David Dobson
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Capture of DV via Firewire is good. Capturing from decks is best. Cameras can be quirky. IEEE 1394 is not the problem.
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You should definitely upgrade to Service Pack 3.
Also – what kind of video are you working with? If it’s any of the mpeg based formats you should delete all the index files (delete everything in the media Cache folder) and let the program re-index.
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Right Click on the Clip, choose Speed/Duration then choose reverse.
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I am thinking that more usable RAM would be a good thing – but so far I haven’t heard enough people say so to risk it. It SHOULD work in 32 bit and the program SHOULD be able to able the memory accordingly. Ha!
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thanks – I will clear up some space and then defrag. While I sleep. I think part of the recent problem was also the recent UPGRADE that seems to have changed the HDV codec somehow. It’s still slow in the same way – but not nearly as bad now that I have deleted the index files and they have been re-indexed. (Audio too.) I also wonder if the TRANSCRIBE feature adds load time to files – all that meta data has to be considered…then again it’s just text.
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Also – you won’t need to transcode from .mp4 to .mxf – PPro CS4 handles the XDCAM- files AS .mp4s. Much to my shock – since the .mp4 extension automatically opens Quicktime on my machine and quicktime won’t play the XDCAM mp4 files. I thought I was so screwed – but then did the import from PPro and all was well with the world again.
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“(The system is an AMD Athalon 64X Dual core 3.0 (6000+) with 4 GIg Ram and the drives are external SATAII dives (in docks). XP-SP3 32bit) “
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Well – when it’s doing whatever it is doing with drives – the screen often won’t refresh and the task manger will in fact say PPro is not responding, but then when it’s done with the drives the task manager returns to normal – and sometimes the screen refreshes, when there is slight break in the sound of the drive being read (or written I don’t know which, though I presume it’s being read) and then won’t refresh for a while as the drives start working again.
On the VERY large project – that takes 30 minutes to load and 15 minutes to respond when returned to from the explorer or another application – I have 3 500GB drives – 2 are nearly full (less than 50GIG left on each and the third one – where the project is saved — has 300 GB free. SO were talking some 50+ hours of DVCProHD footage. I’ve given up working with that project fully loaded and am trying to break it into pieces.
On the HDV project – the 500GB drive has 61GB left on it.
The really strange part was that it took anytime at all to change the name of clip already imported into the project. And the longer the clip the longer it took for the program to give me back control after the name change. It’s almost as if it has to re-index the file (but it’s not taking that long.) Or that the all the files in a project have to be “loaded” into memory each time the program is activated? Or that PPro just doesn’t handle large qualities of clips well. And bear in mind that HDV project doesn’t even have a time line yet.
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I am running CS3 on a Dual Core AMD 3.0 with 4Gig Ram – well 2Gig now and one chip seems to have died. It works as well as CS3 did so the system is adequate. I am using AVCHD and before the latest update I could view the AVCHD files in High Quality Mode just fine (on an external SATAII Drive). After the update, I have to switch to Automatic quality (and so it looks bad) to get decent playback. I hope there will soon be an update to fix the update.
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I used to get that with CS3. I found if I saved the project it worked again. Or if I pressed the play/stop button.