David Dobson
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My advice is “don’t.” But if you must, then use the h.264 codec, reduce the frames per second and use the most bandwith you can. I prefer just making native h.264 videos (mp4) rather than using it inside quicktime but then you are stuck with sorenson and the version in PPro is old and makes bad pictures.
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Sounds like too many steps.
Just create the SD Timeline you want to export from and edit it all there. You can check that the footage is interpreted correctly and maybe de-interlace on the timeline, but PPro should take care of the conversions.
Anyway, that’s where I’d start from. Never worked in PAL though.
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Glad to have been so wrong.
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On my Mac, Premiere CS5 never gives me trouble, whereas FCP7 often develops dooming issues later on in projects like the inability to save, crashes while loading media, crashes for no apparent reason, won’t be able to playback a timeline, generates corrupted render files, is easily overloaded, loses track of plugins, etc. etc. etc.
Interesting difference of experience we have had.
I can say that I have not had good luck with PPro and ATI Video cards. I get only nVidia cards and since I stared doing that, PPro has run better on a whole whole of different PCs that I built myself. I think the Mac I work on has a Radeon card like yours, 8 cores, 16GB of ram and Final Cut 7 is quite buggy, but with upgrades to the OS now ahead of upgrades to FCP7 (i.e. none ever again) who knows how much longer I’ll be able to use it.
When will you switch to FCPX? I hear it’s improved a bit since it’s disastrous release.
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Seems, from the linked thread, that PPro can only Dynamically Link to one AE Project at a time. I would import project 38 into project 40 and then link to the comp there. Just a thought.
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The question was, “Does anyone use PPro as a professional?”
The answer is “yes.”You can’t, for some reason … oh well.
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I have also used PPro since the 90’s. I have also used Final Cut and Avid since their beginnings. All of them are quirky. But it’s been a long time since PPro was more trouble than it was worth and I use it professionally every day. CS5 (and.5) blows FCP7 out of the water in terms of power, functionality and stability, at least on the systems that I run them both on, pc and mac for PPro. I haven’t tried FCPX, but what I’ve heard has convinced me to migrate my FCP clients to PPro. But everyone should work with what makes them the most creative and productive and that earns them a living. Having said that, once a upon a time, my disappointment with Adobe and PPro was pretty great. They have utterly redeemed themselves in the last few years.
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Good to know, thanks. I guess the chip set really matters. Just wish that information had been made more clear before I purchased the box. It ought to be the first thing it says about the product.
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Well, no difference on PPro on a PC laptop. Unstable to the say the least in 9.1 and only had 9.2 for an hour, but no less unstable in that time.
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Days 2 and 3 started off better. But in the end, the UltraStudio SDI just wasn’t worth the hassle. Almost every time I closed the capture window, it failed to connect on the next attempt to open. TO get the PPro to see the device again I would have to unplug it and plug it back in OR after even that stopped working, restart PPro. Then I could open the capture window and capture as much as i wanted, so long as I didn’t do anything else (like log the shots i excel or try to edit.
However, sometimes I could. for 2 hours straight I could capture, close the window and edit and open it again or log while the window was open.
So I don’t know if that means it got hot and started getting flakey or if my cell phone was to close to the box or the cable or what. I even was downloaded the updated software, 9.2 on the 16th the day it was released and managed to get the last shot of the day when I it seemed the box had finally dies on me completely.
I will be returning this item. I really hope a future version by blackmagic or someone else comes out cause this was a really great solution for usb3 laptops. And I am pretty sure it was some kind of internal crash in the box that was going on, but also, I am pretty sure my laptop didn’t meet the exacting specs of the product (I certainly didn’t have the correct usb3 hardware (fresco not renesas)). But given the issue I had with the Intensity Pro as well as complaints from othes, well, I think there is room for a competitor in this field.