Ta all Premiere CS4 users

Good day,
I need your help
Every time I import my Video or tittles to my new SC4, there is this problem. All Video or title look bad and too much like mirror effects on it applied. on so many little mosaic squares in both source monitor and program monitor. When i click on Program monitor the image look fine if I hit play same story of mosaic start again. But If I open a project with HD settings all is work fine, I am only having problem with DV Images. I checked the magnification and scale to frame and set them but nothing seems to change.
Can anyone have an Idea of what is wrong? my pc meet all the requirements of Adobe CS4. Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated. My email is [private email address removed]
God bless you

Unfortunately, you've posted to the wrong forum. What you want is the PrPro Forum.
Now, please tell us about your source AV footage and also the format of your Titles. Make sure to include all of the details of your Sequence too.
Most likely, the issue is with your source footage.
Good luck,
Hunt

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T0 all Premiere CS4 users

Every time I import my Video or tittles to my new SC4, there is this problem. All Video or title look bad and too much like mirror effects applied on it. and so many little mosaic squares in both source monitor and program monitor. When i click on Program monitor the image look fine if I hit play same story of mosaic start again. But If I open a project with HD settings all is work fine, I am only having problem with DV Images. I checked the magnification and scale to frame and set them but nothing seems to change.
Can anyone have an Idea of what is wrong? my pc meet all the requirements of Adobe CS4. Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated. My email is [ email address removed to prevent you from getting spamed]
God bless you

I had a similar situation. My wife, the kids and I wanted to visit some friends in another town and I checked the car. It met minimum requirements, has four wheels, an engine, a trunk (for our luggage), a steering wheel, etcetera. Just like you.
Can
anyone have an Idea of what is wrong? my pc meet all the requirements
of Adobe CS4. Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated.
Whatever we tried, we were not able to visit those friends. Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated.
One tiny detail I left out: The car is a Dinky Toy.
Follow John's suggestion. This question is unanswerable without the tiny details like Dinky Toy.

After Effects & Premiere Pro CS4 users: Turn off "Make text and other items larger or smaller" (Win)

I just made a brief blog post recommending that After Effects CS4 and Premiere Pro CS4 users turn off the "Make text and other items larger or smaller" setting in Windows 7, since it causes some problems.
Please use this thread to let us know whether this solved a problem for you or whether there are any problems with this solution.

There isn't really an option to "turn off" the feature. Do you mean to say that it should be set to "Smaller - 100% (default)"?

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Premiere Cs4 handle CPU...performance...and idiot questions

Ok, i tried to read as much as i could, performance threads about Premiere Cs4...but couldn't help it.
So i upgraded to Production Premium Cs4 before 2 weeks...
I've noticed all the problems that were mentioned...what i can't understand is the LOW PERFOMANCE in export or preview
my system runs a QUAD 6600 with 8gbs RAM, NVIDIA 8800GT and XP64...
after effects runs fine in almost maximum CPU (if you adjust it in preferences), but premiere (that means and ABOBE MEDIA encoder) exports in 5-20% of the CPU...if you try to encode with TMPGEnc processes go much faster and cpu is quite high...
question 1) (yes i know i am dumb...)
exporting speed has to do with footage, type of media that is being exporting and GPU??????
2)is my system, just not enough???
3)Premiere CS4 cannot handle multicore anyway...and every user here has the same problems??????
Sometimes...i think that i will do BAD things in my PC when PREMIERE is SO SLOW and i am in such hurry...Someone...coould answer? before i start taking drugs????????????????
A Straight answer 1) ,2) ,3) would be really nice for my emotional condition...

Roger thank you very much!
It is now starting to make sense. I have only run it once and not tried any other tricks yet (like trying to use the Source from the RAID array rather than from the C: drive)
Now rather than taking 130 seconds for encoding it is down to 25 seconds versus 8 seconds for CS3. I suspect that at least some of that is because they are using the C: drive for the source.
MPEG encoding has also a major improvement by using the rendered preview files and as matter of fact it reduced the MPEG encoding time from 75 seconds (CS3) to 57 seconds (CS4)! Maybe we will have to go back to suggesting rendering the timeline before any encoding.
One other plus for CS4 is that the rendering is much smarter in that any duplicate segments are rendered only one time.
Why do they hide these menus with such tiny hard to find icons? I had a similar problem finding a playback option for my second monitor.

