[Jeff Pulera]

A Core I7 is a good choice for the system, but the thing that really boosts performance in CS5 is to use an Adobe-approved Nvidia display card which will “turn on” the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine for realtime editing performance. The difference is night and day, especially with AVCHD.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Martin,

Premiere always conforms the audio to 32-bit floating point unless the video source is uncompressed.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Andrew,

Is the image actually “soft”, or rather are you seeing “interlacing” issues which show as alternating horizontal lines through areas of motion in the still?

I know CS4 had an oddball way of exporting stills, different than CS3 or CS5 – you had to go through Adobe Media Encoder. If you have Photoshop, apply the “Deinterlace” filter to the still if it is the interlacing you are seeing.

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[Jeff Pulera]

If you are playing an HDV recording, and you are able to capture in Premiere as a DV file, the camera is putting out a DV signal and not HDV.

HDV cameras will “downconvert” HDV to DV on the 1394 output. Go into camera menu and turn OFF the “i.Link Convt” feature. Power off camera, close Premiere. Turn camera (VTR) on again, PC will “see it”, then launch Premiere HDV project and it should work.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tom,

Is this with CS5? What kind of footage – AVHCD, HDV, DV?

If CS5, an Adobe-supported NVIDIA display card will make a world of difference in overall performance, it really drives CS5.

Next, I recently read that the “Green” drives are not a good choice for video editing, something about power saving modes or whatever, they shut down or sleep or something too often.

Also, no advantage to partitioning the video drive. This is not the same as using two separate drives, and probably does more harm than good.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Brett,

There are a couple of options –

1) Position the Selection Tool (arrow) at the cut between two clips and get the red bracket that you would use to trim the beginning or end of the clip – hold the CTRL key and bracket gets bigger, then you can trim clip and keep the dissolve, everything shifts with your edit

2) Use the Rolling Edit tool to simultaneously change out/in points between the two clips

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[Jeff Pulera]

You are correct, you need square pixels for the web, 1.0 PAR.

For SD resolution,try 864×480, this will produce a good 16:9 image.

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Windows Media Player and most other computer-playback options are expecting square pixels (1.0 aspect), so you will need to change the output parameters to reflect that.

With NTSC, square pixel 16:9 comes out to 864×480. For your PAL, I believe the answer is 1024×576, which you can manually enter into the output settings of whatever codec you choose.

Regarding codecs, choose H.264 in Adobe Media Encoder and there is a preset for YouTube Widescreen SD (640×360). In any event, I would not create an AVI for upload, it will be huge and take forever to upload.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

The real question would be what is causing sluggishness when editing DV? Pretty much any computer can edit DV with ease – there shouldn’t be a need to reduce resolution when editing standard definition footage

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[Jeff Pulera]

My method would be to make a still image of that frame, then you can have any length you wish. With CS5 there is a little camera icon below Program Monitor window to create the still frame, with CS4 it is more difficult

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