Dave Messinger
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Thanks for the responses. I just freed up some time so I will give these tips a shot – I have been needing to learn PS for a while – so this will give me a shot at it.
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Similarly, I noticed that if I was in an HD project, only HD could be captured in the project. I switched my camera to downconvert HD to SD, and PP3 would not capture the footage in that HD project – none of the controls worked. When I made a new SD project, the HD footage could be captured from the camera when I enabled downconvert in camera to SD.
Was that an anomaly, or is that always true in PP3 – and does PP4 allow allow you to capture both HD and SD in the same project ?
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Well – I have defragged my drives again – and it is still taking 15 minutes to load up a project with 2 1-hr hd clips – that’s basically all that is in the project – along with a couple of minute clips that I have sent to the timeline from source window. It gets to about 95% in project loader – then stays there 15 minutes – then I can edit.
Something just has to be wrong here.
I think I detailed out my machine, etc in prior post – so all I can say is BUMP
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Got it – that worked – thanks – no bombing out.
Still wish I could resolve the long load time – or have someone tell me that is just the way it is – 15 minutes for a project to load with 2 1-hr hdv clips – but for some reason common sense tells me that is way too long – especially with already defragmented drives.
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It’s actually 2 1 hour clips – and I defrag weekly – and I have less than 50% of drives full – program on one drive, project and media files on the other. It doesn’t seem right to me – and I can load the files in Avid Liquid in less than 2 minutes – but it is definitely 15 with PP3 – I made another post about that – but haven’t gotten response on it.
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Thanks. I tried that – maybe I got it wrong – but I created a new sequence, placed the m2v and audio files in it, synced and joined them, double clicked on one of the clips and placed it in the source monitor, then switched to another sequence where I wanted to send i/o’s to – and every time I set an O point, PP3 errors out and closes – and I have to reload the project. Some kind of screen error – it refers to a scr file.
I have tried this about 4 times with consistent results – always an error and close of the program.
And to add to that, it takes PP3 15 minutes to load my 1080i project – that basically only has the 2 m2v video and audio files (each one hour in length) in it. So each time it bombs, it’s another 15 minutes to get back into it to try it again to have it bomb out consistently.
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What exactly is happening when the drives are churning away while loading a PP3 HD project ?
It takes PP3 15 minutes to load a 1080i HD project I have with 2 1hr imported m2v video files. The video files are IPBb mpeg-2 MP@H-14, 25 mbits/s, 16×9, 1440×1080, 24 bits/pixel, 29.97 fps.
I have a dual core x7900 extreme 2.8 lintel chip on a pc with 4 gigs mem with XP, and the drives are defragged and are 50% full. PP3 on drive1, project and video files on drive2. 4 gigs mem.
I can start Avid Liquid with PP3 running (after the project finishes loading (15 minutes), and Liquid loads it’s project with the same video files in less than a minute.
Is this slow project startup normal for M2V files and a 1080i project – or are there some things I can do to speed it up.
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I have 2 1hr m2v video files that I imported into a PP3 project that takes a long time to load also – and I am wondering if it could be my project settings – or if this is what I should expect with PP3. I haven’t work with PP3 that much – so I am very much in the learning stage.
Properties show the video files as a IPBb mpeg-2 MP@H-14, 25 mbits/s, 16×9, 1440×1080, 24 bits/pixel, 29.97 fps.
My project settings are hdv1080i.
I am wondering if I need to customize my project settings.
The project takes about 20 minutes to load – and sometimes I get the “program is not responding”.
I have a dual core x7900 extreme 2.8 lintel chip on a pc with 4 gigs mem with XP.
Is this slow project startup normal for M2V files and a 1080i project – or are there some things I can do to speed it up.
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[quote] You can use the page up and page down keys to align the time indicator to the start or end of a clip. Hope this makes sense.[/quote]
not quite – but I will try that out and see.
What I am really trying to do is to edit in PP3 mostly from the keyboard – using the style/workflow editing processes that I developed and used in my prior editor (Avid Liquid).
I find that what I could generally accomplish from the keyboard in Liquid, I can almost accomplish from the keyboard in PP3 – but generally with the limitation of having to shift my hand back to the mouse (much more than I did with Liquid).
I have been through the keyboard assignable shortcut’s and editing command key shortcuts, and have tried to apply them to my “old” style – and in doing so I have learned a lot about PP3.
But what I don’t know is “should I be learning PP3 this way – trying to make PP3 fit my perceived editing workflow process/style of being basically a straight keyboard editor ? Or do I need to change my style and start accepting that I will be integrating mouse movements into my editing style ?
That’s wny my questions sometime relate to basic things done with the mouse that I am trying to do from the keyboard – or at least make the process more of a keyboard process.
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I should have been a bit clearer – I have noticed in the drag that I sometimes shift the clips a bit left or right – not always – so I was really looking for a way of assuring the clips maintained their exact timeline position – just on a different track. And maybe dragging is the best way – just thought I would ask.
Dave Messinger
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