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bring out the big guns…
Hey everyone, I am in some serious need of help here, and I’m not sure how much help you can offer but I’ve had some good luck with posts on here in the past, so here it goes:
I shot a 4 day event at about 7 hours of footage a day with three cameras. (so like 60 hrs of tapes) I hired a technical director to run a switchboard during the event to run a live edit into a hard drive so that I may just edit the stream of 4 days (28 hr MPEG) into a 6 hr DVD. We agreed on AVI as the export, but I received a MPEG 2 and supposedly he tells me its better quality (he keeps saying “studio quality”) than an AVI. In any case it was edited on a tricaster switchboard at its “highest output” and I wont argue. I have to click on de-interlace, I have to render the file because there is a red bar above the time line (i read that if it’s red that means the project settings are wrong, is that true?) and I can’t really get a couple hours to run without Adobe crashing and freezing ( i have each day broken up into 3 separate MPG files, at about 2 hrs a file) What do I have to get done or change to get this thing edited? I’m gonna end up wasting allot of time trying to get these files working if I don’t think of something quick. I’m running on a
SONY VAIO
WINDOWS XP Professional service pack 2
Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
2.79GHz, 2.0GB RAMAdobe Premiere CS3 from the
ADOBE CS3 Production Premium (the bundle pack)Do I need to consider switching to a Mac in order to do this project or what? Is it a problem with the file type and adobe?
I also have a VAIO laptop which cant really run the file in Premiere CS3 either, and its pretty damn fast with 3.0GB RAM.
Thanks for your help
Kevin Cease
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Since that format is not supported as “native”, you will have to render.
That machine is not likely to be enough to handle that project. With that amount of data, I would recommend a SATA setup if you don’t one already (Forget USB), even better, RAID storage. I would say at least a core 2duo possibly even a core 2 quad (in a desktop setting), should allow you to edit without rendering. That may be a good time for an upgrade, but keep in mind that you are working with a format non native to Premiere, so there is always the possibility for issues.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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do you mean just get a internal harddrive just for this when you say sata….and not sure what RAID is, I’m reading up on it in Wikipedia. NOw as far as “non native” to premiere, not sure what that means either, would converting it fix the problem here?
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I’m not sure if your internal hardrive uses a SATA connection, but if there is only one, it doesn’t matter that much as it should only be used to run XP.
Since I am assuming you are using an external drive for all that footage, that’s where speed matters, and the more footage, the more likely Premiere will choke on the data. So that’s where a high speed connection is needed. The first step would be a SATA drive, which allows faster transfer speed, then RAID 0,5 or 10, which combines several drives to improve speed even further.
Premiere only supports a few native formats, including, DV, HDV, DVC Pro (P2), etc. For those, you won’t need to render if the project settings are correct.
Other formats will have the render bar no matter what, but a faster computer should be able to play in real time anyway. Converting would not be a good solution since you would have to convert to uncompressed to avoid losing quality; that would in turn require even more processing power…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
split the long clip into several smaller ones on the timeline. Preview as often as required until it is all done. save the individual preview files. They will be in the format of teh project settings. render the audio only from teh opriginal files. create a new project and use the video from teh preview files with teh rendered audio.
Klugy but may be the only plan B you have
George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com
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