[Alex Jusay]

Sorry for the late reply. No they’re not. One is just about 10secs long and the other a few minutes captured file.

[Alex Jusay]

thanx Steven.

[Alex Jusay]

I agree with ghobii, get the Core Duo. Xeons, besides having a larger cache, also has several CPU instructions and extensions ideal for server operations (aka background task). If you search hard enough, you’ll find XEON Premiere users NOT noticing a big difference in performance than their counterparts. I used to work in an HP XW series Avid Adrenaline machine with the dual Xeon and it was really fast, although we cant really tell if its the xeons or the Adrenaline hardware plus the RAID setup.

[Alex Jusay]

i dont mean to sound rude but do you know what CTRL-TAB is for? No amount of “Ctrl, Shift and Alt in various combinations with arrow keys” was able to do what CTRL-TAB does. And no, those combinations cant take care of all my shortcut needs, either in After Effects or in Premiere (CTRL-TAB is gone from Premiere PRO, too). But I guess you’re just trying to help so let me thank you. 🙂

[Alex Jusay]

Hey, I have successfully installed Premiere Pro on a dual PIII 733Mhz with 512Mb ram (before installing it on our office workstation) for testing, and it worked flawlessly. It was fast and there was no lag. We were able to finish a lot of projects without any problems. It made us wonder why we bought a killer machine for premiere pro–until of course we added effects. Unfortunately, Premiere Pro 2 would not install on that dual P3 coz it was looking for a specific CPU instruction. My suggestion is to go to VAR sites and check out their specs.

[Alex Jusay]

Mylenium,

what other keys? like Alt-W-6 for project,Alt-W-8 for timeline…?

[Alex Jusay]

Jim,

somebody asked that same question about a month ago. Rename your VOB files to MPG, then import in Premiere. You will notice Premiere indexing the video in the lower right corner of the screen (where audio conforming was before). Drag it to the timeline, press enter to make a render of the clip and then export to AVI, making sure to uncheck the RECOMPRESS option in the render dialogue box. The clip should export to avi fast. Just reimport your new AVI. Hope that helps.

Alex

[Alex Jusay]

If you export a 16×9 format video in mini-dv, you will have a 16×9 video and not a 16×9 image on a 4×3 frame. Again, 16×9 pixel aspect ratio is different from 16×9 image in a 4×3 aspect ratio video. Putting black bars on a 16×9 video to have a 4×3 frame will work but rememeber, you’ll never retrieve you original resolution from the 4×3 frame unless you go back again to your original 16×9 footage. I hope that makes sense. Sorry for the late reply.

[Alex Jusay]

Here is what I think you should do:

–Source: widescreen DV footage (16:9)NTSC/PAL
–Capture in PremiereP2 using DV NTSC/PAL Widescreen 48kHz
–Edit in Premiere without messing with Project Settings
FILE>Export>MOVIE (Ctrl-M) to DV NTSC/PAL Widescreen 48kHz and dont mess with the settings
–In After Effects (dont know about Shake), double click on the project window and point to your clip.
–Drag that clip to the Create New Composition icon to have an instant Widescreen DV composition.
–Do your compositing and Make Movie (crtl-m)with the following settings:
Render Settings: BEST
Output Module: LOSSLESS or Uncompressed AVI (check audio output if you have audio)
–Make another PremiereP2 Widescreen project snd import your AFX rendered file.
–Press ENTER to render your uncompressed file.
–Export to your miniDV camera

Following this should maintain the widescreen aspect ratio of your footage.
Now that you have a widescreen video inside your miniDV tape, you should find a projector capable of projecting a widescreen video. Most projectors have this feature hidden in the menu. Otherwise, your footage will indeed be distorted if projected on a 0.9 aspect ratio (default projector setting, accurately, most will project square pixels)

For your DVD, go back to your second Premiere project and burn your DVD from inside Premiere. Premiere knows what to do with your widescreen footage.

Hope that helps…

Alex Jusay
https://jhalex.sitesled.com

[Alex Jusay]

Is your VOB from a protected DVD? If so, you should first unprotect your VOB before you rename it to .mpg for importing in Premiere.

Alex Jusay
https://jhalex.sitesled.com