George Socka
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Is this a Matrox DV project, with separate audio and video files ( DV type 2???) I had that years ago, and every once in a while teh matrox codec could not find the corresponding audio. I believe that I would click on both ( Ctl click ) to make the link.
Not sure if this applies to Matrox HD and HDV
Another thing. How do you connect these drives? I do this frequently with a number of removable SATA drive trays. If this is Windows, make sure that both of the drives you use have the same drive letter when attached. Under windows, use control panel / administrative tools / computer management / disk management to give each drive the same drive letter when connected. If the drive letters are the same, then relinking should not be required. If you ever have both drives attached at the same time, or plug USB keys and other stuff in, then the drive letters will change.
Otherwise, or if you use a Mac, please ignore this.
George Socka
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a befoe and after would be great. I just upsized a few sd dv clips in an HDV project, and the results are acceptable, not great.
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crashed = a bad clip somewhere. Which one is another matter. Usually a very long filename and path for that clip.
encoding – if straight export to Encore does not work, export mpeg2 DVD which will export the m2v and wav, then start a new project in Encore and import them BOTH TOGETHER as a timeline.
The more layers, the more transitions, the more effects, the more time it will take. Twice as long as real time for 5 layers is not bad at all.
You cant play an avi file created by premiere with windows media player on a windows computer that has Premiere on it? That is seemingly an anomaly. How do you know the length of the m2v if you cant play it? If you rename m2v to mpg them WMP should play it because ether codec will have been installed by Premiere.
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Not the answer, but a question, How good is the blowup? Are you going to 1080? 720? Do you have a frame with a CU of a face oe eyes and a frame of something with a high contrast diagonal line you could share? I need to do a bunch of his, although it will be on a Dell Vostro Q9550 with 3gb ram with XP and CS3
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I like dip to white – sometimes reduced to 15 frames so it is almost like a photo flash.
See a recent writer interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TenCq3L9BMo
I have tried dip to black but too depressing. Hard cuts lead to jump cuts when you are trying to tighten up a rambling answer, and yes cross dissolves look strange – especially if there is only a slight repositioning of the head. You see the mouth moving in two different directions. CSI Miami uses dip to white a lot – which is what led me to try it. A variation on the dip to white in the above clip is a bit of beige title, with a 10 frame dissolve at each end. Less jarring than a dip to white.
George Socka
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And they are all made in China. As a Canadian based producer, that irks me. ( Although recently most incandecents were imported as well)
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One more thing – That videomaker article is 2 years old. A walk through Best Buy showed nary a CRT monitor in sight. And plenty of inexpensive 1080i/p HDTVs under $500
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Chiming in very late here:
Anything PC will cost you less than anything Mac at all points on the spectrum. A Mac only has value if you become part of a food chain of Mac based people. Or if you are trying to impress people ( something not to be dismissed.)
Anything Sony will cost more than anything else. But again, impressions may matter.
Having somebody else create your reel is a bit of a fraud is it not? It is supposed to be a statement of what you can do. Not what other people can do.
You want to learn your craft. On the job learning on other people’s jobs is the best IMNSHO. But hard to learn without equipment. Renting may be economical, but that gives you no opportunity to learn by doing. Buy a cheap edit system. You only need 8 cores if you have a project with a deadline. You do not appear to have that yet. Add as you get projects. I would however rent the camera. You can learn a lot by renting for a week at a time, even for spec projects, and the cost will be way less than the amortized cost of an EX with even a small list of accessories. Let the rental house eat the depreciation.
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From experience using an a quad core Vista XPS and a faster quad core XP Vostro on CS3. Both with Dell supplied dual head video. Get a Dell Vostro, rather than XPS. Same power, less cost. Not sure that i7 is worth the extra money. Put a decent video card in it. And make sure that you get firewire preinstalled. I overlooked that on teh Vostro. I use removable Sata drive trays, the vostro case was easier to open up and put the trays into the spare DVD bays. The XPS not so much. And those new cute XPS and Studio cases look impossible to adapt.
Inspirons are even cheaper for the same technology ( except no XP ) just more crapware to delete.
And not at all sure why you would pay even more for a Mac made out the same Intel parts.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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Just checking – when I do this, I create a normal wide screen project, then rotate the content 90 degrees so they appear sideways within Premiere. And when played on the computer. When you turn the external monitor on its end, then it looks right. Use a 16.9 monitor turned on its end during editing to avoid neck pain.
But I may have missed the point.
George Socka
BeachDigital
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