Unable to enable GPU rendering in Project Settings (CC 2014)

I have two GTX 580s installed and the option for GPU rendering is grayed out in the project settings dialog box. Any ideas on why that is and how to fix it?

Always make sure you have the latest display drivers for your GPU. Go to nvidia.com/drivers

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Enabling GPU rendering in Premiere Pro CS3

Hi,
I've just built a computer for dedicated video editing and I am having trouble setting it up with Premiere. It takes a prohibitively long time to render anything.
It's running Windows 7 Home Premium and I've installed my copy of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.
I've read that I will probably have to configure my computer / Premiere Pro to use the GPU to process the rendering but I don't know how to do this.
Would anyone be able to give me some (really easy to follow) pointers about how to set up and configure my PC to utilise the graphics card for processing?
Many thanks,
Jonny
Here's what I have put in the machine I built:
Motherboard
"Recon iX45" Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz (3.6GHz Turbo) Quad Core Value Gaming Bundle
- CPU: Intel Core i5 4570 3.2GHz Quad Core CPU with 3.6GHz Turbo enabled
- Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Motherboard
- RAM: 8GB 1600MHz Dual Channel DDR3 RAM
Graphics Card
Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Core Clock: 1046MHz (GK104)
- Core Boost Clock: 1085MHz
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 7010MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 256-Bit
- Processing Cores: 1536
- Shader Clock: 2170MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express GEN 3.0 (Backwards compatible)
- Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1x HDMI 1.4a & 1x Displayport
- SLI Ready (Upto 3-Way SLI Supported)
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- 3D Vision Enabled
- NVIDIA Surround Enabled
- Lower power consumption (Maximum consumption 230 watts at stock speed)
Storage
Corsair Force GS 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F128GBGS-BK)

If you want CUDA, your **only** option is CS5 or above
Currently, you may pay monthly rental for PProCC or a one time purchase of PProCS6
http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_c reativesuite6.html?promoid=KFPMZ
Be sure your computer will run the program before you upgrade
Adobe's MINimums http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html but effective editing requires MORE power... see the http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page for more information

Premiere Elements 11 Video Rendering Options Not Available in Project Settings

When I open up Project Settings and select the Video Rendering tab, I get the following screen in which most options are grayed out and unable to be accessed. Could anyone exoplain why this might be please.
Dave

Some reading that may help
Online User Guide http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/index.html
-Page to download current PDF http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements.html
Importing Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1065281
-and project settings http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1112086
Saving & Sharing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137128
-Sharing to DVD or BluRay http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137645
-Sharing for Movies http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1051093
-Sharing for Computer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058237
Steve's Basic Training Tutorials... steps are the same for several versions
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685
-v11 http://www.amazon.com/Muvipix-Guide-Premiere-Elements-version/dp/1479311200/
FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_faq
TIPS http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_tips

How To Enable GPU Cuda in Adobe CS6 for Windows

I quote from Vimeo
A lot of folks were complaining about how most GPU accelerated graphics cards are not supported in Adobe's new Premiere Pro and After Effects CS6 applications.
Thankfully there is a simple and quick fix that allows you to enable your GPU videocard to be supported that makes the editing experience so much better.
I take six mintes to show you how to complete this on a Mac."
Here is the link https://vimeo.com/43420088
Can we do the same/similar for Windows based computers?
My video card is NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

After a little experimenting I have DONE IT !!!
In the folder "Program Files " "Adobe" "Premiere CS6" open the text file called cuda_supported_cards.txt.
Add your card to the list and hopefully it works.
Open a new session of Premiere, Goto "Project Settings" "General" and under Video Rendering and Playback "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration" should show as active.
Now I am going to tackle After Effects.

