a seminar inside a conference room with an average digital camera. The camera zoomed in a lot on the subject when he was talking. So, it's not the best quality video and I'm trying to make it look as nice as possible. I've done some general color correcting and it looks okay, but there are a number of yellow spots on the subject and in the background, mainly on brownish surfaces (the speaker is African American). This probably appeared because of the low picture quality and zoom, but how can I fix it? When I do the general color correction, the spots just change color, but don't disappear. I played around with different things, but couldn't fix it. Is there a way to do this with Premiere Pro or After Effects? Or would it be very complicated? Or not possible at all? The camera zooms in and out a few times, too, so would that pose a problem for correcting this?
Thanks for any info!

It can be done in After Effects.
Watch this tutorial:
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