Eric Addison
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I’m pretty sure that you won’t be able to capture through the HDMI port, umless you have some special capture card that allows it.
Also, you’ve got an AVCHD camera there, and at the moment PPro doesn’t work well with that format yet – natively at least. You can buy plug-ins that allow you to work with it. Check around and you can find out what other users think of them.
Also, Adobe did just announce a new version of Premiere Elements (a much more basic version of PPro and costs about $100) that does work with AVCHD files…something to consider until PPro CS4 comes out.
—Eric
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From the 720×480 frame size, it looks like your importing Standard def. footage. Are you using an HDV camera that can downconvert footage? If so, make sure your camera isn’t doing that, and if it is, change it and try to recapture using the proper HDV preset.
—Eric
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Same thing is happening to me. If I export a 1920×1080 file, AVI or Quicktime, that happens. I’ve been meaning to post about it for a few days now. It’s really frustrating because I need to export out this project and I can’t.
I’ve got an HDV project, shot 24F on a Canon XL-H1, captured through firewire – no capture card. It seems to be something in the PPro export that causes it.
—Eric
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Thanks for all the feedback. As it turns out, after talking with the client some more, they were open and happy to push the deadline back until Tuesday.
I have no problem keeping a client happy, and working hard to do it. I guess I just didn’t want to be giving something away that most other companies would charge for.
And yes, I fully realize that keeping a client is easier then finding a new one. I don’t ever complain about having work – I know how tough this business is.
—Eric
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First, make sure you’re running with the latest update – 3.2. Also, you might check over on the Adobe PPro CS3 User Forum – I know there were some Mac users having problems, and they did find some help – not sure if it’ll work for you, but it may.
—Eric
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Thanks for the input, Jan. I was only going off what others, who I assumed to be more knowledgeable then I, had told me.
It really does give me some more to think about. The 170 does look like a GREAT camera. Can’t wait to do some test shots with it when it’s released.
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I’m in the same spot. I’m looking at moving into HD with a smaller camera, and the EX3 and the HPX170 look like the way to go. I don’t like the GOP frame of the EX3, but if the 170 upsamples the image like the 200a does, then I’m not a fan of that – native 1920×1080 is pretty nice.
Jan, when will more details about the 170 be released? Does it upsample the image as the 200a does?
—Eric
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No – as far as I know, it still exists. I haven’t really tested it since upgrading to 3.2…I’ve grown in the habit of making most of my titles in Photoshop or animated in AE. When I have used the titler, I’ve been very careful when choosing fonts.
I’ll check later today, but changing video cards I don’t think will make difference.
—Eric
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I’ve been dealing with this bug since CS3 came out. I haven’t checked to see if it still happens in 3.2, but it wasn’t fixed in all the previous updates.
I’ve got an Nvidia card, so it’s not an ATI card issue. The issue, from what I’ve learned, is that PPro has issues with fonts – corrupt fonts to be exact. If you’re like me, you’ve probably built up quite a font library over the years, and now some of those fonts are causing the problem.
Even though they work in all the other CS3 apps just fine (and previous versions of PPRO), PPro CS3 doesn’t like them, and that’s what is causing the crash.
The best thing to do is to get a Font Manager program and use that. I haven’t done it yet myself – I guess I’m holding out hope Adobe fixes this so I don’t have to spend extra money.
Hope this helps!
—Eric
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Both Ron and Vincent are right. If you can afford to, having more then one system is a good thing, especially if it can land you more business.
That being said, so many non-technical people just know the name Final Cut and expect everyone cuts with it. I know FCP, but I own a system with just PPro. When clients call and ask what I cut with, (which happens very rarely) I tell them PPro. And if they seemed worried that it’s not FCP, like Vincent said – I point them to my reel…if they liked that, they should be happy with what I can do for them because that was all done with Adobe tools.
I had one client (from a local production company) tell me that he’d throw more work my way if I had FCP. I told him sorry, but I didn’t want to invest in a new Mac. Well, after some time, he now throws work my way anyways because he knows I’m good with my own toolset, and at the end of the day it’s the quality of the finished product that counts.
Knowing FCP and PPro, there isn’t anything I can’t do with PPro that I can with FCP (with the exception of a few things most don’t ask for or need – i.e. OMF support). But as I said, it never hurts to have some more tools if you can afford it.
I’d tell these people what you have now, and ask why they need to cut on FCP – what is your system lacking that they need.
—Eric