PPBM5 Questions and GPU Rendering Concerns

Bill and Harm, i figured i woud post this here instead of a private email so as to get some opinions and input from others.
I am a bit confused with the logic behind the gpu testing and want to make sure i understand how this is working and make sure i dont have any problems with my machine.
I just wiped out my 8 core, 20GB ram, SSD, gtx 460/2GB, machine and put a fresh win7/64 on it with cs5 and nothing else.
i am planning on doing various tests with the SSD, then SATA Raid, then my 4gbit fibrechannel in combinations.
My concern is over the gpu acceleration and timeline rendering. My basis for wanting these gfx cards with cs5 is on the PPBM results showing all kinds of double digit speed gains with MPE enabled.
I have 8 of these machines and need to upgrade them all so i am concerned to make sure what i am doing and what i am getting for it.
my first obvious question for everyone else is when you load the benchmark in what do you see on the timeline? i have all yellow except for two small red lines near the end of each section where the curtain and cube effects are at.
Now when i hit the spacebar to play the timeline at starts out ok but then hits the 8 second mark into it and chokes out the rest of the way skipping frames and drawing maybe 3-5 frames per second until it gets through the rest. Is this what happens for everyone else or does your system play the yellow area smoothly?
Is this a by-product of my manually putting the 460 into my supported cards file and premiere not properly calculating what the gpu can and cannot accelerate?
Now as for the benchmark testing itself when i hit enter it simply renders out those 2 effects that have the red line then starts playing the same choked out skippy video as before.
So if this speed is calculated and then the speed of my cpu rendering the entire timeline then how is this an effective comparison? if i simply remove those two effects at the end then i still have that big complicated timeline and yet if i hit enter it just plays choppy video instantly and nothing is rendered, so compared to my cpu thats a bazillion times faster but i dont get anything out of it as the video doesnt actually play with the gpu.
My real concern and need is flat out rendering speed for encoding. i had high hopes that getting a video card with hundreds of cores on it would magically render out mpeg 2 files 10-20x faster then my cpus can.
i saved out a pic of my cores when i am playing the timeline, you can see they are not being maxxed out.
Before i wiped my system out i tried the trial version of the mainconcept gpu encoder and it went slower with the gpu than it did with my cpus. Their email response to me was that gpu rendering is more of an advantage against slow cpu systems. and my cpu's were too fast in comparison. I find this hard to believe in that my system is several years old now. thier own performance comparison charts show a tremendous speed increase over modern I7 processors.
On a side note - DONT INSTALL MAINCONCEPT TRIAL ENCODER!- it hijaacked my mpeg encoding/decoding even when i wasnt using it and it was watermarking all my stuff in premiere with its logo!
I also have been using a program called canopus procoder which does great encoding with multi cores, a standard dv to mpeg2 encode on my system maxxes all 8 cores and renders about 14x faster than realtime.
I hoped a cuda card could increase this speed for me and render faster then that directly out of premiere. I would think during rendering your cpu's and gpu's would work together at 100% usage to go as fast as possible. i would like to see 20-30x realtime speed for mpeg2 encoding in my situation.
Thanks and i look forward to any input or help or even a simple "click on this and yoru problem is solved"

harm, thats kind of funny actually, you show us a report of your dropped frames on playback then say you cant tell us how because of NDA, yet we obviously know you have an app that reports the dropped frames during playback
But thats ok, anyways as far as your ppbm goes i love it and dont mean to desparage it in any way, i have been a big supporter and love the work you and bill have put into it. I am really just trying to have a better understanding of how it works.
My concern is more about premiere as opposed to ppbm. I want to know if my system matches what everyone else sees, when i load the project is get this:
i just want to make sure everyone else has the same tiny red sections that premiere feels it can't play.
previously premiere has always either played in realtime at 30fps or shown a red line which needs to be rendered. then if you render it you get full 30fps playback on the entire timeline.
now with this new gpu workflow i can only render those two tiny little red sections and the rest of my timeline plays at about 2 or 3 fps from 8 seconds into the timeline until the end.
So I actually have no physical way to see my video at full 30fps without changing to software mode and rendering the entire timeline? or am i missing something here?
Isn't premiere supposed to recognize when it cant keep up with 30fps playback and change that section of the timeline to red?
And on a side note i still have to say i am fairly annoyed that an adobe employee took it upon themselves to move my thread into the unpopular generic premiere hardware forum, when this is a very specific premiere cs5 question thread. I have never even looked in this forum for any cs5 posts before now and had hoped to get more feedback from users in the main premiere cs5 forum. A lot of companies like to treat their customers well and the old addage "the customer is always right" doesn't seem to apply anymore. My company probably has purchased over $1,000,000 in adobe software licenses over the years which i feel would make me a valuable customer, and i have some important questions i need to ask about the new version of your software and how it is supposed to work.
thanks

