Jeff Pulera
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For any edit system, you don’t want to capture/play video from the system drive, you should have a second drive dedicated to video only.
As for RAM, additional memory never hurt anyone, it is a good thing.
That said, AVCHD is notoriously demanding to play back, so even if you add the memory and hard drive, those things may have little benefit in your situation. H.264 playback is very processor-intensive, so with the older, slower computer, and the less-efficient 32-bit CS4 that lacks the Mercury Playback Engine, you may never achieve smooth playback with your current hardware, sorry.
Jeff
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Hi Joe,
This subject has been covered in depth at the Cow and elsewhere, I would suggest a search of the Premiere forums here to review. This link is available on the Cow for example – https://library.creativecow.net/kobler_helmut/FCP-vs-Premiere-Pro/1
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Jeff Pulera
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Hi Michael,
I should ask what is the purpose of the render in question? Normally, you do not need to render anything unless that section of timeline gets the red bar above it, and if it does that, just hit the ENTER key to render. Easy. If you want to physically export a section of timeline to a new clip for some purpose, then yes you need to position the work area bar first.
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Jeff Pulera
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Assuming your Mac version looks like my PC version, you would need to position the Work Area bar above and then from Sequence menu, choose either Render Entire Work Area or Render Effects in Work Area.
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Jeff Pulera
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Hi Al,
You ONLY want to process the actual shaky part, trust me! I have a fast machine and it takes a WHILE to process. Results are worth it.
I don’t use multi-cam, but I know that involves nested sequences and that could get problematic with Dynamic Linking, I really haven’t tried it myself.
Yes, I guess try stabilizing AFTER cutting it up, then you will have the individual segments selected and can work on them as small parts. I’m usually doing clips of just 30-60 seconds.
Jeff
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Hi Al,
Didn’t know if you owned AE, I guess you do. Plenty of great tutorial vids out there. From Premiere, right-click on shaky clip in sequence and choose “New After Effects Comp” and it will open the clip in AE. Then grab “Warp Stabilizer” from Animation menu and drop on clip. It does take a while to process, so hopefully the clip is not too long. After the initial analyze stage, you can change settings and not have to re-analyze.
Default settings work nice for a lot of clips. Note that you can choose Smooth Motion, or NO Motion. No motion usually requires more zoom in so is not that suitable for clips with a lot of motion. Smooth motion minimizes moves and looks natural. It will need to render in Premiere for smooth playback.
Good luck, you will love it
Jeff
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Hi Al,
After Effects CS5.5 has the new Warp Stabilizer that is just amazing! I’ve used it a lot on wedding clips and also got to apply it to some aerial footage recently and it looked great.
There are also third-party stabilizers out there, but not sure if any work directly in Premiere, most operate as an AE plug-in.
Jeff Pulera
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You’re disadvantaged is a few different areas. For starts, CS4 was barely compatible with AVCHD clips. This was resolved with the all-new 64-bit release of CS5, so it and CS5.5 handle pretty much anything natively now.
Next issue is the computer hardware is not up to the task. A Core i7 machine will do well with AVCHD. Memory is not going to make up for other hardware deficiencies on a Core 2 Duo.
Last issue – graphics card. CS5 and newer make use of GPU acceleration, but ONLY with select Nvidia cards, which are NOT available on new iMac or MacBook models. Only Mac option to support GPU acceleration with Premiere is a Mac Pro running a Quadro 4000.
When you say you want to edit UNCOMPRESSED HD, your system will not be up for that either, as uncompressed HD requires a large, expensive hardware RAID to support the data rate.
You might benefit from converting your AVCHD to an intermediate codec like Cineform Neo, try the free trial and test it.
Jeff Pulera
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Correct, you have 1080p source footage? Edit at 1080p. When finished, you can then export to HD or SD destinations. Vimeo or YouTube HD, Blu-ray, DVD, etc.
You should get better downscaling when using MAX RENDER in AME than when dropping HD clips into an SD sequence
Jeff
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Hi Carlos,
I would recommend editing in a sequence to match the source footage, like 1080p for instance. This keeps the quality as good as can be while adding titles, graphics, etc. , rather than scaling it all down to SD immediately.
When edit is completed, then you can export to DVD. Rather than “Match Source”, choose “NTSC Wide screen high quality” preset, or add “progressive” to that choice if suitable.
Under the VIDEO tab, manually configure the encode rate as CBR 8 (7 if you want to feel safer about playback compatibility).
Last thing – at bottom of AME window, check the box for “Maximum Render Quality” – this improves the downscaling quality.
This should yield better results for you
Jeff Pulera
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