David Dobson
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I agree I think PPRo has a great future.
I remember version 6.5 as a break through.
I started editing on an Avid (MC version 2?) and stuck with that through 11 and then switched to FCP and still do that when necessary, but have PC version of the CS4 Production Suite running at home and now do nearly on my work on it.
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I think better – I think in 2.0 they adopted the SSE2 CPU instruction set. Or go find an old machine – though 1.5 was never very stable.
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PPro 1.5.1 is the problem – Your motherboard speaks a different language – Your video card speaks a different language – your device drivers speak a different language – the OS is trying to translate but it’s not all coming out quite right.
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Wow – good luck. I’ll be shocked if it’s possible.
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No firewire on a Beta deck – you need a special capture card – check Aja Kona and Blackmagic Decklink.
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Note: I’ve only ever used the DSR11 and M25U decks WITH PPro. I’ve used lots of other decks with Avid and have used FCP to run a digibeta deck – but none of those was FIREWIRE – they were RS-422 deck control and SDI or composite or analog inputs.) My PPro set up is very minimal – no special video capture cards, no hi-speed raid hard drives (just dockable SATAII Drives) and only Firewire for deck control.
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XP is able to use more of the RAM than 2GB – not sure how exactly – and in CS4 they have broken the various functions of the program into different sub programs each of which can access 2GB of RAM separately – so it dose pay to have more RAM than the 2GB even in the 32bit XP – though it may depend on your CPU as well (I have 64bit CPUs).
The deck issue I can ‘t help you with much. I’ve only ever used the DSR-11 and the HDV M25U Sony decks. And I don’t do batch captures anymore. However – if there are timecode drop outs on the tape you might try shortening the pre-roll rather than lengthening it. Back in my Avid days (and a few times on FCP projects using the DSR-11 and a time of day timecode shoot (damn them)) I had to change the IN-POINT manually so that the batch would work (if the deck rolls back over a timecode change then it will never find the clip in-point.) Then of course I would have to manually re-insert that edit.
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I think it crashed because of the Motherboard chipset. I read somewhere that Intel got a pass on certification at the last minute and so there are a lot of machines that can’t run Vista that say they can. HP upgrade all their MBs to make them work and so Vista works on HP machines. Or so I recall. But 2GB of RAM is definitely not enough for CS4. 4GB is a minimum and 8 would be better – even in 32bit XP. I have two machines – both XP-SP3 AMD dualcore CPUs – one has 4GB and the other has 8GB and they are both reasonably stable – except for a CS3 project that got opened in cs4 – that project crashes a lot.
I have read that Vista and CS4 on the right machine works really well. I am satisfied with CS4 and XP for the time being. I’ll be waiting for Windows 7 before upgrading to 64bit (trying out the Beta now…and so far so good.)
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It is baffling.
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Yay for you!