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34Hrs HDV Footage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have just been given 34 Tapes of HDV footage which i have pulled down to the PC using the standard capture feature in PP CS4. This footage will form a 45 Minute short film. Will PP cope with referencing all these different movie clips from one project or is there an alternative workflow i am unaware of?
Please help..
Thanks Karl
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4 Replies
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It would be good if you were on 64-bit Vista with 8 GB of RAM. But otherwise I would try to minimize the number of (sub)clips in the bins by cutting out clips (from the source tapes) on the timeline rather than creating subclips in the source viewer. This will keep the project complexity (and size) to a minimum. Also, close timelines and bins when not in use. This will help prevent low memory issues.
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Thanks for your prompt response Eric, am i reading correct that you suggest leaving the 34 Source files as 1hr .avi’s in the Bin and pull the required cuts directly into the main sequence rather than chop up the source files further.
Kind Regards Karl
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Yes, try to keep the bin structure as simple as possible. These are things I used to do in CS3 to avoid memory issues with large projects. I can’t say I’ve had any memory issues with CS4 on 64-bit Vista & 8 GB Ram, but I haven’t done any super large projects in CS4 yet either. I did recently complete an edit with 8 1-hour HDV tapes in CS4 without any issues, but I cut my clips from the original source tapes (captured in full) by marking ins and outs in the source monitor and dragging to the timeline, as opposed to dragging to the bin (making a subclip) and then to the timeline. The idea is to avoid accumulating hundreds (thousands) of clips in the bin, thus keeping the project file (and the memory footprint) smaller.
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The other issue is storage. I would want to have some serious RAID system to keep up with the data flow.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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