Video Not shown in premiere pro

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Tue May 25, 2004 4:14 pm

ack! 1 more thing is there a way to like make an intro to the vid. Like saying "artist" :name of vid" etc etc?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue May 25, 2004 4:57 pm

lordsofchaos0000 wrote: wootness thx a ton skinny baby!!!

That has to be one of the most amusing derivatives of my name I've seen yet.

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:ack! 1 more thing is there a way to like make an intro to the vid. Like saying "artist" :name of vid" etc etc?

Well, the easiest way to do that is to make a title card image in Photoshop, PSP, The GIMP, MS Paint, or whatever your image editor of choice is, and then stick it in your project at the beginning or end (you may find it advantageous to add fades in/out as well). Or you could make a separate project file for the credits if you want.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Tue May 25, 2004 5:01 pm

cooly. Also in premiere, when i hit enter to render it to preview. it is still laggy when im watching it. is that because its uncompressed? i thought rendering did it for you. i need to view it clearly so i can time it right.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:14 pm

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:cooly.

Fooly.

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:Also in premiere, when i hit enter to render it to preview. it is still laggy when im watching it. is that because its uncompressed? i thought rendering did it for you. i need to view it clearly so i can time it right.

The previews are made using whatever codec you specified in the project options. Unfortunately, Premiere Pro doesn't let you change the preview codec in the middle of a project (though 5.1 does; don't know about 6). If you selected uncompressed or HuffYUV for your previews, then they're likely to lag. <a href="/guides/avtech/">EADFAG</a> suggests an MJPEG codec set to a relatively low quality.

Another thing Premiere Pro will let you do is change the quality from "automatic" or "full" to "draft quality", which makes previews at 50% instead of 100%, making things somewhat faster.

Another thing Premiere Pro WON'T let you do is preview any sections that it thinks it can play back at the full frame rate (even if it can't) (= anywhere that doesn't have a red bar at the top of the timeline), which in my opinion is quite a shortcoming, and I don't know why they changed it to be that way.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:41 pm

alright. riddle me this 1) i can start the project over and select a diff codec, if i do, which should i pick? and 2) where do you select the "draft" or full or whatnot. sorry to be a bothersome scilly willy

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:48 pm

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:1) i can start the project over and select a diff codec, if i do, which should i pick?

Sure, you'll just have to do everything over again. I've found that the <a href="http://www.jpg.com/picvideomjpeg.htm">PICVideo MJPEG codec</a> works pretty well, apart from putting a slight watermark on everything you render (unless you buy the full version).

lordsofchaos0000 wrote:and 2) where do you select the "draft" or full or whatnot. sorry to be a bothersome scilly willy

In Premiere Pro, right-click on the preview window (the one on the right, I can't remember the exact term) and the quality options are on the menu.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Wed May 26, 2004 12:32 am

i cant select what compresser i want!! its just grey!! why?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed May 26, 2004 12:38 am

You might be on one of the presets. Select "Custom".

Of course, you have to do this right as you are initially making the new project file.

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Wed May 26, 2004 3:57 am

thx!! vid is going great! ive been working on it for a looong time, went to my friends houses and took my comp. its 4 am hes asleep and im working on it... erg sleepy. night

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Wed May 26, 2004 2:41 pm

Woot! Im Done! Scin Scin how would i go about exporting this to be viewd on most Media players(ie: Divx,winamp,Real) do i just go Project/Export/Adobe MEdia Encoder? Or do i have to export the video then audio? I tried reading ermacs guise to exporting but it wsa really confusing...