Rendering Canopus-Captured Clips

[Andre Gagnon]

The Premiere software is made to edit DirectShow compliant clips like those pointing to the Adobe, Microsoft, Matrox DV AVI and other DS codecs. If you import other clips, it will accept them if the particular codec (like Canopus) is on your computer. However it will render them and produce clips that are compliant with Premiere and store the new clips in a folder named “Adobe Premiere Preview Files”. From there on you actually be editing these clips altough this fact is not transparent.

Rendering of course involves a decompression/recompression process that leads to a slight quality loss that usually starts to be detectabe after three such cycles if required during editing.

There are Converters on the market that probably do not involve decompression/recompression. Canopus Procoder 2.0 is probably one of them and is inexpensive.

[Brett Howe]

I think you will find there is an option in the canopus capture settings…something like…”make Microsoft DV compatible”

THis might help you.

I haven’t upgraded to pro 2 yet because of the incompatibility with the storm.

Looking at options now. Canopus has lost my business. Scaleable Technology my @$$!

Cheers

Brett

[Harm Millaard]

“Canopus Procoder 2.0 is probably one of them and is inexpensive.”

If you call a $ 450+ package inexpensive, you are right. However, a lot of people would likely disagree with your statement.

Luckily, there is a simple and free download from Canopus, DVConverter that changes the wrapper of the AVI file to make it into a type 2 MS-DV AVI. PP does not need to render these converted files.

For the future, I suggest you stay away from Canopus capture cards, drivers and codecs if you use PP.

Harm Millaard

[Andre Gagnon]

[Harm Millaard] “If you call a $ 450+ package inexpensive, you are right. However, a lot of people would likely disagree with your statement”

Sorry, I meant Procoder Express at $59.95.

[Mel Anderson]

Thank you all for your helpful comments. I have a drive pretty much full of Canopus-captured clips that I do not wish to re-capture with Premiere, so the Canopus DV Converter is the answer. Thanks again

[Steve Bradbury]

[Brett_Howe] “Scaleable Technology my @$$!”

I guess I can’t interest you in a Storm 2 card 🙂

I hit problems with the first upgrade to my computer. Even the Storm edit software didn’t work let alone any version of Premiere. The only thing I miss, apart from the money I spent with Canopus, is being able to preview on a proper monitor.

Re: the original post I find I can import all clips I captured using the Storm card into any version of Premiere Pro with no problems.