Eric Addison
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I edit on a Vista64 workstation, as well as a Vista32 laptop, with CS4 and I have very few (if any) problems. I think the bottom line is what kind of system do you have? My advice is unless you know about computer hardware don’t try and build your own system – buy an HP, Dell, or something like that. I also don’t have Matrox, or any other card like that – I edit all the formats natively.
A windows machine is just as capable to edit video as a Mac. I will say this – if you’re editing HD, get as much RAM as possible.
—Eric
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If you’re looking to go with a Windows system, I would really look at the new HP workstations. I currently use 2 HP machines, and they are simply fantastic. I’ve had no problems with them, and CS4 runs great on them.
—Eric
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The titler in CS3 had some issues – issues that have been resolved in CS4…no title window creeping. I will say that I’ve seen the titler re-adjust slightly in CS4, but nothing like CS3.
—Eric
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[Craig Seeman] “Eric, where’s your sales pitch.”
When Panasonic pays me, I’ll give more of a sales pitch. Until then, it’s just my two cents…
—Eric
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The camera that fits your price range that I’m most excited about is the new Panasonic HPX-300. So much to love about the camera. Yes, it has a 1/3″ chip, but the images look great (that I’ve seen). And it does AVC-Intra.
And with Panasonic releasing the P2 E cards, the media to record to is now going to be much more affordable.
I think, John, that it all depends on your workflow and preferences. You need to really go out and shoot with the cameras you’re interested in, and then work with the footage in post to see what you like. Every camera (like every NLE) has it’s strong points and it’s weak points.
—Eric
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John,
Make sure you have the PPro CS3 3.2 update – that should allow you to have native XDCAM support. Just import in the folders from the SxS cards and your editing – no transcoding, re-wrapping, or anything like that.
I’ve got PPro CS4 on my laptop and I did a shoot with the EX1. While on location, we could pull the cards from the cameras and look at clips from the card on the laptop in PPro, and even edit quick sequences to make sure footage matched and would cut later. In my opinion, PPro has the best XDCAM EX workflow…as for the EX cameras – great cameras.
—Eric
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Jason,
I ran a test using Media Encoder CS4, but the clip that it produced (very quickly by the way – less then a minute) was still playing jerky. I think Adobe Media Encoder has issues with the footage, but you should give it a shot.
I looked at the image you posted, and I would use the Quicktime selection out of those choices.
—Eric
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What I did was use Windows Movie Maker and set the output settings as a 4:3 PAL file using the DV AVI codec. If you’re on a Mac, then use the PAL DV codec for your Quicktime files. That should yield you something better to use, and something Premiere Pro will play with better.
Then set up a project in Premiere Pro that is DV PAL, and you should be good. I’d run a test to make sure it all works before you encode all that footage. The only problem would be if you need something with NTSC standards because your footage is 25fps, not 29.97, you could run into problems there. But if you are putting this on the web, it shouldn’t matter.
As for using and XL2 next time, you should be good to go…you should have no problems with that footage.
Hope that helps!
—Eric
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Jason,
Okay, I ran some tests and yeah – that footage is tough to deal with. PPro doesn’t really like it. Part of the problem is that it’s no where near professional quality. The data rate on a normal DV AVI file is 3.6 MB/sec…the rate on your footage – 355 KB/sec. That’s pretty low.
PPro is setup for professional footage. Using consumer footage like this can yield less then desirable results. I’m not a big car guy (that’s my brother so forgive me if I get this analogy wrong), but it’s like you have a really high-end sports car and you’re putting low quality gas in it…
That being said, I was able to export out a WMV file that didn’t jump around. I did it by first opening the file in Windows Movie Maker and exporting out a new DV AVI file that was set up for PAL (to keep the 25fps) and 4:3.
Once that exported, I dropped the file into PPro, and exported out the WMV file.
Hope that helps!
If the video doesn’t play above, try this link…
https://shorts.creativecow.net/film/test-clips
—Eric
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Is there any way you could post the source video some where for download? Even just a short clip would be useful in that some of us could encode it and see if we get the same results…maybe try https://www.yousendit.com/ to pass along the file…
—Eric