George Socka
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I use Quicktime uncompressed. Set the frame size manually. I could not find an HD preset. And yes, 1 minute uncompressed (without alpha channel) HD is 7 gb. No problem on a Dell vostro i5 with AVCHD footage undderneath it
George Socka
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My answer is don’t. I have built my own computers since the 286. 9 gigabyte SCSI arrays on a 486 to run premiere 4.2 That is a complete waste of time and money IMNSHO. Buy a Dell vostro with an i5 chip and two disks. $800 or so with Win 7 64 bit. Runs CS5 with Sony NX5 AVCHD and Canon 5D footage in three layers and several layers of Photoshop on top of that fast enough to edit. Real time is a myth. Nobody cares anymore. None of this stuff is going out to tape as it was 10 years ago. There is no such thing as dropped fromes transfering a file to and from a flash card.
Biggest thing wrong with the Vostro is that there is no room for removable drive trays without hacksawing the case. So it looks ugly.
Feel the need to spend more? Buy a Dell workstation with Xeons. But not necessary to run CS5. Really need to waste cash? buy an HP version of the same thing. All comes out of the same factory in China.
George Socka
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you could well be right about having output DV. That seems to be supported, but the picture is not as nice.
George Socka
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OK I found the playback settings – now under sequence settings – but no HDV playback option (which may at not have existed in CS3 either).
An HDV camera is attached though. If I select DV playback, and set the camera to DV then it does play back on the camera, but not in HD and thus not out the HDMI spigot on the camera..
Suggestions?
George Socka
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I get the same with DV downconverted from HDV in a Sony V1U. Not sure where it comes from. If I log in small clips – 1 minute or so, and batch capure one clip at a time the problem generally goes away. Dont know if it is the Camera or the computer firewire port. Capturing the same video in HDV, the audio is beautiful. I have resorted to capturing in HDV and the opening those files in a DV project. I have never tried shooting in DV mode and then capturing that, ie eliminating the downconverting step at the time of capture. I dont want to accumulate any more DV footage though. I have also never tried capturing from another pure DV camera. Might do that.
Now, I like small clips, but it means you need to babysit the system during batch capture.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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Not sure that PP can deal with vectors though. Rasterized on import AFAIK. AE can.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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Semi relevant thoughts:
I have no problems editing 5D2 footage directly in Premiere Pro CS3
Totally agree that the huge costs of the current DSLR video accessories are off the wall. Especially if that stuff is made in China, although I have not looked that closely.
Is follow focus overrated? Years of shooting with “real” video cameras have made me appreciate auto focus, but in the end focus is mainly locked off anyway. The few dramatic scenes where focus changes from a near to a far performer may be justification, but in the film world (so I hav ebeen told) that is all shot with a stand mounted camera, not something hung off somebody’s shoulder. A 5D on a tripod can easily be refocused with just the focus ring.
Nobody has addressed zooming, which every real video camera has done since Vidicon (sp) days. I would love to see that implemented on one of the DSLR rigs. The half inch rails people might be onto something good – just connect their focus thing to the zoom ring.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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what we really need is 29.97. The ntsc world is larger than the pal world.
George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com