Video preview resets to default size

[Bob Gruen]

This is driving me nuts:

In Premiere, the default preview size of 1920x960 does not work on my system, it squeezes it down to a bad aspect ratio. The solution is to lower the preview size to 1200x600, which works fine. The problem is that there does not seem to be a way to make ths setting perminent. when you close and open the project all of the sequence settings default back to 1920x960. I've tried:

1. Creating the sequence then altering the size.
2. Altering the size when creating the sequence.
3. Creating custom sequence settings, then creating a sequence with it.

I tried to find the text file where this setting is stored. I found the definition file of the Red presets, but the setting is not there (which makes sense if you think about the problem). Is this setting in a text file where I can tweek it, or is it compiled in the codebase?

Bob

[David McGavran]

This is driving me nuts:

In Premiere, the default preview size of 1920x960 does not work on my system, it squeezes it down to a bad aspect ratio. The solution is to lower the preview size to 1200x600, which works fine. The problem is that there does not seem to be a way to make ths setting perminent. when you close and open the project all of the sequence settings default back to 1920x960. I've tried:

1. Creating the sequence then altering the size.
2. Altering the size when creating the sequence.
3. Creating custom sequence settings, then creating a sequence with it.

I tried to find the text file where this setting is stored. I found the definition file of the Red presets, but the setting is not there (which makes sense if you think about the problem). Is this setting in a text file where I can tweek it, or is it compiled in the codebase?

Bob

From a ppro engineer:


Hi David/Bob,

By "sequence settings default back to 1920x960 on project open", do you mean that the default values change back to 1920x960 or that the actual sequence preview presets of already constructed sequences switch to 1920x960?

If it's the first one, that would be a good feature request.

If it's the second, then that's a nasty bug. Custom sequence presets should save the custom preview size in the saved preset and that value should be respected when constructing a new sequence based off of that saved preset.

The default values are determined programmatically. Specifically this is done by asking the exporter (in the UI this is the 'preview file format' selection in the new sequence dialog's general tab) for the selected codec (again in the dialog) what the largest size that it supports that is the same size or smaller than the sequence size. That frame size is used for the default sequence preview frame size.

-Jess

[Bob Gruen]

Reply to Jess:

When I turn the preview size down at any point of creating or working with the sequence the size that I set will not survive a close then open of the file. I can re-size the preview file for a session and it will stay for the session, but I almost always forget to re-size it before I launch my first preview. My stream of consciousness generally goes like this:

Open a sequence in Pr and start editing. Get a bright idea for a special effect so replace that clip with an Ae comp. Work on it for a while and pat myself on the back for being so creative. Save it and pop back to Pr for more editing. Make and consume coffee. Edit, stretch (repeat). Section off a chunk of the work area and preview it so I can admire how good it looks (and by extension pat myself on the back again). Get up from my desk and stroll around a while cause Ae renders are not multi-core -yet... Come back to my desk and the preview is squeezed to an unnatural size due to some goofy bug. Doh! Select properties on the Sequence and turn the preview resolution down to 1200x600 and re-render the preview files (touching this setting fixes the bug). Kick myself for forgetting to do it before the first render. Finish working on that sequence and move on to the next one. Edit next sequence: pat myself on the back (again), forget to re-size (again), render preview files (again), kick myself (again). (The cycle repeats...)

I think you'll find in your code base that resetting the sequence preview size fire off in the file opening process. I like to turn it down cause it plays back better.

Of course you might want to fix the bug as well:

Bug @ 1920 x 860


Fixed (by resizing to any size, including 1920 x 860)


System: Mac Snow Leopard, Open GL with 8800GTS. Self updating CS5 & Red Footage.

Bob

[Jesse Zibble]

Hi Bob,

I have good news, bad news, and good news, and bad news.

The first good news is that the sequence preview frame size is being saved into the project file. So projects created with the Premiere CS5.0.x will have the user specified preview frame size in the project.

The first bad news is that I verified that on project open we do reset the preview frame size to the max available on project open (you nailed it).

The second good news is that I just checked in a fix for this and verified it.

And the last bad news is that it won't be out until our next release.

-Jess