Al Bergstein
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Danny, i have ordered the tm900, is there any gotchas mixing 60p footage with 24 or 30p?
Alf
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Mette, you don’t mention what kind of video you are editing. I assume HD.
Optimum: I would sell that machine and buy a newer one. The core duo is not the best processor for this kind of HD work. It’s really for office machines. I would (and do) run on a i7 running 64 bit W7 with a mimimum of 8 GBs RAM. You can get by with an i5 and 4 GBs of RAM, also a dedicated video card of 1GB RAM, mimimum supporting CUDA. Also, with USB 3 you actually can do a decent job of editing on a laptop, as I’ve found.
I believe that you are limited with Movie Studio as it is a 32 bit application. Upgrading to Vegas Pro 64 on Windows 7 64 bit is probably a good way to go.
So if a limited budget, and limited choices, do this: Max out your computer’s RAM to at least 4 GBs. Upgrade your video card. But by then, you might as well have bought a new machine. With i5 laptops coming in around $600 (with a better than bottom end video card), with 4GBs RAM to start with, 64 bit Windows and fast hard drives, why not upgrade? And then the desktop world if you don’t need portability is more power for the money.
Alf
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I am a bit confused though, in that I am having no real ‘slowdown’ in editing multicam. I wonder if there’s something else going on? I mean, it all works about the same, whether I’m multicamera or not. You might take a look at your CPUs and see if they change while running multicam. You are running the 64 bit version of Vegas, right? It’s easy to download the 32 bit version by mistake, I’ve done it once.
You do now how to do a CNTRL-Alt-Delete to get into Task Manager and see CPU utilization, correct? If not, look it up on the web and look at the CPU tab. Also, low disk space might cause a problem.
Good luck.
Alf
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Darren, are you familiar with W7 disk imaging tools? Identical to what i would use in Apple.Also make sure you understand restore points. Good backup stuff there.
As to checking on updates, my copy of 5.5 checked just fine.
Alf
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Isn’t the question, where do you want to store your raw footage before bringing it in? I move all footage to a “raw footage”folder,usually on a RAID 1 drive, then choose what to bring in. I never work off the card. Too risky.
If you want to create clips from there you can. Apparently, you can even copy to a dvd and work off that.
Or am i missing something?
Alf
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I just replied to a post and i could not edit it, i was on for about 10 minutes. The 30 does not seem uniform Ron. I think there is a problem, if you think you are giving us 30 minutes.
Alf
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Drake, i agree with Angelo.i have a similar system to yours, and routinely do 4 camera shoots, until recently with avchd.it’s not an editing codec, it’s for compressed shooting. A transcode “should” help. But to be clear, this is very CPU intensive stuff! Get cineform.
Alf
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Jason, i work with Sony, FCP and no Adobe.Vegas is as easy as itgets with powerful pro capabilities. They all have pluses and minuses. The tutorials onthe sony site, here on COW and VASsT are worth it. Lots of good stuff.
Alf
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Update on this issue: It appears that the crashes have indeed vanished with the update to 5.5.1. Also, on the issue of color correction being radically off, it appears that the three way color corrector was applied to all the clips,and in some cases, this appears to have been automated oddly (which means wrong to me – grin). I removed the 3WCC from all the affected clips and spent time re-correcting them. I would say that *assume* you will be color correcting your clips when you bring them across (or is my experience an anomoly?). Perhaps, in lieu of getting it right, a variable can be set by the user to simply strip all color corrections? Or some other option? It points out that bringing across finished work is still dicey.
On the positive sides, I love the shadow/highlight Video affect (under Adjust) menu. It has improved a few of my interviews that were, unfortunately, shot in less than perfect lighting sites.
I’m also happy with the color correction tools, as to me the tools in FCP were really wonderful to work with. Adobe seems to have done it right here too. The video by Jeff Sengstack, on Streamlining Color Correction in P.Pro (recommended by Adobe in the help files) is really worth the read.
https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/editingpost/story/streamlining_color_correction_in_premiere_pro/P1/Anyway, hope that this thread helps others that are considering migrating their stuff. There’s already a number of good sites on this conversion process, including Walter Biscodi (?), all with specific issues that they raise.
So make sure you have upgraded to 5.5.1 (which apparently does not automatically alert you when you install from disk), and expect to color correct and do some audio re-work.
Alf
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Thanks Todd. I’ll have to weigh each project’s pay back, given that, but so far, I like what I see in Premiere, so it seems like a worthwhile switch. My original thinking was to get everything migrated to Premiere, but given the lack of some of the basics, like audio and color correction, I might just start new projects in it and wait for some future better conversion ability.
I think it will really help Adobe to make sure that audio works, and if possible, color. But I assume that is gated by Apple willing to share some of their APIs.
Alf