[Brian Louis]

Hi Alex
I wasn’t taking it as a crticism, I had forgot to add in that there were more tutorials in the same area on Utube and I had used the last video I had selected and hadn’t viewed totally when I had to run out. 🙂
I like to go through the videos on Utube as there are sometimes some gems in the mix.

[Brian Louis]

It would help to describe the footage you are trying to edit and what your project settings are, just saying I’m editing something that doesn’t work doen’t cut it, very few psychics here most are off staring at goats.

[Brian Louis]

Hi Bob:
Even though high quality tapes are very good there is always a chance of dropouts from things other than the tapes themselves, when shooting oner events any chance of a dropout is to be avoided if possible, second is the expense and storage, even the first year I when started tapeless, I came out ahead even with the purchase of CF and SDHC cards, and drives to archive with and cut down time to load video from one hour per tape to 15 minutes or so for an hours worth of video and with 32g cards had no changing tapes at inconvenient times

[Brian Louis]

Here is the system requirements for CS5
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/
For video from a DSLR your system requirements are higher as the video is highly compressed, if you want to stay with AMD I would look a the six core processor with a minimum of 8gigs or ram and a recommended video card.

[Brian Louis]

Hi Alex, thats one of a bunch of videos in that area on that subject, I should have mentioned that but I was in kind of a hurry yesterday.

[Brian Louis]

I’d get at least 8gigs of memory, and I’d loose the 9800gt as its getting long in tooth, and get something with more cuda cores like a Fermi 470 which also has faster video ram(DDR5)

[Brian Louis]

The software MPE will give a bit of boost but not as much as if you have hardware MPE enabled which needs a qualified Nvidia card, also the type of compression used and horsepower of the laptop, problems with laptops is the video GPU usually has a smaller ammount of Cuda cores as compared to a desktop GPU, and the cooling for the mobile GPU is more problematic than running on a desktop where cooling can be added and I don’t know of any mobile GPUs on the approved list

GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS)
GeForce GTX 470 (Windows)
Quadro 4000 (Windows)
Quadro 5000 (Windows)
Quadro FX 3800 (Windows)
Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS)
Quadro FX 5800 (Windows)
Quadro CX

[Brian Louis]

[Aaron Kiersky] “told me that sony tapes have a coating that gumms up non-sony cameras”
Its been years since there has been incompatible lubricant on various manufactors tapes.

[Aaron Kiersky] “fter playing a while, the video shows up finally, then i can rewind and i get video where previously was just blue.”
The camcorder probably needs a good pro cleaning, There might have been a head clog that got cleared by playing the tape, DV/HDV tapes can be self cleaning, you don’t want to use a DV cleaning tape too much as it is abrasive, also if you use it for a long period(over 10sec) its possible to glaze deposites on the heads because of the heat from friction and the head speed, if using a cleaning tape its best to use 5 sec periods with a bit of cool down in between passes

[Brian Louis]

Here is a link to offline editing for CS4 there is also other video tutorials listed for the same subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDQa0DCP2w

[Brian Louis]

HF S2xx series has 1/2″ image sensors compared to 1/3″ in the HV series, both use full 1920×1080 image sensors but the HV series DSPs the video to a anamorphic 1040×1080(HDV) for transfer to tape using mpeg2 HD codec, the HF records full 1920×1080 to AVCHD(a flavor of mpeg4) which is a more highly compressed format so comparing bit rates can’t really work because of the data differences, the glass used is different sizes due to the image sensor size difference, both series have close to the same minimum fstop so the glass will be larger and have more DOF adj than the smaller sensor, the difference between compression formats comes with editing, HDV is easier to edit in native format on less powerful twin core or quad machines, AVCHD takes a newer more powerful machine(i7 or i7xenon) with latest software, Ppro CS5, Edius 5.5, vegas9 etc. to edit in native form unless using a intermediate codec like Neoscene from cineform, myself I no longer use tape to get away from the possibility of long gop dropouts, which can occur anytime in a shoot due to a dust mote or some debris left over from tape manufacturing, HDV I now record to CF for HDV, SDHC cards B-roll and p2 for higher end cams, I archive to B-ray and harddrives after trimming, tapeless has faster download times(quarter of the time) even with slow card readers over tape with less chance of dropouts in the playback deck.