[Jeff Pulera]

Right-click on the Desktop and hit “Properties” and then look under the Settings tab, should mention your display card, or look in Device Manager

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Project > Project Settings > General

Look at “Renderer” and it will say “Software only” or “GPU Accelerated”. Do you have an Nvidia display card, and if so, which model? Some that don’t work automatically can still be coaxed into activity pretty easily.

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Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

Do you have GPU acceleration enabled on your machine? That is an extremely slow render for what you are doing.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Richard,

It sounds like you’ve already sold yourself on this so why ask for opinions? If you absolutely want to capture via Firewire and are happy with HDV compression, then go for it 😉

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tim,

Tell us about your system hardware – Mac, PC? Specs? Any special filters applied that you don’t normally use? Just read another thread where a DeNoiser effect was the culprit, takes an exceptionally long time to render.

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[Jeff Pulera]

To add to Chris’ comments – what is the purpose of the export? Blu-ray, DVD, YouTube? I would not use “Match Sequence Settings” in most cases. Decide the destination of the export and choose a Format and Preset accordingly, and just check if you need to adjust frame dimensions or frame rate for your footage.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Richard,

To be clear, the ADVC-HD50 is always converting to the “HDV” format, which is 25Mbps Long-GOP MPEG-2 at 1440×1080, with 4:2:0 color. Thus the quality of capture is limited to “HDV quality”. If your workflow dictates the need for Firewire capture and/or HDV formatted video, then it may be a viable solution for you.

Other capture devices such as BMD Intensity Pro or Matrox MXO2 Mini will capture HDMI (and analog) sources to more robust compressed formats, or even uncompressed, at full 1920×1080 HD with 4:2:2 color. Of course, they do not convert to Firewire and may require a PCI-e, Thunderbolt, ExpressCard, or USB 3.0 interface depending on model chosen.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Ann,

Always enjoy reading your posts, as your Adobe knowledge seems limitless.

Have to ask though, do you have experience with this particular V1U camera working as a converter, or are you working on past experience with Sony DV cameras in general? I did review the manual and could find no mention of recording from analog sources (or converting through camera). I guess I will try my Sony FX-7 HDV tonight at home and see if I can get it to work in that manner, though I believe I had tried that before with no joy.

Thank you

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Lillian,

From what I can tell, you cannot record into your camera from an analog source. To be clear, the “i.Link cable” refers to the 1394/Firewire cable, not the analog breakout cable. You can only record from other DV devices (another DV camera, computer edit system, etc.) via 1394 cable.

Older Sony DV cameras such as the VX-2000 I own DO allow recording from analog sources using the built-in RCA jacks, but I believe this feature to be non-existent on most, if not all, newer camcorders.

I referenced the V1U manual here: https://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/assets/files/micro/hdv/manuals/HVRV1U_OM.pdf

Beginning on Page 85, it explains the “Dubbing” options and I see nothing about coming in using anything other than i.Link cable, sorry.

You should able able to use an analog-to-Firewire converter, such as a Grass Valley ADVC-55 to convert your source to a signal the camcorder can accept.

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Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Stephen,

Probably more than one way to do this in Premiere, which is the case with many procedures, but I would select the clip(s), CTRL-C to Copy, position playhead at new position and CTRL-V to Paste them.

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Jeff Pulera
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