Exporting 1080i movie to Mpeg-2

[Akash Negi]

Oh yeah.. the joy of video editing!! 22 hours was definitely sick.. sicker than that was the fact the my computer had 4 KB of free space when the rendering was about to be finished! My system is the unibody MB-Pro with 320 GB and 4 GB and a dedicated graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT).

and maybe this is the reason that the end 10 minutes was missing.. I checked again to see the saved work area and saw that it included the last 10minutes also.. I exported the entire sequence..

In the preview window in adobe Media Encoder, I saw that the entire video (including the last 10 mins) was rendered.. but missing from the DVD. at the same time I right saw in my system that my free space is decreasing rapidly.. so to free space for the .mpg sequence being rendered, I quickly emptied the trash which held about 5-6 GB of trash. Maybe I was not quick enough and the mpg sequence was rendered until the point it had free space..

Having said that, I think that now I need to look into hardware aspect of vid editing.. Very first priority is storage– maybe a 2-4TB RAID for archiving and/or storage for active projects..

then maybe this summer I will also configure a desktop system. However, I do not quite know all the technical stuff..

AJA Kona card– I have heard a lot about this in different communities.. In my understanding it is a card that has an input for a cable from the camera (?firewire,Hdmi, HD-SDI?) and just captures the video from the camera in real time.. For now what I do with my AVCHD files is that I first plug my Sony Xr520v to the computer and then import all the movies from iMovie. and then import in Premiere.

then there is a Blackmagic Intensity Pro– basically the same thing but a different brand..

then there is the hardware that accelerates the rendering? You said that you have Matrox RT.X2.. what are these kinds of hardware called? Kona card and Intensity would be called a Video Capture card?

Is there like any tutorial at CreativeCow.net that explains the hardware equipment for video editing?

I am sorry if I threw a lot of questions at you, but I am just curious..

Thanks very much,
Akash

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Akash,

In recent years before tapeless camcorders became the norm, DV was the standard for over 10 years, and DV cameras use Firewire (1394) to get the video from the camera to the computer. HDV cameras use the same 1394 transfer.

Most computers have either came with a 1394 port, or one could be added cheaply, but what if you need to capture from VHS or DVD, using AV cables? What if you wanted to send the edited program out to a VHS or DVD recorder? That is where capture cards come in – they will have analog inputs and outputs, such as composite, S-video and component video and RCA audio, maybe XLR audio. Newer cards now offer HDMI I/O, and high-end cards offer SDI and HD-SDI.

Even if you use a solid-state camcorder and thus don’t need to capture video because you just transfer the files directly to the hard drive, capture cards still provide I/O for the occasional analog capture that comes up, but an important use is for monitoring the editing output on an LCD display.

A KONA card is overkill for the home/hobby/casual user, something like the Blackmagic Intensity Pro or Matrox MXO2 Mini will be suitable for most users needing HDMI and analog I/O capabilities.

The Matrox RT.X2 (PC-only) offers realtime effects, but the next version of Premiere promises realtime performance, so basic I/O cards are gaining popularity just to be able to monitor edits on an HD display if nothing else.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Akash Negi]

thanks very much Jeff, you helped me a great deal in all this. Now I think I understand the technicalities a little better than before.. As for the video that I was talking about, I created a menu with three buttons and added two more sequences in encore and am currently rendering that.. Now I think it should all be well.

thanks for all your suggestions and tips.

cheers.
Akash.

[Jonas Bendsen]

Where is this mysterious “Max Render” setting in the advanced settings of Media Encoder (I don’t even see an “advance settings” option –just “settings”)? I have searched and searched but can find no such setting. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve seen such a thing in After Effects render queue, but never in Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (neither under the three options at the top of the program (“file,” “edit,” and “help”) nor in the “settings” dialogue pop-up.

I’d love to check it if it’s an option!

Thanks.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

To answer my own question…

In the “settings” pop-up dialogue, there is a little tab to the far right of the other tabs (filters, multiplexer, video, audio, etc.).

If you click on that little tabb with the four lines and the triangle, one of the options is “use maximum render quality.”

Why they hide this option here instead of making it a simple box to tick, I have no idea.

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[Jonas Bendsen]

Yikes… I’ve got a Core i7 950@3.07GHz 64bit machine with 12GB of RAM and a GSpeed esPro RAID that achieves around 750MB/sec read/write times and I just went from a 2 hour render to a nearly 14 hour render by ticking that option. Yikes. I wonder if the picture quality will really be worth it?

I guess I’ll find out tonight!

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