[Buck Wyckoff]

I had Premier set up for a DV project and had digitized footage from the same deck and firewire connection that I was then trying to monitor on.

Okay, I lied….I digitized the footage in Windows Movie Maker. Now before ya’ll hoist be by the nards, I did that because a client wants to send me 26 hours of DV footage on an exteranl USB drive and when I asked them how they did it, that was their response.

So I wanted to simulate that as a test in my studio. It works pretty well actually. You can tell it to automatically digitize an entire tape and it controls the deck and creates an AVI wrapper around the DV format.

The only other option is WMV and with that option you can choose one file or multiple files based on scene changes. I wish the AVI version did scene change clips.

Anyway that’s the scoop Jeff. You can find out more in my responses to other posts to this thread.

[Buck Wyckoff]

Thanks for the response Vince.
Yes that Sager is one snappy puppy. It’s quad-core i7-975 3.33GHz, 366MHz system bus to boot. I ordered it fro John Peterson at Renderstream. Great folks!

Anyway, I have a firewire port built into the Sager hooked up to a Sony M25U deck. The deck has an LCD screen built in so if Premier was sending a signal out that port, I’d see it on the LCD screen.

The Sager responds when I connect a device to that port and I’ve digitized footage fine through it. The device (I assume it is that device) shows put in the Adobe Playback Settings Exteranl list as DV 29.97 720x480i.

The other thing you mentioned worked GREAT!!! I have the Sager DVI output extended and set to 1600×1200 for SD work and it shows up in the Premier External list and works fine.

Adobe help only mentions external monitoring through firewire and I didn’t realize I could enable more options by configuring other devices within the system.

Thanks again.

I’ve contacted Sager support as I fear their firewire device has a glitch. No bi-directionality, or something.

[Buck Wyckoff]

Thanks for the input.
I think I have it worked out now.
Cheers!

[Buck Wyckoff]

Thanks for responding. I’ll take this information and endeavor to improve myself. Thanks again.

[Buck Wyckoff]

Thanks a bunch.
I had already sent them out.
They are not according-to-hoyle, but some stations are more forgiving.

One got axed (from Tyler, Texas) and I made a new one according to your specs.

Thanks again.