No, it was shot using regular PAL. However, even with my best computer, the footage strobes a bit. It looks fine, but when an actor moves too fast, there is strobing. Do I really have to spend 500$+ on Cineform? That sucks 🙁
OKay, finally got the non-trial version, and have been able to capture HDV. however, video is jittery like hell. My computer has 1GB RAM, Nvidia 5200 video card and I USB-2 Disk drives. This did not happen in previous version.
What is going on?
Yes, any suite that does not have its own codec, like Avid does cannot subsample easily because a lot of the times it just plays the original material rather than converting it.
I don’t think you can. With Premiere 1.5 you can export and import the EDL but you’d have to re-digitize your material and the effects you put will be lost.
I actually use Microsoft Office Picture Manager for cropping and resizing jobs. Why you might ask? It’s that fastest tool around and you don’t have to do the math yourself, it does it for you. Also, free with Office 2003.