Monitor Window Only Shows Green Screen

[Tim Kolb]

Can you try setting up a regular, software DV project in Premiere? (Not the Pinnacle project settings…just the ones that come with Premiere.) and just create color bars or something and see if that comes through…then make a new Pinnacle project and do the same.

I’m wondering if the issue is focused on the Pinnacle incompatibility, or if perhaps the drivers for the new card have some overall incompatibility with the system…

Unfortunately, it probably IS time to let go of this setup…a new, mid-range computer without the Pinnacle card will run Premiere Pro basically as fast in DV mode…with software.

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net

[Terry Mitchell]

Well, I updated the Nvidia 6800 drivers, and Premiere 6.5 and The DV500 settings all seem to be working now. Still get some sporadic blinking of some Premiere windows when I move the mouse around, but the clips are showing up properly in the Monitor window.

But event this has given me cause to think about your suggestion to dump the Pinnacle DV500 and Premiere 6.5 in favor of Premiere Pro 2.0.

My system is several years old, but has new (and expensive) hard drives (all my internal and external drives are SCSI based, and I can’t afford to just dump them), video card, power supply, etc., and eveything is working OK. So I don’t want to replace it all (and I like operating under W2K instead of XP like all the new system come with). Plus, I do not want to have to replace a gazillion GBs of other programs from scratch. So I’ll keep what I have for now.

But, having said that, I would consider pulling the DV500 card and replacing Premiere 6.5 with Pro 2.0. But a couple of questions first:

1. The DV500 did add functionality to Premiere 6.5. Is Premiere Pro robust enough that I would not benefit from having something like its Avid Liquid replacement, or would Liquid add features that I would find useful with Premiere Pro?

2. The project I am in the middle of; could I continue it in Pro, or would I have to finish it with my current DV500 and Premiere 6.5 programs intact first?

3. I have older versions of After Effects (5.5), Photoshop (7) and a bunch of addon programs (Continuum Complete 2.0, Deelerium, Boris FX 6, etc., etc.). Would these kinds of programs get along with Premiere Pro, or would I lose some functionality if I didn’t update all of them (which I cannot afford to even consider at the moment)?

[Marisu Fronc]

Terry-

Above and beyond all your other concerns – Pro WON’T operate under Win2K so if you aren’t willing to upgrade to WinXP there’s no point in worrying about the rest of it. However – if you do decide to upgrade you could certainly continue to use your existing hard drives (although scsi isn’t necessary it certainly will work) and perhaps some of your other components. You would probably need faster processors (a guess based on your system being a couple of years old) and probably more RAM (at least 2 GB’s is nice – 3 is even nicer).

As far as the older programs “getting along with” Pro . . . certainly you can use files generated from Photoshop 7 or AE 5.5 in Premiere (I do it all the time when I reuse existing art pieces), but the upgraded Production Suite gives you much better integration with Photoshop and After Effects, as well as Illustrator, Audition and Encore (nice if you do soup to nuts work and need print, audio, and DVD functionality). As far as plug-in programs (like BorisFX) you’d probably have to try and see. I’d suggest you download the demo – but you’d need an XP computer to run it on.

As far as the program you are in the middle of – you could convert the program to Pro (but you might be surprised at the difference in the interface and perhaps lose some time getting past that). If the files captured with the DV500 use a proprietary Codec (that is – not just standard DV avi’s) you’d either need the card or the codec to make use of them. As for lost functionality – I don’t know what you gained with the card, so don’t know if you’d need a replacement (of one type or another) or not.

slainte,
marisu

[Tim Kolb]

The card has some RT functionality that you would be rendering in PPro 2, and the DV500 Pnnacle card does use a proprietary DV flag on the files.

It’s up to the user of course, some updates may seem excessive. But I prefer to run an OS and/or applications I can at least get support from the manufacturer for…

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net

[Phocas Kroon]

Check befor you remove the DV500 if the SCSI controller for the HD is on the DV500.
(It was on the DV300 I used in the past)