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Well, The files are in an ext HD and I did not have it hooked up last night so I tried it this morning.
The project I am working on now is about 3 weeks old, and I just added a bunch o new clips to it to update it. It turns out that Shadow Files has been on all along. the older files do have the green icon, but the newer ones still have the yellow icon.
I tried viewing the green files, and they worked just like you said they would. The yellow files are still behaving badly
I have to leave the house soon and take my computer with me. Also, I am trying to edit a feature-length film in 5-to-10 minute segments, each of which will have lots of files in it (multiple angles of medieval melee tournaments).
About how long will I have to wait for between 20 and 40 files to go from yellow to green, and will I have to leave my computer open and on and not do any editing during that time?
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Thanks! Yes! If it works as well as you say, it could mean working as much as three or four times faster than I am working now! I will try it right away and report back. (probably tomorrow).
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Oh, wait, there are tabs on that thing! OK, here is the attachement.
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Is this the info you need to help?
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1 Build 7601)
System Manufacturer: Apple, Inc.
System Model: MacBook Pro8,1
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2435M CPU @ 2.40 GHz (4 CPUs), - 2.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Page file: 2256MB used 5754MB available
Directx Version: Directx 11
Other info: I am using Windows 7 in Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro. The partition is set at Bootcamp 140 GB/Mac 324 GB. The Bootcamp partition has between 15 and 25 GB free as I produce videos and them move them onto an external hard drive to free up space.
If this can help you help me, thanks!
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What's a dxdiag.txt and how do I access it so I cAttachmentsan attach it?
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I have been working with these videos for a while, and I think the source of my dificulty comes from this: Hi-def videos won;t run in the timeline. I drop the clip into the timeline, press "play," then it plays for about a second or two. Then the video freezes and the timeline cursor jumps ahead to another part of the timeline while the audio continues to play. When the audio catches up to the cursor, it jumps again, further this time. This means that the only way I get to see the video on which I am editing is to render it and watch it as a completed video. This does not happen with standard-def videos.
I can watch the videos just fine from the Library when I click on them, but not the timeline.
I get the same effect when I use the "Multiple Cameras" function. When I use the "Trim" fuction, the video moves slow as the audio mores at regular speed. When I hit "pause," the video catches up in ne jump.
I have figured out workarounds (ie: watching a video of the source of the clip and matching the timecode to that on the timeline to find the correct spot to cut the video) but this is tedious. And I still can't watch the whole thing without rendering it.
Is it possible that my computer does not have enough space or enough power to run hi-def video clips in the timeline? Is there some other reason?
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Addendum. I just tried the "Multicam" function and ran up against the same problem of hi-def video freezing while the audio continues playing and the timeline cursor jumps ahead a few seconds. When I "switch cameras," it happens where the timeline cursor is, not where I want it to. Arg.
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Hi folks. I am editing two camera angles of the same action. I used
"sync by audio" to get the clips lined up perfectly. I used the "trim"
function to select the bits of one camera andlge that I wanted to show
over the other camera angle, but when I pressed the "ok" button, it
turned out that all the clips were moved together to the start of where
the clip originally started, no longer in sync with the other camera
angle. I tried using "sync by audio" again to get all the clips back
where they should be, but it wound up putting them in sequence one after
the other on different tracks. I tried selecting individual clips from
the trimmed clip, but got the same result.
If you have an answer fo this, you can stop reading here. Otherwise, here are more details...
I would like to be able to do the editing on the timeline, but for some
reason hi-def video does not run smoothly in the timeline. After a
couple of seconds the video freezes, the timeline cursor jumps about 15
seconds ahead, and the audio keeps runing, so editing on the timeline
would be a matter of taking my best guess of where the cut should be,
then using the frame-by-frame movement to find the clip spot. That's why
I use the trim function.
Although the trim function is not
perfect either. The video runs in slow motion, but the audio in
real-time, along with the movment of the timeline cursor. When I hit
"pause" the frame cathces up to where it should be. My workaround for
that is to watch the clip in a Windows Media Viewer, find the point in
the video at which I want to make the edit, and match the time in the
"trim" function of Powerdirector (using the frame-by-frame function for
precision).
That's an awful lot of workarounds for what should be a
basic function of a video editor. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot I
like about this editor, but this is making the work take longer than is
should, really. Any advice would be appreciated.
But the first thing I would like to know, and don;t have a simple workaround for, is
a) how to trim clips using the trim function in a way that keps the clips that are left after trimming in the same place or
b) how to use the "sync by audio" function when one clip is a lot longer than the other.
...or anything else that would render these issues moot.
Thanks in advance.
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OK, thanks for the info.