Premiere CS4 Trial installation error

Hello,
Whenever I try to install the Premiere CS4 trial on Vista Ultimate I get an error dialog at the Loading Setup window that says critical errors were found in setup please see the setup log file for details. Then the installer exits after hitting OK. Any ideas where this setup log resides so I can try to figure out what the problem is?
Thanks,
Andrew

O.K. I found the error log and following are some excerpts from the log that mention errors. It does not help me at all. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem is?
Thanks,
Andrew
Updating media info for: {645E316B-8123-4469-83FD-7BA0523040DB}, Effective: {645E316B-8123-4469-83FD-7BA0523040DB}
Ignoring original data since install source is local
Type: 0, Volume Order: 1, MeInstallation result: 0
[ 10588] Wed Dec 10 13:38:53 2008 ERROR
Log of: object
isRunning {string}: 0
percentComplete {string}: 100
message {object}: [object Object]
Log of: object
code {string}: 0
args {object}: [object Object]
[ 10588] Wed Dec 10 13:40:48 2008 INFO
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
END - Installer Session
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
ProductIcon specified for project. Using icon from C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Temp\{21EEB50A-C615-4B7B-928B-4262121A7C78}pr_app_icon.png
ProductIcon specified for project. Using icon from C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Temp\{957FF71A-BD6D-4313-9214-9CBBD718A785}pr_app_icon.png
[ 20812] Wed Dec 10 13:38:57 2008 FATAL
Critical errors were found in setup
TypeError:'undefined' is null or not an object
Please see the Setup log file for details.
[ 20812] Wed Dec 10 13:40:48 2008 INFO
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
END - Installer Session
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Best Video Card for non 3d/compositing work in Premiere CS4?

Hi all, I'm looking to optimize my system where I can to speed up the editing process. I edit 1080p footage from the Canon 5D MKII (h.264 MOV files)using half-res h.264 proxies, but CS4 seems to hang a lot in the timeline view and clips just disappear and instead show green. I'm switching to half-res MPEG-2 (.m2v) proxies now and so far that problem seems to have gone away (still testing), but when timeline display quality is at "High Quality" (vs. automatic) there's still some chop during slow pans (not seen with "Automatic" or "Draft Quality").
Anyway, I'm looking for the weakest point in my system and suspect the video card. My system is an 2.66 i7 processor, 6GB 1333 ram, 1x160GB sata II HD (OS/Apps), 3x1TB SATA II RAID 0 (paging file, data), and an $80 ATI 4650 512 MB video card running Vista 64.
So all that said, what's the best general graphics card for editing HD video in Premiere CS4? I don't care about 3d or compositing at this stage, just basic editing of unrendered (timeline playback) HD video, maybe sometimes 1-3 HD layers, some basic color correction effects (b+w, contrast, etc), dissolves, text overlay, some clip speed manipulation.
Many seem to recommend the Nvidia quadro cards, but I haven't found any information to suggest they help with anything other than 3D/compositing, which I don't need (and therefore don't need to pay the premium).
There's also the Nvidia CX card, but it's main feature is touted as encoding h.264, whereas I could care less about that and ideally need decoding of h.264 in the timeline to be better. I haven't seen any great reviews on this card of heard of average user testimonials, probably because it's $2k and it mainly marketed as "zoom more fluidly in photoshop, export h.264 4x faster", which seem like minor issues vs. "better realtime playback of HD video".
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So in Media Encoder CS4, I tried encoding one of the clips that plays back the least smooth in the Premiere timeline (a slow pan across intricate patterns on a sand dune in death valley) to the following:
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(this was the only format in media encoder that mentions DVCPRO HD)
I noticed when trying to customize the setting, that there is no 30 fps option, just 23.976, 29.97, and 59.94. I just went with 29.97 as that was the closest to the 30 fps of the source MK II footage. The width and height were also unajustable at 960x720 for the DVCPRO HD format.
Playing the output in the timeline view of Premiere was comparable in smoothness to the m2v file. I looked at my resource monitor during playback looking for bottlenecks, and the CPU does seem to spike at 100% initially when playing this clip back. I reverted to the m2v version and also saw the same CPU spike. I also reverted back to the down-res'd mp4 version, same spike. Moving display quality down to draft does allow for smooth playback here.
So I guess there's something about this clip that is CPU intensive to play back in the timeline in any of these formats. The original 1080p version plays back perfectly in both quicktime and VLC player.
Anyway, for now I think I'm content with using the m2v proxies as a big chunk of the clips are fairly smooth, and using a reduced quality display mode for clips that don't play as smoothly is accpeptable for now. At least so far I'm not seeing the hanging/video not displaying (and instead showing a green screen) that I was with the mp4 proxies.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to how to get smoother timeline playback for these proxies (or the original h.264 .MOV files), however, whether it be a hardware upgrade (e.g. better video card) or a different proxy codec, I'd love to hear them and give it a shot.

