[Jeff Nelson]

So are you saying I should NOT get the 30″ but instead just get another 24″ Dell, so that I’m using 2 Dells instead of the 30? (I was going to give my wife the Dell 24 when I get the 30″ HD from apple, I’d better not let her see this thread…!)

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks, Harm. Now I have a much better idea. Seems that I may not need to run this since, once I finish what I’m working on now (in canopus), I’ll dump all footage off the machine, dump the storm card, uninstall the storm software, upgrade to PP 2.0, and I’m good to go. No? No need to change any wrappers since I’ll only be importing new footage from there forward. Am I correct?

Thanks for your time, Harm.

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks, Harm. As soon as I’m done with these current things, I’ll take your advice and jettison the Storm card while upgrading to PP 2.0. What exactly does it mean to “change the AVI wrapper from Canopus to MSDV?” What does this program actually do? Sorry, I’m not familiar with the terminology or understand exactly what this program does for me that you’ve linked to.

[Jeff Nelson]

Okay, now this is interesting. Yes, I have a Storm 2 card, and weird stuff does happen which I’ve found time-consuming workarounds. So you think I should dump the card? What is “the old DVConverter utility?” And how do I use it to change the AVI wrapper from Canopus to MS-DV?

Thanks.

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks, that’s not the problem. Weird thing is, I can render it as a microsoft avi and it renders fine, but trying to render as a canopus DV format (which is what it’s in) and it stops after a certain time. I worked around it by exporting the thing in parts and then editing it together, and the exporting that. I’m thinking that maybe because I had color corrected and rendered every shot in the timeline, that maybe the thing was too big, was using too much ram? And that was why it wouldn’t render complete? (while it would render when I outputted it in three pieces and edited those together.)

Anyhow, I think it’s time to get a more powerful computer, is probably the problem…

[Jeff Nelson]

Duh…thanks, Steven. Problem fixed!

[Jeff Nelson]

I’m editing usign Premiere Pro 1.5 and have a DVStorm card which I used to capture the footage to canopus avi files. What’s happening is that when I use the canopus color correction filter, when it renders a shot, it doesn’t render it as one shot, but breaks it into two shots, and where it’s broken the shot on render, it will duplicate one frame. I’m going through and re-rendering the shots, and stopping it before it renders the second part, and then starting it again, and this time it renders it correctly. But I have to render each shot in two steps or else I get this problem. Extremely weird!

[Jeff Nelson]

Trying to figure out how to put in these scene files w/my SD card. Not certain I’ve done it right. ??

Thanks for the input, should be interesting tomorrow. Thinking (slightly) ahead, can premiere pro 1.5 or premiere 6.5 edit this DVCPro50 format? Or…?

[Jeff Nelson]

Thanks very much. For some reason I didn’t get the email response when you posted, so I didn’t know anyone had. I haven’t shot the interviews yet, appreciate your advice. Will play with AE to see if I can get that to work.

[Jeff Nelson]

By the way, Dave, on this answer you gave — I downloaded the trial version of Tsunami and the batch function is grayed out, so I guess if I’m going to do batch work I need to buy the full version. Can’t see how to get the batch thing working here.