Timeline Clip Encoding

This queery is pertinent to CS4 in particular.
In previous versions of premiere pro2 and cs3 if I wanted to export a series of small eg. 10 second clips from the timeline to use in another app I would use the export movie option or adobe media encoder. This would be pretty much quick and efficient.
I'm wanting to use CS4 to do exactly the same thing. The problem is the clip is placed in the render queue and I start the app but it seems to take around 10 minutes to export for example an 8 second clip.
In this case its a HDTV project and I'm exporting MPEG2 1440X1080 25fps (same as the project video)
Why the long, long time to wait to export such small sections. The system is running a Q6600 Quad 2.4mhz, 4gb ram on WinXP32bit.

What a coincidence!
I can't guarantee trashing the prefs will help you but it certainly helped me 5 minutes ago!
Having replied to you I clicked on the FCE icon in the dock to make FCE visible again (I had hidden it earlier).
It did not re-appear and I could do absolutely nothing with it.
Eventually I made it Force Quit, restarted it, hid it and once again it did not re-appear.
I went through the whole process again with no luck so I trashed the preferences.
Result ...... I can now hide it and make it come back normally!

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I'm editing a movie on the latest and legal version of Mac's Premiere Pro CC. I began working on various projects and some days ago I merged them into one. Now, when I double click a timeline clip to preview or modify the in/out point of it an issue closes the software.
Message: Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down. We will attempt to save your current project.
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First thing to try is clearing the preferences: with Premiere closed, go to Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/8.0 and rename the folder "Profile-<username>." Launch PPro and see if the crash still happens. It's kind of a generic troubleshooting step, but a good place to start.
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Problem solved.
To a large extent the solution is illustrated here around minute 13:47 in this tutorial by Jerad Hill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F-Y6iMdtQg&feature=related
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I will leave this discussion posted just in case it helps someone else.

Timeline clips

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Use the Position tool (P) if you want to place a clip in a location on the timeline and not have the clip ripple. It will put a gap clip between the head of the clip and the tail of the preceding clip.
Use the Range tool (R) to get the "rubberband".
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Hello to all!
Feel sheepish to ask this. Was poking ignorantly into the features of the project library of a project I had on the timeline. Something I did made the project on the timeline to change in appearance to this:
Can anyone teach me what I had done to get the appearance of clips to change and what I should do to get the appearance back!
Regards.
Dr. Somanna

somanna wrote:
Hello to all!
Feel sheepish to ask this. Was poking ignorantly into the features of the project library of a project I had on the timeline. Something I did made the project on the timeline to change in appearance to this:
Can anyone teach me what I had done to get the appearance of clips to change and what I should do to get the appearance back!
Regards.
Dr. Somanna
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http://youtu.be/tPiNYqk3BcQ
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As I was attempting to add a cross fade to the end of one of my clips, I misjudged the placement of my fingers and pressed Shift+T instead of Command+T and now the clips in this particular sequence have gotten bigger, but I didn't zoom in, I just made the video and their complimentary audio clips "taller."
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Welcome to the forum Danzigzagz.
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Hello,
How can you tell whether the source of an audio clip in the timeline came from channel 1 or channel 2 on the master? I've tried Clip Properties but that only shows which timeline track it's in (which is fairly obvious if you've just selected it).
Many thanks!!
-- Sean

Sean, its a very good question that sadly has an hopelessly inadequate answer.
Of course FCP does know exactly which specific channel of audio (from a multi-channel source) that it's referencing, but there's just no easy way of determining which channel that is after the edit has been made. In some situations I can see exactly how and why that would certainly be very useful, just as it would be useful (especially in fast turn around editing) to be able to simply reassign an edit instance's audio source channel after the fact eg to be able to target an audio clip instance and simply switch it's content from say ch1 to ch2 of the source.
As it stands, although it's possible to do this in other NLE's its not yet possible in FCP. As always, you can send feedback to Apple's FCP development team at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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