Jack Kelly
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Wow, that was easy! Thanks a lot for the advice!
Jack
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Jack Kelly
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You don’t NEED a separate system drive, but it help a lot. When you’re editing, you’ll be accessing system files at the same time as you’re accessing your video data. So things will go much faster if you’re using a separate system drive. The separate system drive need not be anything special. Personally, I have a 10,000 rpm SATA 36GByte disk as my system disk, which only cost me about 70 UK pounds. If that’s gonna stretch your budget too much then get a bargain-basement 7,200 RPM disk… a 100GByte disk will cost you hardly anything.
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That would be awesome…
…any news on when the next version of PPro will be released?
Jack.
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Great, thanks a lot for your replies guys.
Am I right in thinking that both FCP 5 and Avid Xpress HD both have multi-camera editing tools built-in?
Jack.
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One more thing… personally, I reckon you’d be better off not getting a Matrox card… instead, spend the money on high-quality components… for the price of the Matrox card, you could get stuff like:
2GBytes of low-latency RAM
Build a RAID 0 array with two 300GB drives (also get two external firewire drives for backup)
Get a 10,000 RPM SATA drive for your system files
Get a dual monitor setup.
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Will you ever edit any HD content? If so, don’t get an X10 or X100 because they’ll be of no use when editing HD content.
What system are you building? Athlon or P4? Instead of going dual-processor, you might consider using dual-core CPUs. Both Intel and AMD have recently released dual-core CPUs. A dual-core system will be cheaper than a dual-CPU system (cheaper motherboard AND cheaper CPU).
If you’re building an Athlon system, make sure you get an Athlon based on the most recent hardware revision (Venice). It’s got SSE3 and a better memory controller.
Jack.
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Fantastic, thanks loads for the very very quick reply.
One more quick question: do you know how I can convert Cineon 1920×1080 files to the Cineform Intermediate?
Thanks,
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Hi Andrew,
Thank you very much for your very detailed reply – that’s brilliant.
One quick question – can I use AE to convert my Cineon files to an HD AVI format?
The end result of the project I’m working on will be a “dual mode” DVD – there’ll be a standard def version of the 5 minute film in the DVD-Video partition of the DVD and an HD version of the film in the DVD-Data partition for playback on user’s computers. But it’s also an exploratory project for me – I’m very keen to learn how to grade data scans.
Many thanks,
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Hi Brian,
Thanks a lot for your reply. Please could you point me in the direction of the topic on the Adobe forums?
Yes, I presently run Windows XP (32-bit) on my Athlon64 processor and that works fine. Microsoft released the WinXP 64-bit on Monday, so it’s officially ‘out in the wild’. Apparently it will run 32-bit applications in a wrapper.
Here’s some more details:
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/upgrade/default.mspx
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Hi Paul,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
I have one problem: I’m hiring the HDV camera for just the duration of the shoot (1 day) so I wont be able to batch-capture from the HDV camera. Is there a way for me to import the HDV footage without having to batch capture.
For example: could I edit as DV in Premiere Pro, then export an EDL, then create a new project in PPro for the online and import the EDL? I’d make sure that the “online” and the “offline” files all have the same file names.
One last question: can Premiere Pro handle 10-bit log DPX files?
Thanks a lot,
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Jack Kelly
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