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Yikes! Cineform for HDV Premiere CS3 project?
Hi there,
I am in the process of getting ready to edit a documentary project in Premiere CS3.
I imagine the project will be about 90mins in duration and will probably be capturing about 10-15 hours of footage after logging and a paper edit.
I have material shot on many formats incl DV,DVcam and HDV and have been most recently been shooting HDV on a Sony Z1. I will be shooting many formal IVs in the next couple of months before the edit.
In my down time I have been looking around the web and to my horror have read about the difficulties of HDV editing, and want to know if this is still a problem and will I need to use Cineform Aspect?
My main concern is that I don’t want to get half way down the track and have my computer slooooow down. I’ve been there before (on an old system) and its unmerciful! Or would I be better just to down convert from HDV to DV and edit as a DV project? In which case should I shoot my interviews in DVcam…
Any advice would be really appreciated.DELL PRECISION T3400 / XP PRO SP2
INTEL CORE 2 DUO 3.0GHZ
4 GB (4x1GB) 800MHz ECC Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX1700
160GB SATA HDD 10k rpm
Storage(will probably get 2 x 1TB HDDS Raid 0) -
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Hi Errol,
I’ve been using the Matrox RT.X2 hardware with CS3 for all realtime performance with HDV and DV. You can capture/edit HDV natively without transcoding or intermediate codecs. Allows you to mix DV and HDV in same project with realtime upconvert/downconvert, and you can connect card to an HD display for full-screen output/preview during the edit.
Effects require NO rendering! The RT.X2 LE is compatible with your system hardware
Jeff Pulera
Digital Vision Productions
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