advice on remote edit system/upgrade for conference videos and fast compressions

[Tim Kolb]

Well…you could easily move to a newer laptop with better specs and improve your performance. You wouldn’t need an iMac, just double the RAM, a much better GPU… My Lenovo W520 has an i& that clocks slower than yours, but has a Quadro 2000 GPU and 16 GB of RAM.

Also…the NanoFlash only records MPEG2…it has Sony’s hardware chip in it. It can wrap the file as .mov, but it isn’t ProRes.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Glenn Walton]

Thanks Tim for the response and confirming some suspicions. Having such great performance at the office with the Mac Pro and Quadro for making these files, it’s hard to make the transition and dramatically effect our workflow when editing on the road. Upgrading to a better performing laptop is the most logical as lugging around a iMac or something at least I can travel with makes things much harder. I believe too I’ll need something that has a supported video card to make use of MPE in premiere as well? I think that will dramatically improve things.

Do you know if the Nano can record to the MPG then without wrapping it? would it make more sense to work within premiere with the native file? speeding up the flow even more?

thanks again!

[Glenn Walton]

Thanks Tim for the response and confirming some suspicions. Having such great performance at the office with the Mac Pro and Quadro for making these files, it’s hard to make the transition and dramatically effects our workflow when editing on the road. Grinds it to a halt in some ways.

A laptop with better performance is a great solution for a lot of reasons. Lugging around an iMac isn’t the best scenario and knowing what some of the newer machines have I would expect better performance. I would imagine too I should look for a laptop that has a supported video card for MPE? If I’m not mistaken, that should help with tasks like this as well.

I hadn’t realized the Nano had the sony chip and recorded MPG2 but wrapped it. Would it be possible or improve even more the whole process if I just took the native files as MPG2 into premiere? My goal is to just get closer to what I experience at the office. I can work with DSLR footage or other formats, edit a similar 15 minute piece and have a compression ready for YouTube in minutes so would love to try to get close to that level when working on these jobs on-site. thanks again

[Tim Kolb]

The Nano will record a variety of file wrappers…mine is in a drawer around here somewhere and I need to look at it again, but I believe the wrappers were .mov, .mp4 and .mxf… Not certain if there are any limitations provided by data rate differences (is the mp4 wrapper available at data rates above 35 Mbits/s for instance…)

I’ve had a few things come up that make me want to fire that unit up again anyway.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor