[Andrew Devis]

You may well be right, I suspect I am getting mixed up with After Effects which uses it’s own file format for video …

Sorry for any mix up …
Andrew

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Hi Nazreen
How did you buy pp and AE? If you bought them together in one package you have dynamic link. However, if you bought them as individual programs then you won’t. I did a tutorial on dynamic link from the pp workflow perspective. start by looking at that in the premiere pro tutorial section. It is much the same from AE and should give you an idea how it works.

Hope this helps
Andrew

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Hi Tony

Premiere Pro doesn’t play the clips as they come in but converts them to its own format for use in the editing workflow. To do this, PP ‘conforms’ or if you like ‘converts’ your clips to the native format for PP. This is completely normal but can take quite a time when your clips are long. The conformed clips are then saved in your Preview Files folder (or Encoded Files folder – not sure exactly which one) ready for use next time you open up the project.

So, don’t worry, all is well :o)
Andrew

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Hi Areful

I’m not sure if this is the right answer for you, but you can create custom sequence sizes by creating a new sequence and then clicking on the General Tab and then from the very first drop-down (Editing Mode) choosing ‘Desktop’. This will then allow you to change settings that are greyed out when a standard preset is selected including frame size and video previews.

Hope this helps
Andrew

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Hi Nazreen
If you are using the production premium suite I would add the footage to after effects through dynamic link and not export it at all from pp.

Hope this helps
Andrew

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Hi Ammon

If I were you, I would work in 1080 until you are finished and then create a new sequence at 720 and pull your 1080 sequence into the 720 sequence and resize it to fit in that. By doing this you will save a lot of work and finish off doing it all in one go.

This is called nesting and you won’t lose any quality by doing this … I should have a tutorial release in the next day or so explaining nesting in more detail.

Hope this helps
Andrew

PS – at the bottom center of your project panel (just below your image) make sure that you have the size box set to ‘fit’ as this makes sure you see the whole clip in the viewer window

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Hi Chin

What a question! I think it all comes down to what you want to do with your system and what you can afford! I also think you need to bear in mind how long you will have to stick with the system and that you will probably upgrade your camera or end up working with other footage in due course.

So, there are a few things that I think are important, plenty of processing power to cope with footage that may be compressed and needs to be uncompressed and recompressed for editing such as AVCHD and HDV etc. For example, if you have a few streams of AVCHD with Picture in Picture unless you have a lot of processing power it will struggle to cope.

The other thing is disc drives both a solid state drive for the system (windows, Adobe etc) and then some drives that will cope with high bit-rate footage. Say for example you get to work with RED footage and you want to do some picture in picture work with that … then what will slow you down won’t be the processors but the data rate of your disc drives! So, having a RAID system with 2 or more disc that can give a good high through-put of data would be very important.

As for RAM, the murcury engine will use all you give it and so I would always try and get as much in as I could afford. I only have 8G because that’s what my motherboard supports, but if I could I would go for 16 or 24 if I had the chance.

As for a graphics card, again get as good as you can. However, if you go for a quadro card don’t go for the lower spec ones (FX1800 etc) as I found that my gtx260 was as good if not better than a FX1800 I tried. Go for the best you can afford, but I would think that if I was specing something now I would be looking at the very least at the gtx400 series (460/470/480) and if I wanted to do lots of 3D then a quadro 4800 .. as always, money is the final decision maker as it isn’t what you want so much as what you can afford!

So, in short, quad core min (pref i7 which I have in my laptop) but as many cores as you can afford! Then a solid state hard drive for the system (windows adobe etc) and a RAID array for my data discs, a reasonable graphics card and as much RAM as I can afford!

Hope this helps
Andrew

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Sorry, its a gtx260 not 265 …

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[Andrew Devis]

First thing to do is make sure you have downloaded all updates to CS5, your graphics card driver and system. Then restart and go from there.

For more advice it would help to know what you are doing exactly.

Hope this helps
Andrew

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Hi Daniel
My system is an Intel q9550 (I think) quad core with 8G RAM, Intel motherboard and gtx265 with 1.5G RAM. It is a basic system but it has created some great multi-cam projects etc. and for most of my motion graphics works it holds its own very well.

I also have separate hard drives for my system, audio and video and a raid mirror external hard drive to archive my projects.

I tend to work mainly with hdv footage PAL.

Hope this helps
Andrew

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