Batch capture settings do not match project settings

Batch capture audio settings do not conform to project settings-
PROJECT SETTINGS ON CREATION OF NEW PROJECT:
For editing with IEEE1394 (FireWire/i.LINK) DV equipment.
Standard NTSC video (4:3 interlaced).
48kHz (16 bit) audio.
Drop-Frame Timecode numbering.
General
Editing mode: DV NTSC
Timebase: 29.97fps
Video Settings
Frame size: 720h 480v (0.9091)
Frame rate: 29.97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9091)
Fields: Lower Field First
Audio Settings
Sample rate: 48000 samples/second
Default Sequence
Total video tracks: 3
Master track type: Stereo
Mono tracks: 0
Please note audio setting for project 48kHz (16 bit) audio.
When I set for batch capture by creating off-line clips using the "Log Clip" option the off-line clip shows audio as
32KHZ 16-bit everyting else is correct as project settings.
Just prior to creating the off-line batch capture clip I had sucessfully captured from the same device using the same tape shot with the above settings including 48khz 16-bit audio by using standard " Capture" by setting in & out then clicking Capture>In/Out.
I've looked at capture settings etc...unable to determine to change audio settings etc or why the audio settings under batch capture do not conform to project settings...
Any ideas?
Tnx,
mick

Thanks for your reply, Harm....
Well now...having negated all the possibilities you listed, I decided to do a an actual batch capture with clips which I previously logged which reported audio at 32kHz instead of the project setting of 48kHz:
1. two clips were selected from the same device/tape ( both selected from the logging util which erroneously reported audio at 32kHz) for the batch
2. both clips captured "flawlessly"
3. both clips after the batch capture then reported audio as being 48kHz
Btw, I also did a batch capture from the same device/tape in Pr 6.x...and it reported and captured at 48khz...I must say, I must prefer the legacy version of Pr 6 for batch capture which creates a log .pbl file which can then be easily exported as a csv to and .xls etc..IMO, much more useful...and useable..
Mi dos pesos(.002US)
So it would appear there is some kind of bug in the Pr cs4 batch capture util that is erroneously reporting audio settings?
Should this go to the devel as a possible bug?
Tnx,
mick

Project Settings vs. Encoding and Encore Resolution for BR

I am editing HDV footage from a Canon HV20. When I setup my project in Pr Pro I used the recommended
default HDV project settings. Hopefully these are correct. I will be burning a Blu-Ray disc for the project.
I assume like other products I have used, the best answer here is the native resolution of your source which hopefully is what I am getting.
Now when I render it via media encoder, it asks me for the "frame size"/resolution for the Blu-Ray disc output.
Also when opening a new project in Encore, it asks for similar information. I am in NTSC land.
I am familiar with the HD standard and resolutions, and the end result of this project is a Blu-Ray disc played on HDTV's.
However what is the best media encoder resolutoin and encore "frame size" settings for a Blu-Ray disc with an HDV source?
I saw several articles and videos from Adobe about these settings and they explain what they are, but not what the recommended selections are.
As a sidenote, once you are working on a project in PP can you change the settings/resolution of the project?
Thanks,
BJBBJB1
PS...Did not know which forum to post this in as it straddles all 3 products!!

First, thanks to both of you for your help! Hmmm, I am sure the confusion is on my end....
Both of you recommend H.264 vs. MPEG 2 for encoding. If I am rendering a 1 hour 20 minute Blu-ray, for burning Blu-Rays that I need to paly on a white variety of standalone players, what is the better choice and whay? I was planning on burning to single layer Blu-Ray at best quality. I am also using 5.1 audio.
For the encoder, I was going to use "HDTV 1080i 29.97 High Quality" as my rendering preset with MPEG2.
However now I am wondering if I should be using H.264? Harm, you mention it and you also mention "square pixels". I am familiar with this concept due to my photography work and slide shows vs. video, but where is this "square pixel" setting in the media encoder??
Anna, I appreciate your comment regarding keeping it simple, however, although I am far from a PPro expert, I definitely am into Home Video and understand quality and resolutions, etc., so I want to get the best quality even if I have to do a little work.. So I'll get there. I see that clicking on that menu item allows you to choose maximum render quality. I have plenty of RAM but since I am not going SD to HD or SD to HD, perhaps it won't matter much. However I am confused by the resolution you are showing there, 1440x1080?
As far as my initial question regarding how to setup my encore project, I may have answered it myself by playing around with the media encoder box. I opened up the drop down advanced section and I see it presents the frame dimensions there. I would assume I would use the exact same frame dimensions in Encore when setting up my project.
So I guess at this point my only decisions are:
1) What codec should I use when exporting from PPro? h.264 or MPEG-2. If it matters, I am using 5.1 audio also. (thanks for all your help with that Harm months ago, it works great!).
2) What resolution to use in media encoder?
3) How do I set square pixels?
4) Once exported, in Encore, is my assumption correct that I will just use the same resolution as exported from P Pro.
Perhaps that is what Anna was recommending, keep the same resolution and then let Encore render to 1920X1080 however I would want to get all my rendering out of the way during the export process and just keep it all the same in Encore if that is a good workflow.
Thanks again for all the help!
BJBBJB1

While rendering a project in After Effects CC (Mac) , the application closes half way, saying it quit unexpectedly, Please Help!

