[Bobby Misthoni]

Thanks Tim,

Actually, it’s not a DSLR (I do own a DSLR, but use it for photos) this is just a point-and-shoot, but it takes surprisingly high-quality video (Video I made with it and PPCS4 on Youtube)

I am able to directly Import the videos into PP, but as I mentioned, monitoring is jerky and slow (but somewhat usable).

So it sounds like my only (lossless) option is to convert to uncompressed AVI and hope my disk I/O and RAM can keep up, I suppose I’ll give that a shot and see what happens

[Bobby Misthoni]

Thanks a lot for the responses,

Nothing too special: I opted for a Canon Powershot SD780 IS so I can take it into the jungle in Costa Rica next month and still get HD video from my pocket 🙂

I could upgrade to 64bit Vista or Win7; it’s about time. From there perhaps I could upgrade memory, although I may be still restricted to 4GB by my mobo.

I do have a fair amount of space on the HDD, but it sounds like you think I’d be swapping CPU cycles as my restricting factor now for disk I/O if I convert to uncompressed AVI (can MPEG Streamclip convert to uncompressed AVI?) I’m running a 7,200rpm SATAII drive

Thanks again!
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