>Adobe Premier Pro CS6 with the use of AJA
For all of those people who do not use "AJA" please tell us what that is
If AJA is a hardware device to digitize analog tapes... is it external, or a card inside the computer?
Is there special software... and what is the exact version of that software?
Recently I have been having trouble with my audio files in Adobe Premiere CS6. I will normalize all of the audio clips in my track(s) and everything will be fine. I will then close the project and come back to it at a later time to find that most, if not all, of the audio has reverted back to it's de-normalized self. I am saving my projects actively so I know that is not the problem. Has anyone else discovered this problem? And if so, did you find a solution?
I think I recall another post about this some time ago. You might try a forum search to see what hapened.
How exactly are you normalizing?
Sorry, I should have spesafied that.
'AJA Kona 3G' is a sound/video card instaled into a PCI port. We are using it on 5 MAC, but from my understanding it works on PC too. Our IT team ruled out ruled out improper installation and out dated add-ons. I'll be more then happy if it's as simple as incorrect settings. However that desn't seem to be the case.
I'm just right-clicking each audio clip > Audio Gain > Normalize Max Peak to: 0db
OK. Once you do that, you will be able to see what the gain has been adjusted to. Are you saying that after a restart, that gain adjustment has changed?
Yes. For example: Clip A will have a peak amplitude of -13.9db. I'll normalize it and it'll adjust to -7db. Save the project, close out, then come back a couple of days later and Clip A will have reverted as if I never normalized it. However, not all of my clips will revert. Some will remain normalized so I have to go in each individually and normalized it again, rather than being able to select all and normalize. Is there any other alternative to normalizing a clip, or even an entire sequence, other than my process and the "Normalize Master Track" option under the 'Sequence' tab? When Normalize Master Track I receive an error message "The selected audio track cannot be normalized to the requested level because it would require track keyframes greater than 0 dB."
I'm new to Premiere. Just made the switch from Final Cut and Avid over so I'm still unfamiliar with several things.
OK.
What type of media are the problem clips?
AIF audio files, all of my clips in the projects where this has been a problem have been AIF, not just the problem clips.
OK.
Maybe try converting those to .wav files. Do you have Audition?
Yes, I have Audition. Next time the problem occurs I will convert them to .wav and see if that fixes the problem.
Anyone who works with video finds it annoying and surprising that most computer monitors and software players refuse to display interlaced video correctly, and insist on combining two fields into a single frame, and then showing it as a progressive video. I am interested to know if even some modern TVs are doing this with interlaced video; the specs are capable of being twisted by mealy-mouthed sales types. I guess we need someone with an ultra high speed camera to get some close ups on TVs and watch to see for sure if alternating fields are refreshed as they are supposed to be with interlaced video. If it's shot interlaced, it should be displayed that way, and if it's shot progressive, it should be displayed progressive. But I digress!
This sad fact means video for computers has to be encoded differently from video for televisions, if that video was shot using an interlaced format.
And I don't think any player will parse interlaced video to show correctly, even with 60 Hz or higher refresh rates on decent monitors. I can't see a way for VLC to do it. Mplayer won't. I am unsure if Ffmpeg's player will. That would be interesting if it could...
I should have said "has to be encoded differently if maximum quality for each of the differing kinds of machine is to be retained."
If "Cloud" means moving to a subscription based product, that's not really much different than what we currently have with Auto updates and yearly "upgrade" costs. Only change is that "new" features might be released before the year cycle.
I hope "Cloud" doesn't mean converting PP, PS to a feature limited web based application that can NOT utilize all the capabilities of one's hardware because of security restrictions and functional limitations of HTML5. This might save Adobe a bunch of development expenditure because they would move to a single code path (rather than support both Windows and Mac), but it would cost the end user A LOT of usability and performance and feature limitations. No Thanks!
If Adobe really are thinking PP and PS can be web based applications, then I'll certainly be looking for alternate "real" applications to run on my hardware and will not subscribe to Adobe Cloud.
No, it's not web based. You just have to "check in" and pay the rent evey month.
Hi everybody !!
I had the exact same problem (PPro CS6 was crashing anytime i tried to quit). I don't know if my solution will work for everybody but it worked for me !!
The crashes started three weeks ago when i accidently open "Disk Drill" (HD manager,cleaner). At first i didn't make the conection because i tought i'd close "Disk Drill" right away. The thing is, "Disk Drill" wasn't close, it was on background operating...
Once i've notice that, I closed it (for good this time), and VOILA PPro stoped crashing.
So my solution is : close every HD manager, cleaner or any other software related to HD (that must be some kind of conflict in the autorisations).
Hope it will work for all of you or at least driving you to your own solution !
Edit : @rbtjonas : try to close Disk Warrior and others (in your case)
NaZa Giral
My Nikon DSLR records video in H.264/MPD-4 but this format doesn't appear to one of the supported formats in Premiere Pro. It seems I should first convert the H.264/MPD-4 files to a supported format before importing into Premiere Pro. As I would like to retain as much data as possible can anyone please advise if converting is necessary and if so on a good format and the compression to use?
Thanks
Peter
what can i try to speed the auto save project function? im on premiere 6.0 mac os 10.8.3 32 gb ram 1600 mhz DDR3 - project file is 32mb