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Working with HD
Hi,
Two weeks ago I have bought myself a nice Canon 7D. As soon as I started importing clips to Premiere Pro I encountered the well know issue with the h.264 mov files.
I found out the Neoscene converter would help me out here and I placed the order. After encoding some of the files I noticed the converted avi where much more editable. But my joy lasted for just five minutes.
The thing is, my Premiere can handle the files pretty well. But after a few minutes of editing it tends to get really slow. Is there any way to avoid this? I know my specs are not that high but it’s going good for some time so it could be going good some longer time I guess.
Thanks for any help.
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Marten,
My guess is that your PC needs more resources. How much memory do you have? I thought the 6gigs that I had was good enough until I ran into problems using Premiere Pro CS4 with HDV and HDSLR footage, spoke to an Adobe rep and was told my 6gigs wasn’t really enough. I’ve since doubled it to 12gigs and so far, so good.
Good luck!
Druu
Bite Me TV
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Andrew is right, you must upgrade to Adobe Min specifications for CS5. I still use Premiere Pro 1.5.1, now it used to handle H.264 MOV clips but, eventually gave up all together. But, I had Premiere Elements 4 which does handle mov H.264 files and in less than 4GB bits, but, you >render>Export to Movie> save file> Import into Premiere Pro , it will come in as an Microsoft or Cineform avi file, uncompressed, you can change this >editing on the timeline is pretty easy.
A number of the generic convertors do not translate the codec correctly , and even if you end up with an avi file PP will not like it, that is my experience, but, PP will talk to Premiere Elements as far back as 4 , but, you will need a bigger computer, we run a DEll T5500 Precision Server Quad Core 12 GB Ram with a Adobe Certified Nvidia Quadro FX 3800 Video card, no slow motion in transcoding in the Monitor with this one, and it has revolutionised the old PP.
We will go to CS5 and get away from all this nonsense very soon.
We have been running Canon’s 5D mark II for 18 months now, and the video is sensational in 1920 x 1080i and viewed on a Sony Bravia 46′ Full HD TV
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You will need a 64 Bit i7 computer to handle the large file sizes as earlier versions of PP are only 32 bit and can apparently handle only about 4GB of material ? . We were and still use a Dell Dimension 8400 3.2Ghx 800fsb with hyper-threading and only 2GB Ram in say Photoshop but, no longer for HDV , it would manage the H.264 mov files but, slowly.
Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA
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