Accessing another Gig of Ram

[Steve Roberts]

Heh … check the original poster’s name on the other thread. 🙂

[Brendan Coots]

Sorry but you’re wrong on this. Yes AE expands everything to full 8bit, BUT that says nothing about how fast AE can READ the source material into AE for expansion. Since the HDV codec uses interframe compression like MPEG2 files, AE is going to choke on it, and hard. Every codec can be read at different speeds – some take longer than others to parse and HDV is among the slowest out there. As was mentioned in the first two responses to this thread, RAM is not the issue here.

Maybe you should make certain you are correct before using harsh words towards others.

[Brendan Coots]

Without more info form the poster, there is no way of knowing but if you scan this forum going back 3-4 months, you will see about 20-30 similar threads – “I’m using HDV and it’s going slooooow!” Whatever is going on, the lesson here is people should convert HDV footage to another codec before using it in AE or other apps as it seems better suited to being an acquisition codec, not a production codec.

By the way, HDV is interframe, not intraframe. It’s easy to mix up the two names.