Does Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 REALLY brings HD editing to the desktop as they claim?

[Steven L. gotz]

Does your PC meet the minimum requirements?

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Tim Kolb]

v1.5.1 works just fine with HDV, but the machine it’s on can make a difference. What are your system specs?

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Nik Nastev]

Just get PPro 1.5.1 Update from Adobe website and you’ll have option to capture and edit in HDV (1.5.1 include special version of Cineform HD plugin).

Nik Nastev

[Mitchell Lopez]

My FX1 and PPro 1.5.1 have worked perfectly together, since day one, without any need to weak the software/hardware. And I have not installed the “$499 Cineform plugin”.

In the hundreds of scenes that I have captured, I have only had two scenes that were pixilated. All I had to do was recature those two scenes.

Yes the Cineform plugin will improve performance, but for now, I’m OK.

I also suspect it is your hardware.

[Steven L. gotz]

You guys are lucky if it works for you. My PC is only 3GHz and I often have problems with capturing. So I use Cineform Aspect HD instead. That way I get a chance to capture M2T, review it, and only convert to Cineform AVI those files that I plan on using.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Tim Kolb]

Hi Steven,

What problems have you experienced? For me, PPro 1.5.1 captures fine, but you do have to wait at the end for the conversion to finish. No file integrity problems on this end though… (I have the Aspect HD plugin and that works faster, but 1.5.1 works…)

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Steven L. gotz]

I originally thought I had dirty heads, or bad tapes, or something, because I would often get pixelization using 1.5.1

When I switched to doing it in two steps, the problem went away. I thought my PC was good enough, but I am suspicious of it now. Once I get a new PC I will try again, but a new PC is going to be hard to come by. I just bought this house in Florida on the golf course: https://www.stevengotz.com/florida.htm

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[James Lynch]

The PC I am using is a Pentium 4 3.2 with HT, 1 gig of Ram, 7200 drives. Where should I look for the problem if Premiere 1.5.1 pixilates on captures longer than 10 seconds?

[Steven L. gotz]

You are a bit low on RAM. I would double it before I did anyhing else.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Chad Treanor]

Steven, did you shoot the florida video from your previous post? If so did you shoot it on the sony hdv camera? the footage looks amazing. Im looking to get one and i have the same PC set up as the previous post and im wondering do you need 2 gigs of ram to get full functionality out of hdv footage?

also, ive heard of digitizing SD and then uprezzing to HD for the final online edit. Can this be done within the camera? As if you were to re-dig. the online footage.

Thanks
chadwik