Eric Addison
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I don’t know a single professional video camera that sends out video through the USB port. Someone correct if I’m wrong, but I don’t think it exists.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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If you go to the HP website and look up the dv8, it’s still in the picture of the unit. And it wasn’t listed in my feature list when I ordered mine, but it’s there.
Seems odd that they would still show it as part of the model in the photos of the laptop if they removed it…odd.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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“HP doesn’t even have a express card slot in their dv8 series anymore..”
Mine does…I use it for my SxS cards from my EX3 all the time.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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James,
Well, what are you trying to compress too? I’ve found, and maybe others can comment on this as well, but the speed at which things enocde depend on a number of factors – what are you compressing too, CPU speed, hard drive speed, are you down scaling the footage, etc.
I’ve found that usually Adobe Media Enocder (AME) usually encodes around the same amount of time as doing a direct export out of PPro. I think I’ve seen fast h.264 encodes directly from PPro, and that may be due to the fact that I’ve got one the Mercury Playback Engine approved cards.
From what I understand about your workflow, it would seem to me that the best thing for you to do would be to edit everything in PPro, then export out your sequences to AME and let them encode when you’re not editing.
One other piece of advice I’d give you is that with all the footage you’re looking at shooting, I’d break the project up…maybe into days – have the videos from day 1 in one project with a sequence for each video, then all of day 2 in one project, etc. It might make project/data management easier.
I read your other post in the other forum – the project I had a couple weeks back was somewhat similar. I was shooting B-roll of events and then lectures from the back of a hotel conference room every day for 5 days. In my hotel room, I had my laptop for editing and a 1 TB RAID drive the client provided for storage. When my cards got full, it was off to the room to dump them, then back out to shoot. Then every night, I had to go through the hours of footage and find clips that would work for the end of week highlight/overview video.
As I mentioned, I had over 400GB of footage. I came up with a system to keep track of all the footage, and that helped locate clips when editing.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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James –
I shoot with an EX3 and edit with PPro CS5, so I’ve got experience with the workflow and it works really well.
PPro will import in the XDCAM EX footage natively, and you can start editing right away. You can also use Adobe Media Encoder to encode to other formats if you need too – it’s Adobe’s version of Compressor.
I just came off a week long shoot on location where we had over 400GB of footage, and I had to edit on site for a highlight video to play the final night. I haven’t read your other post, but let me just give you 2 words…media management. I love shooting tapeless, but keeping all those files in some sort of organized way can be tough.
PPro CS5 worked perfect. If you’re coming from FCP, there are a few little things that work differently, but they are very similar.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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There is a way to “hack” PPro and use other CUDA enabled cards. Realize up front that doing so may give you great results, but it also may NOT give you great results…you do this at your own risk.
Give this thread a read – https://forums.adobe.com/thread/632143?tstart=0 – it should tell you how to do the hack.
I’ve run the hack on my laptop with the GeForce 230M card, and it gave me okay results but PPro seemed to become a little more unstable. I’ve since turned it off, and edit without it.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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As for the screen – I love having the larger screen. As I really am only editing HD now, it’s nice having a 1920×1080 screen. It’s a beast to lug around, but it’s worth it.
In regards to your question about the USB 3.0 card, sounds good to me. That being said, I’ve done some edits with a small USB 2.0 connected drive that’s worked fine. And the dv8 I got has an eSATA port – that may be the best way to go if you can. But with an extra internal hard drive, you should be able to edit just fine…so long as you’re not trying to cut 4K Red footage at 4K resoultion.
The video card that came with my laptop was the NVIDIA 230M…it’s a great card, but it’s not on the supported list. I’ve used the “hack” to enable it and it’s worked pretty well. I’d say get the best card you can afford.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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I couldn’t access your links for some reason, but I’ve got a dv8 HP laptop and it’s been great for me. Unlike Vince, I’m a big HP supporter – all my machines are HP and they have all served me well.
I cut HD on my laptop in CS5 with no problems, and having 2 internal hard drives is an essential – got to have it.
Hope that helps!
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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Nigel,
Try just importing the whole BPAV folder from the SxS card into PPro – that should then allow you to the whole clip.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
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“…should be “safe” by then.”
I’m using CS5 almost daily – it’s pretty safe.
—Eric
Owner | 100 ACRE FILMS
https://www.100acrefilms.com