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MediaStorm Guide to Installing Missing Final Cut Pro Codecs for Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:April 8, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. This great tip comes from Jonathan Grubbs via Josh Meltzer. Should you install Premiere Pro on a machine without Final Cut Pro, you will find your machine missing some key codecs such as ProRes. The solution is straightforward. Quit Premiere Pro. Download the ProApps Quicktime Codecs from the Apple site. You’ll receive an error if you try to install the codec package without FCP on your system. The workaround is to first install the free application unpkg. Drag the ProAppsQTCodecs.pkg file on to the unpkg icon. Unpkg wil extract the components to your desktop. In the Finder select Go > Go to Folder… (Command-Shift-G). Enter /Library/QuickTime. Drag the…

MediaStorm Guide to the Adobe Premiere Pro Media Cache Database

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:April 1, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. Each time you import audio or MPEG video files into Adobe Premiere Pro, the application caches a version into a database. This speeds up performance so that new previews do not need to be generated each time you view a clip. Audio is stored in a .cfa file and MPEG in .mpgindex. These files are shared between Adobe Media Encoder, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore and Soundbooth. By default both the cache files and the database are stored in the location /Users//Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common. To check this, open Premiere Pro > Preferences > Media. Storing Cache Files Under normal circumstances,…

MediaStorm Guide to Dynamic Linking in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:February 25, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Production Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. One of the many benefits of working with the Adobe Production Premium suite is the seamless manner in which applications work together. For example, you can easily send assets from Premiere Pro to After Effects to add additional effects or animation. Those changes will automatically update back in Premiere Pro, all without the need to export. This is a huge timesaver. In Premiere Pro select the clips you’d like to send to After Effects. Right-click and choose Replace With After Effects Composition (also found in the File > Adobe Link menu). A new composition will appear in your currently…

MediaStorm Guide to Cropping Stills in Adobe Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:February 18, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. Let’s start with a picture of my dog, Emmy. This is what it looks like at full frame. When I drag this image from Apple’s Aperture in to the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline, Premiere does not scale the image to fit the frame size of my project (1920x1080). Instead it leaves the image at its original 100 percent size, larger than the Program window. This is different than Final Cut’s behavior, which automatically scales the image vertically to fit the Canvas size. Note that in the Premiere Pro > Preferences > General menu there is an option to change…

MediaStorm Guide to the Warp Stabilizer Effect in Adobe Premiere Pro

Post author:Eric Maierson
Post published:February 11, 2013

This article is part of a new series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Today's post was written by MediaStorm producer Eric Maierson. If Adobe Premiere Pro has a secret weapon, then surely it’s the Warp Stabilizer effect. The Warp Stabilizer transforms shaky footage into usable material. The results are often remarkable. To apply the Warp Stabilizer, simply search for “warp” in the effects window (Shift-7). Then drag the effect onto the timeline clip that you’d like to stabilize. Note that the Warp Stabilizer effect does not work on footage that has been slowed down or sped up. The first thing you’ll notice is a blue bar across your clip. Adobe Premiere Pro is analyzing your material to understand its movement. Depending…