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Editing HD on a slow computer
Hello everyone. I wanted to share something that I found works really well to get over a technical issue. I have a high end PC at home and a ‘small business class’ PC at work. The home PC can handle the HD video, but the office PC can not. I was reading a book, ‘The Filmmakers Handbook’, and there was something really helpful being explained – offline and online editing. What I got from this is as follows: capture your HD video into your PC and then make a copy of this file. Then use a converter program to down-convert the copy to SD. From here you simply create a new project using the SD settings. The important part is that the time-code doesn’t change. So I do all of my editing on these SD clips and simply note the time-code for your ‘punch in’ and ‘punch out’ times. You then take this data and apply the cuts to the original HD file. This may be what EVERYONE here is doing, but i’m new to this and this really helps me because I can now work on both machines and because of this the extra steps of converting and then jotting down cuts is well worth it.
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[James Donovan] ” I was reading a book, ‘The Filmmakers Handbook’, and there was something really helpful being explained – offline and online editing. What I got from this is as follows: capture your HD video into your PC and then make a copy of this file. Then use a converter program to down-convert the copy to SD. From here you simply create a new project using the SD settings. The important part is that the time-code doesn’t change. So I do all of my editing on these SD clips and simply note the time-code for your ‘punch in’ and ‘punch out’ times. You then take this data and apply the cuts to the original HD file.”
This is exactly what VASST Gearshift does for you. GearShift was built on this concept for older computers. What you do is use GearShift to convert your HD footage to SD DV Widescreen proxies. Then you edit the DV Widescreen footage and normal speeds and when you are ready to render, you use the Shift Gears function to swap out the SD files for the original HD files. Then you render with the HD files. You can use Shift Gears as many times as you’d like to go betwen the HD edit and SD edit. If you are rendering for DVD you can even use the DV Widescreen files in the final render.
There is a 15-day free trial if you’re interested in using it.
~jr
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You, Sir, are the man. Seriously, I’ve read a lot of your threads – you offer help to EVERYONE. Thank you. I am immediately going to check out the Gearshift – sounds like a more stable way to do what i’m doing, rather than ‘building’ work-arounds
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