Chris Knight
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Just be aware that some media players (including YouTube) tend to cut off a little bit of the bottom. I usually keep my text within the action-safe area, and if I don’t know where the final video/animation will end up playing, I always stay in title-safe. Probably habit from years of doing it, but it doesn’t hurt.
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You will need at least one additional hard drive, as common practice dictates that you should not use your OS/applications drive to store your media on. This shouldn’t be too costly, as a 1TB drive is under $60 these days. If you can afford it, replace the ATI card with a 1GB+ FERMI nVidia card (it will speed up workflow in Premiere).
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You can, but only to one clip at a time inside of Premiere. In the project bin, hit the “`” key, and it’ll expand to full screen. You should see a column labeled Tape Name (which is what Premiere uses for Reel). just click the blank space in the row you want to edit.
Now, since Premiere project files are just XML documents, you could also edit this information outside of Premiere, but this requires a bit of know how. I use a program called XML Wrench for some of these tasks.
I would love for someone to develop a Premiere-specific XML editor.
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1. Only with jog/shuttle.
2. No. It’s the same workflow in After Effects as well. It is, however, possible to do this via Photoshop and Dynamic Link, but it’s an odd workaround for most situations.
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It’ll be fine.
I used RAID-5 arrays up until 6 months ago, when Windows decided to corrupt the MBR on two arrays. It seems to me that RAID-5 is no more secure than 0 (I haven’t had a physical drive issue in years, which is the real point to using RAID-5).
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Just tried this. It plays 4 overlapping (two are PiP, and two are see-through via a transfer mode) 720p AVCHD (24Mbit) streams without any issues. It starts to drop frames on the 5th, and I’d say 6 is probably the limit (it can do more, but playback drops to less than 5 fps after that). I’m playing from a RAID0 array (2 x 1TB Samsung F3 drives), connected to the eSATA port. After turning off the GPU, I can still play 3 simultaneous AVCHD clips without dropping frames, but the 4th starts to play the timeline back at abour 12-15 fps.
AVC-Intra performance is about the same, but I doubt I’d get the same performance if I was not using a RAID.
This laptop has a 2Ghz 2630M i7 CPU with 8GB or RAM, and the 540M GPU has 2GB of memory. The boot drive was replaced with an SSD. I had to update the video drivers when I first got it, as Premiere was trying to play back everything in the Program monitor. All working fine since the update.
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My every day bread-and-butter is editing AVC-Intra 50/100, but I’ll be working in codecs ranging from consumer-grade h.264 to R3D. In FCP, most of this has to be converted to ProRes, which eats up time and HD space. Premiere edits all of this natively, and in real-time (thus, no need for Final Cut’s Quickview, if that’s what you were referring to).
Non-MXF media is associated with a simple media player, so previewing it from Explorer requires one second of loading time (and, thus, no need for previewing with the space bar). And since Windows 7 supports Trim, running the OS and applications from an SSD speeds up my workflow significantly – something that can’t be recommended for professional work in OS X.
The only downside to my Windows workflow is working with buggy drivers for my Kona board, but that’s more AJA’s fault, than Microsoft or Adobe (the board worked beautifully in Windows 32-bit XP and CS3, but has since required planetary alignment to work perfectly). Now there’s a company that needs to refocus its attention on the Windows platform.
I didn’t initially reply to start a flame war. I’ve been using both platforms since they were released (I’m old), and love/hate both for various reasons. I’ve gradually migrated away from OS X, because my workflow works smoother in a Windows/Adobe environment. I suspect that after this year, I won’t have much of a choice – but I’m not too upset about it.
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[Robert Brown] “I still think OSX is a better editing OS as with Quick View it’s very easy to browse files and drag them in. Win 7 also seems much slower to load and play media files. In OSX I can play uncompressed 1080 off a single drive. Windows chugs. I’ve heard that Win 7 performs better but I’m not sure how. Maybe rendering speed but I haven’t checked it.”
This is incredibly subjective. I edit and work with HD footage in Windows 7 and OS X every day, and experience far more “chugging” in OS X. It’s exactly this reason I prefer to work in Windows 7. -
I always print Powerpoint files to PDF files, and they look fine.
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Pixelan Spicemaster has many soft edge transitions:
https://www.pixelan.com/sm25/intro.htm