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So I cut the video down to just under 1:05 (about 4.5GB) and it fit onto the single-layer DVD. But now if I want to make a 2-hour movie on one disk I just have to accept that it will be on a dual-layer disk and pay the extra dollar per disk for duplication? Are commercial DVDs of movies dual layer?
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GAH! I am really, reallym trying to get this onto a single-layer DVD for the purpose of dublication (cheaper, faster, and I am on an extremely limited timeframe and budget). I worked my way through the "make a DVD" process, (which is remarkably simple, actually. I love it!) and I noticed the "Smart Fit" setting which appears to have compressed my 7.9 GB, hour-and-50-minute movie into 4699 to fit onto a 4.7 GB disk. Unfortunately it crashed twice, once after 89%, once after 92%.
Aide from simply making the movie shorter (which I am going to do anyway), is there any way to cram or compress it onto that disk? Perhaps to render it at a certain setting? and then burn that? Have fewer separate scenes? Anything?
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Oh, so that's the setting I should pick. I get it now. Thanks. I was really hoping that there would be a way to get this 2-hour video onto a single layer disk for the purpose of duplication.
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Thanks, its good to know tat the function will make it fit. But are you saying there is no way to get a 2-hour movie on a single-layer disk? I am rendering it at 1280 x 720.
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I am making a movie almost 2 hours long that I want to put on a DVD with chapter menus and a couple of "bonus features" (additional projects). The various tutorials I have seen make it seem easy enough, but I am concerned about file size.
I have been saving the project as a MPEG-2 file, and it is coming out over 14 GB. A single-layer DVD only holds about 4.3 GB, and the duplicating service I use says that the largest the file should be. Is the DVD making function going to figure that out and make my video into the correct size, or is there a setting I should use or something that will ensure this all gets onto one single-layer DVD?
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Every AVI clip that came from my Fuji Finepix has the pop, no matter where in the clip it is edited, where on the timeline it sits, or whether there is a transition or not. No other source file has the pop at all.
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Here is a re-edit of the video on which I first oticed the pop. All the clips are from my Fuji Finepix F6000. Pretty much every clip has haad the frnt and back clipped off, so I am certain it's not something with the camera clicking when I press the shutter.
You will notice, however, that on at least one clip (at abut 1:26, where the cut goes from the guy's wrist to his face) there is no pop.
I have edited a couple of other videos, band sometimes there was a pop, smetimes, not. I am not finding the common theme yet, though. When I finish another video that I would want to post on YouTube, I will do so and link it here.
https://youtu.be/yqm_VK3NhYI
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S I use the "fade" transition between two clips, and what happens is that as the fade transitions, the clip coming in comes in on a frozen fram for a second, then starts playing as the clip fading out freezes on its way out. sp the fade is strady, but the actin within the fade freezes, so you never have both clips actually rolling at the same time.
I tried making overlapping transitions, and that solved the issue, but in the process, it pulled al the clips on the latter side of the transition back, maing the whole video 2 seconds shorter, and misaligning it with anthing on other tracks that was not "grouped.
Is the solution to this to simply make one of the clips 2 seconds longer, or both clips one second longer, or something like that, and do that for every pair of clips I want to transition like this? Maybe to put one of the clips on another trackand have that fade in while the other fades out?That seems like an awfully complex workaround.
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THE POP IS BACK!
I still have not checked he speaker drives, but I am definitely noticing that for some clips, the pop is there for others it is not. Ist finished a video and posted on YouTube where there is no pop (unless it is buried under the ambient noice) https://youtu.be/QbcQLAz2m9Y
I am no working on a video and there is a pop, and I will post that when it is done.
One thing I will be checking is in what types of files (AVI, MOV, etc) the pop happens and if that makes a difference.
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Tanks! "Fade" was what I was looking for, I just couldn't find it. I found it now, and all is right with the world!
Thanks for the tips about the oddball transitions. I had no idea that was a "thing."
Would anyone know if there is a "dither dissolve" in PD13? It was one of my favorite transitions in Adobe Premiere.
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I am using a couple of layers of video in thsi clip, and the one on top is smaller on the scren that the one on the botom, creating a "picture in picture" effect.
I want the picture on top, the smaller one, to fade out with a transition, so I selected "blur" and dropped it on the end of that clip in the timelling. It would up blurin the whole ecreen out.
How can I make the transition work on just that one clip, and not the other one on the screen?
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I have not had a chance to figure out how to check the driver for the speaker, as I was dealing with the crashed hard drive issue. Now that I got that resolved, I started editing a new video with videos from a different source. I am not having that "pop" issue at all so far. Maybe it was just a funy thing? But I intend to get back tot he video wthat was giing me the issue in a few days. I will let you know how it goes.
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