Editing HD like “Pushing Chain”

[Tim Kolb]

Animation compression is still compression…

ProRes is more compressed…I’m guessing your harddrives are the culprit if you can’t make framerate with larger files…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Michael Gissing]

[David Cooke] “also said – integer (Big Indian) I have no idea what that means”

Big Endian refers to the audio. Basically it is PCM

[Roli Rivelino]

4gig of RAM is the MINIMUM you should be using to edit HD, regardless of your match problems if you’re going to carry on with HD editing (virtually unavoidable) then up your RAM and you’ll be cooking on gas.

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external Seagate FreeAgent eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Bret Williams]

Kinda depends on what flavor. 720p can be edited on an imac with a portable fw 400 drive. And XDCAm ex and HDV of course doesn’t need much. Even full DVCProHD isn’t a big problem.

I’ve got 3 gigs, and I’m constantly rendering AE while editing 720p off internal sata drives. No hiccups, no crashes.

But it’s not 1080 pro res!

[David Cooke]

Thanks to all of you for your responses. Making sure we allow the sequence to “change/adapt”
to the settings of our video is a must.

D’s Video