[Ed Dooley]

On another forum someone mentioned Premiere’s 3.1 update allowing for MXF importing. And this was found elsewhere, saying you need something like this (at$95) to use DVCProHD QTs on a PC. I don’t know if that means you need it with PP or as a stand-alone:
https://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

That’s weird, Adobe’s Premiere Pro site says it supports DVCPro HD. Maybe the editor has
an old version that didn’t, CS3 does.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Here’s a thread that describes some issues with the Free trial of CS3:
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b4b721

BTW, If you Google the file name, the first dozen or more sites are all illegal download and torrent sites. So if yours is illegal, please don’t keep posting about it here.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Are you saying that you have an official, legal copy of Adobe AE CS3? And you’re trying to extract using WinRar? And one of the files in your official, legal copy of AE CS3 is corrupted? If yes, then why aren’t you asking Adobe for help? If you have an illegal copy, this isn’t the place to be asking publicly for help in illegal activities.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

DPI and inches mean nothing in the video world, it’s all about pixels. If you have a 1280×720 sequence, you need a 1280×720 (pixels!) still. You can usually get away with a slightly smaller image that scales up before pixellation shows up though. Having said that, 10″x5″ at 300 (pixels per inch) not DPI, should be 3000×1500 pixels in size, more than enough for 1080 video. Were the originals very small and uprezzed when scanned? Are they scaled correctly in FCP?
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I like BitVice too, but it really makes lousy QTs and WMVs. 🙂
Ed

[walter biscardi] “BitVice from innobits. Best encoder we’ve used, especially for DVD’s. Quality is equal to commercial DVD’s we purchase and it’s a great price.
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[doug branch] “size i need to achieve, 10 mb files size or less, is
320 x 180 in either quicktime or WMV.
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[Ed Dooley]

Why don’t you export a QT using current settings and bring that into Compressor (or whatever you use)? You don’t have to save it as something else first.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

My thought is you should do a search of this forum and the compression techniques forum. It’s been asked, and answered, dozens of times (and very recently too). My opinion: Episode is very good, Squeeze is good, but I’ve had occassional various problems with it (popping audio, and gamma issues). I think Episode is the best all around encoder.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Hardware encoders make the job faster. There are very good software encoders, but they are slower, that;s the main difference. Do a search of this forum and you’ll find lots of discussions about other encoders. While Compressor is good, BitVice is better. Procoder on PC is great too. The new CinemaCraft (new for Mac) is supposed to be excellent. If you would just scroll down in this forum you’d find all kinds of answers, try that.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Working from home doesn’t mean they need laptops. As Shane said, the MacPro will give them the needed throughput for UC HD. If they need to be mobile, then a MBP might help, but they won’t do UC HD with them. If you’re talking about DVCProHD, then a MBP works too. Think about the productivity of big monitors with an 8-core MP vs a 2-core MBP too.
Render, render, render with a MBP vs RT, RT, RT.
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[Steve Roessler] “1) Our editors work from home so they most likely will be using MacBook Pros – Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz 4GB computers with eSata drives to work on uncompressed HD, will they be able to work more quickly in FCP if they are using the new Mac Pro 8-Core (2 Quad-Core 2.8GHz Intel Xeon) or will the mac book pro’s be able to hold their own with editing hour long documentaries, uncompressed HD
“