Eric Jurgenson
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I think XDCAM import (along with some other format types) has been disabled on the trial version due to licensing issues.
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PPro up to v.CS3 would encounter low memory issues with larger HD projects. I haven’t seen this issue in standard def projects, some which have been quite large.
Yes, running out of RAM can affect stability, and slow things to a crawl. PPro will typically give you a low memory warning, at which point you should close any unneeded sequences (they take up memory), close and restart PPro (This flushes the RAM).
CS4 is supposed to address this issue.
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The database is contained in the project file. When Premiere loads a project, pointers in the project file allow creation/loading of picons, waveforms, etc. necessary to display the project attributes on screen. These are stored in RAM until the program is saved, closed, or another project is opened. At that point, the project file database is updated.
Pretty much all NLE systems work in this way.
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I think I answered question #2 in response #1.
Further audio processing should not be necessary.
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It’s really hard to say what your problem is without examining your source project. My guess is that Premiere is still using space on your almost full project drive (even though you are copying to another drive), and the drive is filling up at some point. Maybe setting the media cache drive location to a drive with some space available would help – this is a guess.
Is forgetting about trimming and just copying the whole project to an external drive an option? With desktop drives going for $225./TB, space is pretty cheap (Check out the Seagate Free Agent Pro drives).
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1) Use a standard DV 48 KHz project preset. Import the footage and either size it to full frame using the transform filter, or right click on the clip in the timeline and select “Scale to Frame Size”. It should play at normal speed, which will look jumpy if originally shot at 15 fps. If the speed is off, manually set it with the speed/duration control. You will undoubtably have to render.
3) In the above mentioned DV project, create a stereo sequence (timeline). When you drag the clip to the video track, the audio should drop down to track #4 (because it is a mono source track, and the first three tracks that are created by default in a stereo sequence are stereo tracks. Mono clips can’t be put on a stereo track.) Premiere will do the conversion to 16-bit 48 KHz stereo (since that’s what the project settings are). The mono track will be centered between the two stereo channels, unless you want to pan it around.
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I just read the lower post on nested sequences in CS4. That should help with question #1.
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I remember hearing that Sony has a prototype PD format (Blu-Ray) disk drive similar to the PDWU1 that has slots for SxS media, and can copy to dual layer PD media in the field. The price of PD media, especially the dual layer disks, is comparable to HDCAM tape. Maybe this will become a real product at NAB.
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1) Yes, that would be a nice AE shortcut. Otherwise, as far as I know, you have to select the downstrean clips with the work area bar, and just render that section, or select all the layers in AE and drag them back to the beginning of the comp. You could create a new sequence in PPro, paste the section you want to export into it, then paste the clips in that sequence into AE, but I don’t think that would save much time. I hope someone has a better suggestion than these.
2) You could change the field dominance in the PPro timeline clip right-click menu (field options).
3) AE struggles with long GOP MPEG. You might be better off converting AE-bound HDV clips to a frame-based format first.
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[Richard Milner] “Is it safe to assume that the project and the video files are back up on to the same drive?”
It depends how you set up your scratch disk settings in preferences.
[Richard Milner] “Does the project manager make temporary files before it write the condensed files on to the drive? If so, where do these temporary files reside during the condense?”
Probably. Maybe in the media cache (see scratch disk settings).
[Richard Milner] “Is it same to assume that you can assign a different drive from the existing project drive or media drives to copy the files on to?”
Yes.
[Richard Milner] “If there is enough space, do you know of any other reasons why a condense would fail?”
Project manager doesn’t like to condense HDV or other long GOP formats.