Premiere Pro 1.5 and HDR-FX1 HDV

[Steven L. gotz]

I do it every day. I prefer to use Aspect HD to accelerate the work, but it can be done with Premiere Pro 1.5.1 (the upgrade from 1.5 is free).

If your PC is underpowered, Aspect HD comes with a capture utility that can capture M2T and convert to Cineform AVI in two separate steps, which is easier on the PC.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
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Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

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Thanks a bunch Steve. I really appreciate your feedback.

I have a p4 running at 2.8Ghz with a gig of fast ram and sata hard drives. would Aspect HD crawl on my system?

Also, I run after effects too. is there a plug in for After Effects HD as well?

[Steven L. gotz]

Aspect HD provides the necessary codec for After Effects. It will be fine on your system. But as I said, you may end up capturing in two steps. First to M2T and then to CFHD. Which is OK, because then you toss out the M2T files you don’t need before encoding. Then get rid of the rest after encoding to Cineform AVI.

Aspect HD will be fine. But Premiere Pro 1.5.1 would crawl without it.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5

[Alan Mills]

Steven,

I’ve found that the most painful thing about editing in HDV in Premiere Pro 1.5.1(from the little tiny bits I’ve done with my new FX1E) is the export time. Espceially as, up till now, I;m used to editing using teh Matrox RTX100 so typically get real time export.

e.g. I’ve just exported a 52 second clip in WMV9 format and it took abotu 19 minutes using my 3GHz P4. My question is will Aspect HD improve the export timings or does it just help the editing workflow?

Alan

[Steven L. gotz]

Sadly, no. There is no acceleration from Aspect HD in the export. It certainly takes longer to export, but considering that there is a lot more information to process, it is not particularly surprising that it takes longer. Such is life on the leading edge.

Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5