After speaking to an Adobe representative I was told this was because I don't have the entire AVCHD folder structure and metadata available, just the .MTS files, and that my only option to get the audio back into Premiere is to transcode the clips into another format and relink against the transcoded version.

Personally I don't think this sounds like a completely plausible explanation. There are MTS clips in the same folder that import just fine.

Our solution was to avoid rewriting the Windows-specific code at all (it was, after all, tried, tested and optimized). Instead, we decided to move it to a new operating-system dependent layer which we engineered to have an OS independent interface.

Once this was complete, we were then able to begin work on a Linux implementation of that same layer. In essence, the Lightworks code is now split in two - the OS-independent code (eg. editing, play-engine, etc) which uses the OS-dependent code (eg. file access, threading, etc).

The OS independent code accounts for about 97% of the total codebase. The bulk of the work in porting to Linux was actually in re-engineering the existing code, not in writing the Linux-specific layer.

Linux of course doesn't have [Windows'] Direct3D, so we had to reimplement all the Linux GPU specific code using OpenGL.

This development has been long-awaited. Once again, risk-averse developers are showing us how OSes, once the mainstay of IT revenue, are losing relevance.

What's next - Lightworks for Android? -only a few lines of code away.

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/118-lightworks-for-linux-the-developer-s-story

I shot some footage at 50fps on my GH3. After ocking a movie on Premiere (at 25fps) I moved it to Resolve 9 Lite via an XML file. For some unknown reason some clips (only some of them) show different in/out points than the Premiere version. All clips were shot in a 30 min time window. I suspect that it might be because of the Timecode settings of the original clips, inherited from GH3 settings (maybe cause it shifted from 3:xx:xx to 4:xx:xx during shooting?).

What have I done wrong? If it's related to Timecode settings: How should I set my camera to prevent this from happening? How can I fix it in post (either Premiere or Resolve)?

Thanks for answering!

P.

I am thinking of doing a system restore and reinstalling CS5.5 again.

Did any one experienced about enlarge a photos using screen capture. What are the necessary steps. Using retina macbook pro, I previewed the photos, zoom in then using command+shift+4 to capture . Look like it do the trick, but I was not sure.

Your inputs would be appreciated.

Let us know ones you know and like. How much is actual ownership cost, how stable are they?

Variants suggested:

Sony vegas Pro 12

Prices from $340 for Edit version, $260 for student version

• http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro

Avid Media Composer 7

Prices at about $795, $295 for student version

• http://www.avid.com/US/products/media-composer
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6676/avid-media-composer-7-#Item_2

Magix Video Pro X5

Prices from $43 for older version up to $399 for latest, $149 in all top products pack for students/teachers

• http://www.magix.com/us/video-pro-x/
• X2 full fledged version is available for $43 at http://www.amazon.com/MAGIX-639191700675-Video-Pro-X2/dp/B003EYU5BI/
• X3 with native AVCHD editing, multicam and 3D for $99 at http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004R8ZM6I/ref=sr_1_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1368059833&sr=8-2&condition=new
• X5+Samplitude+Designer Pro, $149 for students and teachers - http://education.magix.com/us/products/magix-academic-suite-pro-x/

Grassvalley Edius Pro 6.5

Prices from $500, $160 for student version

http://www.grassvalley.com/products/edius_pro_6.5

• 4K support
• Multiple GPUs support
• Content-Aware Editing
• Separate grading app with tracking in Ultimate
• Separate audio app with filters and spectrum based artifacts removal
• From $50 to $184

Please note that it app mostly suited for beginners and people who want to quickly get results.

See more at http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultimate-suite/features_en_US.html

Information files:

• http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/Preview_PremierePro_NAB2013.pdf
• http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/Preview_AfterEffects_NAB2013.pdf
• http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/Preview_SpeedGrade_NAB2013.pdf
• http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/Preview_Prelude_NAB2013.pdf
• http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/Preview_Audition_NAB2013.pdf
• http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/events/nab-2013/VideoDatasheetNAB.pdf

So I thought, I buy a cheap old Macbbook take it with me also for viewing, put all the footage on a lower quality and do an offline editing (original footage will be shot on GH2 and be sent to a "safer place").

