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Proper Codec for APP2.0
I recently took a position teaching media to inner city children. To put it nicely, all of our equipment is dying or near dead. We have a silicon boneyard of equipment/computers that can’t stand up against your average rowdy middle schooler.
Anyhow, all of our computers currently have Adobe Premiere 2.0. We inherited these from the local high school. At the age of the computers we have now and our budget, updating or purchasing new computers is out of the question.
Which brings me to my problem. I need to purchase some new (cheap) cameras. My fear is that I will spend some cash on equipment only to find Premiere 2.0 won’t support the file. We are currently working with miniDV cameras. 2.0 help file lists these formats as supported:
Type 2 AVI
MPEG, MPE, MPG, M2VThere are several more formats, but many, I’m sure aren’t supported by your average cameras. Most camcorders I see now a days use AVC/H.264/MPEG4, though I don’t see those supported. Does this mean (Type 2 AVI) that I’m stuck with MiniDV?
Any help/recommendation you can give will be much appreciated. Thanks all!
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3 Replies
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Yes, I would say you are “stuck” with miniDV, not just because of lack of codec support, but because AVCHD takes a lot of horsepower to playback, meaning even decent workstations a couple of years old will choke, you need the latest hardware with CS5 for good results.
I have a powerful (at the time) 3 yr-old quad-core PC with CS3 and can’t begin to edit AVCHD with it.
Jeff Pulera
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Thanks for the reply. I figured as much, just had to remove my suspicions. Thanks for the help!
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On the upside, standard def DV cameras use pretty straightforward tape cassettes and aren’t expensive…and PPro v2 was a workhorse as I recall…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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