Eric Monroe
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I made a video to show you how to do this….as soon as it loads to vimeo I will post you the link.
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Well…..I will throw in my 2 cents for what its worth. I just bought a Panasonic HS700K last week and it uses AVCHD format. I have a Mac and a PC both running CS4. AVCHD is supported natively in PPRO so I put the footage on the timeline and it causes PPRO to crash and freeze when trying to play more than one at a time…..sound familiar? LOL
My PC has 8gb of RAM, a RAID 0 setup for scratches, a 10k velociraptor C: drive, NVidia GTX260 card, and it, much to my surprise would not handle the workload.
SO…….
A friend of mine has an 8-core Mac Pro, 12gb of RAM, qty. 2 raid zero setups, and his machine running CS4 did the same thing. (this machine cost him close to 10 grand)
As a side note, I tried them in Final Cut Pro 7 as well on his Mac Pro and it wouldn’t play it any differently than CS4. (and that was wrapped up into Apple ProRes format which is lighter supposedly….I had to do that because Final Cut does not have native AVCHD support.)
SO…..on with my 2 cents.
In my humble opinion, the problem lies with the fact that the CS4 and the FCP studio are both 32 bit applications….which only recognize a maximum of 4 gigs of RAM. I believe that is where the bottle neck lies. You could have 128gb of RAM and it still will not use more than 4gb of it. The new CS5 is fully 64-bit, so it will make use of ALL of the RAM that your machine has, opening the floodgates……not to mention it is written to place a balanced part of the workload onto the GPU allowing the CPU to be freed up a bit. There is a video demo of CS5 where the put 4 cameras of Native Red Camera footage (4k RES) into the multicam window and it streams it perfectly without a hiccup. Now granted that guys machine has a 4thousand dollar Quaddro graph. card in it, but it does play it smoothly.
In summary….CS5 (I hope) will be the answer that all of us who are working in filebased workflows are desperately looking for. We shall see.
Anyone else have anything to correct or add to “my two cents” feel free :o)
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I am no FCP expert, but i believe that the Final Cut Studio has “compressor” which is used for that sort of thing. As far as format, Ppro should be able to read .mov just fine. (as long as you have Quicktime installed)
Good Luck!
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I know from experience however, that alot of times you get ZERO response in some of the forums. For example, I try to answer and help as many people as I can when I am surfing through….but I have had no response to questions that i have had after searching relentlessly through back posts to find a solution. I find it hard to believe that the questions I am asking are not answerable by the talented people that make up these forums.
I have even reposted stuff more than once on different days and still get nothing….not even a friendly “i dont know”
(reason i wrote this is becuz I am about to resort to contacting someone off the forum just for help with my problem) LOL
Oh, and not on this forum…it was in the Premiere Pro forum.
Good Day to all! :o)
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I also have a MBP 13″ 4GB RAM with CS4 and Snow Leopard. I took out the stock harddrive and replaced it with a 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200rpm laptop drive. The internal has the OS as well as the applications and the project files themselves running from it, but I store all of my raw footage on a WD 1TB external drive connected via FW800. It is important as John B. mentioned to set the scratch discs to the external drive as well.
I edit multicam footage everyday, and my macbook does great. It is SD footage, but I edit 4 cameras each approx an hour in duration with little to no lag or problems. I know you said you are working with HD footage, perhaps you could try a Hitachi G-Raid…..an external drive that contains 2 hard-drives in the enclosure setup in a RAID ZERO configuration. That could help increase multicam performance.
As a sidenote, I changed the capture format…….so I capture all of my footage into Apple ProRes (HQ)
Hope this helps ya!
Check out the Hitachi G-Raid:
https://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid.cfmEric
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i have had that happen 2 or 3 times with my Panasonic DVX-100B as well. Only 2 or 3 times in 5 years though. so I would like to know the answer to that as well. but never the resizing only the speeded up footage for me.
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running only one hard drive is usually not a recommended idea. Scratch disks and raw footage should be on a separate drive from the applications and the project files.
As far as AME taking a while to load assets and actually start exporting your file…..mine does that too…and I am on a decently fast machine with 3 drives.
Are you on a Mac or a PC? What operating system are you using? What export settings are you using in AME? What kind of source footage are you working with?
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are you editing on a mac or a pc?
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AWESOME! Thanks Jon! This works perfectly! I appreciate you gettin back to me so quickly.
CREATIVE COW ROCKS! :o)
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[Adam Tabor] “And has anyone got the Adobe Premiere Production studio Premium (CS2) to work on windows7 or vista.”
To be honest, I dont know about CS2. However I thought I would let you know that I have ran CS3 and CS4 in Vista-64, Windows 7 Beta, Windows 7 RC1. I know that doesnt answer your question about CS2, but I thought I would at least let you know about these versions. All you could do is try running it there and see what it does. Good Luck.