Eric Jurgenson
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The most exciting thing for me is seeing the revamped export media window. Dave is rendering WITHOUT HAVING TO SEND TO AME. Thank God Adobe is addressing one of the most screwed up features in CS4. (I hope I’m not missing something here).
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I don’t hear anyone mentioning After Effects, which is one of the best converters out there.
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I know I sound like a fanboy, but a Matrox (RTX2 or Axio LE) card will bring the responsiveness, real time filters, fast rendering & export, and capture screen support you are used to in SD projects to HDV projects in Premiere. I’d hate to get along without them when editing HD (I have one of each). Note that not all PCs are compatable with these cards. Check Matrox’s website for certified configurations.
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If you were familiar with After Effects, you would probably know about the softness parameter on the masks. If you aren’t familiar with After Effects, it would be too complicated for me to to explain the whole process. Thus the brief answer. Unfortunately, soft mattes aren’t available in Premiere, unless someone makes a 3rd party plug-in – maybe something like Boris FX.
But I would highly recommend getting into After Effects (if you aren’t already). It is a great tool for this sort of thing, as well as many other things.
I should add that although After Effects has variable H and V softness on it’s masks as a whole, Autodesk Combustion has variable softness on each mask line – much nicer.
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Check out the ATI Radeon X4890.
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Short answer: After Effects.
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Probably a corrupt clip. Does it seem to lock up at the same point in the encode process? Any unusual codecs, large still files (especially JPEGs) should be considered suspect.
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You have to install the Avid codecs LE package for Windows or Mac (google it), and then the codecs will show up under the Quicktime preset in the Media Encoder.
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Yes, you need an array. If you can afford it, I would go for something like an 8-bay SATA/SAS Raid5 array like the ProAvio RS8-SS (with an LSI SAS HBA). This is capable of playing dual streams of uncompresseed 10-bit HD.
I don’t understand why you can’t use the BMD card to monitor a native XDCAM HD project. I have a Matrox card (Axio LE) which plays native XDCAM HD clips. I would assume the BMD card would function similarly. Maybe someone with this card can answer your question.
DV is compressed standard definition video with a small fraction of the data rate of uncompressed HD; easily handled on a single SATA drive.
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The EX3 file is highly compressed (small). The Black Magic file is uncompressed (large). Your video drive (which you forgot to mention, but I presume is a single SATA drive) can’t sustain the data rate necessary for uncompressed HD video. You need an array that can sustain at least 200 MB/s read rate to play back uncompressed HD.