Jeff Pulera
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I work for a dealer, but do have my own video business as well and am a Premiere editor. That said, I did some trials with CS5 when it came out, with MPE ON, and MPE OFF. There is an absolute WORLD of difference.
When running two layers of 1080i AVCHD with a background and title added, with CS5 in “Software Only” mode, Preview on the second monitor ran at about 1 frame per second, useless.
With Mercury Engine enabled (Quadro FX 3800), secondary monitor preview (24″ LCD”) was nearly perfect. I say “nearly” because it is still a computer image and not true video, was not perfectly smooth playback, a little jerky still.
For best results, I recommend a Matrox MXO2 Mini in addition to the NVIDIA card of choice, then you will have two PC monitors for your work area, and MXO2 Mini will provide a true high-quality HD preview via HDMI or Component on your third display. Does a lot more than that of course but we’re just talking third display here.
Jeff Pulera
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MXO2 Mini can be used with a laptop if it has an Expresscard/34 interface. A Matrox sequence can be copied into an Adobe-native sequence if need be (though Matrox effects would not be available, but there are just a couple anyway).
Regarding monitoring via DV connection – this is only good for an SD project, an HD project will not output a preview via DV
Jeff
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My reply was aimed at your second post, regarding playback of non-Matrox sequences through the MXO2 hardware.
Regarding your last post – for CAPTURE, MXO2 can use the Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame codec. This does not affect other formats that you drop on the timeline, it just plays them back directly, there is no conversion happening.
About sending to other outputs – you would not be able to send an HD sequence out to a DV deck through Premiere in any case for monitoring, thjis would require Premiere to both downconvert and convert to a DV signal on the fly. And not sure why you would want to use “Monitor 2” when you have an MXO2 device to feed a REAL video signal out through.
Jeff
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Premiere doesn’t know the Matrox hardware exists without installing the Matrox drivers and Adobe plug-in software. Even after installing the plug-in, Premiere still doesn’t “see” the Matrox hardware in its native mode – you need to choose a Matrox sequence preset, which in turn works with the plug-in to run the Matrox hardware.
This is the same if you get an AJA or BlackMagic I/O device as well, you’d need to run their preset to utilize their hardware. In other words, no matter which I/O device you get, you still need to run that companies preset to access their hardware in Premiere.
Jeff Pulera
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Defragement the drives and make sure they are not more than 80% full
Jeff
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Hi Liam,
Make sure the video clips are not on the C: drive, always use a dedicated drive for video. Drive should be defragged and not too full. Right-click video drive and select “Properties” and set “Indexing” to OFF. And of course make sure Sequence settings match the footage.
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Hi Ig,
I’ve been mass-producing DVDs for many years, and in the beginning had some compatibility issues, due mostly to the players. The last few years, zero issues. Apparently all the old players with the compatibility issues have worn out and been tossed.
As long as the original DVD is authored correctly to DVD specs, and you use a good quality DVD-R media, there should be no worries. Don’t use paper labels, as these can throw the disc out of balance, use an ink jet or thermal print solution.
Jeff Pulera
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Are you trimming the ends of the clips to allow room for “overlap” before applying the dissolve? If simply butting two clips together, Premiere tries to stretch the material out to make a dissolve.
Jeff
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Yes, I would say you are “stuck” with miniDV, not just because of lack of codec support, but because AVCHD takes a lot of horsepower to playback, meaning even decent workstations a couple of years old will choke, you need the latest hardware with CS5 for good results.
I have a powerful (at the time) 3 yr-old quad-core PC with CS3 and can’t begin to edit AVCHD with it.
Jeff Pulera
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First, make sure the JPEGs are not too huge – I believe at one time the limit was 4000×4000 pixels. Either way, a huge image will slow down editing, resize them down if need be.
Next, make sure they are using RGB color, not CYMK (which is for printing, not video).
Jeff Pulera
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