[Danny Winn]

Yeah man,

There is no setting to change this, it was a big bummer to me when I got into HD, PPro will not currently show the video as it’s being captured in HD. Suposedly the next version of PPro will fix this but until then I just watch the cam screen as you pointed out. (It will display for SD though)

It sucks and I still don’t get the thinking behind this from Adobe. Was a big blunder in opinion.

[Danny Winn]

Here’s where i got mine, everything went great and I give them 5 out of 5 stars.

Link: https://www.bhphotovideo.com

[Danny Winn]

No,no,

Whenever you add an effect or transition or scale or color correct or just about anything that modifies the clip you’ll need to click on the “Sequence” tab at the top of the window, then select “render effects in work area”.

A good way to tell if there are clips that need rendering is that there is usually a red line at the top of the timeline above any clips that need to be rendered, once they are rendered the line should be green. (in PPro Cs4 anyway, not sure about other versions).

Hope this helps.

[Danny Winn]

Your image should be just as clear as the original when you crop, scale or move as long as you’re not scaling up the size. scaling up the size will cause blurryness.

Make sure you are rendering after you crop, scale or move.

[Danny Winn]

Well yes Tim, touche.
the Canon shoots at 1440×1080, that is true. Just make sure to export your project at 1920×1080 end product looks the same to me.

As far as the final cut extra features, I personally have never needed to use the one’s you pointed out but I am but 1 of many. My point was that if you know PPro already, it will do pretty much all the essentials of editing that one would need for film making and corporate type spots.

All the cool bells and whistle’s for me come from After Effects. And you can import a PPro project into After Effects, I generally have not needed to pull an After Effects comp into PPro. But as they say, there are many ways to skin a cat.

When I did use Final Cut, it was so much slower than Premiere Pro with a comparable system. That was my main reason for sticking with PPro.

[Danny Winn]

You should get the Canon XH A1s (around $3.399) and worth it. It shoots full HD and is beautiful. Don’t worry about switching to Final Cut, you can do all the same things in Premiere Pro and faster.

Here’s a sample of one of my projects with the XH A1s and Premiere Pro & After Effects in one scene. Be sure to watch in HD if you have an HD monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMXsZEwBV10

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[Danny Winn]

What I always do for my HD export is the following:

While in PPro project select export,
Adobe Media Encoder pops up,
Under Format select Mpeg 2,
Under Preset options select – HDTV 1080i 29.97 High Quality
Quality of 5.
Make sure both Audio and Video is selected.

I love the way this looks, here’s an example of one of my projects using this output.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMXsZEwBV10

Hope that helps.

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[Danny Winn]

I feel your frustration man, I’m used to it now but I remember feeling the same way when I started editing HD.

SD goes so fast compared to HD. I do have windows Vista though and I run 64bit. I have a 2.6G Dual core with 4g’s Ram and it still doesnt play perfectly. I does however get better after you’ve played the project several times though.

I’ve heard that running CS4 with a high performance Mac is even worse, don’t know if that’s true.

[Danny Winn]

After your project is open, open the capture window. In the upper right area of the window you’ll see a”Logging” and a “Settings” tab, click settings and make sure that it reads “Capture Format HDV”, not SD. Many times when I would set up a new project and chose HDV initially, it would swich to SD when I opened the capture window.

It gave me the same message that you’re getting.

Hope that’s all it is.

[Danny Winn]

If you’re using CS4 you can pull your clip into the source window, trim it (or not), then at the bottom of the window you can either drag and drop the little “film icon” to the timeline which will only bring down the video, or drag and drop the “speaker” icon to the timeline which will only place the audio.

My CS4 version has this option, I don’t know about the other versions.

Hope this helps.