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Jerky HD in premiere cs3
Hope you can help,
I have some HD footage i’ve been trying to edit in Premiere.From what I can see in the forums the spec I have on my pc’s is far too slow(Dual CPU Pentium 2.40’s with 2gb of ram.)It looks as though you need a far higher spec of PC to edit HD at all as I can’t even play a file in the source monitor without it being extremely jerky.I’ve done all the usual stuff like defrag etc but no joy.
So my next question is “If I convert the files what size should I convert them to that wouldn’t then give me bad quality?”Any advice would be greatfully appreciated.
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One thing you can try is to make sure that your quality playback setting is set to “Draft Quality” instead of “Highest Quality”, your system should be able to run HD footage as long as that footage is compressed like an MPEG2.
I’m sure you already know this but I will say it anyway, never try running uncompressed HD footage like an AVI for example, it’s nearly impossible to run.
Try Draft Quality and see if that makes any difference.
Let us know.
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Hi Danny,
Thanks for that.I’m at an early stage when it comes to importing and exporting HD so I appreciate your help.The footage is 1080i avi so should I convert it to mpeg2 and then draft?Thanks again
Dougie
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Yeah definitly convert the file to MPEG2, then set your quality to “Draft”, it will still look very clear since it is HD footage.
I have a very suped up computer but even mine does not play HD AVI files well. Try not to make any HD file too long either if possible I usually capture in 5 minute incriments.
Let me know how it goes;)
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Hi Danny,
It seems that I haven’t set the software conversion correctly.
I originally had 1280×720(1.0) 29.97 fps and,after conversion,have ended up with mpeg2 720×576(1.422)25.00 fpsI was using replay converter to do the job and it’s obviously far too crude for my needs.Is there a programme that you could recommend to do this sepcific job?
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Darn thats my weak spot, I’ve never had to convert any files like that. Can you get ahold of the original tapes and just capture them on premire pro?
Maybe somebody can recommend a good converter or maybe just search online.
Sorry I can’t help on that one.
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