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HDV Choppy footage
I just bought a new mac pro with the eight cores 6 gigs of ram and a single 640gig 7200 RPM hard drive. I have two Sony HVR V1U camcorders shooting in normal 1080i I capture the footage into CS4 premiere pro and the footage looks smooth as glass and clear as day. When I export the footage I have been using h.264 for the codec and the hight quality 1080i output setting. The footage is horribly choppy on most of the footage does anyone have any idea what can cause this
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You are probably right I am not near the computer to check the bitrate but I went into encore and burnt a dvd to test it and played it on a normal dvd player on tv’s and computers and everything worked great. If I put a secondary disk another 640 gig and put the footage on that drive do you think that would solve my problem or would i be better to have a RAID 0 setup
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What is the bit rate on the export. It’s possible that it is too much for a single drive.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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It’s hard to tell, it really depends on the particular disk but you should able to get some very good quality at something under 10 MB/s with H.264, and that would play back fine on a 7200 drive, as long as it’s a separate drive from the OS.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
It could be your video card(s) as well, if you have a better video card, it will play your HD footage back much smoother and at higher resolutions.
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