Anybody has experience down to which Macbook and OSX, FCPX still works, RAM etc?

http://apps.avid.com/mediacomposer7/#?intcmp=AV-HP-S1

• Adobe Encore CS6
• Adobe Media Encoder CS6
• Adobe Story Plus
• After Effects CS6
• Audition CS6
• Photoshop CS6
• Prelude CS6
• Premiere Pro CS6

• Speedgrade CS6

• An optimized Mercury Playback Engine that is faster than before in software-only mode, and also sports a broader range of choices in graphics cards.

• Adobe Mercury Transmit gives Adobe I/O hardware partners, such as AJA, Black Magic Design, Bluefish444, Matrox, and MOTU direct access to the Mercury Playback Engine. Using external monitors, you’ll get full-screen playback while maintaining all the real-time performance benefits of the Mercury Playback Engine.
• Warp Stabilizer and Rolling Shutter Repair, which were previously only in Adobe After Effects.
• Unlimited cameras in Multicam.
• New and enhanced editing tools such as adjustment layers very reminiscent of After Effects, trimming directly in the Program Monitor, and a redesigned Audio Mixer. You can now double click to apply effects to selected clips.
• Three-Way Color Corrector effect, that uses GPU acceleration
• Adobe Media Encoder is now fully 64 bit software with a much expanded preset list and more efficient batch encoding that makes multiscreen delivery a breeze.

After Effects part

• Native support for Adobe SpeedGrade .Look files, cineSpace .csp files, and overrange IRIDAS .cube files.
• Not only is Mocha still there, but you can launch it directly from within After Effects.
• Global RAM cache. This is a vastly improved frame caching system that allows you to try different options and Undo without a penalty in productivity, as well as render and cache a comp’s work area in the background.
• Persistent Disk Cache. Previews done in a previous session are saved and immediately available the next time you open a project.
• New graphics pipeline. With more efficient use of OpenGL, the work environment in After Effects is more highly responsive and smoother. You’ll get faster manipulation of layers with graphical overlays such as masks, motion tracker points, and motion paths. Depending on the hardware, functions may be speeded by anywhere from 1.5 to 16 times!
• Intelligent 3D Camera Tracker effect.
• Ray-traced 3D rending engine giving you the capability to quickly design fully ray-traced geometric text and shape layers in 3D space. Pair this engine with, say an nVidia Quadro 2000, and you’ll see over 10 times the performance over CPU-only rendering by a stock Intel i7 3960X processor!
• Variable mask feather lets you set any number of points along a closed maks and define the width of the feather on a per-point basis
• Pro Import, previously available as a separate product from Automatic Duck, is now included with After Effects CS6.
• Effects that were previously 8bpc now support 16bpc or 32 bit float including all of the HD plug-ins of the included CycoreFX HD Suite.

Links:

http://success.adobe.com/en/na/programs/events/1203_16108_nab.html
http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/PL_CS6_WN_Reveal.pdf
http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/SG_CS6_Intro_Reveal.pdf
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/
http://blogs.adobe.com/insidesound/

Trials:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=production_premium&loc=en_us&sdid=JUJDJ&virid=adbe2012-JUJDJ
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Buy:

http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuitecollection.html

• CINEMA 4D Lite and live 3D pipeline between CINEMA 4D and After Effects
• Refine Edge tool, Roto Brush & Refine Edge effect, and Refine Soft Matte effect
• Warp Stabilizer VFX, improvements to the Warp Stabilizer effect
• improvements to the 3D Camera Tracker effect
• ability to find instances of missing fonts, effects, and footage
• snapping to layer features, including anchor points and masks
• bicubic resampling
• Pixel Motion Blur effect

We don't yet know what it will be called yet, but here's a preview, sort of...

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/04/whats-new-changed-after-effects-next.html

I am working on a project in FCPX where I constantly need to reverse, speed up, and slow down my clips. I basically want to be able to change "time" in the way you can do this when you scrub back and forth through video. Or the way a dj uses a turn table.

Is this possible, if so how?

Thanks so so much

For a long time, I've shot videos with any photo camera that I'd have around, not taking care about shutter speed, fps, etc. After some months of saving and research, I decided to go for a GH3. I feel now confident enough to show some of my work to the world (via Vimeo).