So, I have created a cool project that was a lot of hard work in After Effects CC (Mac), While rendering a project in After Effects CC (Mac) , the application closes half way, saying it quit unexpectedly. Here is the link to an error log which is automatically recorded when After Effects crashes:- After Effects Crash (Mac) - Pastebin.com
I have tried to render this project at least 5 times, shutting and restarting my computer. Please Help!
Here is my computer specs if needed;
Operating System: Mac OS X Mavericks version 10.9.4 (13E28)
Processor: 2.5GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Screen Resolution: 13-inch (1280 x 800)
Hard Drive: 500GB -- 186.49 GB free space.
Thanks
Milan

Element 3d renders using your graphics card. Unlike After Effects, what GPU you're using matters a lot for Element.
As it is, you don't really have one.
You could try rendering an image sequence and then picking up your render where it left off when it crashes, but if a certain frame is just too much for your computer to handle, there's not much we can help with. I'd suggest adding a GPU that Element can use.

What Project Settings to Use?

Hi,
I am very new to this program and would like to put together a movie using video clips taken from my iPhone. When complete, it will need to be saved as an FLV for web viewing. What settings should I use when I create a new project in PrE12? Also, I want to insert slides in between clips. If I create them in PhotoShop or Illustrator, what dimensions should they be if I want them to be the same dimensions as the video clips? Thanks for any help!

HapJax
Premiere Elements 12, like version 11, takes over setting the project preset (project settings) based on the properties of first drag to the Expert workspace Timeline. If that project preset set by the program matches the properties of your source file, then you should have no colored line over the the Timeline content (as the first drag to that Timeline).
Sometimes the program does that OK, sometimes not. If not, then you set the project preset manually yourself based on the file properties that you know before importing media into the project. When the program does not do it right, it does not give you the closest to what it should be but rather its default NTSC AVCHD Full HD1080i30 or its PAL counterpart.
Now here is the bottom line here...if you let the program set the project preset for you and you get an orange line over its content, you do not render the Timeline to get the best possible preview. You set the project preset manually according to the properties of the source media and then move on as indicated above.
Once you start editing your video (working in a project set with the correct project setting), you will get an orange line over the edited content - program telling you that you need to render the content to get the best possible preview. The time for "rendering" for preview purposes according to the color indicator system is after edits, not after the first drag to the timeline.
That is my take on the situation.
If clarification on anything that I have written, please do not hesitate to ask.
Thanks.
ATR

Renderfarm error: Pre-Flight Error: Unable to import previously rendered file

I have an error message I am receiving during network rendering on a renderfarm, and was hoping for some help. The error is this: "Pre-Flight Error: Unable to import previously rendered file."
Here is my setup and some details:
The user makes a comp, and adds it to the render queue set to render as a quicktime movie file. Then they run a script which precomps everything and sets it to render as a image sequence with "Skip existing files" checked. This comp also has a post-render action set to import & replace usage. After this comp is rendered, it gets pulled back into the project and the original render item starts rendering the movie file using the previously rendered image sequence as it's only layer.
This project gets saved to a server where our render nodes are watching the folder. All the render nodes pick up the project and proceed to render the image sequence. Then, after they are done, 1 machine will pick up the second render item and begin rendering the image sequence into the final quicktime movie.
All of this goes smoothly about 90% of the time. However, in some cases an error shows up in the watch folder html page for the 2nd render item (the one converting the image sequence to the movie). The error says "Pre-Flight Error: Unable to import previously rendered file." After the error occurs, no machines will start rendering the project.
My first guess is that the render engine on one machine somehow skips rendering the image sequence comp, and then tries to render the quicktime movie comp and fails because the image sequence has not yet been rendered. However, I can't figure out why After Effects would skip rendering the first comp.
Does anyone have any idea?
Thanks for the help, and let me know if you have any more questions about the setup,
Adam

