Eric Jurgenson
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Could you possibly have put the wrong clip in the source viewer? Make sure the selected clip in the timeline is contained somewhere in the source viewer clip. Does it do this for all your clips?
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If the source material is DV, I’d give them DV Quicktimes. Premiere will handle Quicktime (except DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD), although the footage will have to render. If desired, the DV Quicktimes could be converted to AVI Quicktimes in Premiere without recompressing. Then they would play back in real time.
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Carlos,
The RTX2 also has YUV inputs and outputs. The color correction tools are excellent, and real time. The RTX2 does not do uncompressed, but its I-frame MPEG compression is very good (Axio will do 8-bit and 10-bit uncompressed as well as I-frame MPEG).
I also frequently use Targa or Tiff files to move between Premiere and my compositing application. With a high performance disk system, the RTX2 will play back Targa sequences in real time.
The RTX2 will support an external monitor with Combustion, as well as other common 3D and compositing applications.
The serial 9-pin device control is feame accurate.
Stick with the system recommendations on the Matrox website. This guarantees a working system and 6 months of Matrox factory support. Get a quad core processor (or two), and 4 GB of RAM, unless you want to go 64-bit (Vista). In that case, get 8 GB RAM.
The Matrox system when configured properly is very stable. There is no better system for editing HDV, with multi-stream real time native file handling.
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You are jumping the gun on the i7 processors – no dual processor systems are available yet, and i7 systems are not yet certified by Matrox.
Otherwise, I would recommend the RTX2 as an economical edit acceleration card, as long as you don’t need 1920×1080 (the RTX2 offers 1440×1080 max, which is fine for HDV and DVCPRO HD, which don’t use the full 1920×1080 raster), native XDCAM HD support, or HD-SDI I/O. If you need any of that stuff, save your money for Axio.
The RTX2 has numerous advantages over Cineform: native file handling (no transcoding) for maximum quality using minimum disk space, a wider assortment of real time effects, accelerated rendering and export, video in the capture window, analog and digital I/O, audio input metering, etc.
By the way, jump into AE. You will soon love it. I used to love combustion, but now I only use it for particles and some 3D stuff. AE is much easier to use on complicated compositions.
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1) Re-import source clips that show offline (perhaps to a different folder)
2) For each offline clip on the timeline, load the corresponding re-imported source clip into the source viewer.
3) Right click on clip in timeline, and select “replace with source clip – match frame”. Repeat for the other offline clips.
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Really the best thing would be to upgrade to CS4 or get Premiere Elements, which handle AVCHD natively. You should be eligable for an educational discount of some sort.
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An array is a set of disks that can be combined to enable greater performance and/or disk failure protection.
My current favorite for single desktop drives are the Seagate Free Agent Pro systems, about $225. for the 1 TB model. They feature an eSATA connection, which would be great if your laptop supports this (very fast). Otherwise, just use the FireWire or the USB connection.
Yes, if your system can’t handle the combined project, you may have to export each section seperately. If your ultimate goal is a DVD, then you can assemble the seperate exported MPEG clips on a single timeline in Encore.
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Also in preferences-general, change the optimize setting from “performance” to “memory”.
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Is this a notebook? Notebooks are not great for editing HD.
Off the top, I’d say your problems are related to:
1) Capturing to the C drive. You want to capture to another drive if possible, preferably something fast like an array, but even a single desktop drive would be better than capturing to the C drive.
2) You are runnung out of RAM. (4 GB is optimal.) To help conserve memory, close unused sequences by clicking on the little X on the sequence tab. They will collapse to the project window, and can be reopened by double-clicking their icon (in list mode).
If this doesn’t work, break your project into smaller pieces.
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PPro CS3 does have limitations with large HD projects. It simply runs out of memory. When that happens, the system uses paging files on the hard drive as a backup, which is a vastly slower process.
If you have CS4, I’d install the 4.01 update, that supposedly improves memory management. You might also want to consider updating to 64-bit Vista.