Derek Andonian
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When you export from Premiere Pro, the output file is built using the original footage, rather than the preview files- which adds time to the export. But there’s also a positive side to this approach, as there is only one generation of quality loss for the final output…
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
While we’re on this subject, I think it would be great if we could assign a COLOR to markers, and also sequences, like you could in the old FCP.
Color-coded sequences would make it a lot easier to tell at a glance which ones are SD, and which are HD, for example.
Off to the feature request page I go!
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
I noticed under “Raffle Prizes” they have a picture of the CS5 Production Premium box. These are interesting times indeed…
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
The Sequence menu gives you the option to “Delete Render Files”
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[Andree Franks] “The only reason why Apple cries Blu-Ray is dead, is called iTunes Store!”
I fully agree- even more so now that they’re getting rid of optical drives entirely right after the Mac App store came out. I remember when the Mac App store was announced Steve said, “It’s not the only way to get apps, but we think it’s the best way.” But now it’s starting to look like they DO want it to be the only way. I can’t help but wonder if we’re going to start seeing websites devoted to “Jailbreaking” the Mac in the not-to-distant future.
As for Steve’s assertion that Blu-ray is dead- it’s very much alive. It’s still small compared to DVD, but it’s been growing steadily since it was introduced. And I have a feeling it’s going to get a serious jump-start this fall, starting next month when the Star Wars films come out…
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
[Craig Seeman] “Macs generally can read, but can’t write to NTFS, which doesn’t have the 4GB limit. As to older computers, I’m not sure that’s a target market for HD video.”
Ah, yes, I forgot about NTFS. Of course, since you can’t write to it in OSX, you would have to boot into Windows to copy the video onto it, which will add time to the process…
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
[Craig Seeman] “Blu-ray is generally H.264. It would be possible to deliver a high data rate file by USB Thumb Drive and then copy it to “device” for playback. Of course I’m not sure how that market penetration compares to Blu-ray.”
I see two major problems with that-
One is cost. Flash drives at a capacity comparable to BD-Rs are very pricey, and it would be expensive to hand them out to a lot of people.
Two is the file system of the drive. Flash drives are usually formated in FAT 32, which has a file size limit of 4 GB. You would have to re-format the drive to fit anything longer than 15 minutes or so, and aside from FAT32 the only other cross-platform alternative would be exFAT- but older computers wouldn’t be able to read it. On the Mac side you would need Snow Leopard with (I think)10.6.6 to see it.
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
[Craig Seeman] Apple has said frequently, optical disk is a dead end and even Blu-ray is transitory at best.
If it IS transitory, the transition is going to be longer than Steve wants us to believe. Unless someone comes up with a miraculous new video codec, it’s going to be a long time before anything streamed online comes anywhere close to Blu-ray quality. And even if I’m wrong, there will be ISP-imposed data caps to contend with.
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
In the Project Settings under Video Rendering and Playback, make sure the renderer is set to the GPU accelerated version of the Mercury Playback Engine, and not “software only”
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.” -
Not as an overlay, but you can see it in the “info” panel next to the media browser
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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”