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[Perry Cheng] “That might be what Adobe claims, but it surely does not work well with MPEG.”

Depends on what you are calling Mpeg, DVD complient Mpeg2 renamed can be a problem.

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[Steven L. Gotz] “I have no inclination to put a Media Center PC in my TV room. Not yet, anyway.”

Sacrilege! These thoughts will be forwarded to Brother Bill’s Media Police.

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Render to MS DV

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[patfish] “i have the problem with any file format.”

Here is a list of files that Ppro can use, any other can cause erratic behavior
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=329350

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[Vincent Becquiot] “Ctrl+Shift at start up”
That for older version of Premiere, for Ppro use:(plug-in cache file is like the preferences file.)

Quote:
“2. Re-create the Adobe Premiere Pro PluginCache file.
Some startup problems are caused by a damaged PluginCache file. To re-create the file, hold down the Shift key while choosing Start > Programs > Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. Release the key when the Welcome screen appears.”

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Premiere doesn’t like external drives like USB or Firewire even if not used with the project but listed in the preferences can cause problems.

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Not to be factious but your recommendations are horrible overkill for a DV system, if I was intergrating a system for SDI throughput I might use some of your specs, a simple ATA150 SATA video source drive is sufficient for 3-4 streams of DV video.

A decent configuration for DV/DVcam is a system/apps drive ATA100 and up, an AUX drive ATA 100 and up for previews, sound, cache, misc clips, and a large SATA I/II drive for source video, As for the original poster who had stutter problems, drives could contribute to his problem particularly externals, also other things like backgroung programs, TSRs, and active drivers can cause the same problems, as we don’t know the configuration of his system and what he has on it, expensive recommendations are counter productive.

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What version of Ppro are you trying to use?

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[Steve Roberts] “but can only be played on dual-layer players”
Curious? Settop players that do dual layer have been around for some time, a lot longer than dual layer burners and media.
Discussion is moot as we don’t know the length of the project.

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[Rajarshi] ” plan to buy the new hard ddisk and use it via fire wire.”
The best external drives to use are eSATA, you can either buy a eSATA bracket which allows you to bring current internal SATA connection out the back if you have spares, if no spares buy a eSATA add-on card which can have 4 connections for eSATA drive enclosures, plus it cheaper to buy eSATA enclosures and install your own drives than buy commercial firewire drives, which can be of dubious quality if priced too low