Where to find Premiere CS4 Crash log?

Hi,
I've been running Premiere CS4 on Windows XP x64 for the past several months without any problems. A couple of days ago, I suddenly started getting a crash window whenever I would start up Premiere (during the splash screen loading). I accidentally clicked on the "do not display again" option in the window, so the window has since disappeared and no longer shows up.
I have tried uninstalling CS4 completely, and reinstalling the entire suite, but I still have the same problem. Furthermore, the crash report screen still doesn't display anymore.
I am starting to get quite frustrated at this point. I am not sure where to look for a crash log and/or how to figure out / pinpoint what might be causing the error.
I am running XP x64 SP2 with all the latest patches enabled.
Other CS4 apps (ie: photoshop, encore, etc), work fine.
Can anyone help point me in the right direction? I've tried searching the web to see if there is a way to reenable this crash report window and/or to find any pertinent log files, but can't seem to find anything.
I've already read through http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405950.html and tried out most of the suggestions to no avail.
Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have wasted hours trying to figure this out on my own but am just spinning my wheels at this point.
Thanks!
Eric

That is the reason we advise never installing codec packs, since it is often utter h*ll to get rid of them again, leaving the only option for the non-expert registry wizards to reinstall OS & programs. Usually a faster and better way to repair things. I don't think it is fair to blame that on Adobe, especially since you aggravated things by using an unsupported OS to start with.
Fair enough, however, everything I have read about XP64 and CS4 is that it isn't officially supported, however, should work fine. And true to form, it does/did work fine. Until I messed things up.
I guess it is the lack of debugging tools and the length of time that it takes to install/uninstall CS4 that is making this process so utterly painful. If there would be better tools and/or documentation for fixing a hole that you have dug yourself into, it would make things so much better.
I love Adobe products, but they have a history of poking around in obscure places in the OS that is intentionally undocumented, for example activation information, serial information, etc. They have only recently (in the last couple of years) started providing tools (ie: CS4clean script) to help clean up faulty/defective installs. However, even those don't seem to work perfectly. I already uninstalled CS4 and ran the clean script. Yet after reinstalling, my crash window no longer gets displayed in my original profile. Which indicates to me that there are still some setting lurking around somewhere in the system that Adobe hasn't documented.
Now I completely understand Adobe's need to do this in order to protect its IP and software and business model. Where they fall short, however, is providing tools to help the user determine what is wrong, faulty, defective in their system in order to be able to successfully (re)install the application.
My case is a prime example. If there was a way to enable a "safe mode" of sorts, or a logger that indicates exactly which files were being loaded/accessed, it would go a long way to help determine what gremlin is still lurking in the PC. Without such tools, it becomes incredibly arduous guessing constantly. Add to the fact that every "guess" that includes and installation takes 1-2 hours to complete, and the frustration levels start to increase.
That being said, I have yet-again just launched the uninstallation of CS4. Will run the clean script again afterwards, reboot, and reinstall and keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks,
Eric

DVD vob to Premiere CS4 via Media Encoder

I'm a nube going through the pain of figuring out how to use vob DVD files in Premiere CS4. I've done my research and the problem has many solutions, most which are way more pain than I want.
In another thread a user said that Adobe Media Encoder works well to convert vob files to Premiere friendly files. If so, what output format should be used? I don't see a DV AVI-2 option in ME that many threads say is the best.
Thanks

Thanks Jim. I renamed the vob to mpg, then used the NTSC DV preset under the Microsoft AVI Format, and all good except the audio was stripped out. Also, when I try in import the avi to Premiere I get an error message "File video dimensions (width/heigth) too large) even though both the project and avi are both sized 720x480. Sigh.
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What video codecs can be used with Premiere CS4?

What video codecs can be used with Premiere CS4? Or are there to many to list? I'm looking for a solution to import a .AVI file created with a H.264 codec.

