tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10364749976862798012024-02-08T12:39:42.094-08:00Adobe Premiere is destroying my life.Just so i know i'm not imagining how bad it is...ChangeTheFuturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16951453922266291587noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036474997686279801.post-67288039816896065792011-02-01T10:14:00.000-08:002011-02-01T10:14:37.836-08:00I just want to make a fucking contact sheet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">WHY ever remove a feature from software?!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Am I the only person who still wants to make contact sheets with Photoshop?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't want to use a PDF file or web gallery, I just want to make a fucking jpg like I used to which has a load of thumbnails of my photos. JESUS CHRIST.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I've installed the gay "legacy" plug ins from Adobe and DEFINITELY followed the instructions and it still doesn't work.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I just get "The command "<Unknown>" isn't currently available"</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>That is GREAT. Another fail for adobe 'good on paper - shit in real life'™</b></div></div>ChangeTheFuturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16951453922266291587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036474997686279801.post-54409455419993000562010-12-13T08:36:00.000-08:002010-12-13T08:36:20.306-08:00Returning to Premiere makes it hang for 15 minutesIf I switch to firefox or anything and straight back to Premiere CS5, it's unresponsive for 15 minutes!<br />
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14hrs of video in the timeline, very modern PCChangeTheFuturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16951453922266291587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1036474997686279801.post-37220977837093107612010-12-13T08:14:00.001-08:002011-12-21T05:57:13.313-08:00Back to life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An hour after that post, Prem has come back to life, let me put all 14 hrs in the timeline and is scrubbing nicely.</div></div><div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's taking up 2 of my 6GBs of ram.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sounds good. But I've spent 2 days just getting past the stage of importing.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2 Live chats to support</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Loads of googling, <a href="http://forums.adobe.com/message/3336341#3336341">asking on adobe forums</a> and</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">3 phone calls with adobe (including screen sharing + control) later, </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've managed to import clips but Premiere still</div><ol style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><li>hangs for several minutes or forever, each time I leave it for a moment and return (eg. making this post)</li>
<li>Half the clips I've imported are apparently 'offline'</li>
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>BACKGROUND</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Uninstalled CS4 production premium student licence and installed CS5 Production premium upgrade. During install it said both CS5 and CS4 serials were invalid...installed as a trial. </div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(I think it's activated itself now, as under Help there's an option saying 'Deactivate')</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It would just die when I imported my 1,500 video clips of XDCAM EX (shots averaging 20 seconds). Not take ages, but actually die (5 mins before progress bar appeared, 10 min wait, progress bar completes but it hangs forever)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Support deleted some cache, updated Quicktime etc, and now I've gotten as far as importing them successfully; I even managed to get some of the 1,500 in the test he did with me INTO the timeline and scrub a bit, then infinite hang.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the real project file, I can't even get anything in the timeline before infinite hang.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In case it's relevant: I did <a href="http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm">the workaround</a> to get my GTX480 supported in Premiere.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>SPECS</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">System drive is Intel SSD</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Video is on SATA hdds</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Win7 64bit</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">P6TD</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">6GB Corsair ram</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">i7 920 D0</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">GTX480</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">no sound card (cause it doesn't fit) using onboard SoundMAX</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">all latest drivers for everything as far as I know (apart from most of the Adobe software; it was hundreds of MB so I only updated Premiere)</div>ChangeTheFuturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16951453922266291587noreply@blogger.com0