Last week I shot a movie in a hospital. Not every space was well lit, and after editing and some basic color grading, I realized there's some kind of noise (or blocks, I'm not sure) on the darker areas (specially black plastic chairs in waiting rooms).

Technicalities: GH3+12-35 f2,8 , MOV at 25fps and 50fps, ISO not higher than 1600, Premiere on Mac.

My question is: is there any serious noise reduction technique in Premiere? Photoshop is excellent at noise reduction, and I am really surprised that everybody is skipping Premiere when talking about N-R, and talking about 3rd party apps.

Please find below a link to the video.

Thank you in advance for your answers!

P.

Anyway, I'm looking to get better performance without having up upgrade the system, and it appears that there may be 2 strategies. The first is to set up a RAID disk system for video editing. The second is to convert my video files to a less-compressed, more intraframe-like format, so playback may be faster, and edit that. So I have a few questions.

1. Let's say I want to take my hi-def AVHCD files, and render copies in another format that PP can play back faster. Is there a video format that'd work for this purpose?

2. How much can a decent RAID system speed up playback in Premiere Pro?

3. Which is preferred; SATA drives hooked to the motherboard, or USB 3.0 drives?

I wanted to see if anyone knows of any software to reduce the Judder effect of 25p 30p I am asking because I thought it was somthing I was just going to live with and be careful when recording.

But I was checking out some footage I had recorded and it had a little judder in it and I uploaded the footage to Vimeo and Youtube to See how it looked. And it was the same as playing on my Computer and never thought any more of it, until I was back at home and played both clips via the internet apps made for my home TV a Samsung D7000 and I was Shocked how Smooth the clips were no Judder and really smooth.

I firstly Thought it must be because its 50hz and a computer screen is 60hz. But then I remember the Samsung has a Judder reducing function so I turned it off and the clips looked just like they did on my Home and Works Computers.

I then Went through all the Different Smoothing and Judder Settings on the Samsung LED D7000 turning them off and on, some settings made the footage look very smooth and far to video like and And it got me thinking if a TV can do this on the Fly there must be some software that can do this.

I was hoping someone my know of such a program or plugin.

Thanks Craig R

If I copy the entire project folder with all the clips used on the timeline, what would be the best way to save this for cross-edit? Can AE CS5.5 use the CS5 file smoothly?

This guy offered me this system with 23' apple display for my mbp + $300. curious if its good deal and if im really losing out on anything that the mbp has that the Mac Pro doesnt since i know it isnt as new.

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/sys/3564919499.html

Lookin at that one for around $400-500 with display.

Here is my Current MBP:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.3-13-early-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html

Thanks for any advice.

Namely, when encoding the original footage by using UT codec the colours appear like normal (in Media Player Classic or in VirtualDub). When editing such a footage with Vegas, the colours are preserved, so everything is OK.

However, if the original footage is converted into GoPro Cineform codec, a red shirt appears slightly toward orange in VirtualDub (it is almost OK), but in Media Player Classic the shirt becomes almost orange. When editing in Vegas and exporting the clip (I've tried several settings), the shirt becomes even more orange in VirtualDub and completely orange in MPC.

Does anybody know which settings should I use when recoding into Cineform codec and which settings should I use in Sony Vegas (tips for Movie Studio are also welcome) to retain more or less the "original colours" and, if possible, the original contrast?

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Autodesk announces the be-all-end-all of postproduction workflows, by making Smoke 2013 one hell of a editing, grading, compositing beast...and SLASHING the price.

http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/walter-biscardi-yes-autodesk-smoke-2013-changes-everything

Still too pricey for me, but If I had a small production facility. It'd definitely be an option.

Trial link:

http://usa.autodesk.com/smoke-for-mac/trial/

Results are targeted primarily for streaming producers, and apply to a much lesser degree to longform producers, if at all. Within the streaming media production community, however, these tests reveal that the Adobe CS6 encodes faster than FCP X, and can shave hours of rendering time off longer, more complex projects.

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Producer/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=83582&PageNum=1

Any help? Its annoying. cuz it takes around 5-10sec to load each clip every time i want to trim something in the trimmer. Thanks a bunch!

http://pro.magix.com/uploads/MAGIX_PRO/video_pro_x/pdfs/magix_video_pro_x5_new_features_en.pdf