PrPro can work with so very many, but certainly not all. Some, like DivX will work for Export, but I have never gotten good Import of that material - always something wrong somewhere.
For H.264, there are three very popular versions: Apple, Lead and MainConcept. The Apple version installs with later versions of QT Player, the other two are available, and many users like them better. They solve some H.264 problems, mainly with Export.
For a bit of background, you might find this ARTICLE useful.
Good luck,
Hunt

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How do I set up Premiere cs4 to save a segment of a film to tiffs (not the whole film just a segment of it)
I have googled no luck and searched youtube no luck.
TIA

Not every Export option has the choice of Full Sequence, or Work Area Only. If there is no checkbox, or drop-down to select Work Area Only, then that could be one of the Export options that does not allow it.
Another workflow could be to do a Save_As for the Project, leaving the original untouched. Then, just Delete all Clips/footage before that desired segment, and all after. Export the remaining Timeline (the area that you would have set with the WAB, if that had been an Export option). Import THAT TIFF Sequence into the original Project.
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Good luck,
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Premiere CS4 looses its memory

My Premiere CS4 (4.1.0.) sometimes looses its "memory" of the last opened project - meaning that at the opening screen, when usualy the last project is offered to be opened again, there are no projects anymore. So I have to go over the button "open project". That wouldn't be a big deal but there are other things which are lost too, as example the keyboard settings and sometimes some already used files were be analyzed newly (e.g. mp3 files).
Has anyone any idea what could be the cause of this behaviour? Strangely the phenomenon does not always occur but I have not find out yet, when it occurs and when not. Any idea?
Thanks for your help!
PS: working with vista64bit, SP2, working on a WD-Velociraptor-system-HD and my projects on a RAID-10 with 4 HD, 8GB DDR-2 RAM, CPU Quad9550

Thanks everybody for your help and your suggestions.
@Jeff - no, I'm always logged in with the same account - and I'm also the only user on the machine - so I don't think this is the reason.
@AndreyV - possible, but as far as I know, I don't have any cleaning tools working in the background
@ the_wine_snob - I don't think, that it's a problem of Windows, because all other applications run properly - the last opened word and excel documents are always remembered normaly, so I think...
@SFL46' suggestion could be the cause of my problem - in fact I do have the folder "my documents" (and in it the PP.prproj-files) at a diffrent location than Windows Vista usually puts it. I moved it to my RAID-drives (instead of the system drive c where usually the "user"-folders are located). I never had any problems with PP CS3 or the earlier versions, but that could be the reason of this behaviour (specially because PP doesn't always looses the last opened documents). I will move the prproj-files to the user-folder on the system drive and will report my experience here.
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Quicktime (.mov) von Canon EOS 7D in Premiere CS4

Laut der Adobe-Seite...
http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/PremierePro/4.0/WSd79b3ca3b623cac9-61c6f4fc1246e1c1526-8000.ht ml
...kann Premiere CS4 Quicktime öffnen. Beim Importieren kriege ich aber immer die Meldung "File Format not supported". Wie auf der Seite angegeben habe ich auch den neusten Quicktime-Player installiert - gleiches Resultat.
Die Videos sind in 1080p und stammen von einer Canon EOS 7D.
Finde es irgendwie traurig, dass der Marktführer im Videobereich keine Dateien von dem Marktführer im Kamerabereich öffnen kann.
Gruß, Dave

Und ich find's traurig, dass die Leute immer erwarten, dass alte Versionen einer Software immer die neuesten Kameras unterstützen bzw. die Softwarehersteller immer erahnen sollen, wenn die User mit all den vielen Knöpfen was verschlimmbessert und falsche Einstellungen verwendet haben
a) die 7D ist alles andere als neu.
b) wenn es irgendein Nischenprodukt wäre würde ich Dir Recht geben
c) Quitcktime ist zwar proprietär aber AUCH ein gängiges Format
d) auch 1080p24 ist jetzt kein soooo exotisches Format als das man das nicht unterstützen müsste
e) WENN CS4 Quicktime angeblich unterstützt und - aus welchem Grund auch immer nicht öffnet - sollte es eine Fehlermeldung ausspucken mit der man was anfangen kann ("Codec nicht installiert" oder so). Aber nicht einfach "Kann ich nicht".
Das Programm läuft unter Windows 7/32. Ist die (englische) Version die bei CS5 für 32biit-Systeme beilag) weiß nicht ob es da mehrere gab.
Trotzdem Danke
Gruß, Dave

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I get the following error when I try to export media in Premiere CS4 (Note: I have a legal and activated copy of CS4 Master Collection). In Premiere, it appears to go through (the loading progress bar fills and then disappears) but when I check the folder, it's empty. And then I notice that there's another icon in my taskbar and oh hey, it says "AMT Subsystem Error: Thank you for using Adobe Media Encoder CS5. The Adobe product that installed Media Encoder has not activated. Please launch and activate that Adobe product before continuing to use Media Encoder."
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A quick check on my computer reveals that both Media Encoder CS4 and CS5 are installed. I looked to see if there was a way to uninstall the CS5 version but didn't see it. The only way I think I could have gotten it was though some sort of Adobe update.
Any ideas of how to fix this?