Well, you should get used to the fact that it's simply gone... Just looking at your screenshot makes me grind my teeth. From delayed writing of files to fragmentation in user folders to Windows doing obscure things this could be anything, but seriously, saving important files on the desktop? That is simply sloppy data management. There is no other way to say it. Read up on what proper file naming, incremental saving and backups are good for and why keeping work files separate and away from your user home directories is actually a quite simple, yet effective concept to avoid exactly that kind of issue.
Mylenium

Project Settings

I have done several projects before but just purchased Premier 12 and am learning more and more. That said I am finding that for some of the features that I want to do what I have my project set for is critical, so this is what I am taking pictures with, I have a Nikon Coolpix S 9100 and have it set for HD 1080 30 P (1920X1080) In doing some research and reading I am finding that Premier 12 automatically presets my project to fit the media that I import, am I correct in assuming that? So with that said I am doing a project and it set my project for NTSC-AVCHD-Full HD 1080 i 30. Before I add my images I edit my photos in Photoshop, I crop the photo usually to a 5x7 with a resolution of 150 thus giving me a 1050x750 image So all of that said these are my questions:
Should I be editing my photos in a different format size? (I did a test project and changed it to a 2000 x 1500) but than some of my photo on the time line was outside of the "safe margin" perimeter and wondering if at that higher resolution that I might run into crash issues as I tend to have allot of photos in a project)
What should my Capture Format be at? (Right now it is at HDV)
Under Video Rendering should I check the box Maximum Bit Depth?
In the new project set up should I check force selected project settings?
I know that I am asking allot but it seems like the more projects that I undertake the more questions that I have. Thank you for you support and help

hello
I'd open a clip in quicktime player and check video track in movie properties to see what codec is being used then set my easy setup to match. did you inherit the project as a project? if so in the browser you can find frame size compresser and number of audio tracks and audio sample rate for each piece of media in their rtespective columns. Use the appropriate settings on you3r system/ Hopefully you didn't inherit the project cause it was messed up.

24P Playback and Project settings

I'm a Final Cut guy switching to Premiere Pro CS5.5 and have legacy files to edit. I"m trying to figure out the best project settings (Mac Based)
Bringing in Pro Res files 1920 x 1080, 24p. I have a Black Magic Decklink Studio with most current drivers.
I don't seem to see a project setting that allows me to run my video out to an external monitor on a 24p sequence. Now in Final Cut I can edit the 24p files on a 24p timeline and still playout thru the BMD card. I guess it does the pulldown. I assumed it would in PPro as well?
I can setup a project in CS5.5 at 29.97 but then my sequences need to be rendered.
I must be missing something but can't seen to get the right settings... Help!
thanks
Ben Kupfer

Drop a clip onto the "new item" icon at the bottom of the project panel an Premiere will make the appropriate timeline for you.
Use playback setting to pick your external monitor and you should be set.

Publish to iOS using GPU rendering?

Can the new publish to iOS feature use GPU rendering and if so, how does one set that?
AIR for iOS allows CPU, GPU, Auto, and Direct options.
Thanks.

Is this really the only solution? I've been trying to go back to Java 1.6 following various threads found on internet but have been unable to get to work - does Adobe have any plans to fix on thier end? Here's error message I'm getting, have tried switching Air versions but didn't help. We've actually had to remove an app from app store because unable to export to fix a bug, so any help would be appreciated.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unable to find llvm JNI lib in:
/Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/AIR3.2/lib/adt.jar/Darwin
/Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/AIR3.2/lib/aot/lib/x64
/Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/AIR3.2/lib/adt.jar
/Applications/Adobe Flash CS6/AIR3.2/lib
     at adobe.abc.LLVMEmitter.loadJNI(LLVMEmitter.java:577)
     at adobe.abc.LLVMEmitter.(LLVMEmitter.java:591)
     at com.adobe.air.ipa.AOTCompiler.generateExtensionsGlue(AOTCompiler.java:407)
     at com.adobe.air.ipa.AOTCompiler.generateMachineBinaries(AOTCompiler.java:1585)
     at com.adobe.air.ipa.IPAOutputStream.createIosBinary(IPAOutputStream.java:300)
     at com.adobe.air.ipa.IPAOutputStream.finalizeSig(IPAOutputStream.java:620)
     at com.adobe.air.ApplicationPackager.createPackage(ApplicationPackager.java:91)
     at com.adobe.air.ipa.IPAPackager.createPackage(IPAPackager.java:224)
     at com.adobe.air.ADT.parseArgsAndGo(ADT.java:557)
     at com.adobe.air.ADT.run(ADT.java:414)
     at com.adobe.air.ADT.main(ADT.java:464)

