Low quality clips for better working?

[Aanarav Sareen]

There are multiple ways of doing that, but it is soon changing because hard-drives are getting cheaper everyday and more affordable. Is there a reason you are trying to do this?

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

[Diego Gogni]

Because I was told that when you don’t have a big PC, it’s the best way to edit, and move in the timeline, etc.

Like If I want to captue and edit HDV , my system will hang…

[Blast1]

Its basically called Off-Line editing, you generate a EDL(Edit Decision List) or AAF(Advanced Authoring Format) using low res files if you don’t have a computer capable of DV, the rub is you have to find a more powerful computer thats capable of doing Native DV to process the final files.
HDV captures at the same data rate as DV, but you need a reasonably powerful computer to edit natively, you can use plug-ins like Cineform which generate secondary files used for editing, but you still need a computer that will handle DV.

[Mike Cohen]

Too bad some genius can’t write a plug-in where you can batch convert your captured AVI files to windows media, retaining the time-code information (even with a related xml file or something) then edit offline with those files, and finally conform with the originals. While storage is cheap, using an external USB hard drive on say an airplane is difficult.
Unfortunately, I am not that genius.
Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

didn’t there used to be a program which could read timecode off a burn-in on the video picture? If you could export your raw AVI files with a TC burn-in to windows media or something smaller, do your edits, then have a plug-in read the timecode from your off-line clips, build a new edl, and use your original AVI files to rebuild the program. This is similar to how we used to do an offline edit in the tape days. I did actually edit with VHS window dubs a few times, then manually create an EDL and voila, online edit no problem.
Granted it would take some time to make the offline clips, but if you are hitting the road for a week, the half day spent making offline files would be worth the effort.

Remember making b-reels for online edit sessions? Anyone? Bueller?

SOmething like this is done when cutting film, matching edge code with time-code, and there is software for that. Maybe something similar could be adapted.

[Blast1]

Its so much easier to have equipment to match the software you are using and not run high power software in a underpowered machine, not too far back I was using a dual drive PIII laptop doing on-line DV vice doing off-line like you are describing which can be time consuming, the catch was the software matched the capabilities of the machine.