Hi: I have the same problem, but it happened very suddenly and after very specific updates. I successfully encoded a file using the CS6 encoder. Then, I allowed updates to Adobe Media Player and Adobe Air. I tried to encode with CS6 again and it had stopped working - all in the space of 5 minutes. A reboot did not help. I also have CS4 and CS 5.5 installed and have had all along (which means that you can have them and use the CS6 encoder). Since I can no longer use the CS6 encoder, but am able to launch an older one, I am using that for the moment. I hope that this reply will be of some help in finding a solution.

How do I get Vio Pov.1 (helmetcam) footage to work with Premiere CS4?

Hi.
I'm having the same problems as this guy: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b78c2b/7 with video from the Vio Pov.1 not playing in premiere. Although his topic is already there I made a new topic to get some fresh hits and try to resolve this once and for all. Also because I make some reference to Canon Ixus video files.
I have run the codec-analyzer g-spot on one of the pov.1 video files and it states that I have the proper codec installed.
Codecs in video clip:
Video: XviD ISO MPEG-4 @ 3101kbps 720*480
Audio: 0x0050 MPEG-1 Layer 2 @ 32000Hz 64 kb/s , Monophonic
Still no luck playing/editing them in Premiere CS4. Audio plays fine, video shows but frame is only updated every 4-5 seconds and not the actual frame that corresponds to that point in the audio but actually the next frame from the first one. It continues like that.
Specs:
Running Vista 32 bit and Adobe Master Collection CS4
Quad-core 2,4GHz
4GB ram (i know, only about 3 to 3,5GB utilized in 32 bit OS.)
Nvidia 8800GT 512mb
74GB WD Raptor as system/adobe software drive.
500GB Samsung spinpoint throuch E-sata as project drive.
The wierd thing is this:
I have a separate system drive with windows xp installed, Adobe Master collection CS3 fully updated and NO other software. (same computer)
Differance between CS3 and CS4:
CS3,no codec pack:
- Canon ixus video files WORK
- Vio Pov.1 reported as audio only, not even thumbs showing FAIL
CS3, ffdshow codec pack installed(ffdshow-rev2180_20081004_xxl)
- Canon ixus: WORKS
- Vio Pov.1: WORKS
CS4 on vista, relatively fresh install, fully updated, no codes packs.
- Canon ixus: FAIL
- Vio Pov.1: FAIL (video)
CS4, same as above with ffdshow installed:
- Canon ixus: FAIL
- Vio Pov.1: FAIL (video)
CS4, same as above with morgan mjpeg codec installed:
- Canon ixus: WORKS (yay!)
- Vio Pov.1: FAIL (obviously as it's not mjpeg)
Someone with some insight into these things, please point me in the right direction. Does anyone have experience with managing video settings within the ffdshow interface? I'm not experienced enough to tweak all the settings.
The current project Im working on is a small web clip shot with a Panasonic HDC-SD100 and the Vio Pov.1. It's a short rally on ice clip I'm looking to produce the panasonic video files are NOT supportet in CS3 even with codec packs.
CS3=
panasonic: no!
vio-pov1: yes!
CS4:
Panasonic: yes!
Vio-pov1: no!
See my problem?
I added the Canon ixus comparison since I previously had problems with it but have now solved them. Also to show that Adobe seem to have cut support for certain formats when moving on to CS4. It has taken me a looong time figuring out how to get ixus working in premiere because I'm not used to this stuff.
The ideal solution is not having to convert clips before using them so I would like to focus on that avenue. After all it finally worked with the ixus clips so I have hopes that eventually a solution can be found for the Pov.1 clips which is also more widely spread and used in proper productions.
Im very sorry for the format of this post, and the length. I just had to get it out there to see if someone can help me.
/ Johannes

Thank you Stanley and Bill for your input.
Sorry for checking the topics progress so late.
Bill, could I ask what specific software you are using for this batch conversion task?
Like I stated in my first post I am able to edit the Pov.1 material when plugging in my secondary HD with Xp and CS3 on it. So I can fiddle about with that as well but if you could supply me with the name of your software it would save me all that time swapping harddrives back and fourth. There are so many out there, would like to eliminate risk of malware and such by using the software you have.
(reminder, cs3 does not do AVCHD, #1 of many reasons why I prefer cs4)
I'm still testing various xvid/mpeg4 settings with ffdshow and other codecs, I'm still determined to find a solution, for everyone. After all, it CAN run under CS3.
I have also submitted the case to Adobe. Hoping to hear from them soon. Anyone else care to throw some thoughts in?
Thanks again for the input so far,
Johannes

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