Brian Louis
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What kind of preset are you using in Ppro? what pixel aspect ratio are you exporting from AFX?
Like are you using square pixel footage from AFX with anamorphic widescreen preset in Ppro? -
[Andrew Jackson] “i upgraded from CS3 to CS4. I sadly regret it.”
You should always complete a project with the system you started with, there is nothing wrong with CS4, but when moving projects between versions minor differences can cause headaches depending on how the complex the project is.
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You should always keep video source files on a driver or array other than the app/os disk, also it helps to have another drive for things like media cache, preview files, audio clips and images, etc. it allows the drive/array with the source files to be able to stream more layers/trks of video, also its putting your eggs in different baskets, you loose less data in case of a drv. failure, also backup you project files to optical disk.
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Like Jon said plus you are exporting to a mov file depending on the settings can have a larger file than a equivalent time DV file
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capture to DV-ntsc either regular or widescreen with the proper audio setting.
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[Martin Werner] “but i cant just “drag&drop” the files”
Drag and drop the files where? I thought you could just treat the DU1 as a hard drive and copy files to the computer video storage -
Actually the i7 930 is now out for a few dollars more
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The video is Mpeg2 NTSC and audio is AC3, the best way to import is with the software sony supplied.
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Till the NLE manuf. get caught up to the newer compressed formats sometime, neoscene appears to be a cheaper way to go than getting a huffing puffing 2cpu 8core system with hyperthreading, Grass Valley has the idea with their booster addon for their lower end software, soon to be added to their higher end Edius, Adobe probably will follow with their new versions.
With video cards I mostly stick with Nvidia, I used to intergrate systems in the past and had too many problems with getting proper drivers with ATI as they mostly used to develop for gamers and lag with multimedia except for their high end graphics cards, for most DV/HD/HDV editing and compositing you only need a decent display card, for my current desktop NLE system I use a 9600GT 512MB and the same with my laptop, for my graphics worksta I use a FX1700 quadro -
[Gene Lee] “but it records 720p30 as *.mov files. Since I’m a noob, I’m not sure if that is considered AVCHD, but I do EXPORT to H.264… but that’s after I edit, so I guess it doesn’t matter…”
The MOV wrapper contains H264/MP4 video with PCM audio, it can be very taxing on most systems particularly with effects added, like mentioned before you should try a intermediate codec, something like Cineform’s NeoScene, you can download a trial version.
Other software that can do reasonable RT with H264, AVCHD currently is Grass Valley’s Edius Neo2 with booster, booster is soon to be added to Edius NLE