Projects settings for AVCHD MTS files in Adobe Premiere Elements 8

Hello,
I have read several discussions already, about importing AVCHD MTS file in Adobe Elements (version 8), but I'm also confused a littlebit, so I would like to confirm if I'm correct.
FYI, I have a Canon Legria HFR26 camera and am using Adobe Premiere Elements 8 (with the latest updates installed).
According to the specs in the Canon instruction manual:
Videos are recorded in high definition using AVCHD specifications
(MPEG-4/H.264 compression).
Audio compression: Dolby Digital 2ch
The camera supports making video's in different format, but I have done it in the default SP format, which results in a resolution of 1440x1080 (50 fields per second, interlaced).
I have copied the video from the camera to my harddisk, and Windows also mentions the video's as AVCHD of 1440x1080 (Bitrate 7672kbps).
The frame rate is 25 frames/second. I assume this is correct for 50i?
So, when I import my video's into Adobe Elements 8, I select the following projects settings:
PAL, AVCHD, HD 1080i 25
Because the description matches my video files:
- For editing with 1440x1080i AVCHD camcorders.
- 16:9 interlaced HD video at 25 frames per second.
- 48kHz audio.
The video's are imported correctly and I can play them. However, as soon as I drop a video on the timeline, Adobe immediately starts background rendering the video (a red line appears on the timeline).
What I understand from some discussions, is that this shouldn't happen, because the video format doesn't match the project settings. On the other hand, I have also read that for Adobe Elements 8 this is normal behaviour and it always start background rendering AVCHD video's.
Is this expected behaviour or should I chance my projects settings or maybe even convert my video files to a different format?
Thanks,
Michiel

The ability to work natively with AVCHD files was not added until version 10, Michiel. So you'll still have to render while you work in version 8.

How do you change project settings on Premiere Elements 12?

I have Premiere Elements 12. When I view a DVD I created of wedding photos, the edges of people and objects are jagged and generally the photos appear blurry. On my old Premiere Elements 8, I did not have this problem - the pictures on DVDs were clear and sharp. When checking the project setting on Premiere 8, the project settings for Capture was DV which changed all my settings for General and Rendering project settings. On my new Premiere 12, the Capture setting is HDV and I cannot get the General and Rendering settings to change when I change the Capture setting to DV. The online help from Adobe says to correct this, "In the New Project dialog box, click Change Settings," but when I start a new project in Premiere 12, "Adobe Premiere Element Editor" is the only dialogue box that shows and I cannot see a change setting button. Does anyone know how I can change my project settings so that when I select DV it will change all the presets for the General and Video Rendering settings?

jacquelinebaker
The party line is that you cannot change project settings once the project settings have been set. You need to start a new project.
Edit Menu/Project Settings/General does not offer the opportunity for any significant project settings change in this type of situation.
I have discovered that, under certain circumstances, that the user can change the established project preset without starting a new project.
The approach to doing this involves editing the Notepad document of the saved closed project file (project.prel file). I have written about this in the following blog post.
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/05/pe11-changing-project-settings-without.html
You need to weigh the pros and cons of going through the procedure or just starting a new project and start the project again.
All of the above being said, on to setting to the correct project preset to match the properties of your source media. Please refer to the issues involved and how to set manually the project preset when the program is not doing the job correctly or best automatically.
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-accuracy-of-automatic-project.html
To the specifics...if you are doing DV data capture firewire into Premiere Elements 12 Capture Window, the scenario would be...
a. Open Premiere Elements 12 to the Expert workspace, go to File Menu/New/Project and Change Settings. In Change Settings,
change the project preset to NTSC DV Standard or NTSC DV Widescreen depending on NTSC or PAL set up and 4:3 or 16:9 DV data source. Then before you exit that area, make sure to place a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on This Project" in
the new project dialog. Exit that area and return to the Premiere Elements 12 Expert workspace for your Add Media/DV Capture selection.
If you are doing HDV data capture firewire into Premiere Elements 12 Capture Window, then same scenario except the project preset change involves NTSC HDV HDV 1080i30 (if NTSC). In this instance, the Edit Menu/Project Settings/General should look like
Please review and consider and then let me know if I have targeted you question or need clarification.
Thank you.
ATR

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